Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04

City, has bought $4,000 acres of pine land
in Chippewa county
The L'Anso Sentinel says that the game
law that rs needed IN the upper peninsula
| is state bounty on wolves. With less
wolves there will be more deer.
The headquarters of the Michigan geo
logical survey will soon be removed from
Marquette 10 Houghton, where Prof
| Wadsworth, the new state geologist, re-
sides.
Robert Laughlin has been made superin-
| tendent Of the Tuscola x Huron railroad.
Mrs. Louisa Stowell, professor in the
university at Ann Arbor, who has been
| Ill Tor several months is slowly recover
! ing
The new city hall in Grand Rapids which
| cost $4,000 was dedicated Oh the 26th ult.
Edward Kennedy, who tried to kill Chief
| OF Police Skully at Ishpeming in May last,
has been released upon payment of $500
/ fine.
Col. Raffensberger a prominent real es-
tate man Of Ann Arbor, is dead
Mrs. Nellie Bidwell, the woman who
oloped with Waldron, the absconding bank
er Of Hillsdale, was arrested in Angola,
Ind, the other day, and taken to Hillsdale.
! She was afterward released on bail.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
| company has decided TO extend the Cole
man branch to the forks of the Tobacco
| river, within six miles of Gladwin, and its
| extension to the latter place will be accom-
| plished again.
The reunion of the Sixteenth Michigan
| volunteer infantry at Flint, Sept. ~, was
| largely attended The officers elected are:
| President, John Weller, East Saginaw;
| vice president, Stephen Martin, Detroit;
| secretary aud treasurer, Frank ID. Keller,
East Saginaw; historian, Benjamin +.
| Partridge, Bay City; chaplain, w. II.
| RrORyNUaV Albion mi
II. II. Alpin, Bay City; Thomas McGraw,
| Detroit; A. Cameron, Lansing.
An ore train of % cars was wrecked near
| Alba the other morning, at a loss of s., 900.
| The wreck was caused by Il broken aw-
| bar.
In 1873 Thomas Harvey, an Englishman
| living at Manchester, died leaving consid-
| cradle property, but no heirs could be
| found. The money, amounting to 50, 556.6G,
| was turned over to the county treasurer
and placed in the unknown heir" fund.
| Recently petition was received from
woman nameG Elizabeth Walker Susannah
| rhebald of NOrthdown, Isle Of Thanet
England, who said she was a cousin OF the
deceased and mis- heir Upon investigation
this was found to be true, and Judge Har
riman has ordered the county treasurer TO
turn the amount over to her attorneys.
II. H. Hawley Of Fowlerville was arrest
ed at the fair grounds in Lansing the other
States revenue laws. The Off ers state
that he had a small hand satchel slung over
his shoulder, and from the grip was dis
pensing whisky by the glass in n retired
spot back of the sheep pen.
James Wellington Brown, VINO has been
% times husband, has been convicted In
the recorders court in DetI oft, and sen
fenced to four years and six months in
jackson.
Mile Kitz, an operator in the central tele-
phone office in Grand Rapids committed sui
eide en- the 21th ult. by taking carbOlic acid.
She was engaged to a young man. and the
wedding was fixed for an early day. Her
lover told her that the wedding would have
| to be postponed for at least three years,
and that broke her heart.
The display of vegetables at the West
| Branch fair excelled that at the state fair
| in many respects. Northern Michigan is
coming to the front with rapid strides.
Dan Scott and John Ruling of Grand
| Rapids quarreled about a woman. Ruling
| was stabbed in the back, and Scott is locked
| up in jail
Henry Miller of Chesaning, Saginaw
| county, who had sold his farm for 500
cash, was on his way TO Vernon, Oh %,
! when he fell in with a stranger at the
| Pennsylvania depot The stranger sue
| ceeded in borrowing the entire 500, giving
as security worthless bond.
| About S,OOO,OJO feet OF lumber were sold
| at Saginaw in one day recently. The lum-
| Der market is quoted as fairly active.
Jacl1son's postoffce is TO be removed two
! blocks west Of the business portion of the
! city. The chan &c Is 10 be maze for san
i itary reasons.
The papers left by the late Levi Bacon
| of Michigan, disbursug clerk in the
| patent Office show that he had advanced to
his subordinates just sl',OG0, and this is the
exact amount Of his dedication. The
money was loaned 70 the clerks TO pay pc
| litical assessments.
| A. ~ Able Of Flint, has been missing
corn from his field and he determined to
| get even with somebody. The other night
| he lay in wait and saw man enter the
field Without waiting to see who it was
! he fired at the stranger, and severely
wounded Charles Bosnian "a neighbor who
was cutting across lots 10 his home.
The will of the late Maj. Watson of Grand
| Rapids leaves his entire estate of about
S4GO, 900 to be divided among his immediate
| relatives, making no public or charitable
| requests
Submit II. Field, mother of L. II. Field,
| q prominent merchant of jackson, and aunt
of Marshal Field of Chicago, died at her
son $ residence in Jackson Sept. %, aged 81
years.
| Winter wheat in the fruit belt is looking
fine and farmers are happy
Gladwin is looking forward TO q real es-
tate boom, when 1t gets a second railroad.
There are thousands of acres Of fine farm
ing land near that town which will be worth
considerable money in short time.
A Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Michi-
gan freight jumped the track near Farwell
the other day, wrecking several cars. Sew
eral men were injured, one of whom had
both legs broken.
Trouble Impending.
Gov Ross of Texas is in receipt of alarm,
ing kilograms from Rio Grande City, Mexi-
co, informing him that there is war raging
on the Texas frontier and that Rio Grande
L In, ho hnn Of mn nnd ion,