Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-24

Rev. Edwin Shaw has been adiudged
insane and sent TO the kalam zoo asylum
because he took an undue interest in card
paying and horse racing
Mrs. Richard, who was shot in the head
by her husband in Grand Rapids a short
time ago Is recovering AT the homo of her
oro'her In Traverse City. The bullet has
been extracted.
was burned the other day at Grayling
Loss Sl0OO, no insurance. One of the fire
hghters was seriously burned.
st. Augustnes (Catholic) church society
or kalamazoo has purchased 90 acres OF
land lust south OF the city for 81 hoo, upon
which 1t will erect a chapel for Sunday
school work in that district, which Includes
the paper mill workers, etc
Van Buren, county is taking steps to be
tho nrst county TO vote uudcr the new
local option law.
Changers of Van Buren, county are try
ing to bre TX up the coffee trus., and br. NJ
the price of that article down TO such a
price that AL may en- oy cup of tn bever-
age that "soothes but does not inebriate.n
a petition will be ciruu ated throughout
lhe state, by which the signers agree to
ABSTAIN from the use OF the article until il
Is sold I a reason. be Ggura, which the
grangers JEila is about II to IL cents
Lightning strdCA the barn OF Mrs Willis
Parks, ne n Noyi, the other morning. The
barn was burned, and one horse killed
The Canadian cus oms depar mcnt has
refused permission for American wreclIiug
apparatus TO be used in raj ing the Armour
Sunk IN 30 feet of waller in st Clair, on the
ground that all the necessary appliances
can be obi lined at Windsor
The supreme court has denied man.
uainus IN the Detroit election case.
AT Watersmeet Engineer Kelly of the
milwaukee,, l. Ike shore Il Western rail
road, ran his engine into number OF box
Cars standing on side track The engine
Was thrown completely over and the en-
glneer and fireman were both severely in.
lured, and perhaps fatally scalded by steam
escaping from the boiler
Patrick Clansey one OF Fliut's respected
farmers, while attempting to dodge by an
+. q r. Nj. engine which was switching at
the crossing, was struck and thrown upon
the ma track and run over by a second
engine, one OF his legs being so badly
crusled that it had TO be mpItated
Frank Hames was put off the train on
the Traverse City branch o. the CIR nd
Rapids X indian ilway, and 1t is alleged
that in revenge he placed bar of iron in
the frog OF switch at keystone. The en-
glneer OF an approaching train saw il and
stopped before any damaQe was done
Hahes was arrested at Slight station, |
ara having waived examination, his case
VIII be brought up at the circuit court.
A Lake Shore l& Michigan Southern |
freight train collided with Michigan Cen |
ira. engine on the Belt railroad in Lansing |
the other dight. Botl engines and three |
cars were wrecked, but IAey trdinmcn es-
capped ny jumping. The loss will exceed |
$4,000.
1t is proposed to consolidate the West {
Michigan and Kent county fnirs.
Lumbermen say that very little work
VIII Ge done in The cedar camps this year
Mrs tTeelove Barnes, wife Of a revolul-
tionars solder, died in Morrice a few days
ago, aged - years.
A ye anI.a-haf cd child of Joseph
Thomas OF Marine City was sitting in
chair by thestove when its clothing caught
nre Inc mother, at rdcted by the chld's
screams, ran 10 its "a d and found il COM
pletely enveloped in flames. She thrust
the little one into barrel of water TO ex-
tlnguish the fumes, burning her hands and
arr In frightlul manner. The child was
burned from head to foot.
Judge Chauncey Joslyn has presented
a claim against Ann Arbor of $4,000 for |
permanent INJURIES, pain, suffering, loss Of
slme, hedlcal attendance, nurses and medi- | ,
: ne, occasioned by falling on defective ,
sidewalk.
John Rose fell under a railroad train at
8esscmer the other day and was cut in two.
Under the state banking law, Kalamazoo {
md Lansing have been nude reserved {
titles. !
p. G, Baldwin OF Lakeview was thrown ;
rom horse md killed few days ago. !
John Weinhart, the Indian horse thief =
Who was in Jail at Benzoua, sat quietly
e ding paper the other noon, when he
vas sci ed vita au epiletc fit aud ten
minutes later he was dead. =
August Ddhlman, employed at the Ropes ,
old mine, fell -00 feet down "A shaft and /
vas instantly xii ed i
James 5. Hooker, T Their of f. A Hooker j
'hO d ed at Char otte recently, w di- {
ect descendeut Of hey Thomas Hooker.
mo came 10 America in the Maytower,
nj who is mentioned in history ms tho
der OF the brave co.ony that settled in {
Hartford I