Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-09

assays 800 per ton and about
$1,000 worth per day is being taken from,
it.
During the past % years 4S5 Pardons
have been granted 10y Michigan executives
as follows; Gov. Grape in four years T.
Gov. Baldwin four years so, Gov. Bagley
four years l26, Gov. Crosswell four years
06 Gov. Jerome two years 49, Gov. Begole
two years IS, Gov. Alger two years AZ and
Gov. Luce one year 9.
The miners in the iron mines in the
vicinity OF Ironwood to the number of
400 are on strike.
Frank Conant of Albion, while digging
a well, was buried under 10 feet of dirt.
Life was extinct when he was taken out.
Mrs. Harriet Eggleston of Grand Rapids,
wife of Hon. L. 5. Eggleston, died very
suddenly the other morning of apopleXy.
She was the great-grand-daugh OF Gen.
o. +. Swift of revolutionary fame. She
came to Grand Rapids in 1919 and has al
ways been prominent in benevolent and
charitable work.
The secretary of the treasury has APP
pointed George Prior keeper of the Stand
ard Rock lighthouse station, Michigan
and William Thomson first assistant keep.
er and George Richmond second assistant
keeper at the same station.
The postmaster at Sault Ste Marie says
his clerk hire amounts to as much as his
salary, and asks Postmaster General Dick
lnson for a raise
Charles Morrison attended a dance at
Henderson the other night. On his way
home, being intoxicated, he lay down by
the side of the Michigan Central railroad.
he was struck on the head by the pilot of
a freight engine and when found the next
morning he was in dying condition.
Deceased was a brother of Thomas Morri-
son, who was shot and killed some time
ago by Fred Joslyn, the Henderson school
teacher,
Nelson Rowe, a well-to-do citizen of
Hartford, Van Buren, county, was arrested
while attending funeral the other day
for setting fire TO the house OF Marshall
Stratton of that village.
Geesien TroH, widow os Kalamazoo.
has sued Buno Trimmer Of Muskegon for
breach of promise The widow wants
$40 900 Of Buno's money.
Lille Woolsey Of Bellaire, is suffering
rom hydropnobia. she was bitten by a
pet dog in August last.
A company mas been formed in Hopkins,
Allegan county, TO bore for oil.
{. +. Mack, one OF the most prominent
farmers in Shiawassee county, died at his
home in Owosso the other morning.
Now said that the Calumet and Hecla
mine will not be opened until spring
Miss Sarah ;. Satterswaite of Canaan.
daigua, y. y, has been appointed pro
lessor of Greek in Hope college at Holland.
A pail and tub factory has been started
ut Big Rapids with $4,000 capital
Assistant Adjutant-General Thorp of G.
a. II. Of Michigan says there are -, 600 men
on state enrolment, representing 100 posts.
Annual department encampment will be
held at Lansing March 14-lG, and will be
attended by delegates and alternates TO
number OF 800. State w. r. c. Will meet
at the same Jlme, its l34 corps being repre-
scented by 800 delegates
Seth HambIu, one Of the first settlers in
luskegon, is dead.
Mrs Don Jones of Ionia, is dead. She
came to Michigan in 1888 when she was
years old. der father Samuel Dexter,
located land on which lonia has been
built.
Since the Jonesville cotton mills began
work last spring over 400 miles of cotton
cloth has been made.
Jehial Lockwood, who settled in JefTer.
son, Hillsdale county in 1879, died on the
1st inst
twenty-five tons of concentrated am
monia are to be sent down the Calumet d
Hecla mine with the hope of extinguish-
ing the fire,
1t is proposed to hold an encampment of
old soldiers, sailors and mariners of Michi-
gan, northern Ohio and Indiana on Belle
Isle, July 3, 4 and ,, with naval review,
torpedo fight and general Publication on
the Fourth.
mgham county gave nearly 300 for
local option at the election Jan. 81.
The majority for local option in Otsego
county is about 400.
The investigation of the alleged irregu-
larIties and iil-treatment in the Branch
county poor house resulted in a report
completely indicating the managers.
Nose, Ham.in of Cheboygan county
acres in the heart OF st. Ignace, died intes-
tate and that his widow sold the proper
ty without consulting the other heirs.
Aam!in and sister are trying to get
their share of the property.
Rumor hath it that Gov. Swineford of
Alaska is about to resign. Alaska is
without laws, and the governor mas not
even many means of transportation.
Swineford wants four things for Alaska
The application of the land laws to the
treasury some sort OF local legislature;
improved mailing facilities; representa-
ton in congress. The governor thinks
congress will certainly take action this
winter. He likes life in the territory and
should he cease TO be governor he would
remain there as mining superintendent,
where his salary would be more than that
of governor.
Eva and Carrie Dietz of Sebewaing,
Saginaw county, are under arrest for steal
ing from Mrs. Beckle of Bay City.
DIR. Goucher, a well known physician of
Nashville, Barry county, has Ueen arrest
ed for attempted body-snatching.
The Grand Rapids a. Indiana railroad
oomnanv have bought in on n mortgo0a