Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-13


tory. There is n demand for il.
The Harbor Springs wooden toothpick
factory makes so, 200, 900 picks year.
The estate of VIM. Van Brunt, who was
killed while coupling cars in the G., j. AZ
NJ yards at Marshall, has sued the compa-
ny for SIS, 900, on the claim that the car
which caused the accident was defective.
The jointer exploded in the saw-mill at
Grant the other day, instantly killing
Thomas James.
Mrs. Chas. Kraglnberg Of Saginaw
missed her l6months- old child, Albert, and
after looking all over for him was Mortified
to see him with his head pitched into bag
kettle partly filled with water, standing
near the door, outside. She picked him up
only to find him dead. He fell into the
kettle, was unable to help himself, and was
drowned
Luther Straton of Bedford, Calhoun
county, has been arrested for receiving
illegal pension fees.
L. L. King of Waterford has lost eleven
cattle by poison.
The Seventeenth Michigan infantry-the
"Stonewall regiment its reunion
at Monroe, September
The work of raising the $40, 900 bonus for
one of the proposed new railroads through
Coldwater progresses slowly. The people
had so much experience in the old Cold
water, Mansfield x Ohio railroad that they
are not very enthusiastic.
The 23d annual fair Of the Gratiot county
agricultural society will be held at Ithaca,
September 25, 20, %, %.
At the annual meeting of the American
Pharmaceutical Association in Detroit, the
following officers were elected for the en-
suing year: NJ. w. Alexander, Louisville,
Ky, president; James Vernon, Detroit,
first vice president; +. Wilcox, Waterbury,
Conn, second vice-president; A. A. wager,
Knoxville Tenn, third vice-president; 5.
A. d. Sheppard, Boston, treasurer; j. M.
Maisch, Philadelphia, secretary; and
Henry Corning, Boston, g. l.. Kuppler,
New Orleans, and Emlen Painter, Brook
Ign, 70 fill the vacancies in the council.
The state pharmaceutical association, at
its annual meeting in Detroit. elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, Geo. Gundrum of Ionia; vice
presidents, T. M Alsdorf of Lansing; II.
M. Dean Of Niles Q. Eberbach of Ann Ar
Dor; treasurer, VIM. Dupont of Detroits
executive committee, a. II. Lyman, Manis-
tee; A. Bassett, Detroit; +. J. Wurzburg,
Grand Rapids; w. A Hall, Greenville; T..
Il. Webb, jackson.
Andrew Cummings lime kiln, and four
ice houses of the Standard ice company in
Bay City, were destroyed by fire the other
day, at a loss Of $4,000.
JOuu NlOuICI, W AO SllOb HIS DIOlutT WHO
in Detroit some weeks ago, has been con-
vlcted, and sentenced TO Jackson prison for
life.
Mrs. Alice b. Hardenburg has been elect
ed member Of the Tecumseh school board.
Coldwater is now lighted with electricity.
The burnt district in Alpena has been al
most entirely rebuilt,
Berkey & Gay of Grand Rapids have been
awarded the contract for furnishing 100
room hotel at Athens, Ga.
DIR. Hunter of jackson has some cotton
plants in blossom in his private garden.
BY the breaking of dam, 5000 fine fish
escaped from Kelly Bros trout farm near
Fair Plains.
Mrs Ollie Kelly of Kalamazoo was run
over by freight train while crossing the
G. j. q Nj. Railroad bridge near Battle
Greek the other day. Both legs were
cut off, one above and the other be-
low the knee. The lower portion of the
body was also partially crushed. She
lived nearly two hours and was conscious
to the last.
S. Foster q Bros mill, salt block and
cromine mills in Midland were burned the
other day. The pail and tub factory was
saved. Mr. Foster estimates his loss above
the insurance at not fewer that $4,000. II
is a severe blow TO the brothers.
Over 1000 students registered at the
opening of the fall term of the normal
school.
The freight Office Of the ID. L. g. N. X. r.
at Bedding was broken into the other night
while the agent was at tea, and about $40
taken. No clue to the robbers. This is the
second robbery of this station in two
months, and the fifth in six years.
The board of control of the state indus
trial home for girls at Adrian has named
the new cottage recently built in connection
with that institution, "the Palmer cottage, {"
in honor of u. S. Senator Thomas w. Pal
NOR.
Susie Thompson of East Saginaw, aged
| 10, was struck by a locomotive while cross
ing the railroad tracks the other morning,
and fatally hurt.
Dumford g. Alverson Of Port Huron will
build 500, 900 dry dock at that city.
The report of the state inspectors shows
the salt inspection for August as follows:
! Saginaw county, 112,95S barrels; Manistee
| county, 103,0S3; Bay county, 1858; St.
Clair county, 32,356; Iosco county, 81, 1856 !;
Mason county, 42,6S1; Huron county, 49,
379; Midland county, 1920; total, 462, $40
barrels. A comparison of the inspection
for the year to September shows as fol
lows: 1884, 9 los, 300 barrels; 1885, 2, 176, 1872
! 1886, 2,52S,650; 1887, 2,s40, S67; 1885, 2,671,
| 500.
Henry Souers of the barge G. X. Jackson
was arrested in Bay City few days ago
| on a capias at the instance of Edwin Morse
Of Marquette, who claims $1,000 damages
| for an assault and battery committed June
3, at the latter place. Morse has been in
the hospital ever since, with broken leg
and other injuries. Capt Souers gave
| 81 900 bail TO appear at the December term
of the circuit court
d. Hoyt Of Schoolcraft paid $40 the other
day Tor shooting duck before September l.
L II.
tween Battle Creek and Goshen, Ind, has
all been secured but twenty miles.
| J. Wilson Turner the colored ex-minister
TO Liberia, Is anxious 10 meet ID. Augustus
Stalker Of Detroit in the political arena.