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

bruised, no bones were broken.
Sharks are going about the state putting
up lightning rods. The farmer thinks the
shark means so per lightning rod, but
when the (. comes To settle he finds the $,
means $50 per linear rod
Clayton e. Hill, general freight agent Of
the Grand Rapids * Indiana railroad, has
resigned, to take effect May /, and has &C
cepted the permanent charmanship OF the
official freight classification committee,
with headquarters at New York.
Ex-Gov. Begole and wife will celebrate
the 50th anniversary Of their marriage
April p, at Flint.
A $50, 900 summer hotel is to be built at
st. Joseph.
Mrs NJ. r. Bissell of Grand Rapids has
been elected president of the Bissell carpet
sweeper company 10 succeed her husband
who died last week
BY the lst of May the +. & p. NJ. at East
Saginaw will have completed belt line
around the Saginaws. Two trains will run
each way every hour, making 10 stops.
James Spurgeon, Lake Shore conductor,
had his hand smashed at JOnesville recent
| ly, and locxjaw set in from which he died.
| Spurgeon was one OF the Oldest conductors
on the Lake Shore road.
Rev. Theodore Mes son resigned the pas
| torate of the Saginaw City Baptist church
to accept call to East Saginaw. His old
charge protested so deeply that the pastor
has withdrawn his resignation.
DR. Andrew ID. Smith of Swartz Creek
and DR.. f.. ID. Brooks of Flushing have
| been arrested on a charge OF manslaughter
| for causing the death by malpractice OF Mrs.
Philander Decker of Clayton township,
Genesee county. They attended her in her
| confinement and she died the next day. A
post-mortem revealed sufficient evidence
for the arrest of the two physicians.
William ArDey, Three Rivers pioneer,
dropped dead the other day.
A Jackson lawyer is authority for the
statement that Latimer's lawyers will
prove on the trial that $500 in gold were
s. Glen from the Latimer house on the night
of the murder, tending to show that Mrs.
! Latimer was killed by burglars. -Four
| weeks continuance will b. asked on the
ground thata Detroit woman and daughter,
by whom an alibi is hoped for, cannot
attend court on account OF sickness.
Capt Wright l.. Coffinberry Of Grand
Rapids dropped dead the other morning OF
heart disease while in cable car. He was
over 80 years Old and had lived in that city
nearly half century. Mr.. Cohinberry
was born in Ohio, was near enough TO Lake
Erie to hear the guns in the Commodore
Perry fight: took hand in the celebrated
Toledo war and was one of the organizers
of the engineers aud mechanics in the late
war He was matchmaker, but learned
surveying and laid out large part Of Grand
Rapids and the surrounding country. He was
"a red hot Harrison man in 1880, 1884 and
ISIS, and was n DELEGATE TO the convention
that nominated the grandfather in 1884.
Mrs Joel Benedict of Berlin, Ionia coun
ty, gets 1900 by the death of relative
in New York state.
Rev. s. II. Thompson of Slult Ste. Marie
has Just won a lawsuit which gives him s
one third interest in Sl5,ONO worth of lots
and a third interest is S65,0JO worth tha
remains unsold.
The mother of Perry Woodward, thC
Coldwater boy who was shot by compan
ion last summer, has become insane through
| brooding over the unfortunate affair, an(
has been sent 10 the asylum at Kalamazoo
Hon. c. ID. Randall OF Coldwater, ha
been invited TO prepare a paper TO be rea,
al the international prison congress, which
is TO be held at st. Petersburg this spring
Mrs. Nellie Wilder OF Montague wa,
taken i'll, and her mothcr-in-law, Mrs. Fan
ME Ackley nursCd her. Mrs. Wilder as
serted that she found poison in her fOot
and had her arrested, but the court decide,
that there was no ground for the accuse
ton and Mrs Ackley was discharged
The Gettysburg monument association
ana large number Of officers who com
manded Michigan regiments at Gettysburg
arrangements for the dedication OF Tn
! monument Col. Briggs Of Grand Rapid
reports that the monument will De tnishe
by June j and Wednesday, JuGe -, wa
, fixed upo-. Ia. .he day Of its Gedication. ]
| is expected that several thousand Mlchlga
veterans will attend.
Ex-senator Palmer saws n prefers hi
4 log cabin in Detroit 10 castle III Spain.
Hancock Conzregatonists wiz build
| 20 nlu in tlo SDrinU.
The knitting factory at Greenville give
= employment TO 80 persons.
Z The survivors of the Old First Michiga
1 cavalry held a reunion in Grand Rapid
. | March % The election of officers resulte
r as follows: President Sergt. Nahum Gi
? bert of Allegan; first vice president, Cap
John Bigelow OF Birmingham; second vice
= president, John Is. Cress of Ovid; sccrC
Y tary and treasurer, Capt. A. h. Matthews Q
e | Milford The next reunion VIII be held /
4 Owosso March, 1880.
Harry c. Tillman of Detroit has been az
] pointed chief clerk OF the bureau Of India
!, affairs at a salary of 81, 100 per year
" Confidence men placed revolver at III
I; head of John Wlfar of Saginaw City in
= tran on the West Shore railroad, fe
, miles east of Utica, n. y, the other da!
and compelled HIN TO give up his none.
amounting to Sl2J.
; The new plans of the Detroit public bull,
ing have been approved.
The executive committee Of the sta
u grange has appointed A. G. Glidden
y Paw Paw editor of the Grange Visitor
o place of ]. Il. Cobb. Mr. Giidden is men
Der of the state board of asriculture.
o The Lansing wheebarrow company
sending its goods 10 Liberia and Argentil
d, Republic.
u A company has been organized TO bui
;, and operate 200 barrel roller flour mill
- Lansing.
90 George b. Murray. the Ann Arbor st
IL dent arrested some time ago for attempts
n arson, has been acquitted.
a woman died in Cutonagon the 9th
ID day who was los years old.
i, Agent Whitney of the Flint & Pere Ms
u ouette road at Grand Blanc, left the OH
st for a short time the other evening, and DIT
Il. ing his absence $40 was stolen from I
r safe.
Or Lieut.. Sexton served through the war
10 1872, and had enrolled as his servant BIZ
sexton, his son. Bliss Sexton is now
IN | wears old and a resident of Sparta, he
,e county, and his name has just been plac
9. on the pension rolls.
ii William Arney, pioneer Of st. Jose
ID county, died in Three Rivers few da