Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-22

and owner of famous Rob Roy kennels,
also as writer for sporting papers in Eu-
rope and America, died March 10 of pneu-
monia. He was aMason and 80 years old.
The Mitchell changing house of the Win
throp mine in Ishpeming was destroyed
by fire the other morning, and Michael
Carney was burned to death.
Chas. Bush of Williams, in Kalamazoo
county, while going home the other after
noon on the westbound Kalamazoo a.
South Haven passenger train, was put off
at Brownell'S for refu sing to pay his fare.
He wandered around for some time and
finally lay down on the track in a drunken
stupor. An incoming train ran over him,
cut him in two and scattered his entrails
and pieces of flesh and bone along the
track for distance of thirty rods.
Levi Rogers, coored of Jackson, was
found dead in his house the other day.
He was about 100 years old, and lived all
alone.
Secretary Villas has signed the land
commissioner order consolidating the
offices at Grayling,
Several gas wells have been located near
Eaton Rapids by Ohio gentlemen.
John Smith, better known as County
Line" Smith, died in Eaton Rapids the
other day. He was one Of the first settlers
in that section.
BERT Stills, aged 10, had his scalp part
ly torn off by blow from n descending
elevator in Pentwater bedstead cOmpany's
factory.
The weather crop bulletin of the signal
corps for Michigan, under date of March
10, says: The freezing at night and thaw-
ing during the day has had an injurious
effect on wheat and cloVerd uring the past
week in the south half OF ne state. The
deficiency of precipitation and excess in
sunshine is reported to be unfavorable for
wheat The ground of the south half of
the state is bare OF snow, and some fields
are reported as having a coating Of ice.
The ground in the north half of the state
is yet covered with snow, and no unfavor
able effect has been noticed on wheat.
The business men of Middleton have pre-
sented to the 7. :. q NJ. r. r. l,lOOxlOO it.
of land adjoining the track. to be used for
shipping purposes.
The secretary of the interior, in the
matter of the claim of the Jackson q Ian
Michigan (about l2)l acres in the aggre
gate), has denied the motion filed by the
company for review of the decision of the
department rendered February 20 1884,
adverse to the company The secretary,
in denying the motion, decides that the
act of March 3 1871, authorizing partial
change of location of the road, did not in
any manner alter or enlarge the quality
or terms of the grant previously made.
lie also holds that the reservation made
by the president in 1855 for Indian pur-
poses operated TO except the land in ques-
ton from the railroad grant, and they are
now open for entry under the settlement
laws.
A million white fish are Matched daily
at the Michigan fish hatchery in Detroit.
Thomas Northey was killed by fall of
earth in the Cleveland mine at Ishpeming
the other morning.
Coal has been discovered in two places
in Calhoun county.
Representative Fisher has secured
favorable report on the Bay City public
building bill, with the appropriation
placed at S20O,000
Arthur Case, a prominent Mason and
an old pioneer of Lenawee county, is
dead.
w. II. Gilbert of Manton, was shot and
fatally wounded, while exploring in
Northern Minnesota.
II. Dalzell of Cadillac, recently received
a letter, the mission of which is TO hunt
up all the members of the Dalzel family
in America. The letter has been travel
ing since October and bears addenda from
over 40 persons. The messenger has
already been all over the United States
and has only completed about half its
work
The Michigan Central refuses to handle
any more freight which would have TO be
transmitted over the c.. B. q Q. lines west
of Chicago.
DR.. j. Il. Gaucher of Nashville has been
held for trial in the circuit court on the
charge of grave robbing
Mrs. Lucretia Youngs of Bridgeport sues
Isaac Bearinger, a wealthy lumberman,
for $4,000 damages which she claims to
have sustained through being run over by
his cutter in February.
Mahoney, the lumberman who killed his
foreman in Sands camp near Grayling,
has been held for trial at the May term of
court.
Medal V. Miller a farmer living near
Huron, Dakota, was arrested in Detroit
recently, charged with swindling the I'm
ion bank of Huron out of s., 700
1t has been decided to make display
signal station at Mackinaw City and a
full signal station at Sault Ste. Marie.
Edward Preston, one OF the men who
''held up' Capt. Holt in Detroit some
weeks ago, has been sentenced to % years
in Jackson.
The state republican league has issued
a call for township organization through
out the state, and headquarters, until
further notice, have been fixed at the
Michigan club % Fort street west, Detroit
The county clubs have been requested to
celebrate the Fourth of July in a patriotic
manner.
Samuel f. Strong was arrested in Mon
tague the other day on requisition from
the governor of Nebraska He is charged
with fraudulently disposing of mortgaged
chattels, and will be turned over to Ne
braska officials who will take him to that