Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-13
WOLVERINE ITEMS.

Prof Hogan Of Jackson ascendel 4,C0O
feet with his balloon at Auburn, n. Y, the
other day, and came down safely with his
parachute.
A 20 barrel roller process Touring mill
is being built at Akron, TuscoIa county.
Ex-Sheriff George w. Filled of jackson
will succeed .. e.. TOmplins as deputy
warden of jackson prison.
DIR. j. Taft, dean OF the dental school at
Ann Arbor, has in his possession Jaw
taken from tomb in Rome ,, 100 old, on
which dental work had been done similar
in general character 70 thai done by the
dentists OF to-day.
Grand Rapids has obtained an injunction
restraining lumbermen from raft NJ logs
past that city.
DR.. Davies of Philadelphia has been
chosen Bishop Cf the De roit diocese 10
succeed tho late Bishop Harris.
Tho Emerson coal mine has been closed
and another shaft will be sunk at once.
The Emerson has been worked since 1897,
and an average of 100 tons per day has
been taken from it,
Mary Parshall, an II year.old girl Of
Concord, while driving sheep, struck her
head against tree. The next day she was
taken with brain fever and died before
night
The Pontiac, Oxford s. Pert Austin road
was sold on the Cta inst for $4,000 70 sat
isfy mortgage.
Mai Shook of Detroit has been appointe cd
chief of the p0sto.ticc supply department.
The appointing ut will please the G.. A r.,
for MAJ. Sh OK entered the army as lieu
tenant OF the Filth Michigan infantry in
81 and came out ma or in 1868. lie was
wounded in the Wilderness.
A sanit,ry convention will DO held AZ
Ludngton July i and ~, under the au-
spices OF the state board OF health.
The Saginaw Herald says that il is esti-
mated that not over 20 per cent at best Of
the average OUT " OF the pinecries will
come down TO the mills on tue Saginaw
this season.
Capt. George Mitchell died at Negaunee
the other morning He was interested in
many ui.Ling properties and was the dis
brother Of Capt. Samuel Nj tcAell, general
manager of the jackson mine.
The coorcd people of Yp3ilanti and there
abouts will hold camp meeting on the
Ypslonti fair grounds, July 2-S.
The mortgage sale of the Pontiac, Oxford
a. Port Austin railway took place at
Pontiac June 5. II was bid in by w
II. Murphy for the bondholders at $780,
0O0.
Edward Tray, aged SO years, of Csdill &C.
| drank freely, an started home on tne ra il
bly, mangled The coroner's jury held the
railway company blaneless.
Axel Anderson OF Cadillac, charged with
| the murder of Gus. jacobson, has been con-
| victed of manslaughter.
DIR. w. f. Reid, spiritualist Of Grand
| Rapids, has been arrested for using the
mails 10 defraud guilible patients.
Seymour Foster has been appointed
postmaster at Lansing, vice Henry d..
! Pugh, removed.
The ninth annual reunion of Berdan's
! Michigan sharpsho1tors, Co Il, was held
! in Grand Ledge June 5. The following Of
fcers were elected for tho present year
| President, j. II. Brown; vice-pres dent,
Conrad Helwig; secretrry, j. g. Gallop;
| treasurer, q. ID. Ward; executive commit
| tee, George Morton and a. Daniels, all of
| ORemos. The next reunion will be held il
| Williamson June 5, 1870.
The wife of Rev j. a. Ranney, pastor OF
the Pre- ,bytorian church at kalamazoo, lost
her life in the disaster at Jamestown, Pa.
Irving Latimer, the Jackson matricide,
| has been released from solitary conilne
menJ and put TO work as helper in the
blacksmith shop.
Frank Mcmahon, postmaster at Au Sable,
has been arrested, charged with having
stolen registered package, containing S2,OOU
| in currency.
|
appointments have been made in the Third
regiment NJ S. T.: Surgeon, with rank as
ma. or, Arthur wilkinson, Alpena assist
ant surgeon, Eugene w. Davis, Saginaw
City; chaplain, Rev. Henry M. Curtis,
Flint; first lieutenant and adiutant, James
a Mckay, Bay City; first lieutenant and
quartermaster, Fred. A. Aldrich, Flint;
sergeant-ma.or, Irving Bates, company "a;
quartermDster sergeant, John Joiner, com
pauy /; hospital steward, Brunswick h.
Tilton, companyC color-sergeant Charles
+. Gould, company Z.
William Quell, a resident Of LenaweC
county since 1888, Is dead.
Hiram b. Chapman, wealthy citizen oil
Petoskey, and father Of Senator Chapman
died June t.
Minister Palmer arrived in Madrid or
the 4th inst, and was given IN enthusiastic
reception.