Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-18

! Hon Albert Wilcox of Adrian is dead,
aged 81. He served as u member o. the
legislature in 1871.
! Gov. Luce and family are soiourning at
the farm in Gilead Branch county.
A. l.. Aldrich of Lansing died at Ra-
VIENNA, Cal, "A few days ago The remains
were brought TO Lansing for inlerment.
The Farmers Review says that Michigan
stands lower in condition OF corn crop than
any other st, te.
Nearly 1000 students have graduated
from the law department OF the university
since its organization in 1860. There is no
law school IN the country that out-ranlSs
the law department of the Michigan uni
versity in efficiency and only one that has
a larger attendance, that one being COlum-
ba, in New York city.
c. +. Triplet, ex-engrossing clerk of the
Michigan legislature, has been transferred
to the pension office from the treasury and
tgiven 81 200 clerkship.
The war department has issued an order
reconvening the Detroit bridge commission
at Detroit July l6.
Mrs. Adams, wife of President Charles
Kendall Adams of Cornell university, diCl
in Ithaca, n. Y, July Il. The remains
were brought to Ann Arbor for interment
a movements on foot at Lansing to or
game an independent battery OF light ar
tillery.
Work on the extension Of the Chippewa
Valley railroad has been commenced.
The census of Bay City, just completed,
gives that city population of 81, 49,
The "rose g. is creating havoc in many
Michigan orchards.
A larger amount of celery is being raised
at Decatur this season than ever before,
and its culture and shipping is growing to
be quite an extensive industry at that place.
county, died in Skagit county, Washington
Territory on the 5th inst.
Prof. Henry c. Adams of Michigan uni
versity has been offered the position of
STATISTICAL of the census bureau. The
professor has not yet accepted the posi-
ton.
The constitutional limit of the legislative
session of 1889, expired July 3, and both
houses were declared formally adjourned.
The prisoners in the Jackson prison were
given the freedom of the prison yard on
the Fourth and from nine a. H. TO -four p.
m spent the time as they chose.
Edwin Anderson, aged ~, died in Kala-
maZoo the other day, being the sixth victim
of the street car accident May y He leaves
four children in poor circumstances. Ly-
mau NJ. Gates has been appointed admin
istrator for his estate and will probably
bring damage suit against the Michigan
Central
james Foote, Salvation Army captain
of little Creek has been sentenced to 20
days In .ail for resisting an officer.
The new Continental hotel in Lansing
was completely destroyed by fire on the
itb inst
Very fine granite for monuments has re-
Gently been found near Allegan.
Mr. Palmer, the American minister to
Spain, entertained Mr.. Loring, American
minister TO Portugal, who is en- route to
Lisbon, ana number OF American resi-
dents in Madrid at dinner on the evening
of the Fourth Of July. Patriotic speeches
were made and much enthusiasm was
shown. a number of ladies were present
at the banquet.
One of j.. II. Freeny's single mills in
East Saginaw was burned July .. 1t had
been destroyed by All explosion a few
months before, and had just been re built.
Mrs. Sarah A. Foote of Pontiac was
fatally burned by the explosion of a
kerosene lamp which she was lighting, the
other night.
Charcoal burning is ting to be quite an
extensive business at Decatur, and several
carloads OF charcoal are sent from that
place each week.
Jas. Breen was drowned while bathing in
the river at East = ginaw the other eve
ming. He came from Ireland, where his
parents reside, about two months ago.
An original poem entitled Zone Hundr red
Years consisting of 100 lines, on the oc-
casion of the Fourth of July centennial OF
the constitution, was sent TO President
Harrison from Battle Creek by j. II. Beid-
Ter formerly of Mt. Pulaski. Ill. The poem
was printed on white satin, inclosed in
plush lined black walnut case, made from
tue headboard of bedstead owned and
o, cupied by Abraham Lincoln in ls4'.