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

Chairman John M. Potter of the Union
Labor party has issued a manifesto placing
Samuel Edison on the ticket as electoral
large in place of Ben. Colvin, and Edwin
Il. Greene, as superintendent Of public in
struction, in place of Mrs. Sarah +. V.
Emery.
The supreme court has decided that A.
Backus, ir., ~ Sons of Detroit are entitled
TO another trial in their suit against the
Wabash and the Union depot company.
The plaintiffs brought suit for 100000 in
the Wayne circuit court because the rail-
read insisted on doing switching and the
making up of trains on the line crossing
their property, when they had stipulated in
giving up the right OF way that this should
not be done. Judge Brevoort charged the
jury to render a verdict for the defense, and
Backus q Sons appealed.
The Hart Mills of North Lansing grind
$50 barrels of -four per day.
DR.. o. w. Wright, well known physi-
clan of Detroit, died at Harper hospital in
that city on the 10Th inst.
Three girls from the industrial home at
Adrian have been sentenced to four years
each in the Detroit house of correction for
their attempt to fire Croswell cottage.
If A W. Wright of Alma, and his part
ners succeed in building the Duluth a. Win.
nipeg railroad it will tap tract of $4,000
aci es of fine pine land owned by Wright,
struction of the first 80 miles of the road
has been let.
Thomas McElhaney was fatally scalded
while at work in the Flint paper mill the
other day
A Toronto, Ont, dispatch of the 21st inst
says; Frederick Trostel, an escaped lunatic
from Lansing, Mich, was arrested here
this morning. He went TO the Metropolitan
church and created a sensation among the
congregation by insisting upon entering the
pulpit and preaching. A policeman was
sent for aud Trostel was taken to the police
station
The Woolsey wheel company, whose plant
has just been moved TO Kalamazoo from
Sandusky, o., has dissolved and the Kala-
mazoo wheel company succeeds it, with $.
Flickinger as president, George h. Stock
bridge vice-president, and Eugene Mccall
secretary. The factory starts at once, en-
ploying $50 men.
Mrs. Streeter of jackson offet $500 re
ward for the arrest of tho thief who stole
$500 from her sugar box the other night.
George Allen of Elk went to Owosso a
few days ago for medical treatment On
the way he was taken violently i'll, and died
in a neighboring farm house.
BERTHE Wilson, 10 years old was caught
by q shaft in his fathers mill at Sunfield,
and instantly killed, the top of his head
being torn off and both legs and arms torn
from the body.
Mrs. Lizzie Phelps has been elected pres.
ident of the Kalamazoo industrial school.
William McCord and three other bur
glars entered Richards, Hubbell g. Thomp-
sons hardware store in East Tawas the
other night. In trying TO arrest the trio,
McCord was shot in the head, and he will
probably die.
The +. &c r. M. railroad company have
been granted extension Of time until July
1, 1889, for completion of belt line at East
Saginaw.
Capt. Charles Green of the schooner
Reed Case was drowned while trying 70
reach Houghton from his vessel the yawl
being capsized by the breakers. When the