Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17


OF wheat and 10 tons OF hay. the property
OF Gen. Is. ID. Pritchard of Allegon coun-
" burned the other afternoon. IL caught
from the sparks OF an engine, and a thrash
ing machine separator Vas burned. Loss,
5000, insured.
A special election WIS held in Allegan
Oct. q, to bond the village for the purchase
Of an engine for the water works. The
measure was defeated.
The Secretary OF the state agricultural
society says the society cleared 5000 this
year
More hunters are securing the northern
woods for deer this fall than has ever
been known before.
Edward Frances, the cowboy who acct
dentally shot and badly wounded Chief OF
Police Kelsey, at the state fair, has been
released from custody at Lansing.
There are :, 200 students in attendance at
the university.
Company b of the Forty fourth Illinois
infantry, Col. Barrets old company, held n
pleasant reunion in Coldwater few days
ago. The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Byron
Goodrich, Wasepi; secretary, Is. H. Rolph,
TelSonshd; treasurer l.. >. Daniels, Cold
water; executive committee, j. T.. Duben-
derf, Daniel Declute and w. ID. Joles, all OF
Coldwater. The next reunion will be held
in Coldwater, October is, 1899.
DR.. w. II. Perry, for many years resi-
dent OF Girard, Branch county, died in
Denver, Colo, few days ago.
The grand jury in the United States
court has completed the investigation of
the alleged violation OF the civil service
law in the Grand Rapids postotllce and
concluded that no Sc had be en- made out,
and will report mo bill"
The barn of Col. b. d. PrtcharI, on the
farm near Littlelohn Lake near Allegan,
was burned the other afternoon. Thresh-
ers were at work. aud the fire caught from
sparks from the machine The barn and
its contents. 900 bushels oats, $50 bushels
wheat, and thirty tons of hay, were con-
sumed. The loss is 1000; covered by in
surance. The separator, owned by MIR
Kinedld, was burned.
The reunion of the Twelfth Michigan In
fantry Association was held in Dec itur.
Officers elected for the ensuing year are ::
President .. Nutting, of Benton Harbor !;
secretary, VIM. Horton, Of Hartford; treas
urer, w. w. Fuller, of Hatchers Mills,
Ind.
During the late terrific gale on Lake HUI
ron "a raft of ,U0J,OOO feet of logs owned by
Port Huron and Bay City people was
blown ashore near Port Austin, and left so
far up the beach when the waves receded
that 1t will cost more TO get the logs back
into the water than IL did TO get them
banked originally. They will all have TO
be skidded, and the job will be undertaken
| next winter.
Edward Feakins, who settled in Grand
Rapids in 1850, is DEAD.
Collector Steketee has divided the ives
| tern internal revenue district as follows :
| First division, with Headquarters in Grand
Rapids. Col. Zach Aldrich in charge,
Kent, Ottawa, lonia, MusKegon, Oceana
and NewagO counties; second division, w.
NJ. Slosson deputy, Montcalm, Mecosta.
| Osceola, Lake, Mason, Manistee, Wexford,
Missaukee, Kalkaska, Grand Traverse,
Benzie, Leelanaw, Antrim, CharlevoiX,
| Emmett and Manitou counties; third divs-
ion, Geo. w. Perry in charge Eaton,
Barry, AllegJn N, Van Buren,, Kalamazoo,
ST. Joseph, Cass and Berrien counties.
Charles Bidwel. an Adrian boy, who
has for some time been connected with a
| New York paper, died in the latter city
the other day. The remains were brought
| TO Adrian.
II is rumored that Genesee, Livingston,
Clinton and Lapeer counties will form n
fair association.
Mrs. Stracham of Sault Ste Marie, who
was charged with shooting at her hus-
band, has been acquitted.
w. l.. Seaton, administrators OF the es-
tate of Mary II. Latimer, the woman who
was killed by her son. Irving Latimer, at
of her personal property few days ago
High prices ruled on all articles sold.
William Mcleod has been held Tor trial
at East Tawas charged with highway rob
berry.
reunion of the Seventh Michigan cav
airy will be held at the state house in
Lansing on Tuesday, October %, and a
general attendance is expected. The Sew
enth was one of the four regiments com
prising the Michigan cavalry brigade, com
maded by Gen. Custer.
j. l.. Woodford, a prominent business
man OF Mendon, has become insane and is
now in the asylum at Kalamazoo.
Horace Sebring Of Three Oaks, who at
tempted to poison his family, pleads guilty
in the circuit court at Berrien springs.
William Henry, Lake Shore fireman,
was terribly crushed in December, 1880;
by his engine leaving the track near
Adrian. A rail had been removed by a
road gang making repairs. In 1851 he got a
verdict Tor 5000 in the Lenawee circuit
court, which the supreme court reversed.
He then took up his residence with his
father in Toledo, when "A suit instituted in
the common pleas court resulted in YER
dict for 5000. Later this was sustained
in the Lucas county circuit court. Then
| the road appealed to the supreme court.
| Col. Grave of Adrian, counsel for the in
| jured man, received telegram from Co
luulDuS ~ low udJS dSO ahuOuhblhS luhL
| the verdict was affirmed. This will now
carry it TO $1,000, with interest and costs.
The Twenty. first Michigan infantry held
| its annual reunion in Grand Rapids the
other day. At the business meeting over
two hundred veterans attended, many
| from out of town. Col. w. b. McCreary
! of Flint, permanent president Of the asso-
citation, presided. S. w. Lyon delivered
| the Grafton OF the day and was elected the
regimental orator for future occasions.
The estate of John Weimeister of How
ell, who failed recently, is to be taken from
the assignees hands and put in the pro-
BITE court, inasmuch as Mr.. Weimeister
| died before the expiration of the time al
lowed by law for forming schedule of his
assets and liabilities.
A certificate of the admission of Joseph
| Septimus Ward as an attorney in an Eng
| lish court away back in the days when
| George the Second was king, has been
/ found in the Office of the clerk of Jackson
| county.
The Pontiac common council has been
asked to grant franchise for a street rail
way system.
w. III. Goodson, a drover of Rochester,
has been missing for several days, and as
he had large sum of money with him