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

An eastern gentleman offers to start a
Lox factory in Milwaukee if the citizens OF
that state will give him something in the
way of bonus.
GMiss Nellie Parker of Coldwater, one of
the patients in the Kalamazoo asylum,
has earned over S2OOdolars this winter by
making and selling paper flowers. She has
paid half on three organs for the different
halls, and this week the fourth Gonzales
cent hall will he beautified by an elegant
new piano, Miss Parker paying 500 on it.
The reports in circulation that Postmas-
ter-General Dickinson is in IN health and
about to resign his position are pronounced
untrue by that gentleman. lie says he is
in excellent health.
II. s. d. Tyler OF Detroit has been APP
pointed superintendent of the mail bag
repair shop of tho postotice department.
He has his office in Washington city post
Office building. His salary is 81 400
The semi-centennial of the organization
of tho first Congregational church in Yer
montville was celebrated Feb. ~.
Gov Luce has appointed Gen. Il. Rice of
Berlin, Lenawee county, as n commission
er TO the centennial celebration at Mariet-
Ca, Ohio, in place of Thomas ID. Gilbert who
declined to serve.
Charles Van Geiser, farmer living in
South Jackson, was repairing the handle
on butcher knife when his 5-yr-old son,
Claude, ran against the blade, cutting "A
deep cash in his beck. He died the same
evening from the effects of the wound
John Ii. Erickson, an uneducated Sweed
who was sentenced from Marquette coun-
ty November %, 1873, to state prison for
life for murder-the shooting, during a
quarrel, of gambler with whom be had
been drinking and who had succeeded in
fleeing HIM out of nearly 500, has been
pardoned
Gov. Luce has committed the sentence
of Michael McGraw who was sent from
Wexford county August 3, 1877, to fifteen
years at Jackson for manslaughter, so
that he will be released March 10 1888
There are over 90 cases of measles in the
reform school at Lansing
Barnes Bros paper warehouse in De-
troit was destroyed by fire the other
night. With the damage done to adjoining
property, the loss foots up about $4,000
with SS5,OOo insurance.
At meeting of the state executive
board of the Knights of Labor held in the
city Of Jackson, February e 1883, it was
decided TO invite the trade unions labor
organizations and farmers associations oil
the state of Michigan to meet in confer
ence in the city of Detroit at some date &c
be hereafter determined upon. Each or
ganized trade, occupation or fraternity
will be entitled to three delegates or rep
reseltatives for the state, each branch
or trade to bear the expense incurred by
their delegates. The meeting will b,
styled Congress of Labor" and it i,
advised that no delegates be sent except
those who have made n study of the needs
of particular occupations and are pTacti
cal, sensible persons. For further infor
nation address L. NJ. Sheriff of Kalama
700.
Chief Justice Sherwood has fled dis
senting opinion ir the test liquor case
npon three points upon which his asso
ciates concurred. He holds that while ar
rests without warrant cannot be mad
on days and hours when liquor may b