Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-03


L. S. Gray of Neway.o. Geo. w. Rowell
OF Battle Creek and John Mes OF Sauga-
tuck, have been admitted to practice before
the interior department.
Adam Schumann, a farmer living In Bue-
ma Vista IA short distance east OF East Sag
NAV, was cleaning revolver the other
afternoon when one OF the cartridges ex-
| ploded, the bullet entering the brain OF
! Mrs. Schumann, killing her instantly She
was 40 years Of age and leaves family. A
verdict OF accidental death was returned.
Mrs. Lucia l.. Ned, 81 years old, who
! lived with her son in Vienna township,
Genesee county, fell into the fireplace
during the absence OF the family and was
! burned TO death.
Gladstone citizens are raising money
| with which to secure roller Touring mill,
| and large furnace and steel works which
will employ 200 men.
The Au Sable a. Northern railroad
known as the Potts road, has been opened
| for general traffic from Au Sable to the vii
| lage of Potts, on tho Au Sable river in
| Oscoda county, distance OF about 10 miles
in straight line.
S. G. Coninbury, one OF the Oldest land
ablest) lawyers in southern Michigan, died
| In Constantine recently. He was an Off
Ger in the ranks OF the patriots" IN the
| Patriotic war in Canada, was prominent
| knight Templar, a SD degree Mason, had
been grand high priest of the grand chapter
! OF Michigan and Master of the grand lodge.
| He WAS ripe scholar and al author Of
much ability.
Jacobus Elenvcl, one OF tho first settlers
OF Allegan county, is dead.
| Theodore Tumhafer Of Monitor township,
Bay County, fell from y tree while gather
ing nuts, and died an hour later.
Judge Burch has decided that the Cedar
| Springs bonds for 5000, issued to help the
| Toledo, Saginaw Il Musllegon road, are
| illegal, and must DO surrendered for can
collation..
Information has been received at Bay
| City OF the accept, nee by the treasury de-
partment mt Washington Of block 81 as "a
site Tor the 500, Oo0 federal building for
that city The buildings are TO be removed
and preparations made for building.
! Eugene Rawson Of Grand Haven. drew
| $40, 0U0 in the Mexican lottery, but died be-
fore getting it. His partner, Jacob Baer,
his son aud administrator, FRANC Rawlsou,
and Charles OConnor are dsputing about
| the possession OF it, and the matter is in
] the courts.
The fourth annual reunion Of the artillery
association of Mich gan will be held in
| Lansing Oct. 10 Comrades desiring GER
! tiicates for reduced fares on railroads
must rpply ut once TO Secretary g. j. Bur
nett at Lansing, batteries Il, II and Nj
hold battery reunions while in Lansing at
! this reunion.
An ex-justice OF the peace in Kent coun-
! " has been fined SIX cents for assault and
battery, but he won't pay it until the su-
| preme court says he must
The physicians of Battle Creek are puz-
zled over the peculiar condition of the
widow of w. n. Dennson, the brakeman
| who was killed in the Grand Trunk Yards
| a week ago. Since the funeral the un-
| fortunate woman has been as one dead.
| A death like sleep h taken hold OF her.
| Her body is perfectly rigid and she takes
no heed OF the surroundings No nourlsh-
ment has passed her lips with the exception
! OF litt4ebeef tea. At intervals violent
| spasms shake her frame, after which she
| relapses int her former stupor She has
been taken TO the asylum at Kalamazoo.
George DAILY of Montague got drunk the
other day, went home and tried TO kill his
step daughter. lie hit her with AN axe,
but she escaped and gave an alarm. Two
officers FASTENED to the house and tried to
arrest him. He fought with the fury of
u tend, and one of the officers was badly
cut with dirk which Daily had. The man
was finally arrested and locked up in Jail.
| Whom the officers went a little later TO take
DAILY his supper, they found him hanging
| in his cell, dead.
Jessie A.Loonis, for Is years a teacher in
/ the public schools of East Saginaw, has
| gone 10 Los Angeles, Cal, to be married
! to Cromwell Galpn, formerly of Saginaw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Heath of Clarendon
| recently celebrated the 51th anniversary OF
their wedding. They have five children,
| II grandchildren nd one great-grandchild,
and there has never Leen a death in the
| family.
Oracle McGlnch, aged years, daughter
Of John McGlinch of West Bay City, and
| Claude Agans, aged five, were playing
near the hose house the other day when
coil of wire, weighing about 100 pounds,
! fell upon them. Grace leg VS. broken
and she Was injured internally. The boy
was badly bruised.