Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-23
WOLVERINE wHISPERINGS.


A sneak thief entered the Saginaw post
ONCE the other day and stole stamps
amounting to 81 ,55l.
Over 5000 worth of mason work in
Negsunee was blown down during severe
gale the other day.
A Three Rivers genius has invented a
clock which will strike standard time,
while the hands indicate local time.
Mr.. Trumbull of Kalamazoo, has invent
cd an apparatus which will control the cur
rent Of Niagara river without the use Of
race, dam, etc.
The following are the newly elected OFF,
GERS of the Grand Council Of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit Association: Grand spirltu
i advisor, Rt. Rev. II. ]. Richter, Grand
sapids; president, Andrew w. Kelly, De-
.oit; first vice. resident, John McGoh,
kalamazoo; second vice-president, Frank
McGraw, Grand Rapids; treasurer, Edward
\. Doyle, Detroit; secretary, John II.
:3reen, Detroit; marshal, Owen Sullivan,
5ault Ste Marie; guard, Morgan ]. O'Brien,
lnn Arbor Trustees-Alex. Chapoton, ir.,
Detroit, and John Clancy Ito fill vacancy
caused by the resignation of A. w. Kelly
md John II. FoXen). Representatives to
11preme council--L. j. McHugh, Rev. Il. l.
Hart, John Z. Jaminet; alternates-M j.
McHugh, j. j. McHugh, A. Il. Doyle.
At the annual meeting of the Michigan
,an the following officers were elected for
ne coming year: President, Frank Wells,
lansing; first vice president, III. Chambers,
Cheboygan; second vice-president, G.
Strong Kalamazoo; secretary, E.A. Stowe,
rand Rapids; treasurer, l.. w. Spraguc,
Greenville. Executive board-C. L. Whit
ney, Muskegon; Frank Hamilton, Traverse
City; N. II. Blair, Lowell; G. Il. Bridge
man, Flint; Hiram Delano, Allegan. Local
secretary, p. j. Cornell, Muskegon.
1t is illegal to allow traction engine to
20 along a highway without sending man
ahead TO warn drivers Of horses.
The Duluth, South Shore tS Atlantic rail
road has bought 200 box cars of $4,000
pounds capacity, with safety couplers, and
100 more of them have been ordered, IL is
laid.
Marshall had an $1s,00O fire Aug. II.
f. p. Croft, secretary Of the Columbus
Lima q Northwestern railroad, which has
concluded to make Saugatuck the western
terminus of the road, which will pass
through Allegan, met the Kalamazoo bust
ness men the other day with proposition
to pass through that city and county for the
right of way and s., 900 mile. A committee
of business men has been appointed to look
INTO the matter.
The walls of a building on Randolph street.
Detroit, in process of demolition, fell the
other afternoon, burying several workmen
under them, one of whom was taken out
dead, and another very seriously injured.
Miss May Ransom, o well known young
lady of Jonesville, dropped dead the other
morning, while dressing Her death result
ed from heart disease.
Gov. Luce has appointed VIM. E. Grove
of Grand Rapids, circuit Judge for that dis
trict, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Judge Montgomery.
The farmers of Eaton, Clinton, Ionia and
Ingham counties, will hold a picnic at Grand
Ledge on Wednesday, August22. President
Willetts of the Michigan agricultural col
lege will deliver the annual address. The
music for the occasion will be furnished by
the cornet bands of Eagle and Delta and the
Grand Ledge ladies' band.
Hon. II. G. Sherwood of Watervliet |.
dead. The state has lost one of Ter bright
est lights, and particularly Berrien county,
whose people are all in deepest grief, the
hundreds of poor whom Mr.. Sherwood's
generous heart and liberal hand have always
searched out and lifted up.
Hon. John w. Turner, resident of Cold
water since 1S4s, Is dead.
Bachelor & Whitney have commenced
constructing railroad and dam at Five
Lakes, five miles north of Farwell, in which
vicinity they own pine lumber estimated at
100, 600 900 feet. The dam is being construct
cd on the line of the Gladwin and Clare
state road From 10,0O0,OO to $4,000, 900
feet year will be put into the lakes and
run down the outlet into the Tobacco river.
Niles Is trying to induce the American Fire
Proof Steel Car company, with capital of
81, SOC, $50, TO locate its work in that city.
L. Morrey Of Minneapolis and S. w. Bell
of North Adams went out in yacht on
Burt lake, near Cheboygan. The yacht
capsized and both young men were
drowned.
Milo H. Dakin of Saginaw has been ex-
PEELED from the craftsmanship of the county
committee of the Union Labor party. Dakin
is the man who was expelled from the last
legislature for bribery.
Rodney Mason of Detroit has begun suit
against the Geo. F. Smith Purifier Co. Of
Jackson for s12,0 900, which Mason claims as
unpaid salary for legal services.
Prof. Fred. It. Wright, principal of the
Coldwater pubic schools, has secured his
release In order to accept the principalship
Of the jackson schools at a salary of 81 $50
$3.50 more than he received in Coldwater
His successor Is Prof. Soper, Michigan
university graduate, late principal OF the
schools In Michigan City, Ind.
Ann Arbor Is TO have street railway.
Five miles will be built, covering the city
| during the year.
Gov. Luce, after a careful examination Of
| the evidence In the case of Prosecuting
Attorney Mills of Roscommon county,
| against whom charges were fled, concludes
they were not sustained and continues Mr..
Mills in office.
Charles II. Russull, who was sent to
states prison in 1881 from Chesaning for
| Is years for manslaughter, and pardoncd
| out last September, was arrested the other
day for breaking into Sharpstein's grocery
] in jackson and stealing $50 pennies, some