Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-13

son.
Ida Curran, a book agent, is in Jail at
| East Saginaw, charged with stealing SO
from William Smiths art emporium, while
waiting in his office on business.
Michael Shea was crushed to death in
a logging camp near Bradley, by log
| rol ing on him.
Nearly $3.50 600 feet of lumber In Hack.
Icy Hume lumber yard in Muskegon
were destroyed by fire on the 18th inst, en-
failing loss of $4,000; insurance $1,000.
Orrin Harrington of Hillsdale was buried
| by the caving in Of "a well in which he was
working
A movement has been started for build
| ing large pulp and paper mill at Sault Ste.
Marie when the water power canal is com
pleted
l.. G. Hall of Plymouth has received from
| the VIZ department draft for the pay due
| his brother who died in Andersonville
prison.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana company is
building two frst-ciass bridges in Michigan.
| The first is Il wooden truss bridge over the
| Muskegon river at upper Big Rapids, con-
| Meeting with the new spur lately built on
the west side of the river from the main
! line. The other is an iron bridge 100 feet
! long, over the Manistec river near Walton
| junction.
This is something that the public has long
| wanted. The l.. 5. 4 NJ. >. railway has
| put on Il line of drawing room cars running
between Detroit and Cleveland, leaving
Detroit at p. IN. from Brush street depot
| returning AT 40 p. IN.
The state horticultural society at its re-
| cent meeting in Grand Rapids elected the
| following officers President, TT. Lyon of
South Haven; secretary, Elroy g. Reid OF
| Allegan; treasurer, >. M. Pearsall OF
Grand Rapids.
An - II g. NJ locor,ot;,,o .raeb ed In a
| Croghan street car in Detroit the other day.
| Eight persons were in the car, all of whom
We're terribly injured, one very seriously.
! The tlagman at the crossing is blamed for
| the accident.
By direction of the secretary Of war the
| discharge of the r. Watson Seage as ser
| geantma or, Fourth Michigan infantry
volunteers, June u, 1868, and his muster in
| to service as second lieutenant, same regi-
| ment June Z, 1868, are amended To take
| effect May l, 1862, and May %, 1868, and he
| is mustered for pay in said grade during
the period embraced between the dates.
George j. Wright of Grand Rapids was
knocked down by foot-pads in Cincinnati
| the other night and robbed of $50.
An electric light plant is being put in at
| Manistee.
Andrew Green attempted to commit sui
eide in the cemetery at Owosso the other
day, but failed. He has been sent TO Kala-
mazoo asylum.
Suit has been begun in the Kent circuit
court against the Grand Rapids ~ Indiana
| railroad company TO recover $4,000 dam
| ages for killing Orrin Gee of Wright town
ship, Ottawa county, at highway crossing,
| on June last. Gee was driving across the
| Muskegon branch track, in Ottawa county,
| when a passenger locomotive struck him,
killing him instantly.
Mrs Henrietta Wright, aged 80, of Read
ing, got up the other night and accidentally
| upset lighted lamp which was standing
on a stand near her bed. The old ludys
clothing took fire, and she was so badly
burned that she died a few hours later.
When the Cadillac & Northwestern pas
senger train reachsd Increasing at Clark's
Mills the other morning Samuel Olsen OF
Jennings, who was about 10 cross the track,
was unable 10 manage his team. They
dashed iuto the locomotive. Olsons son
and one horse were killed. The top of the
| boys head was knocked off. No blame at
| taches to any enc.
DR. Eugene II. Wood of Hersey has been
sentenced to rs years in state prison for
burning ID. A. Blodgetts $4,000 hone in
| that place
John DeMoss an old resident of Decatur
dropped dead on the street the other morn
ing.
The officers of the local furniture associa
a "
furniture men of the United States to be
held in Grand Rapids in January to take
action on some desired changes in freight
classification. 1t is claimed that the present
! classification against cheap furniture is
heavier, proporuonate TO the value Of the
goods, than on the high priced, and il is de
sired that a new classification be made,
fixing the price according to the value and
weight of the goods in car lots.
Robert Mckay, a well-kuown farmer OF
Marshall, claims TO have been struck over
the head with a lamp and robbed of $500 by
Henry Smith, alias Henry Cole at Gus.
Purdys, southeast of that place.
Hotchlziss & Co.'S mill at West Bay City
was destroyed by fire the other day, at u
loss of $4,000.
John McDermott aud William Campton
have been tried and convicted of highway
robbery in the circuit court at Ann Arbor.
| They held up man at Chelsea recently.
| Sentence has been deferred for the tine be
ing.
Deputy-sheriff Smith of Wayne shot and
| killed a horse thief named William Nomme,
who was trying TO make his escape after
being discovered in the act of stealing a
horse from James Carmichael.
Work will soon be com menced on a new
road from Mt. Pleasant to Big Rapids.
Capt w. w. Staley has been reelected
commander of the Governors Guards at
Lansing.
a man named Fisher, who had 81, 700 in
his pocket was struck by train near Bes-
semer the other day, and soon after died.
Ex-Governor Jerome, who has been seri.
ously i'll at his home in Saginaw, is slowly
recovering.
Supt Sears of the state public school for
dependent children at Coldwater, SAYS
New York pays $2,0J0,00O a year for the
care of its dependent children; Ohio 500,
OOJ; California S200,0O0 and Michigan $685.
000
In 1884 +. w. Stock, Hillsdale miller,
bought 900 bushels of wheat from Farmer
w. =. Curtis of near Jonesvillc. Stock
claimed that the wheat was musty and
sued Curtis for 5000 damages. The jury
decided that there was no cause OF action.
William Stoneham, Sen, of Muskegon,
has been convicted of trying TO kill his wife
Charles Ellis of Montague has been con.
victed of holding up and rsbbing a man in
that place in June last.
The supreme court will not be in session
again until.January.
James Doty, Port Huron railroad man
is missing and there are fears that some
body has murdered him.
The creamery at Flint is getting 81 cents