Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-09-30


business mems association was held ain
Grand Rapids recently with forty loca
associations represented. The object IL
the promotion of mutual interests. OH
GERS were elected as follows: President,
Frank Hamilton of Traverse City; vice
presidents, Paul p, Morgan of Monroe, Il.
J. Herrick of Grand Rapids; secretary, K.
A. Stowe of Grand Rapids treasurer, Julius
Schuster of Kalamazoo; executive com
mittee, the president, first vice-president
secretary and N. b. Blain of Lowell and
W. 4. Kelsey of lonia.
The 100 birthday of Mrs. Sarah Camp.
bell was celebrated at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann Beckwith, three
miles north Of jackson, in the township
of Blackman, on the 2lst inst, About 10(
guests were present, among whom were
relations from Battle Creek, Marshall and
Leslie. The old lady is unable to move
about the room, but sits I'm her chair and
converses with ease, and relates many
instances OF pioneer life. Her eyesight is
growing dim, but her mental and physical
health Is good. This is the second centen-
nial celebration which has occurred In the
township of Blackman this year, the other
being that of John Bachelor which oc'
Cured July /.
James O'Connel, an employ of the Deer
Lake company, was run over by the cars
while attempting to steal a ride to Ishpem-
ing He was drunk at the time. His leg
was amputated at the Ishpeming hospital
before he recovered from the effects OF his
spree. He will dio.
The banking firm OF Lee Il Brown of
Saranac has failed. The losses are about
$50, 900, and will fall upon small depositors
among the farmers and residents of Sara
nae. jerome Brown, the head of the firm
Is missing and is believed to be in Canada
Frank Lewis of Michigan Center, who
was imprisoned for selling "wine of life''
at DEVILS Lake last fall, has began suit
against Under Sheriff Bowen of Lenawee
county, for 5000.
The recent earthquake in the south had
a deleterious effect upon Monroe county
fish, the Commercial announcing that the
marshes near that town have been filed
with dead fish since the shaking up.
The Grand Rapids e. Indiana railroad
main line, during the past six months has
earned $751;, 20S.5S; expenses, $615, 92S. "a
The Richmond branch earned $l7l, l47 40;
expenses Sl32, 6s4.4. The Traverse City
branch earned $40, $50. "a; expended SIC, 6aa,'
Is.
Rev. N. /. Guthrie, who was deposed
from the ministry four years ago for
adultry, has been reinstated. Guthrie has
labored in Arizona since his fall, and il
credited with having accomplished much
good. There is considerable protestation
over the reinstatement. however.
Inc directors Oh U0e raw raw anu IOleuC
e. South Haven railroads met at Paw Paw
recently and completed the arrangements
for a consolidation of the two roads. The
new directors are Lucius Clark, Edwin
Martin, F. b. Adams J. W. Free, George
w. .Lawton and John Ihling.
No more veterans will be admitted to
the soldiers home in Grand Rapids for the
present. The new home win be completed
about December /.
U,.s. III
Arpenters, fell with a scaffolding from
John Stones new carriage factory at Cor
unna, aud both received injuries that are
likely to prove fatal
At Harrig's siding, three miles north of
Kalkaska, Clifton Harris, a brakeman on
the south-bound freight on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana railroad. was caught be-
and instantly killed. His home is at Man
ton, whittier he was taken after the re.
mains were viewed by coroner's jury at
Kalkaska.
Mrs. Sarah Campbell of Blackman town
ship, Jackson county, was 100 years old
Sept. %. The anniversary was made the
occasion of grand festival in which the
old lady participated.
Amadeus LAME and Charles Dashner q
Menominee, have been sentenced to Jack
son for the murder Of an unknown peddler,
in April last.
The friends of Miss Franc Whipple of
Adrian, who is supposed to have com
mitted suicide at Niagara Falls last spring
have arranged to have thorough search
made by the shores OF the rapids, from the
big whirlpool to Lewiston, a distance of
>hree miles, hoping to recover the body.
Manistee has 40 pauper families. An in
vestigation of the causes that resulted in
their poverty reveals that 80 of the mum
Der have drunken heads.
The Toledo e. Ann Arbor railroad is nov
completed from Toledo to Mt Pleasant.
The Salvation army in Michigan will
divide its forces between Michigan ant
Indiana.
Geo. Ernst assistant chief engineer oil
the Port Huron q Northwestern railway
met with a sad accident at Kigsley by fall
ing of freight car and rolling under tn,
wheels, losing his leg below the knee.
Pennsylvania spectators are leasing
ground in and around Manistee, in antici
patton of an oil boom.
The monthly report of the state salt in
spector shows the inspection during Au
gust to have been as follows Saginaw
county, 147,5l2 barrels; Bay county, 49,
476 barrels; Huron county, 2S,6lS barrels
Iosco county; 35,643 barrels: Manistee
county, 94,S5l barrels; st. Clair county
4.913 barrels; Midland county, 6,552 bar.
462, $50 barrels. The total inspection to
September / in the years named " as as
follows: 1886, 2,529, $50 barrels; 1856, 2, 175,
$50 barrels; 1884, 2,106,300 barrels; 1888
lsS7.S9O barrels.
Clarence Sykes had both feet cut OF al
the ankles while trying to board a train
two miles from Decatur.
Jas. M. Williams, from whom the village
and township Of Williams, Ingham county,
were named, is dead, aged 20 years. He
was man of great intelligence and energy,
Heck Johnson Of Stanton, who went
hunting on the 18th inst. and had not since
been heard Of was found dead in the
woods north Of that place, having &C
cidentally shot himself in the left leg
severing the femoral artery. He leaves
two children with his mother in straight
ened circumstances.
sedgwick Denies.