Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-14

pointed 10 a cauetSnlp al west Iolnt.
Ann Arbor has voted TO raise $1,000 to FIJI
up the depleted treasury.
Gardner Barber of Worthwhile is over 100
| years old, and Mexican war pensioner.
The commencement exercises at the
Michigan military academy, Orchard Lake,
occur June ID.
Company ID, Fifth Michigan cavalry, will
hold their second annual reunion at North
vile, August r.
Ten companies OF the Michigan state
militia Will participate in the Fourth OF
July celebration at Lansing.
Col. George G. Briggs of Grand Rapids,
and Gen. John Il. Rea OF st. Paul, Mimi,
have been elected directors of the Gettys-
| burg battlefield memorial association, the
| local association which keeps its eye on
| that historic field Col. Briggs is member
| OF the Michigan Gettysburg monument
commission, and was adjutant Of the Sew
enth Michigan cavalry at Gettysburg.
| The President has signed the bill TO make
Grand Rapids port OF entry.
The following is the organization of the
| Michigan delegation in the ST. Louis con
vention: Chairman, Byron G. Stout; sec
rotary, II. G. Flanagan; resolutions, Geo
| l.. Yaple; credentials, j. G.. Parkhurst;
organization, Charles II. Whitman; com
mitteeman, O. NJ. Barnes.
Arrangements have been made for repair
ing the buildings on the state fair ground
in Jackson, and putting the grounds in or,
| der for the next state fair. All OF the old
sheds have been torn down, and 500 new
| ones are to be built.
The annual picnic of the Farmers club
| of northern Lenawee county will be held at
Sand Lake, June 23
The Calumet & Heca copper mine product
| for May was 1900 tons; Franklin, lS5 tons;
Atlantic, 235l tons; Quincy for 10 days,
run of the mild, 1873. The Osecola and
Tamarack mine managers refuse 10 give
their figures.
Allegan township is mulcted 81 ,439 for the
death Of Joseph Falk, which was caused by
| defective roadway, by which he was
thrown from a load two or three years ago.
Lizzie Murphy aged 10, the daughter of
farmer in Thomastown, Saginaw county,
| who excited great interest through fasting
| seven weeks last winter after which eating
sparingly and remaining living skeleton,
| died on the 5th inst. She had never been
herself since before being taken sick the
first time, although then she was rosy,
ruddy, healthy girl
The Presbyterian church of Homer cele-
brated the 50th anniversary of its organiza-
ton on the Bird inst.
The annual reunion of the Twenty third
Michigan Infantry will be held in Midland
Aug. /.
water is defunct.
The Adrian canning factory has made
, about 100000 cans this season.
Work on the Lowell canning factory will
be commenced at once.
y rich vein Of copper has been found near
the state prison at Marquette.
Mrs. Ward an old lady who lived on
| little farm near Cedar Springs, and had
hard work TO make living for herself and
children, has fallen heir to "a large sum of
money left by relative in New York.
Charles Armstrong of Prairieville, Bar
| ry county was buried in a well from which
| he was removing the curbing, at the Lins-
| ley school house, near North Pine Lake,
| the other morning. His body was reached
at o'clock in the afternoon, and the coro-
ners jury declared his death resulted from
his own carelessness in leaving the walls
| of the well unsupported
! The Michigan condensed milk company
of Lansing, uses over S100,00O worth of
| refined sugar per annum. A carload OF
their product has gone to Buenos Ayres.
Gen. w L. Houghton died in Sturgis a
| few days ago He was the ranking general
| of Michigan and was born in New York,
| March 20, 1921. A lawyer by profession, he
| came to Michigan when Young man and
| was a United States district attorney when
the war broke out. He resigned and went
| to the war as "a second lieutenant Of the
| Eleventh Michigan, served through tho war
as colonel and brigadier general, and for
! gallant and meritoriOus services was brevet-
| ed major-general. He lost leg at Stone
| River. In '62 he was elected attorney gen
| eral of the state, and was re. elected. He
also was "a member of the 4lst and AID con-
| crosses and won distinction for hisindustry
| on committee work and for ability as a de
| batter.
Acting Superintendent Race of the school
| for the blind has resigned, his resignation
| to take effect June 80, and Prof. Geo. Barnes
| of Howell, superintendent of the public
schools there, has been appointed superin-
| tendent for two years. The staff OF teach
ers will remain practically unchanged until
Barnes assumes the management.
| Lansing is shipping condensed milk to
| Buenos Ayres.
The wool market is the most inactive
thing in Michigan at present.
| President Willis of the Michigan insti-
tuition will attend the coming national con-
vention of agricultural college representa-
| tives at Columbus, Ohio.
| Four companies of regulars are to en-
camp with the state troops at Mackinac
| island.
| In Grant township, Iosco county, people
| are hunting for lost boy. The lad is about
IL years old. barefooted and subject to fits.
| and IL is thought he must have met his
| ueaJn IN some OF tne SJreutnS JnhJ cross the
forest in which he was last seen.
| A shortage or rather discrepancy of
nearly $1,000 has been discovered in the
accounts of VIM. G. Beard, when he was
treasurer of Bay City in 1885. The error is
now being looked for, and il not found Mr..
Beard says he is perfectly willing to make
| good the shortage.
The central school building in North
Muskegon burned to the ground on the 9Th
inst. Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000.
Michigan democrats are pleased with the
work of the St. Louis convention.
John Anderson, farmer of Casnovia
township, Kent county, has been sentenced
to four years In Ionia for counterieiting.
Mrs Jane Reding Of Mosherville, was so
badly burned while making soap that she
died two days later.