Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-28
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Boston.
Freddie Kranz, Hector Morrison, Charles
Anderson and John Cameron, all ~well-known
young men of Lake Linden, went out for o
sail the other afternoon. The o capsized
and John Cameron and Chas. Anderson
were drowned. The other two dashed them
selves to the boat and drifted all night.
During the forenoon of the next day they
were washed ashore in a helpless condition.
They were nine miles from a settlement,
md by crawling through a wilderness OF
forests until late at night they finally
reached home. No bodies were recovered
The Sparta house Of Wakefield, occupied
by Edward Bowler, was burned the other
night, and two children Of Mr.. Wakefield
persisted in the flames. Several men were
badly injured in trying TO save the little
ones.
Eastern capitalists want 70 buy the Pen
insular mine near Houghton.
One hundred and nifty Holland immi-
grants landed in Grand Rapid the other
day.
Mrs. e. p. Fuller o. Graad Ra"ils, has
established Il ncwsboyS' home in that city.
Carl Waudcll, first publisher Of the Ish.
pcming Iron Ore, and one Of the pioneers
Of the Menominee iron range, is dead.
The following is the Michigan committee
in the national republican convention
ANIlIlldn, II. VI. IlOIIs StNItAdINy y Nl'
Richardson; organization, John X. Boies
credentials, T.. Il. Dunstan; resolutions,
George Spaulding; national committee,
JOIN Il. Sanborn.
Ten thousand tons of iron ore were sold
at the New York mine in lshpeming on the
Goth inst.
John McDermott, a laborer, was found in
Lincoln park in Grand Rapids, suffering
from sunstrOke. He was taken TO police
headquarters, where he died an hour later.
Michigan prisoners of wal held a reunion
at Ithaca on the 2lst inst.
Louis Hickey, an old resident of Mar.
quette, fell from his roof the other day, AMI
was instantly killed.
Charles Schultz, working on tho new
plow works at Albion was sunstruck,d dying
a few hours later. He cmigrated from
Germany about IA month ago.
A young, handsome, well-dressed, edu-
Gated man named c.. II. Spencer, whose
wife is in Albany, n. Y, walked into a
hotel in Marquette the other night and
swallowed two ounces OF cRrbolic acid, dying
instantly.
The Hitler planning mill and box factory
in Bay City, was burned the other night ut
"a loss OF $4,000.
John McDermott was overcome by the
heat at Grand Rapids and died an hour later.
MIS-. JOln ouNutI " SdIlDIld. IllllShbAt
county, fell down stairs the other afternoon
and broke her neck. Herself and husband
were getting ready to go TO Hillsdale and
he went in after her TO find her lying at
the foot of the stairs unconscious. She
was 40 years old and leaves three children.
G.. Bouma, "a milk pcddler Of Grand Rap
ids, was killed 10y the cars the other day.
While looking al u train approaching from
the south he did not notice the other com
ing on another track from the opposite di-
rection.
The President has signed the act for the
construction of a public building at Bay
City.
'Mack" Dodge, aged 2S and unmarried,
was caught in a belt in the fence Stat mill
at Eaton Rapids, and died of his injuries
two hours later.
Augusta Andersono of Grcenyiile obtained
a judgment Of $500 against a saloon keeper
of that town for selling liquor to her hus-
band.
The machinery of the Jonesville cotton
mill is being removed to Des MOines, Iowa.
President Willis of the agricultural col
lege has been down TO Columbus, Ohio,
giving the students of the Ohio agricultural
college some good advice.