Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-19

n mole In the MOOR, Trying TO save nlmSelI
he had his hand cut of on the saw. He
sued the firm for damages for negligence
William II. Hunter, piano tuner of Al
pena, was found frozen TO death near
Oscoda. He was terribly frozen, his tongue
cleaving to the roof of his mouth and his
extremities being like sticks.
Albert j. Scott was killed in an accident
on the logging road of Pitt IL Grange near
Ogemaw Springs.
Ishpeming has been named as the place,
and Wednesday, Jan. 25 as the date, for
holding the republican congressional con
ven.ion Co nominate successor to the
late congressman Moffat.
VIM. Harrison Fisher, aged 81, farmer
living in Monitor township, Bay county,
has been missing since last October or
early in November. The authorities have
arrested his wife and one Henry Wallace
and will hold them pending an investiga
ton of the case.
Antrim county poor house was opened
Jan. l, 1855
Myatt Ryan, the Karen who was educat
ed at Kalamazoo college and the medical
department of the U. OF NJ. is doing very
finely in hospital and general medical
practice at Moundee Burmah His oldest
son is named Edward Olney.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
in Jackson perison.
New commissions have been issued from
the Adjutant-Generaps office for the
| following-named officers of the Michigan
state troops; Company e., First Regiment,
Muskegon, Geo. II. Armstrong, as second
| lieutenant; Company H., First Regiment,
jackson, Edward l.. Lennon as first lieu
tenant Frank VI. Drumm, second lieuten-
ant; Company b., Second Regiment,
Grand Rapids, VIM. S. Kinney as captain
Jacob Schroeder, second lieutenant; Com
pany H., Second Regiment, Manistee, G,
II. Crane, as captain, John l.. Thornburn'
| first lieutenant, j. V. Mcintosh, second
| lieutenant; Company X, Third Regiment,
Houghton, Ed. +. Douglass as captain,
| George Miller, second lieutenant, Ger
tificates of reelection were issued as fol
lows: John A. Tyrrell, captain, Company
! H., First Regiment, jackson; w. W. sta
| ley, captain, Fred. Shubuh Jr., first lieu
tenant Andrew Purcell, second lieutenant,
Company f., First Regiment, Lansing;
Geo. +. Childs, captain, f. A. Aldrich
first lieutenant, Chas. 5, Martin, second
lieutenant, Company A., Third Regiment,
Flint; Joseph w. Kerns captain, +. j.
Schmidt, first lieutenant, II. c. Thurber,
second lieutenant Company T., Third
Regiment, East Saginaw; Chas. Dupont,
captain, Geo. w. Corns, first lieutenant,
Henry b. Lathrop, second lieutenant,
Company d., Fourth Regiment, Detroit.
Mrs. Gordonier's grocery store in Cold
water burned the other night. IL was the
oldest business place in the city
DIR. Mitchell says the epidemic OF typhoid
fever in Jackson is caused by poisoned
milk.
Mr.. |. Slater and Mrs. NJ. Huntley of
Lapeer have been sentenced to pay So
and costso 30 days in the Detroit house
of correction for robbing clothes lines.
The contract to manufacture 400 cars
for the Chicago, Milwaukee ~ st. Paul
railway has been completed by the Mus
kegon car company. The contract price
for the work was in the neighbor hood Of
! S2OO,CO).
An organ factory is to he added to Char
lotte's industries
Plans are being made to start knitting
mill at Mendon.
Five men started to ride TO the surface
in No. shaft of the Champion
ron mine at Champion in Mar
quette county. Three Of them, John
Casey, an Irishman, Carl Johnson, a
Swede, and w. II. Craddocli, Cornish.
man, were riding in the ore skip and two,
Frank Oleson and Chas. Johnston, were
standing on the bail holding the cable.
When between the fourth and fifth levels
the .ip left the track and was umped,
precipitating Casey, Johnson and Grad
dock to the bottom of the shaft, nearly
100 feet, where their bodie5 were horribly
crushed, The other two escaped, one by
hanging to the cable, the other by jump
ing. All were old miners
The Canadian iron company Of Ishpem.
ing, which has been financially embar
raised, has been reorganized on a firm
basis, with =. Lachapelle, president, Ii. NJ.
| Croker vice-president uoses ToutoR
treasurer; ID. f. Wadsworth, secretary !;
w. j, Officer, mine superintendent The
property of this mine is near the cele'
brated Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain.
The senior class of the state normal
numbers 102.
The democratic congressional conven-
ton for the eleventh district, has been
called to meet in Marquette on the Goth
isn't. TO nominate IA successor to the late
Congressman Moffatt.
The state department commander of &.
a. X. warns the members of that order to
beware of man calling himself Maj j. II
Durham, a West Point graduate, 81 years
soldier, and as having been wounded
nine times. He is posted by Commander
Rutherford as getting drunk, borrowing
money and beating hotel bills, and as be-
ing in every way dead beat He has
been in Ohio and is now doing this state.
2The Andrew Jackson association of Jack
son county held its oath annual meeting
on the 9TH inst.
The Ford River lumber company have
plated the town of Ford River.
John Littlejohn, an inmate of the Var
Buren, county poor house. jumped from
the third story window of that institu
ton and was instantly killed. Mr.. Little
john was once talented man. He was
IN ho.