Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-23

ana Adrian have been dropped from CIR
cult because meetings there weren't pro-
fitable-
Gratiot county gave s5l majority for
local option.
The Milwaukee a Northern railroad is
TO be extended from Champion to Lake
Linden.
Thirteen suits involving S,5Ol,OOO are
pending hearing in the United States
courts at Bay City.
Mitchell a. Mcclure OF East Saginaw,
have brought suit in equity in the nited
States court to quiet the title TO their
lands and enjoin the Michigan land and
lumber company from bringing suit for
the possession of said lands or 10 int :
iere with the complainants' numbering
operation.
John w. Day of Mason, engaged in
chopping down a tree on James Ii. Shat
er's farm in Neray town hip the other
morning. While waiting for it TO fall a
small sapling, which had been cut before
and lodged against the tree, struck Day
upon the head. Tho blow killed him IN
stantly. His skull was crushed, his neck
and back bone broken and other in uries
inflicted. An inquest was held and ver-
dict of accidental death given. deceased
leaves a mother, brother and sister
Battle Creek SAINT Irium will open mid
die of next month n school of domestic
economy, which viii afford lectures COW
ering twenty-five weeks on scientific cook
cry in ali its branches, laundrying, dress
making, general housework, household
hygiene, personal hygiene, including by
genie care OF children and miscellaneous
subjects connected with house-keepin :
that are too manifold to mention here.
Diplomas viii be given to those who com
| plete the course satisfactorily. Many
persons can work their way through with
out pay.
I. I. Howell OF Grand Rapids is organiz.
ing clubs throughout tho state to cir
cumvent the liquor law. He organizes
the ''clubsn for SO each, and directs his
attention particularly against local option
law.
Col. +. Crofton Fox says that number
of men in Michigan well enough trained
TO take the he.u IN case OF war is 1900.
Harper's Weekly has written UP heroic
service OF ST Joseph's life-saving crew
uhA AhE obbb'hNA AAOhCNNAOh hAoaohSA Va
oaugatuck in lSs3
The Michigan pulp company OF Miles
mas succeeded in making piece Of paste
board ~ inches wide and "a miles long,
and did it without break in the web.
This mill is under the supervision of ex-
Representative w. >. MIIIard, formerly a
well known officer of thu state militia.
The Lehigh Valley has made an alliance
with tue 800" road, and will build two
steel cruisers to ply between Buffalo and
Gladstone Mich. These Will carry coal
westward and flour eastward. The ALI.
ance is considered one OF the most import
ant yet made by the new line, as it vii.
furnish Minneapolis with coal via Glad
stone instead OF via Duluth, as heretofore.
DR.. n. b. Way, the physician at the
4onia house of correction, has been re-
moved ''for cause"
Elmer {. GUNNER of Cadillac jumped
rom a moving engine the other morning
and was drawn under the wheels and
crushed to death.
Mrs. Eliza Il. Stebbns of Lansing died
suddenly "a few days ago. She was one q,
the original workers in the scheme to es-
tablish the state reform school for girls at
Adrain, now known as the industrial
school for girls, and was appointed mem
er OF the first board of control of that in.
stltution, and has been on the board ever
since, never missing a meeting OF that or.
ganization, in whose work she took deep
and intelligent int est.
Nine years ago Mayor Dongan of Niles
ran a needle into his heel. A few days
ago it came out at his elbow.
The carcnsses of three deer were found
on the premises of Asa Anterior near
- ubDard Lake. Asa couldn't raise the
$50 TO pay his fine, and is now in jail.
trof. Dewey of the university of Michi-
gan has under consideration "A call to the
Minnesota state university.
GOV. Luce delivered an address at the
republican banquet at Columbus, Ohio.
tie other night.
Tuscola, Charievoix and Osceola coun-
ties decided in favor of local option on the
l4th inst.
Mrs. Della Williams, whose abduction
from the home of her father, Nathan c.
ranch, by her hush md and his relatives
and her subsequent recapture by an ex-
cited crowd of " illiamston people, formed
the basis for the noted branch w illlams
cases at WILLIAMSON, is dead. over u
week before her death the last trace of
intellectual life in the formerly bright
and handsome girl vanished and in a con-
dition of total blindness and lmbecility
she passed away.
The dam at Liberty Mills, Ii miles south
of Jack son, gave way the other day, doing
$1,000 damage.
The annual meeting of Michigan single
manufacturers and wholesale dealers as
ISOLATION was held in Grand Rapids re
Gently and officers elected as follows
President, s. Frost, Stanton; vice-presi-
dent, E. p. Lewis, Grand Rapids; secretary
and treasurer, George b. Daniels, Stanton.
Report rendered showed stocks on hand
g, S17, 90 l,-inch XXX, 5,0l5,OO0 IS xxx,
| Al, 40, 0O0 Il G. b., 5,015, 900 l6 c. Il. Pros
poets for the future were declared good
and it was decided to hold firm for $500
Xxx at the mill for the coming season,
although the price was not made binding
| upon members.
Work will be commenced early In the
| spring on the Catholic orphan asylum In
Grand Rapids for which the late John
| Clancy left by his Will 100000. A ten