Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-17

Upper peninsula mines reported their out
puts for December as follows; Calumet q
Hecla, 25S6 tons; Atlantic, 217; Quincy,
2O5; Franklin, 1871; Huron, $780,
Bay City is booming Capt. Harry II. Mer-
rill for department commander Of the Mich
igan division G. A. X.
George 1. Ferguson of Grand Rapids has
been sentenced to five years in Iona for
robbing house while tho owner was at
church.
Matthew w. Birchard died in Detroit on
the 9Th inst, aged 100 years and six
months. Mr. Birchard was the oldest citi-
zen in Detroit, where he has lived contin-
uously since 1882 He was ONE of the oldest
native born Americans on this continent,
and the oldest citizen of Detroit.
d. Patterson of Richmond, so years old,
has just recovered from an attack of whoop-
| ing cough.
The receipts of the Kalamazoo postofice
for the quarter ending Jan. l were Sl0,-
$50 81; same quarter last year $9,3l9 o.
The receipts OF the first three quarters of
this fiscal year wear So, 0U 80, as against
| $3.50 "a for the same quarters last year
This increase Of business shows that Kal-
amazoo Is increasing in population at
rapid rate.
Says the Lansing Republican; We were
| shown to-day by DR.. Baker Of the state
board of health child's whistle, bought
and sold as iaIoo. The instrument is
| about four inches long and covered with a
| green paper, almost entirely composed Of
| arsenite of copper-equal to paris green
and contained sufficient poison to kill doz-
| en- men. The doctor discovered the kazoo
in the hands of his infant child just in time
to save its iife having in its mouth enough
of the poison to cause nstan: death.
The December run at the Ropes mine
mill, yielded 1851 ~ in gold and silver.
| -. nf
| rock crushed and is the iargest product
| achieved by the mine in single month.
| The discoveries of free gold at the Peninsu-
| la and Superior mines is causing a tiutter
| among those interested.
Crozier Dawson formerly a well known
pine land operator and prominent citizen of
Detroit died AT his home in that city on the
tn inst.
| William S!ochal of Lansing was crushed
TO death by falling tree, while chopping
wood.
| Forty thousand cords Of spruce and bal
sam pulp wood, at S2.55 per cord, is being
| gotten out ut the 500 for tho sulphite fibre
company of Monico, Wis.
A dry dock big enough 70 accommodate
| the largest vessels on the lakes will be built
| ut POlt Huron.
Two oil companies are buying up leases
| OF all property in the vicinity of Alegan.
The stamps stolen from the Grand Rapids
| post o1icc were found on one of the st:e5ts
in that city.
A total of S4l veterans have been cared
for at the soldiers home.
An eagle was shot near Clinton the other
V that measured six feet from tip to tip.
The public schools in Holl and have been
closed on account of tho prevalence of
scarlet fever in town.
Fred Roth, an employee of the Grand Rap
ids tank company, is an enbezzhor 10 the
amount OF 81 900.
Gov. Luce has appointed Henry b. Led
yard OF Detroit 10 represent Michigan at
the centennial celebration Of the Inaugural
ton of George Washington TO be held in
New York April 20 next
John Schwindnger of North Lansing
was thrown from his carriage and his skull
fractured. He died in a few minutes.
Prof Plowman has been superintendent
of schools at White Pigeon for 10 years
Sixteen saloon keepers Of ST. Ignace
must tell justice why they kept their
saloons open on New Years day.
Miss Jennie SHETLAND of Kalamazoo, has
been obliged 10 go back TO Jail because her
bail ran out and her bondsmen would not
renew it.
Lieut.. L. b. Baker Of Lansing, who com
manded the party which captured Booth, is
lecturing upon the ASSASSINATION of Lincoln.
S. b. e. a. B. Stevens, pioneer shoe
dealers of Greenvillo, and supposed to be
| among the solid men of the town, have
mortgaged their stock for nearly $4,000.
Veterans are packed in the soldiers
home almost as thick as they used to be in
Libby prison.
5. b. Rogers and brother, who lived at
Hastings four years ago. recently obtained
| possession Of two old claims at Brecken-
tIfrn hot bnh aha nd
in less than half an hour after beginning
! work in ono Of them struck a vein of silver
which brought them an offer of 100000 for
| the mine.
The other morning about a half bushel Of
| ground feed, salt and Paris green was dis
covered in the barnyard of a. L. Drew,
prominct resident of Chikamiug township,
| Berrien county Some of Mr.. Drew's fine
stock had partakeu Of the dose, and four
| head died. The miscreant who placed the
| poison is not known.
The annual meeting of the West Michi-
! gan Farmers Club was held in Grand
| Rapids Jan. s. Officers were elected as
| follows: President, George >. Linderman:
vice-president3, w. w. Johnson, Grand
Rapids Il. f. Bosworth, Georgetown, OF
| tawa county; SIS. Bailey and h. M. Knapp,
Grand Rapids; secretary treasurer, f. l..
| Fuller.
| st. Joseph is trying to get the ColurDrs,
Lima & Northwestern road.
The Au Sable & Northwestern railroad
will connect Au Sable aud Atlanta, Mont
morency county, and will be completed next
summer. The Au Sable end is being fin
| ished now.
Some Bay City people have formed
| summer resort association, and will operate
on one of the Les Cheuaux islands in upper
Lake Huron The president of the com
pany is A. NJ Bonsfield.
A daughter of James Hathaway of Grand
| Rapids, aged years, apparently died in a
spasm recently, and the arrangements were
| made for the funeral, when she resumed
| consciousness. and at last accounts was
rapidly getting better.
A petition is being circulated in Cold
water asking that the governor OF Colorado
commute the sentence NJ Chas Croswaithe,
who is to be hanged in Denver, Jan. %.
Crosthwaite used TO live in CoIdwater.
Henry B. Ledyard and Thomas w. Fer
ry are members of the commission TO
represent Michigan at tho Washington in
augural centennial.
The circuit court of Bay county has
awarded Joe Kelly $1,000 damages in his
suit against that county for injuries receiv-
cd by the falling of bridge. lie asked for
| 100000.