Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-03-15


the violator from selling for period is
neither unusual nor unreasonable. He also
disagrees with his associates in their posi-
ton upon the metropolitan police clause
affecting Wayne county.
The country roads of Michigan are said
to be fairly swarming with tramps.
Groveland, Floodwood and Wilbeck are
new stations on the Milwaukee q North
ern railroad between Iron Mountain and
Republic.
A circuit court jury at East Saginaw
ordered that Joseph j. Harvey and Henry
Brown pay Theodore Howick $1,000 for
false imprisonment. Harvey caused
Brown to arrest Howick and friend for
being drunk and disorderly, and they
proved an alibi. Then Howick brought
the suit for damages.
President Willis says that hospital is
needed at the agricultural college.
Henry w. Seymour, the newly. elected
congressman from the eleventh district,
was formally sworn in on the Sd inst. The
term of the new congressman will last OK
actly one year, beginning and ending
March Sd, and his salary will be a round
So 600.
Fred Van Vranden of Michigan has been
appointed to a $1,000 clerkship in the Office
of the surgeon-general.
c. h. Calkins and j. w. Turner, Michi-
gan men, have been appointed postoflice
inspectors.
Michigan's Christian Endeavor societies
will hold convention in Lansing, April "a.
The farmers land and trust company
has taken possession of the Pontiac, Ok
ford {, Port Austin railroad and is epe
rating the same. Tho trust company held
mortgage on the road.
Charles Kardemen of Calumet was shot
and instantly killed while fooling with a
revolver the other day.
An interesting relic has been added to
the state museum the same being a sword
carried by one of John Browns men dur
ing the Kansa' trouble and at Harper's
Ferry. Ii was presented by postmaster
in Kansas to VIM. Foster of Kansas City,
and by him sent TO Lansing to his father,
Robt Foster, to be placed in the state
museum.
Sportsmen say that there is every indi-
cation that the grayling will soon become
extinct in Michigan stream.
Anna Marie Lynch, daughter OF Anna
Berger Lynch, the famous concertist, died
of diphtheria at the family dwelling in
Jackson on tho 9Th inst. She was eight
years old. She was a beautiful child, a
picture familiar to many strangers, hav
ing been photographed in different atti-
tides by Saxony. the famous New York
artist. She was endowed with rare must
cal and mimetic talents and inherited
generally the gifts of the famous Berger
family. Leigh Lynch, tho father is on
his way TO Australia on theatrical bust
ness and cannot be advised of his calam-
ity for some weeks.
A letter has been received at the execu-
tive office asking the governor to do what
he can, through the public press and other
wise, to prevent Michigan citizens from
being lured by un ,crupulous land agents
into emigrating to and purchasing lands
in Virginia. The writer says thousands
have gone there and purchased land upon
the representations made in the circulars
of these agents, and after a year or
two OF hard work have found themselves
ruined, and been compelled to give up all.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
Michigan branch of the woman's board of
missions of the interior will be held al
Reed City March % and %.
+. r. Sage, farmer living near Mecos-
ia, fell and broke his back the other day.
Croswell wants creamery or cheese
factory.
Rodney Rounds of Wayland township,
Allegan county, shot himself the other
day, after having first set fire to his house
After the fire was subdued his blackened
remains were found in the ruins a revol
yer beside them.
Eugene Clark has sued the sheriff OF
Clare county for 5000 for assault and
battery and false imprisonment. Clark
was in iail "A few days and was discharged
without being arraigned in court.
Byron NJ. Cheever A. NJ, NJ. D., profess
or of metallurgy in the university, died
on the 9th inst. of a pulmonary and ty
phoid ailment, superinduced by a severe
cold contracted on recent trip in the
mountains of Arizona.
Prof. Howell has been re-engaged as SUI
perintendent of Lansing schools for tive
years at 81 coo per year.
Inc hble eullOTS Oh IeJOSkey nave llAeu
up a corner on church socials, having
agreed TO pay cash for such tickets a'
they care TO use, and to charge ten cent,
a line for all the putting they give before
the affair comes off.
Senator Palmer has introduced n reso
luton directing an inquiry into the expe
diency of purchasing the fine collection o
historic Indian paintings now in tin
| Smithsonian ins titution and the work o
/ the celebrated artist, John NJ. Stanley
long resident of Michigan.
Albert II. Grund lumber camp fore
man, was killed by one of his men nea
| Grayling.
DR.. j. B. Holcomb Of Schoolcraft, wa
| found dead in his house the other morning
1t is supposed that death was the result o
an epileptic fit.
Judgments against the Iron King Mimi!
company of Bessemer have been obtaine,
! in seventy five cases, the plaintiffs beinj
men employed in the mine, and to whom
! five months pay was due. The compan,
made no defense. The Iron King is one o
! Burton mines and has been getting IN ar
rears steadily ever since it was first open
ed up.
A fire brigade has been formed anon!