Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-04-18


in tho position OF computer or assistant in
the nautical almanac Office.
Five thousand acres of land have been
leased at Vicksburg for the purpose of
sinking gas well.
A Lansing firm is negotiating with Big
Rapids for the laying out OF street car
track in the latter place.
james w. Booney of Escanaba has been
! appointed train dispatcher OF the peninsula
division of the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad.
Mrs Beaver, who was badly hurt IN the
smash up near Iron River, in which Lieut.
Gov. Macdonald Was killed, will sue tho
Chicago IL Northwestern for damages.
DIR. John Avery of Greenville has been
reelected president of the state board of
health.
The famous Richardson estate contro-
versy has been transferred from Alpena to
| Detroit. The estate involved property TO
tho extent Of 81 10000. by will, ali the
property went TO tho widow. But as the
! instrument had been made 20 years before
death, about 20 other heirs objected. Chas.
w. Richardson, IT., representing the con
! testing heirs, employed Moore X Moore as
attorneys TO help fight the case, agreeing to
pay them % per cent of the money secured
! from the widow. The lawyers had settle
ment with her. whereby all claims were to
be relinquished upon the payment of $40,
] insist that all combined they received but
| So 900 There is a balance Of $1,000
which the bill of complaint says is fraudu-
lently held by Charles Richardson, jr., and
Moore Il Moore. Tney bring suit to dis
cover where the money is.
Willie White, 16-year old boy OF East
Saginaw, was drowned the other day while
| duck shooting.
The mineral baths of Port Huron were
| hna Of 70 no otb ,r
morning. James Clemmo, a ship caulker
| by trade, was employed caulking one Of the
watts in the works when he was overcOm o
by gas. Stephen Porter, the attendant,
shouted for help, and went into the vat to
rescue Clemmo, but when further assistance
arrived both men were lying at the bottom
of the vat, insonsible, and they died within
a few minutes after Icing taken out. DR.
| Stephenson, the proprietor of the baths, in
| leaning over TO help get the men out, also
became aSphyXated and fol- TO the floor
unconscious, injuring himself severely
| about the head.
The ll-years-old daughter of Charles Will
son, few miles east of Stanton, while
working in a logging field with her father,
caught her clothing on tire aud was so bad
! ~ burned that she died in few hours
The Sportsman's Club Of Greenvile has
planted fish III the different lakes in the
vicinity
William Trip Of Augusta was instantly
| killed the other night by falling from &
train on the Grand Trunk road Of which he
was brakeman.
John Brown of Keoler, Van Buren, coun-
ty gets five and one half years in jackson
for assaulting small girl.
The forty five members of the Agricul
! tural coleSe graduating class have decided
| 10 AVOID al class day exercises for the sake
! Of economy, ana VIII also dispense with the
! Detroit orchestra anu otacr usual expenses
at the graduating exercises.
o. Knapp of Galcsburg brought suit
| against the estate of Sarah j. Gallagher,
recently deceased, 10 recover S2,2OO for
work performed during the past is years.
The jury awarded him sos.
a Greenville ieweer is the posscssor of
a unique relic in the form oil deed on
parchment in 1916 by Thomas Penn and
| Richard Penn, proprie.ors and governors
in chief of the province Of Pennsylvania,
under the reign Of King George. The
amount of land named in the deed Is 100
acres, the purchaser to pay one penny in
sterling rent Tor every acre, and in case Of
non payment the land TO revert 10 said
| governors
The following are the newly elected OF
| lcers OF the Grand council OF the Royal
Arcanun OF Michigan: Grand regent, G..
| II. Francis, West Bay City grand vice
regent, n. w. Nelson, Mansteo; grand
orator, Hugh Mccullough, Grand Rapids (;
past grand regent. w. >. Campbell, De
| troit; grand secretary, s. A. Griggs, De
troit; grand treasurer Jacob Brown. De
troit; grand chaplain, G.. w. Fray. Ian
sing; grand guide, Frank Mills, LGpeer;
grand warden, II. A. Parish, Grand Haven !;
| grand sentry, II. &. Hodges, Lansing state
medical examiner Sidney ]. Small, Sagi-
nav; grand trustees, Fred A. Stiven,
lonia; j. w. Cochrane, Midland; l.. b.
Marlborough, West Bay City.
There is, according TO the boom officer s
estimate, about 4oO,0JO,0 900 feet of old and
new logs on the TitJa0 twassae and tribu-
| tarie5 to come out this season. Unless
| there is a good rainfall over Zoo, 0O0, 900 on
the small steams will be hung up. On the
! larger streams, where dams have been con
| structed, the logs will come out although
rafting will be necessarily slow
John w. Falley. for over 50 years resi-
dent and prac Using physician OF Hillsdale,
| is dead.
Michigan will be officially represented at
the centennial OF WASHINGTON Inaugural
ton by the Governor and his staf and the
commissioners appointed. Gov. Luce Will
| ride on horse back in the procession.
George Lamb, brakeman on freight
train on the Lake ShOre - Michigan Sou tn
ern railroad, while making q coupling at
| Jonesville, was thrown under the wheels
| by some loose cars striking the one on
which he was working. His left leg was
crushed and mangled so as to make ampu
tation necessary between the knee and
thigh.
a lacrosse team has been formed among
the students at the university.
Prof. NJ. L. Cooley and II members OF the
engineer class in the university are making
a tour of inspection of the great factories
in Cleveland, Pittsburg and Philadelphia
A barn at the Bennett file works in Jack
son, CO0 bushels OF grain, % tons OF hay
two horses, buggies and harnesses were
destroyed by fire the other morning a
small boy aud "A cigarette caused the lire.
The Estey manufacturing company oil
Owosso met with a serious mishap at thcii
factory the other morning. The cylinder
Of large engine blew out a portion OF the
head, causing serious damage and a loss OF
several thousand dollars. The company
will be obliged TO shut down the machinery
for some time until a new cylinder can be
had. The accident came just at time wheu
the company was crowded with heavy
orders.
A factory for tho manufacture OF starch
from potatoes will be ready for business in
Muskegon in 30 days, and contracts are now
made with the farmers whereabouts for 81
he potatoes they can raise at % cents a
bdshel.