Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-19


The town of Shoat Lake, Man, was nj
most completely wiped out by fire ON the
18th inst.
The treasury department was closed on
the It'll inst TO commemorate its one hun
dredth birthday.
John F.. Andrew, prominent member
of a Muskegon lumber firm, was drowned
the other day, while tallying lumber.
Prof. J. o. Williams of Hillsdale college
died on the 10th inst.
c.. NJ Moffatt of Jonesville aud /. A.
Howard of Jonesville have been admitted
to practice before the interior depart
ment.
j. X. Markell a director, and j. II.
Padgham, attorney of the Columbus, Lima
IL Milwaukee railroad, and representative
men from Saugatuck, Douglass, Fennville
and Allegan have arranged to secure $50,
900 and the right of way through Allegan
county for the road
John l.. Miller an old and prominent
citizen, dropped dead in Leland the other
morning of heart disease.
fence machine company, with a capital
of $50, 900, will soon begin business in Char
lotte.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is spread
ing rapidly at Negaunee. The disease
comes from Teals lake from which the
city gets its water supply.
John Thompson and Andrew Anderson
fought with picks in the Champion mine
at Champion the other day, and Anderson
was fatally Injured. Thompson has been
arrested.
Judge Cobb of Bay City has dismissed
the bill of complaint in the case of A. j.
Gilchrist VS.. Judge Il. j. Kelley. The
parties were an Apena law firm, and suit
was brought 10 recover share Of So
600 fee. Charges of fraud are made on
| both sides.
Dwight BOnen, of Kalamazoo, has been
appointed a cadet at West Point.
Mr.. Hoffman of Port Huron
claims that Lakeside Cemetery Park
above Fort GratOt, encroaches on
| his fishery, and has issued notice to all
! parties interested 10 deliver up to him the
| ''quiet, peaceable and uninterrupted DOS
session" OF the same. 1t seems that when
| the land now designated as Lakeside Park
was purchased by Fort Gratiot, this fishery
was reserved by Mr.. Hoffman, but the eX-
| act boundry lines of the same were not 10.
Gated. The lake his considerably en-
croached upon the beach during the past
twenty years, so much so, in fact, as To
| cause the entire disappearance of the old
| lake shore road, and the city claims that
| Mr.. Hotfmans Fishery lies out in the
| lake some distance The association have
made numerous improvements to the beach
and established pumping station for the
| cemetery. Mr. Hoffman now orders all
water pipe, etc, removed. A big law suit
is the probable outcome of the matter.
The Jackson guards took first money in
the competitive drill at the jackson fair.
Their opponents were the Custer Guard,
Grand Rapids; Muskegon Rifles, Agricul-
tural College Cadets and Emmett Rifles,
jackson The judges were all mem
| bers of the Twenty-third United States
| infantry.
Suit has been brought in the circuit
| court in Ann Arbor, by an Ypsianti bank
| TO recover Sc, 800 it has loaned Rev. DIR.
Samuel carp, late rector of st. Andrews
church of Ann Arbor. The action is based
| on two notes made by carp. and Endorsed
| by Mrs. Henriques, of Ann Arbor, and the
| suit is against carp and the lady. One OF
the notes is for $500, and the other for
| $4,000 The facts on which this suit is
based, and other decidedly queer financial
| affairs, constitute the real trouble, which
led to DR.. Earps resignation.
Sarah Wiusiow, an aged lady of Canton,
| Wayne county, dropped dead OF apopleXy
on the 9th inst.
Joseph Cook, who was sent TO Jackson
| prison from Lenawee county for one year
| for false pretense in selling horse, escaped
on the night of Sept 5. He secured a
painters ladder and long poker, and
climbed nearly TO the top of the wall, and
| then pulled himself up with the poker. He
| escaped in the same manner in October of
last year, but was caught in Saginaw last
July. His time would have been out last
April if he had not tried TO escape
Edward l.. Dormer, who is 20 years old,
| is in Jail at Lansing on the charge of at
| tempting TO poison his wife and the
| family of Alex. Jeffrey, with whom she is
living. The attempt was made by rubbing
| paris green on ears Of sweet corn, it is al
legged. No harm was done, however, as the
poison was found.
1t is proposed to dig a canal above Port
| Huron to connect Black River with Lake
| Huron.
H. l.. Newton of Hastings is going to
dam the Thornapple river at that place in
order to secure power for manufacturing
purposes.
| The Warner measure factory at Deca-
tur, which was burned recently, is being
| rebuilt.
Having been appealed TO by friends OF
the movement TO have the national flag dis
played on all school houses in the state,
| Gov. Luce writes as follows: "Your under
taking is laudable and ] would that the
| American flag, in all 1T has cost, in all it
signifies, and all it promises, might float
over every school house in this land, and
every child might be taught to love it and
it's teachings"
While digging a well in Ishpeming blue
hematite iron ore OF the finest quality was
| ulSCOVeTcu
Sheriff Hebron of Schoolcraft county
offers 800 reward for the arrest of the
brute who assaulted young lady near
Delta Junction the other day.
Mr.. Defraw of Holland who was
brutally beaten by two burglars about a
! year ago, died Sept. z. The burglars, one
of whom is his grandson, are now in state
prison.
Andrew Hansen, a well known attorney
Of Big Rapids, is dead.
The state board of railroad crossings
have settled the crossing dispute between
the Indiana Il Lake Michigan company
and the Michigan Central ut Galien. The
general policy of the board, which
is against crossings of trunk lines
at grade, was adhered to, and
the new road will be compelled to
20 under the Michigan Central at a point
some distance further east of the village
than where the crossing at grade was con
templated. The Michigan Central will
assume portion of the increased cost of
construction, and Furthermore will itself
be put TO heavy expense in raising its line
five or six feet.
The saw mill plant of the Ford River
lumber company, seven miles from Escana-