Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-26

WORK on inc new county IN
Grand Rapids has been temporarily sus.
pended until legal squabble is settled.
Morey T. Andrews OF Flint, who has
100-acre farm in Dakota. raised $4,000
bushels OF whest on it this year.
DIR. Il. c. BEEN OF Oscoda, charged with
committing q criminal abortion on May
Godfrey, has been acquitted on the second
| trial.
The Northern Michigan Driving Park
| Association" was organized In Petoskey
! the other day. A committee was appointed
to look over the available sites and report
| in ten days. AS soon as "a site Is chosen a
charter will DO applied for, stock sold and
| the finest half mile track in Michigan
built. This will be OF especial interest TO
southern horsemen.
! DR.. f. f. Fast of Buchanan cut his
throat the other day, whilo under the in
flucnce OF opium.
Fire broke out in Burkes hotel in Kala-
mazoo the other night, quitting portion of
1t badly. Tho guests escaped uniniured,
but many lost all their clothing.
Bert Gibson of Grand Rapids, the PENN
sular furniture company employee who
drew the money with which to pay OF tho
hands, one day about two years ago, and
skipped out, has been re-captured at San
| Francisco.
The Menominee boom company has thus
| far sorted $50 900, 900 feet of logs, and still
there are $50, 0O0, 900 feet to be handled.
In the matter of the death OF Osmun
| Dickinson, who was found dead in a Jack
son mill pond, the coroner's jury says it
an accident
Judge Grant has been timing saloonkeep-
ers In the upper peninsula who have brok-
en- the law, 500.
The net receipts Of the state fair reached
$4,000.
The Presbytery of Lake Superior, in
session at Ncgaunee, resolved 10 petition
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
church to be set OFF by the SYNOD or Wis
consin and attached to that of Michigan.
The Msnistce railroad company is TO ex-
| tend its road about eight miles south of
| Seney. Single, lumber, etc, will be the
| principal freight hauled, and Manistee
hopes to yet see the road extended to that
| place.
Ontonagon hopes to have railroad connec-
ton with the res; OF the world Oct. /.
A postoaice has been established at Stin-
son, Mecosta county.
1t has been made public that Charles NJ.
Rice OF East Saginaw, general freight,
ticket agent and auditor OF the Sag
NAV, TuscolA & Huron railroad,
is a dcfaulter in the sum of 5000,
and that he has confessed his sin.
There has been no greater shock in bust
| ness circles in the history of East Saginaw
n
in the general ONCE of the Flint 81 Pere
Marquette road 10 years ago, and gradually
assembled the ladder. Soon after the Sagi-
nav, Tuscoa * Huron road was opened
for business he was appointed auditor, and
| a few months ago the position of general
| freight and passenger agent was given him
| in addition. He was trusted and respected
by all, and his prospects for his future wore
very bright.
The governor has made the following ap-
pointments: Henry &. Van Slyck of Maple
City, commissioner to lay out and estab-
lish a state road in Leelsnaw county, under
| the provisions OF act No l73, public acts OF
| 1899; Alexander p. McManamy Of Manton
| agent of the state board OF corrections and
charities for Wexford county.
The secretary of the treasury has APP
pointed James ID. Armstrong keeper OF the
lighthouse at Point Peninsula; and j. C.
Gallagher first assistant keeper at South
| Manitou.
The new shops of the Michigan furniture
company OF Ann Arbor are completed and
will soon be occupied.
Chas. L. Snyder Of Evart has been APP
pointed to 81 900 position in tho surgeon
generals Office at Washington.
William Pease Of Eckford, the oldest
man in Calhoun county, is dead.
George Becher of Marshall has been
| sentenced TO ~ years in jackson for Grim
NAL assault on little girl
William Parker Of Alpena, a brakeman,
fell between the cars ut Milo, and was
crushed to death.
Jno. Huntley, with his son and Jno Little,
| ran a refreshment booth and cider stand
during the state fair at Lansing. They
also sold liquor on the SLY, and all three
have been arrested for disposing of the
"bug juice" without license.
The weeks attendance at the state fair
foots up 10000.
Michigan apple buyers who arc contract
| ing for the crop in Michigan, are paying 20
cents per barrel for fall fruit, and 81 for
winter.
Samuel Seney, the justice of the peace
of Lima, Washtenaw county, who stabbed
his son In quarrel some time ago has been
discharged from custody, and the old man
is well out of scrape that would have sent
a man OF less influence to jackson for 10
years.
Bliss g. Van Auken of East Saginaw have
purchased the lumber and salt plant Of the
Barnard lumber company of that city. The
sale includes q saw mill of 10000, 900 feet
capacity, salt works of 1000 barrels annu-
al capacity, and 35 acres of real estate.
DIR. William Isler has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Three
| Rivers.
The men who captures Holzhay the
| DOBoDlC SVdRo TODDoT, are Sllll QudTTcllHB
about the reward.
Z. G. Ayers has been given the contract
for building q factory for the Michigan
harness company in jackson.
Surveyors Of the e. & w. NJ. railroad
company are surveying route TO Elk Rap
ids.
1t is rumored that Gen. Alger Is to fur
nish capital for ex-CommissoDer of Pen
sions Tanner to embark in business.
The Saginaw iron mining company has
been organized with capital stock of $400,-
600. The company owns 200 acres Of land
near lshreming, and will at once begin pre-.
parations to take out ore.
John Mullane, prominent longshoreman
OF Bay City, put bullet through his brain
the other day, because he was tired of life.
A 10-year-old son of Cyrus Curtis OF Will
liamsburg, Grand Traverse county, hung
himself in his fathers barn the other day.
The school children had been playing hang.
ing and he tried it alone with disastrous
results.
J. ). Crowds Touring mill in Reading,
Hillsdale county, was destroyed by fire
Sept. IA.
The Port Huron common council has
been asked TO have a survey made and an
estimate Of the cost of a canal from Lake