Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-01

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association is to uphold the common school
system, TO see that good and pure men are
elected TO Office, TO create cordial relations
with all English speaking people, and to
see that all men of British birth or descent
acquire the right of citizenship and exercise
their privileges on all possible occasions.
Masons throughout the state are con
tributing literally TO the Masonic home to
be erected in Grand Rapids.
Regular trains are now running on the
now road between Durand and East Sagi-
nav.
DIR. Herring of Midland, fell from load
! OF wood the other morning and broke his
neck.
Hugh ireland, travelling salesman and
collector for O. b. Cook Il Co, wholesale
| liquor dealers of East Saginaw, arrested
two months ago on a charge of embezzle-
ment, has been honorably acquitted. He
will sue Cook Il Co, ofor false imprison-
| ment.
Fred. Mitchell, well-to-do farmer of
Reed City, hung himself in his barn the
other morning.
Several wooden buildings on tle main
street in Greenvlle were burned the other
morning.
The following are the officers elected at
the fourth annual session of the young
women's christian association held in Ian
sing: President, Belle Richards of Kala-
mazoo; vice-president, Bernice Hunter of
Alma; secretary, Il. M. Robinson of Olivet (;
assistant secretary, Maggie Chesney, Kala-
| ma2OO.
Austin e. Wing. assistant cashier of the
| Commercial national bank of Detroit has
been appointed national bank examiner for
Michigan, vice Homer Nash, resigned.
William German, Port Huron boy, was
| catching on an electric car, when he fell,
the wheels passing over both feet necessi-
| Eating their amputation.
A. 5. Bryant. the counterfeiter who es-
| capped from jail in Grand Rapids recently
| and was recaptured, has been sentenced in
! the United States court 10 the Detroit house
of correction for eight years, and fined $780,
He is to stand committed until the fine is
paid.
a man calling himself T. c. Williams,
| and who claimed to have worked in the
woods for Eastman Bros, went to the jew
elry store of Brown ~ Grant in East Sagi-
nav, selected watch, chain and ring, all
of the value of SO, and in payment present
cd an order purporting TO be signed by
| Eastman * Bros, and departed. 1t was
afterwards found that the order was a
forgery, but Williams had skipped.
Josephine Olszonvi, Polish girl Of Paris,
Huron county, has head that measures 26
| inches in circumference and IL inches from
ear TO ear over the crown of the head. She
| is IS years old but is unable TO walk,
though she talks fiuently ii her native
tongue.
During the year 1887 the number of immi.
grants coming into the United States at
Port Huron was 32,03S For this year
| Capt. Andrew Dierks, the G.. q G.. Il. emf
grant agent, reports the arrival of 81, S36 TO
date, being sos more than arrived during
1857.
The headless body Of Mrs. NJ Dolsheimer
of Cadillac was found on the railroad track
near that place the other day. She had
previously attempted suicide, and it is sup
posed she was insane.
w. II. Taft, merchant at Riverside, is
under arrest on charge of obtaining goods
by false pretenses at Grand Rapids of Oh
ney, Shields x Co., sending therefor a
check on the bank of w. S. Turck & Co. of
Alma, where he has no funds.
Albert A. Shaver, ex-county treasurer of
Clare county, is under arrest on charge
of appropriating between 81 900 and 81, 800
of the county funds during his term of
office in 1884. The arrest is the result of a
revival of an old muddle in the county's
affairs. Shaver, while treasurer, on the
night of May IA, 1884, was found bound and
gagged in his Office, and he declared he had
been robbed of 81, 900 of the county funds.
His story was not generally believed, and
his present arrest is the result of investi-
cations that have since been made.
Stephen Souder of Sturgeon Bay was
gored to death by bull recently.
A two-years old son of William Raven of
Cedar Springs, fell on an oil can, the spout
of the can penetrating his side. The child
died after five days Of agony
The attempt to settle the Michigan gold
compauys suits out of court at Ishpeming,
has failed, and the supreme court will pass
upon the questions involving the owner
the property.
M nda Stubs is the euphonious name
"a ut Huron woman who is in Jail for
80 goods and having them charged TO
a 4ormer employer.
Mrs. b. G.. Farrand of Port Huron states
that at the Chicago ~ Grand Trunk rail-
way grounds at Fort Gratiot, cattle in tran
sit are left sometimes three days without
food or water, and the matter is TO be in
vestigated.
President Willis of the agricultural col
lege, has informed the boys in that institu-
ton that If any of them visit saloons they
will be expelled.
William Blunslxi. aged 30, has been en-
ployed at William Wrights furniture fac
tory in Detroit, for about two years.
The other morning while the elevator boy
was sweeping out the basement, Blunski
got on the elevator and started TO go up.
The boy, hearing the elevator moving,
called out and asked who it was. Blunski
leaned out to answer the boy, but did not
| realize That he was close TO the upper floor.
Before he could withdraw his head it was
caught between the elevator and the floor
Blunski's neck wasobroken and he died in
stantly
The postofice in Luther was burglarized
the other night and about $500 taken, about
500 Of it being checks given by Garfield
on the old national bank of Grand Rapids
A clue to the thieves has been discovered
The safe was blown open, the door and Of
fee stove being demolished. They tool
nothing but the cash
Amos Il. King, who claimed half of Bat
tie Creek and the village of Verona in the
celebrated "Convis King" case. which wa.
recently decided against him in the supreme
court, is dead.
Frank Beckwith well known travelling
salesman, was killed near New Richmond
the other night. A liveryman was taking
him from Saugatuck 10 the train at New
Richmond, after dark, and the carriag,
backed of an embanlxment while trying {,
turn out for another vehicle. The hors,
fell on the men, killing Beckwith instantly
He travelled for II. q. a. G.. Durand of Chi
cago, with whom he had been for severa
, years.
Horace Murray of Kalamazoo, who wa
sent to Jackson prison for 30 years for al
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