Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-06-17

State Oil Inspector La Du gives notice
that ignorance of the law concerning IN
spection Of illuminating oil will no longer
be taken as an excuse for its violation.
This is what he says to retail dealers:
''When a retail dealer has received from
jobber lot of uninspected and unbranded
oil, he is not justified in tapping the pack
age or selling therefrom on the assumption
What the job6er is alone responsible to the
state for the violation.of the law. Sale or
such unbranded oil makes him liable also;
and when he receives it, in order to avoid
responsibility he should promptly notify
the deputy inspector that the same Is In
his possession"
The state medical society in session at
Jackson elected the following officers:
President, DR.. Charles Geppart of Grand
Rapids; secretary, DIR. Geo. Duffield De-
troit; treasurer, ID. j. w. Hagadorn
Lansing. The next meeting Of the society
will be held in Lansing.
While N. L. Atwood, for some years a
turner in the mill of Parsons Bros. in Ypsi-
lanti, was at work the other morning,a por-
tion of the scaffolding gave way under him
and he fell into the cellar, crushing his
skull and killing him instantly. He was
about 30 years of age, and leaves wife,
but no children.
The bill appropriating 500, 900 for
public building at East Saginaw has been
favorably reported.
President Cleveland has married into a
large family If all the states are as well
fixed as Michigan. Up to this hour Manis-
tee, Whitehall, Adrian, Grand Rapids,
Montague, Charlevoix, Jackson, Detroit,
lansing Ionia, Charlotte, Three Rivers,
Monroe, Marshall, Bay City and Grand
Haven have been heard from.
The managers or the state school at
Coldwater report plenty of room and that
they can care for all children between the
ages of and IL years that may be sent
to them.
Ex-Mayor John Townsend of Adrian
was found dead in his berth on Lake
Shore sleeping car, on the 9th inst He
was en- route to Chicago to visit son.
For 80 years Mr.. Townsend has been In the
employ of the Lake Shore ward
II. Cook q Sons planning mill, sash, door
and blind factor in Holly burned the other
afternoon. The mill was full OF new
machinery, and is great loss to the town.
The flames spread quickly to buildings ad-
| joining, used as store and finish rooms.
| Loss, $4,000; no insurance. Had it not
been for the excellent system of water
have burned. Henry Cook, engineer, was
severely burned on the hands and face
while operating safety valve.
Cassius M. Stall, prisoner at the Jack
son prison, has been pardoned by Gov.
Alger. Stall is dying Of consumption.
The amount of iron ore and pig iron
shipped from the upper peninsula this sea
SON up to and including June is as fol-
lows: Marquette district-from Mar
| quette, l3S,657 tons ore; pig iron, 755 tons;
! from st. lgnace, l2, $50 tons; pig iron, 3,6SS
tons; from Escanaba, 5000 tons. Me
nominee district-from Escanaba, ,39c
tons. Grand total of lake shipments oi
ore ,496,0O7 tons.
One of the revolvers found upon the per
son of JEFF Davis, when he was captured,
is in the possession of Edwin Hines, a
Grass Lake soldier 1t is a handsome
weapon, Jeff's name being neatly engraved
thereon. His gold spectacles are in the
possession Of John f. Beebe, Watson
soldier, and his shawl and cloak are in
the possession of b ID, Prichard, an ALE
gan soldier.
Capt. Phettepeace of Bear Lake Charlie
voix, county, served IL years in the Unit
ed States army, in the Mexican war and
during the rebellion. He was one OF the
party that planted the stars and stripes
on the halls of the Montezumas, and one
of Santa Annals guards when that genera
was taken TO Vera Cruz for Punishment
THE late Gen. Hancock was second lieu
tenant of the company in which Mr.. Phet
tepease served in Mexico.
Col. Wells, who has charge OF tn
grounds of the soldiers home, proposes 4
have fine garden. He has employed tn
men in setting out 1900 cabbages, ant
will at once put in eleven acres O
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