Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-17

The Michigan press association has uncni-
mously adopted n resolution favoring an in
crease in the salaries OF state officers.
WHY'S Q. Ransom of Kalamazoo has
| been appointed deputy commissioner of
railroads C.B. Conger of st. Clair county
has been appointed mechanical engineer by
the commissioner OF railroads.
All tho township officers of Glade, Kal-
kaska county, except the clerk, elected last
] spring were residents Of logging camps aud
have drifted TO other parts of the state, and
there is but one officer in the township.
Geo. NJ. Dinehart Of Owosso was killed
| az Shenago, Penn, recently, while trying TO
get Of a moving train.
Alvin Russell, employed in feed mill at
Lake Odessa, attempted to kick a belt OF n
running pulley, but ipped and fell upon
tho pulley. He was carried To the shaft
and his leg below the knee wound around
it, crushing the bones and tieshintoa shape
less mass. The leg was amputated,
The McGraws of Bay Cityare TO build n
logging road up tie valley OF the Dead river
in the section around Silver lake and the
county line between Baraga and Marquette,
where they own an immense tract of pine.
Bank Commissioner Sherwood will APP
point Il. A. Sunderlin of Lowell as his
deputy.
WI Magee of Marshall has been appoint
salary of $4,000 year.
Bronson offers 500 reward for tho CON
viction of the fire bug that infects that
place.
While Samuel Arnold, who married
Phileppi La Grue mt Florence, Wis, a
couple OF weeks ago, was sitting at table
with his wife reading, at Iron River, Iron
county, the other evening, John Blessing
ham, former husband of Mrs Arnold,
whom she had discarded, walked into the
room unannouncod and coolly and delber-
ately riddled Arnold with bullets from
3!-calibre revolver, putting four through
his body He then assaulted him with the
revolver, striking him on the face and head.
Arnold's recovery is impossible Blessing
ham surrendered himself to the officers.
The woman skipped out and has not been
seen since.
Charles a. Dixon of Saginaw,
depaty county treasurer, has skip
ped with woman with whom he had been
Tor some time enamored Defalcations of
considerable amounts have been discovered
in his accounts.
The aggregate Of deposits in the 10 saw
ings banks of Detroit, is ; y, .Oi, SIl.aj.
Jas. II. Kinnane, attorney of tho state
board of pharmacy, has been investigating
Detroit druggists, and says that several
Of them have been I'M NJ Prescriptions with
out having certificate O, competency from
the board. They will b.. i.Icught to ac-
count.
Dispatches from many points in Michi-
gan say thai the storm of the 9th inst. was
general In upper Michigan the fall of
snow ranges from eight inches 20 a foot.
The snow belt starts in the southwestern
part of the state and extends diagOnaIly
across TO ChebOygan,
a. A. Shaver, ey-county treasurer of
Clare county, is being investigated, and it
is alleged that shortage OF 81, 800 has been
found in his accounts.
Adrian typographical union has voted to
ask Gen. Harrison 10 appoint member
Of the Typographical union for public
printer.
The state funeral directors in session at
Grand Rapids elected these officers: Presi-
dent, L. j. Blandfield, Portland; vice presi-
dents, w. w. Bennett, jackson, NJ. ID
North, Owosso, NJ. J. Buck, Lansing; sec
rotary, G.. G. Merritt, Greenville; treasur-
err, John A. Dick, Detroit. executive com
mittee, NJ. j. Buck Lansing, George All
mel, Ionia, and II. II. O'Brien Of Grand
Rapids. The next meeting will be held in
Jacllsoa.
Nj. Wan Every, a resident of Coldwater
since 1915, died on the 10th inst
a. man giving the name of T.. II. Swartz
got nice horse aud buggy from X Cole
mans livery barn in East Saginaw and
went over TO Saginaw City, where he gave
the name of George II. Fransiook, and OBJ
tanned from George i. Burrows private
bank 500, giving as security a mortgage on
tho rig. He then paid Coleman and skip
ped An officer is after him. The swind-
Ter is 10 years cd, walks lame, has full,
smooth face ara has lived around South
Saginaw, where he is known as a horse
trader That is how Burrows was deceived.