Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-07
WOLVERINE WHISPERIEGS.

! The Irish National League has started a
| movement to hold in nearly all of the states
! semi official meet ngs for the purpose of
! indorsing the Gladstone movement TO Sc
cure home rule for Ireland Gov. Luce
! has accepted Father Ro.lly's invitation to
| preside at a meeting, which will be held in
| Representative Hall at the Capitol. The
| date has not been been fixed upon, but it
! will be between February II and 20-the
! first week after the return of the legisla-
! tors from the long ad ournment Speaker
| DiekCman and President pro tenn Ball will
serve as vice presidents, as will also a mum
Der of the prominent leaders of both parties
on the floor Michigan is believed to be the
| hrst state to take action III the matter.
The liabilities Of the Burns construction
| company of Battle Creek, which failed re-
Gently, are placed at half million dollars.
| The company was organized for the CON
| struction of the Cana Ia and st. Louis
| railway. The terms Of payment for the
| construction Of the road were that the
| Burns company should furnish all
material and labor and receive $4,000
| per mile of first mortgage bonds and $50 600
| per mile of stock and all bonuses. Some of
| the directors subsequently became stock
! holders in the construction company. The
million and a half dollars Of bonds have
! been hypothecated TO the three principal
| creditors, leaving the company with over a
mill ION dollars of the common stock Of the
road on hand, which is of unknown valGe.
| The Burns company were limited at $1,000,
/ 600.
Work will he commenced on house for
orphans in Ludington this spring
The O'd Residents association Of Kent
county, held its annual meeting in Grand
| Rapids Jan. ~, and elected the following
| officers: President, DIR. Charles Shepard (;
vice .president, Judge John + Holmes
second viceprcsdert, +. l.. Winsor; sec
| ANt,,sN It.
bert. During the year eighteen members
died and thirteen we're added TO the rolls
FREDERICK. Harr, who was tried in San
! dusky, Mich, for the murder Of Frederick
Kruger last May, has been convic ed of
manslaughter Judge Beach sentenced
him 10 state prison for ten years.
The citizens of Oronoko township, Van
Euren county, petition the legislature 10
allow them TO vote $4,000 TO build a rail
road TO Berrien Springs.
Mrs James Piatt, one of the first settlers
Of Berren Springs, is dead.
A clothes pin factory will be built at Lud-
ington in the spring
George H. Mann OF Port Huron, who has
been for two years a messenger in the SEN
a'e, will be recommended to President Har-
| risoD by several of his senatorial friends
for appointment as naval cadet at large.
The G.. A. r. post at Shelby is raising
funds with which 20 erect soldiers monu-
ment in the cemetery in that place.
Thomas Thompson cut on his farm in Ovid
township, Branch couny, last week, red
oak tree that made sos rails, fourteen cords
of block wood and two cords Of four-foot
| wood.
The upper peninsula state prison will be
ready for occupancy Feb. |.
Miss May Garfield, an employee OF the
knitting factory in Benton Harbor, while
going to her work one morning fell on
the ice formed by water dripping from the
railroad tank and hurt her shoulder. She
brought suit in the circuit court to recover
for the Injuries thus received, placing the
| damages at $4,000, and "a jury awarded her
judgment for the full amount claimed.
Senator Stockbridge spys he is opposed
10 the bin introduced in the Michigan legis-
lature to place the statue OF Gen. George
a. Custer in the statuMy hall. He says
that the proper companion figure to Lewis
Cass is Zachariah Chandler, and that
Ch-ndler's statue could much more appro-
| priately be placed in the hall that than OF
Custer. The statuary is designed" said,
''for men who have become eminent in the
civil service of their country. IL Is true
that Gen. Cass was a noted solder, but he
had much greater distinction as civil Off
Ger of the government. Cass and Chandler
are fitting associates in the chamber, for
they are Michigan's greatest statesmen.
| ! should like TO see finc equestrian statue
of Custer erected on "A square in this city
that could be named after him"
The association Of Michigan republicans
in Washington has been revived. G. p
Lincoln, who has been made president, has
announced the following committee on
amendments 10 the constitution and by
laws: Harry Smith, p A. Auer, w. w
Eldridge, L. f.. Gridley, b. G. Morrison
Frank G.. johnson, A. M. Reed, M. l.. Hig
gins, L. Moses and w. ii. II. Cooper, exec
utive committee-W. B Thompson, Harry
Sherwood, Benz. A. Hanlan, w. II. Barton
and James X Hopper.
Herman Vesser of Hillman. who wa:
charged with shooting John Hunt at the
polls in Montmorency townsip on election
day, has been acquitted.