Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-09
ry, has given the board SIS, 200 moro with
which 30 pprchase books for the library.

~, has given the board S., 900 moro with
which 30 pprchase books for the library.
Prof. Goetz of Vicksburg the welhknown
composer of band music, Is dead.
G. A X. Commander Gardner, pastor OF
the M. +. Church of Albion, has been called
TO the passionate of st. Paurs NJ. e. church
of Cincinnati.
In tho United States court in Grand Rap
ids, Judge Severns granted tho motion for
"A new trial in the case of Frederick Gard
ner vs.. the Michigan Central railroad.
Gardner lost q leg at Niles, whore he was n
switchman, and received verdict against
tho road OF 5 800. The case will probably
20 to the supreme court or the United States
before it is settled.
Ono woman was killed and another seri-
ously injured by lightning in Calumet On
tho 3Oth ult.
Michael Weiss Of Calumet, a single man
aged 40, discharged a she'll OF hercules pow
der in his mouth, scattering the brains 100
feet, completely tearing the head, neck and
top of the shoulders TO atoms. No cause Is
assigned.
Erastus w. Lawrence, the oldest Grand
Army man in Detroit, died on the 30th ult-,
aged 81 years.
Should the bill fathered by p. NJ. Cen.
Dickinson, for the erection of postoffice
buildings in all towns whose annual post
office receipts exceed $1,000, be passed by
congress, 80 Michigan towns will have such
buildings.
Charles o. Seaman, in Jail at Mt Glenn
ems since July II, for tho shooting of Louis
Weiss, who died of his wounds, has been
held for trial on charge OF manslaughter.
DIR. Jacob Benthum died at Ottawa
Beach recently, aged IS years, of mnlig-
the Netherlands and the first Holland
physician who settled in Grand Rapids,
whittier he came in 1863
Reported that the Milford cultiyator
works arc about to remove TO Marshall.
VIM. Fame, Jr., of East Saginaw, is under
arrest, charged with an attempt TO kill
William Cats.
The appointment of Rev. FIR. j. Foley of
Baltimore as bishop of the Detroit diocese
is officially confirmed.
Western Michigan democrats have pre-
scented President Cleveland one of the por-
table houses manufactured by the Grand
Rapids portable house company. 1t is n
perfect house 81 by 30 feet in size, and al
though diminutive, Commodious and cool,
il contains five rooms handsomely furnish
ed. II is stone colored, with brown cor
niccs and ornamental decorations.
Joseph Polehm, injured in an accident
on a logging road near Grayling, is dead.
Albert Too!ey was crushed between cars
at JOncsville, and died the next morning.
Tho single mill at Lakeside was burned
tho other night, ut loss of $4,000.
Work has been commenced on the Do
troit, Charleyoix 81 Escanaba road.
Seventy new houses are in process sf
erection at Ishpeming.
Thomas Parkinson died in Emmett on the
1st inst, aged 100 years.
A beautiful memorial window, in honor
of fallen braves, has been placed in the
Court street Methodist church at Flint.
Capt. Clough of Sault Ste. Marie, well
known all along the lakes, suicided the
other day
Tho sink holes on the Lansing & Grand
Rapids road are still c9using some trouble,
and it is said the one west of Lake Odessa
is so treacherous that il must be watched
day and night.
The corner stone of the new court house
at Bessemer, was laid on the first inst
One hundred and fifty MINER, have been
discharged from the Barnum mino at Ish-
peming The reason given the men is that
the ore in stock cannot be sold at profit.
Ole Olsen, aged -, of Norway, placed the
muzzle OF "a rifle at his cheek, under the
eye, and pulled the trigger, blowing the
whole top OF hls head OF. Temporary in
sanity was the cause.
On the logging road about fifteen miles
east Of Otsego Lake train of empty fiat
cars struck the dry limbs of a fallen tree
across the road and jumped the track,
piling up the cars. Twenty-Five WORKINGS
are reported injured. Sixteen seriously.
One was killed aud three others will prob
ably die. They are nearly all Poles.
Congressman Fisher has made up his
mind that he will accept nomination for
reelection.
Considerable cedar oil ia being made
from cedar boaghs az Deep River.