Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-12

was lately held up on the highway ana
robbed of $500, aud Austin Is. Conrau ana
David Rawson have been arrested ior the
crime.
The Berger's hospital in Kalamazoo,
was formally opened on the SOth UT,
with an excellent staff Of physicians. The
hospital is in charge of the Sisters OF
Charity.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michi-
gan railway company has contracted 10
handle 100 car loads u day OF Saginaw val
lev salt until it has hauled $4,000 cars OF
the product.
William BROKER of Pine City, Mimi,
killed William Coombs and his wire py
shooting them with gun. II was rant
married sisters.
w. A. Kent was arrested at the altar IN
Quincy the other night as he was ABOUT |
TO become a benedict, on complaint OF
Miss Campbell OF Mason, VINO cparges |
him with seduction.
David Vanderbilt of East SauS2tuck re
Gently ordered a case OF books In the fioi-
land language from Amsterdam, ana LOOK
them from Grand Rapids the other day,
paying duty OF S4O.2O
A Port Huron citizens committee has
been appointed TO collect Statistics, etc. TO
present TO congress showing the great
dredging of Black river.
An English company has bought prom.
Using mining claim on the west oranch OF
the Ontouagon river in Ontonagon county,
and will develop splendid water power In
the river near the property.
The Centennial copper mining company
owns property Immediately north OF the
Calumet & Hecla, and is sinking shaft In
the expectations of cutting the Calumet
lode. The shaft is now down LAB feet.
The will of ]. Warren Merrill, who re-
Gently died at Cambridge, Mass, be,
aueaths TO Baptist missions, charities, ana
associations, SllhoOO; ana 10 P oio Han
university and Nassar college, Slo'oOo
each.
II is stated that a young man named
| Clarence Foote, employed in the United
States express office in Grand Rapids, and
several packages OF money are missing
One.of the packages, it Is said, contained
diamonds.
The lumber shipments from the Sagi-
nav river for November foot up 40, l33OOo
feet, making total for the year of 49,, 22I,.
600 feet The shingles shipped IN NoVem-
Der were lv, 292, 900, "a total for the year or
l0i, l67, 900.
Tawas township. Iosco county, has paid
$4,000 toward plank road leading from
| Il
still owing SlS, 900 on L. and now man mas
fenced up the road, claiming that II crosses
his property.
Sixteen students competed for the orator
ical prize offered by the Theldelpnlc socle-
ty OF Hillsdale college the other evening
and A. l.. KEENAN, of Mankato, Mimi, car
ried off the cake. It was the 23d annual
contest OF the society.
The wife of Adam Summers OF Grand
Rapids died. supposedly, from intamma-
ton of the bowels, aud was buried Two
DAYS later the body was exhumed, anu II
is said that there is strong case OF poison
ing against the husband.
Thomas Jenkins, the oldest coal miner
In jackson county, coming there in '53, Tel
, down the air shaft Of the Poole nine
: three miles north Of Jackson the other
morning a distance of 30 feet, and was
crushed into misshapen mass.
: William Nevison of Coldwater, wal
| charged with burning building, but the
case has been dismissed. The prosecuting
D attorney saws "A man had right 10 ouri
e his own property if it was not occupied ant
the fire was not for purpose OF fraud.
y w. M. Gate Vestaburg merchant, wa
arrested and tried for assaulting Ann Bur
lage. whom he had engaged as a domestic
d The Jury acquitted him. The litigation
g used up all his property, and he Is com
PEELED to commence life over again.
d VIM. Sharkey, one of the people connect
a ed with the Dupee murder, near Green
vile. was shot in the leg by unknown pan
ties as he was taking care OF the sneiiH
IS team at Stanton the other night. SharKe
) turned states evidence in the Dupee case
10 During dance at the Harrington hous
N at Almont Thanksgiving night while
;" Young man named Brai1wood, aged =
l.aAu m n
Of a waltz he suddenly threw up his hans
ID and dropped dead. Heart disease was u
cause
Is The villain who ravished woman
n, Fork township, Mecosta county, q few da,
AGO was captured near Lake Station. II
ir name is Fred Dennis, alias Lame Joe. III
n victim is in a delicate condition, and the
is no small likelihood that he will yet
:. lynched.
of Mrs. David McCullum, one OF the We
oldest inhabitants OF Ann Arbor, VINE
80 her girlhood was spent, died Few ia
nd ago, aged 81. She aud her husband, w
nu died recently, were residents OF Kalamaz
county since Michigan was territory,
ct had became wealthy.
ne The treasury department has refus
the request OF r. Ward Ford, president
M the Pittsburg plate glass company u
ed that concern be allowed to import nj
skilled laborers. Mr.. Fora was INFORM
q, that the alien contract labor law Is ao
Ine lutte and must be enforced.
On Thanksgiving day the Owashtanc
% club of Grand Rapidsf distributed amo
on the poor of that city 81 900 in cash, =,
. az pounds OF turkey, $500 pounds OF chick
90 800 cans of oysters, 500 leaves of bre
600 pounds of crackers; and wagon 10
has of boots, shoes, clothing, etc.
nc
EN- Two carpenters named Louis Lalo
tame and Siveut Johnson were almost
stantly killed at the Salisbury mine in
ays pemiug They were raising some net
~ timbers, which in some way slipped
ar fell on them while they were working
top of an unfinished shaft house.
40 The students of the state normal SCI
&c have organized congress and have elet
'i'o president of the senate and speake
the house, and will each Saturday disc
Vim the important questions of the day. Il
& in will, so far as possible, follow the Un
and States congress and discuss the same q
TONS
Avs r. G.. Wood, who gained motor
ract .hno,,oh oitaoed connection with the
a. hnnT