Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-27

Il aDE
GERS were elected; President, Dan e. Bird
sail, Hastings; vice presidents, John Shaw,
| Big Rapids; = X. Pierce, Grand Rapids;
A. S. Shattuck, Lansing; II. j. Waters,
Muskegon; William w. Williams, Berlin;
secretary, M. ID. Reed, Hastings treasurer,
8. Garrison, Hastings. The next reunion
| viii 10 held at Hastings.
II. p. Barbour of Detroit, a clerk en-
plOyed in the office of the second auditor Of
| the treasury, dropped dead on the street in
| Washington the other evening. Mr. Bar
bour was about 50 years old and had been
in the treasury department about ten years.
Every indication at the Calumet & Hecla
| mine points 10 the conclusion that the fire
/ is nearly burned out But little smoke is
sues from the shaft and the temperature Is
| much coolor. Ii is hoped that the eighi
bodies can be gotten out before many dave
and the extent OF the damage can be fully
| ascertained.
George w. Townsend, aged II, living
seven miles from Luther, committed sui.
eide few days since, by cutting his arm
! TO the bone and bleeding to death.
The name of the postofice at Anna River
in Alger county, has been changed 10 Halls
! ton.
The Michigan merino she p breeders, at
the annual convention he'd in Lansing,
| elected the following officers President,
John It. Rich, Elba; vice-pr( sdent, George
|
Ball, Hamburg; treasurer, j. Evarts
Smith, Hpsilanti; directOrs-L.W. Barnes,
Byron; IA. Wood, saline; sc. Lambard,
Addison; a. w. Warning, Mendon.
Thomas Burke, formerly of Marshall, has
been nominated for chief justice of the
supreme court of Washington Territory.
The league Of republican clubs will meet
in Baltimore Feb. Is.
A Philadelphia paper is authority for the
| stDtnmpAf (nnUnlnn1
the expiration of his term, will reside at
| Orange, n. D., and have an important busi-
ness occupation in New \ DIRK city
Three hundred members of the Loyal
! Legion (eX-union of1icors) held a meeting
in indianapolis Dec. 10, and after business
had been transacted, called in body upon
| Gen. Harrison.
y favorable report has been made in the
| senate upon the house bill 10 pay A. Il.
| Swineford S6ll 81, the amount of salary due
! as governor OF Alaska from July to Sept.
! Is, 1855, the time subsequent TO his appoint
| ment, when he was attending 10 person i
matters in Marquette
Tho will of Smith W. Os,erhout of Grand
| Rapids leaves an estate of 10000. and
after providing 1900 annuity and a home
| for his parents, 81, 900 To- each OF three SIS
| tiers, 81 900 each 10 the thee ogical Congre-
| gational seminary OF Chicago, the First
| Congregational church of .,irand Rapids
|
| Grand Rapids, he leaves Ons-third of the
balance TO hs widow and the rest TO his
! young son.
1t is proposed TO bridge the 81 Joseph
river between 81 Joseph and Benton HIr.
| Dor.
Mrs. Ida Wall of Leoni has become insane
| over the deaths of her father and mother
who died in Dakota recently
The contract for building the Detroit,
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let TO George Warren Of New York. Work
will begin in the spring.
Bill McCord was convicted at Tawas
City On u charge Of burglary, and mad "a
desperate effort to escape from Sherl
Langtree and Marshal Hewson while being
| taken from the courthouse 10 the Jail, bat
was overcome and jailed.
A disease resembling fever and ague, but
which veterinarian skill SO far has failed
| to touch, is carrying Oft the cows on the
farm OF Il. r. Knceland, in Bong.I, Clinton
county. The malady, which is always
fatal, has not appeared anywhere else, so
far.
A freight car upon the sidetrack at Ok
| ford was robbed of seYt raj hundred pounds
of butter the other night, 8nd the next day
| two detectives found the stuff in Horace
| ..elley's house there, and arrested Kelley,
his wife, Albert HANDLER and wife ana
three others
Gov Swinefor1 of Alaska is now in
| Washington 10 testify before me house
committee investigating the outIages in
| Alaska.
Members of the Michigan congressional
| delegation are receiving so many letters on
the subject of appointment under the new
administration that they have decided not
TO attempt any slate for the present. All
applicants letters will be acknowledged
and tiled for future action. Invitations
will be sent to the republican members
elect to meet there the last of Feb
ruary, and until that time the delegation
will refrain from committing themse.vee
in any way. StOckbridgc, Burroughs and
Cutcheon are getting the bulk of the appl
cations.
Abner G. Gage of Corunna, chronic in
ebrlato, who has several times served time
in state institutions, but Of late has been
pretty sober for him, was found dead in DIR.
Bailey's barn the other morning.
Oliver Dwyer, aged 81, while braking on
the east branch of the Saginaw IL Clare
county railroad, between Harrison and
Clare Ga branch of the +. ~ p. M, got
caught between the logs extending out, and
crushed so that he died shortly after.
The following were elected officers of the
Michigan Holstein Friesan cattle associa-
ton for the ensuing year: President, NJ. l..
Sweet, Grand Rapids; vice president, +. +.
Mills, Ann Arbor: secretary, Charles l..
Seeley, Lansing; treasurer, w. X. Sexton,
Howell; directors, John A. Miller, Swart,
Creek; T. ID. Seeley, Bay City.
| The Michigan swine breeders associa.
ton at their second semi annual meeting in
Lansing elected the following officers
President, j. w. Hibbari, Burlington
secretary, Quincy Mcbride, Burton
treasurer, l.. w. Barnes, Byron.
Michigan Salt Product.
The report of the state inspector shows
there were inspected during November
quantities of salt as follows:
Counties. Barrels.
Saginaw ........... ...........''''' w
Day ........ ....s'..'.... -, lol
| ManlSlee ......... .........-..' Sci ia
| St. Clalr. .........,..... ........... ff,SS-
| IOSco ....s.ss .s'ss.ss'' go. SS'ol'
| huron .......... .....'...'. H. VV
MASON .............-... ......'' .oS,V4V
Mlulanu INSTRUMENTATION. o,Oo'
| Total ..,.............. .0fo,93t
Through the Trestie.
freight train, west bound, on the Gin
cinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw railway
broke through trestle bridge two miles