Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-08

weekly by intelligent residents there.
In the circuit court in Adrian in the suit
of Patterson against tho Cincinnati, Jack
son q Mackinac railway for $4,000 dam
ages the jury brought in verdict of So 59i
for the plaintiff, who was injured on the
road near Moscow last April.
At public meeting in Sault Ste Marie
the business men attended and all united
in telling the temperance men that they
would kill local option deader'n nit. The
county would have beaten il 800. A com
mittee of law and order was appointed TO
see that the laws are lived up to.
r. NJ. Delmas, a Michigan Central brake
man, was struck by a switch engine in
Jackson the other day and instantly killed.
President L. B. WEIGH and Secretary
Geo. :. Pierson have called the fifth annu
al meeting of the Southwestern Michigan
sheep-breeders' and wool-growers' asso-
citation, which will be held at tho Ameri-
can hotel in Kalamazoo on Wednesday,
March Z, at 2 p. m. Papers of interest TO
those engaged in all branches of sheep
husbandry will be presented. The asso-
citation is composed OF sheep-breeders in
Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Allegan, Barry, st
Joseph, VanBuren and other counties A
large meeting is expected.
Peach trees are reported to be as yet
uninj ured by cold weather.
The Fenton normal school is now under
control OF stock company. George w.
Barbour is president
David HenninS of Chicago has given
$4,000 and Bishop Gillespie $500 towards
endowment fund Akeley college at Grand
Haven.
3The Kalamazoo Tubular Well company's
machinery and tubular well goods have a
wide reputation. Recently large ord err
was received from Smellie a. Co. of Bris.
bane, Queensland, 9,0)J miles away from
Kalamazoo, and from l.. Cortazar, a
prominent house at Havana, Cuba.
Michael letters of East Saginaw offers
to endow first-caSs orphan asylum in
that city, with accommodations for 100
babies.
Two children of Mr.. Achoes of North
Star, were playing together, when one
eized an old AK and thoughtlessly gave
She other a hard blow on the foot. The
little sufferer has had a portion of the
foot amputated,
A. w. Blaire of Dutton has planted G, 600
brook trout fry in the streams near that
place.
The senate committee gives S150OOO for
the Bay City public building. This is $780,
OJO below thu amount asked.
Washtenaw county defeated local option
by a majority of about 1850.
A company has been organized to manu-
facture brick, tile and slate roofing from
the clay found near Farwell.
Horace Murray, charged with rape on
the person Of his cousin, a 9-yr-old daugh-
ter ofJoseph Murray of Brady township,
Kalamazoo county, has been found guilty
and sentenced TO 80 years in Jackson.
The state board of agriculture has decid g.
ed that $4,000 of the Hatch appropriation
shall be devoted to experiments with the
pine barrens, probably in the vicinity of
Grayling.
Three years ago Miss Hattie Cotton of
Constantine lost her voice suddenly, and
although sho was treated by some of the
most eminent surgeons of the state, she
received no relief. Miss Cotton went TO
western Iowa and her voice was restored.
Upon returning to Michigan her voice
again failed, and this experiment has been
repeated three times, the young lady's
voice utterly failing at home, but coming
out strong in Iowa.
Nelson Rowe of Hartford has been arrest.
ed a second time, charged with arson. He
was arrested some time ago on the same
charge, but proved an alibi. Since then
he has been Swallowed 10y a detective.
During the last two weeks of February
over lOJforeigners took out naturalization
papers in Iosco county.
LnnsinG's new jail is completed AMI
ready for boarders.
Sault Ste Marie talks of organizing a
chamber of commerce.
\ company is to be organized in Flint
with $1,000 capital, 20 manufacture and
sell the Winchell windmill.
The business men OF Holland have or
gained for the purpose of establishing
fruit canning and evaporating factory.
A. II. Smith of Adrian, has been appoint
ed inspector of bridges, culverts and
trestles on the Lake Shore railroad system
and Will have to inspect them on LOO
miles of road.
The new $4,000 Tinkham house at Grand
Ledge is TO be opened March o.
1t Is stated that Sumner Howard, form -
erly speaker of the Michigan house of
representatives, and now lawyer at
Prescott, Arizona, accepted few shares
of stock in an undeveloped mine last fall
as q retainer in murder case. A few
days ago he was offered $4,000 for the
stock, but declined to part with it.
Emmett county is on the side of local
option.
a Catholic priest left his grip sack with
$3.50 in the depot at Baraga, and some un-
regenerated thief stole it.
Berrien county has decided in favor Of
local option.
Oscoda county votes on local option
March l..
The postofiice in Adrian was damaged
by fire the other day TO the amount of
$1,000.
Bruce Matthes was killed by falling
tree near Mecosta n few days ago. His
father was killed in the same manner
about three years ago.
Peaches are reported uninjured through
ont tho lake region and western Michigan.