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

tho bank.
Prof Benz. E. Nichols. teacher Of book
keeping in the public schools OF Ann ArbOr
WAS out driving the other day, when the
horse started ~ run while Nichols was
! standing on the ground holding the lines.
! lie hung on and WAS dragged some dis
lance. The horse turned u corner aud
| Nichols head was dashed against the curb
stone, crushin. his skull. He did not re-
gain consciousness, and died three hours
after being taken home.
Irving Latimer has been taken out of
the solitary cell In jackson prison and put
~ work on his old Job in the blacksmith
shop. He begged piJsously 10 be taken out
and put 10 work, promising tue warden
that he would never again cause him
| trouble.
B. A. T. Hoag, corresponding secretary
OF the northwestern branch of the Wom-
! an s foreign missionary society of the NJ
i. church, died 1T her home in Albion
| sept. 70. She was widely and well known
through several of the northwestern states
! and WAS much beloved among her Albion
2cquaintances.
Frank Foote WAS arrested in Ypsilanti
| the other day on charge Of forgery COM
nitted in OHIO, and taken TO Ann Arbor
k'oote learned that no requisition papers
had beeA issued, and demanded and Sc
cured his release. H0 was re.arrested on
new complaint, and vt once instituted
suit against the officer who arrested
him for unlawful arrest. claiming So, 900
damages.
Ex-senator James A. Dufey OF Adams,
Spring Lake county, Cal, died on the 10Th
inst. He WAS brother OF Postmaste
Durey OF Ann Arbor, of Michael aud Philip
Dufisy Of Whitmors Lake and of Mrs.
Patrick Gallagher Of Corunna.
The Thunder Bay River boom company
have RATED to the various lumber and
single mills in Alpena city, this season,
l,l5o, l0i logs which sealed Ill, S4S $40 feet.
The annual reunion Of tho Seventeenth
Michigan Infantry WAS held in Grand
Rapids Sept. -. MAJ. Thos. Matthews of
Oswego, n. Y, was chosen president; w.
Il. Brearley, Detroit, vice presidents Aus
tin George, Gpsilanti, secretary and treas
| urer.
The fourth annual reunion OF the Six
teenth Mich gan Infantry ussociato on was
held in Est Saginaw sept. p, about 100
members being present Among those
present were Auditor-General Alp n, Judge
! a. g. Morse and Col. Stockton of Flint,
the first commander Of the regiment. The
! business meeting and banquet were fea-
lures of the reunion. Omcers were elected
as follows: President, II. II. Alpin, West
Bay City; vice-president, Il. ID. Graham
Detroit; secretary and treasurer, A. c.
Cameron OF Lansing.
T. b. Barry says his new brotherhood Of
| United Labor is doing well, and has a
membership OF 10000.
Mrs. Amacl Gosch, whose husband is in
Jail In Grand Rapids on a charge of muir
der, gave her farm TO raise money for the
defense of her husband Then she tried TO
get il back through the courts. Then she
changed her mind and let it 60 Now she
! has hled a ST. tement eulogizing her hus-
| band and declaring that Sheriff Bishop and
other officials induced her to turn against
I harapGa ighR IN IN
getting money for his defense, aud to send
him 10 state prison without getting fair
trial. She s.ys that when she signed her
petition for relief she didn't know what it
was.
One million feet Of lumber in Buckley &
Douglas lumber yards in Manistee WAS
destroyed by fire the othor day.
The Bad Axe furniture company is to
| locate in Bay City.
A sanitary convention will be held in
Vicksburg, Kalamazoo county, under the
auspices OF the state board of health.
The cable across the river from the
| American to the Canadian 800" has been
successfully laid.
A man named Schwsnmuff OF Holland
was killed while hunting near jamestown
the other morning. The trigger ofhis gun
caught ia the gr IS and the weapon was
discharged, the charge passing through his
chin and upwards, blowing his brains
out
The Michigan railway association met in
| Grand Rapids Sept. p and discussed the
! two cent fare law, and after long debate
adopted u resolution pledging all Michigan
| roads in view OF the effect of the new law
after Oct. / to grant, under no circum-
stances, = special rate.
Rev. Calvin SAVOY died in Wheatland,
! Hillsdale county, recently. Mr.. SAVOY and
| his wife came TO Michigan in lS32, aud
| have ever since lived in Hilisdale and Len
| awee counties.
Officer Leonard of Ann Arbor, went to
! Marshall the other day and arrested
Charles j. Search, principal of the Mar
| shall high school, on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Search
formerly lived in Ann Arbor, and short
time ago sold stove TO dealer in that city,
which, it is alleged, belonged 10 his step
father. The stove was replevined from the
dealer, who WAS mulcted for $40 costs and
50 damages.
David G. Slawson, a pioneer OF Green
! vile, is dead.
Polish Catholics OF Bay City, are going
to build So, 00J church.
Yysilanu is to spend an additional $50
900 on its water works.
! The American wool boot company will
! erect factory in Hastings, give employ
ment to l25 men and turn out l00, 900 pairs
of felt boots y day.
Alfred Clark living near Big Rapids, is
going TO bore on his farm for oil, gas, coal,
! or whatever may be under the surface.
George Nen4 OF Hesperia, VS. fatally in
iurcd the other evening by being knocked
or the top of a windmill.
Capt. j. l.. Quackenbush. Michigan
man, has been nominated for the legisa-
ture by tho democrats OF Washington Ter
ritory.
The question OF appointing a guardian
for VIM. McKellop, the Perry banker who
was swindled out of $1,000 by the "gold
brick scheme, will DO settled oct. 3.
1t is now claimed that Solomon Felch, Of
near iron Mountain, who was found with a
bullet hole in his hoad, was killed by his
hired man, Chas Stiltz The latter asked for
his pay, and in consequence Of the quarrel
that followed chased his employer TO an In
dian camp near by and shot him. The In
dams then captured Stiliz and held him
till the sheriff arrived.
Mrs. Chauncey King of Sodus dropped a
pocket book con tanning SIS on the ground,
ana a calf ate IT. The calf was killed at
once and tho money secured.
Menomincc will have the free delivery
system after October.
Col George =. Sanford OF Lansing has