Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-11

made from the Champion mine at Ishpem-
| ing on the 10Th ult.
The governor has pardoned Barney Ros-
seau, who was sent 10 jackson in 1884 for
seven years for manslaughter. ROsseau
worked in the lumber camps and lived at
| Alpena. When no returned home from the
| woods on one occasion he found a man
named Savage occupying apartments In his
home. Rosseau ordered him out. Savage
| said he wouldn't go, and the result was
fight, in which Rosseau was licked. The
latter then complained to the authorities,
but received no comfort, and when he re-
turned home the battle with Savage was
renewed. Finding himself again getting
| the worst of it, Rosseau snatched knife
from the dinner-table and stabbed his as
sailant so badly that he died. He had only
seven months more to serve in prison, and
his pardon is granted in response TO the
unanimous verdict of the pardon board.
Farmers of Van Buren county have or
gained to crush the binding Irvine trust.
Fire in the Flint wagon works destroyed
| several thousand dollars worth OF wagons
| in the store ROOM
There are four Indian children in the
state public school at Coldwater.
A sanitary convention will be held in
Tecumseh June and !.
The corner stone of St. Marks home in
Grand Rapids was laid March 81.
The contract for the rails TO be used in
changing the guage of the Port Huron ~
| Northwestern road has been let to the
steel works of Chicago and PittsOurg. Ten
thousand tons of steel rails will be used.
Reported that the Toledo, Ann Arbor &
Northern railroad company will extend
their road to Glen Haven.
Frcda Brett, little girl over whose
guardianship and S15,0O0 estate her uncles
are now quarrcling in Albany, n. Y, is
now at Kalamazoo with her mothers broth
H.. al To- 10 f.l .svssa RlsHf hns
governess, Miss Landon,to bring her there.
w. w. Staley of Lansing, has been elect
ed mayor Of the First regiment Michigan
state troops.
Harry Tllman of Detroit declines the APP
pointment as chief clerk in the Indian
office.
Mrs. C,arissa Won Hyning, a resident of
Batavia, Branch county, since lo25, is dead.
julius A. Ball, an Eaton Rapids photogra-
pher, dropped dead Of heart disease the
other day.
Allegan fruit growers say that - per
cent of the peach buds were killed by the
recent cold weather.
Hon. Austin Blair Of Jackson has been
retained by the Michigan gas company in
their injunction suit against the board OF
supervisors of Hillsiaic county and +. w.
Stock, one of the proprietors and managers
of the HillsdIle electric light company, TO
prevent the carrying out of contract
made between the county and Mr.. Stock
FOR lighting the court house and Jail.
The Port Huron agricultural and driving
park association are hopeful OF raising the
$4,000 necessary to buy and equip new
grounds. Stock TO the amount of 5000 has
already been subscribed for.
Mrs Abigail Green, who for 35 years
lived on a farm near Mt. Morris, is dead.
William Wonder, ship carpenter en-
| n 1T 81 A
Haven, fell from scaEold the other day,
and died an hour later.
Ten acres of wheat were sown at Port
Austin March %.
An association has been formed at Stand
ish for the purpose Of booming the town.
An attempt will oe made this spring to
remove the county seat of Arenac county
from Omer TO Standlsh.
1t is rumorcd that the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern and the Chicago & West M.chi-
gan roads are to be consolidated.
DIR. j. G. Mueller, one of the best known
German residents OF Detroit, died on the
I'd inst He was born in Nuremburg, Ba-
varia, in lS29, came TO this country when
he was % years old, and Joined the United
States army, serving as hospital steward
for 20 years. For the last eight years Of
his service he was stationed at West Point.
He has resided in Detroit since the close of
the war
Franklin Wells, president of the state
board of agriculture will serve as presi-
dent Of the agricultural college, until a
permanent president is appointed.
A Polander named J. Scho!oski of ROYAL
, Oak, to all appearances died, 30 hours after
he came to life again. Two days later he
died.
The Calumet & Hecla copper product for
March was 2,193.
An unknown, but well dressed man com
mitted suicide in u lake near Battle Greek
; the other day.
The safe in the postofice at Mayviile
2 was blown open the other night, and a
; small amount Of money and stamps were
J taken.
, w. G.. Griffith Of Detroit will go to Spain
as Minister Palmer's private secretary.
, Forty tailors in East Saginaw are on a
strike. They demand uniform scale OF
wages.
The life-saving stations on Lakes Huron
and Michigan have gone into commission
, for the season Of 1852
!. During the past seven years the D., L. &
+ n. road has donated 5000 annually to the
c support of the lonia Y. M. g. A. A few
days ago the company decided to withdraw
i the support, and the rooms will be closed
e William Kirhe, feremqn of lumber
I camp on the Rife river, is in the hospital
9 at Saginaw, terribly injured, the result OF
| an aCCluenJ WnlIc breaking q rOllWay. Inc
only shelter he had after the accident was
Q a tent his wet clothing froze, and then he
was driven % miles in q lumber wagon, but
despite his awful fortunes he may recover
Judge George NJ. Huntington, a widely
known attorney and resident of Mason
since early manhood, died April after an
n illness of several months. He was born al
J Tompkins, n. Y, in 1886. His father re
/ moved to Michigan in 1888, and settled in
7 Aurelius township, lngham county. The
a son began the study of law in 1850, in the
c Office of o. M. Barnes, now of Lansing. He
was admitted in 1857, and formed a copart
Q nership with Mr.. Barnes, which continued
y until 1865. In 1874 he was elected to the
/ state senate by the democrats, and elected
Judge of the district in 1875. Tho most not
Z ed case ever tried before him, and one oil
a the greatest ever tried in Michigan, in many
8 respects, was the celebrated Rose Douglass
n Zeal university case, in which Emory A.
i Storrs OF Chicago was IA star attraction fol
i six consecutive weeks.
J. Frank Fillmore of Battle Creek, a brake
o man on the Chicago IL Grand Trunk road
}. was instantly killed at Thornton junction
}. the other day. He fell from a car and wa:
!, cut in two.