Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-26

StNtnJu Jay Oh u DcllOu OF IaSblnS,
which time he has not eaten anything in the
way Of food, not even milk, or the stimu-
lants, tea and coffee. Mr.. Hoover weighed
over two hundred pounds when he began his
fast, and at the end OF twenty seven days
his pulse is strong, aud, though weaker, he
gives evidence of ability TO hold out for a
considerable period. He has been in bed
for nine months, but has not been consider
ed an invalid No inducement will avail TO
get the old man TO take anything but water,
and physicians can do nothing for him.
Lieut.. Gen. Poo submits the following
estimates for continuation of work on the
Michigan improvements For continuing
the work of Improvement on ST. Mary's
river between Lakes Superior and Huron,
81, 1884, 75 st. Marys Falls canal, $36, 900;
dry dock at st. Mary's Falls canal, $50, 900; ,
Hay Lake channel st. Mary's river, $780,
600; Cheboygan harbor, Mich, $500 for
completion of work; Thunder Bay, S34, 30;
Saginaw river, Sl37 $50; Sand Beach, Lake
Huron, $l2S, 900; st. Clair Flats canal, Sl05,-
900; Detroit river $l30,5Oo; Crosse Pointe
channel, $9O,OO0.
The citizens of Ithaca have raised a sub
scription and retained James l.. Clark of
that place, to go to Detroit and defend Ella
Clark, the Ithaca girl who is charged with
the murder of her infant. The question of
sending To Kansas for Russell, who is
charged with betraying the girl, is being
discussed, and if there is any probability
of getting him, lequisition papers will be
made out at once. Considerable sympathy
has been manifested for the unfortunate
girl.
David Mcdonald and fifteen other Kala-
mazoo druggists petition congress for the
repeal of the internal revenue tax upon
druggists as liquor sellers.
Representative Chapman has presented a
resolution calling for a report from the
secretary Of nnOn the nRpnSSitV of
establishing life-saving station and light
house on the middle ground below Belle
Isle. The statutes permit no surveys for
this purpose until the engineer reports a
necessity for the Improvement and submits
an estimate.
Junius T.. Beal of Ann Arbor, is endeav-
oring TO secure a renewal Of the copyright
of DIR. Chases famous recipe book which
the Beals have published for many years.
Mat Brennan and two accomplices are in
jail at .Grayling on charge OF highway
robbery.
The body of Emma Spalding of McGregor,
Ia, who jumped overheard from the +. Il
Il. M steamer No. /, June %, was found
July II near Kenosha, Wis, having drifted
about 100 miles. The remains were sent to
McGregor for burial.
The agricultural college has issued a bulle-
tin on the jack pine plains Of the northern
counties.
The oil we'll scheme at Clifford has been
abandoned.
A soldiers, sailors and citizens encamp-
ment will be held in Belleville some time
in September.
Representative Fisher has appointed
Rev. T.. o. Fuller of Caro- an additional
member of his committee on examination
of appli cants for the West Point cadetship.
Capt. Nicholson of the Detroit house of
correction, read paper before the prison
congress at its annual session in Boston,
July Is.
John Jackson of Mt. Morris, met with a
painful accident July 4, and died on the
18th inst. He was engaged in celebrating
the day when an unexpected explosion of
gunpowder blew the flesh almost entirely
from his lower limbs. causing him most in
tense suffering until the time of his death.
Daniel McVean, for six years ali inmate
of the Kalamazoo asylum, hung himself
there the other night with a rope which he
had made by twisting strings together.
The burned district in Alpena is rapidly
being rebuilt.
A party of young men went to battle in
Walk Lake, Johnstown township, Barry
county. Fred Gleason, aged 20, became en-
tangled in the long grass. John Wilson
and Louis Burnam, aged Is and l6 respective
ly, attempted 10 rescue him and all were
drowned. Their bodies were not recovered
until late at night.
The five-years-old daughter of George
Weber farmer living five miles north of
Frankenmuth, burned 10 death the other
morning, her clothing taking fire from the
kitchen stove. She lived only an hour after
the accident.
Mrs. Carmichael of Wright, Hillsdale
county, who was arrested some time ago,
charged with poisoning her husband has
been held for trial at the circuit court.
James Wicks, an old gentleman so years
of age, was killed by the cars on the Fort
WAYNE branch of the Lake Shore railroad
one and one half miles south of Montgomery,
a few days ago. The old gentleman was
fishing on the railway bridge and being
quite deaf did not hear the approaching
train until it was upon him.
l.. f. Martin, graduate of Kalamazoo
college, class of SO, has gone to Japan,
where he has secured position in the gov
ernment schools
Frederick Peck of Grand Rapids wants
TO be consul TO Kingston, Jamaica.
There are 324 vets in the soldiers home.
The state has obtained a writ of manda-
mus from the supreme court citing Shia-
vase county to show cause why an order
should not issue1fOr the payment Of $42, 900
claimed due from the county TO the state.
Twelve thousand dollars of this is on &C
count of the old hve-year tax list and a
larger amount for compound interest.
BY the provisions of the sundry civil APP
preparation bill as reported, $1,000 is
available to begin work on the Detroit
postoffice.
Nine new business blocks, to replace
those destroyed by fire, are being built in
Laingsburg.
Lena White of Greenville, is under ar
rest for sending obscene matter through
the mails.
Wednesday, August 15 is the date upon
which the Ninth Michigan cavalry associa-
ton will hold reunion at Coldwater.
Warden Hatch, in an address before the
prison association at its annual meeting in
Boston, said the time has not come for in
determinate sentences and that religion
does more in the Michigan prison than dis
cipline.
The bill for the relief of Gen. Andrew T.
McReynolds of Grand Rapids became law
without the Presidents signature, the time
for vetoing it having elapsed. 1t gives the
general his Mexican pension for the period
Of the rebellion, something like 81 300.
The contract for the great 500 water
power canal has been awarded TO Macarthur
Bros. of Chicago. The price is in the
vicinity of S25O,o0O. Work will commence