Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-27

been signed by President Harrison.
The managers Of the the Calumet &
Hecla mines have increased wages 10 per
cent.
Marshall will celebrate the Fourth of
July, and it's the only town in Calhoun
county that will.
The Mining Journal seriously asserts
that 'promiscuous drunkenness is not en-
couraged by the authorities"
Walter L. Hines of Berrien Springs, an
employee of the pension department at
Washington, has been promoted to letter
critic.
Plans have boon drawn by Chicago
architect for a new opera house in Lansing.
The seating capacity on stretch will be
1900.
The Carvers' National Union at Grand
Rapids gave a dance the other night and
Melted $500 which will be used to aid the
strikers.
The wheat in Bay county is a total fail
ure, the very little which was not plowed
under failing TO improve any as the season
advances
L. p. Staffrod's herd of cattle in Texas
township, Kalamazoo county, was poisoned
recently by some unhung william and sever
al have died.
Greenville wants some capable fellow TO
come there and gather in the cream of the
farmers and start their creamery that has
lain dormant
Miss Emma Rockwell, an inmate of the
insane department of the Jackson county
poorhouse, escaped Wednesday night and
hasn't been found.
Fred Hoag, Niles boy, who has been
news editor of the Philadelphia North
American for several years, died in Cam
den, N. j., Tuesday.
Six attorneys are engaged in testing the
validity of the will of Mrs. Eliza Elliot Of
Lansing, which left her estate of $50, 900
to missionary society.
Nearly every town, city and village in
the state has been passing through COM
mencements, and there hasn't been thing
to mar the pleasures of the occasions.
And still the farmers are crying much
wool and low prices. Many are holding
their clips for better figures, but there
doesn't appear to be any prospect of an add
vance.
William B. Cole had the flesh slipped
from his bones by being wound around the
shaft in Reed City mill. His arm, leg
and shoulder were also broken. He was
% years old.
West Bay City sold $4,000 worth of
school bonds for 50. 100 premium. Itwould
have received more but the bonded indebt-
edness of the town is ~ per cent of its
assessed valuation.
Mrs. Lalond of Sault Ste. Marie who
shot her brutal husband but failed TO finish
him, has been acquitted, and she's better
able than ever before TO rid the town of
nuisance if she gets the opportunity.
Myrtle Hallock of Ensley, Newaygo
county, insisted that Michael Kinney
couldn't do less than marry her, but he re
fused. Then she brought suit in the cir
cult court and the jury has awarded her
SO, 900.
Henry Crosby, a one-armed man en-
ployed rs Waterman in an Au Sable mill,
fell and splintered the bones of his stump
arm the other day. Workmen in the mill
raised purse of Sl05.75 and sent him to
hospital.
Muskegon doesn't seem to be satisfied
with the amount of newspaper booming it
has been having of late and proposes to
buy cannon. 1t will boom for independ-
ence on the Fourth, and afterward will be
kept on hand for general booming purposes
II will cost 300.
Lenuel Lattins divorced wife married
John Van Wormer of Flint eight years ago,
taking her four-year-old daughter with her
Van WOrmer is now under arrest. charged
with criminally assaulting that child. 1t is
said that the child's mother knew of the
outrage, but was afraid to make informa-
ton.
Levi Lille an Argentine farmer. doesn't
fancy this midnight charivari business, and
when the crowd visited him with bonn
bardment, much to the fright and dis
pleasure of his new wife, he quietly let it
go on, but the next day had eight young
men arrested. The fun cost them several
big dollars each.
Annie Blackeslee of Eaton Rapids, aged
"a years, had long been a sufferer 3rcni hip
disease. Recently she was told that the
removal of portion of the hip bone might
effect a cure or might result in death.
Monday the operation was performed at
the young ladys urgent request, but she
couldn't endure it. She died.
Geo. Bradt. jr., intends TO start from
Flint to New York city, going all the way
by water. He will travel in small boat
weighing about 80 pounds, with sail and
oars. He goes by the Flint river to the
lake, thence south along tle western and
southern shores to Buffalo. finishing the
journey by way of the Erie canal and Hud-
son river.
Judge J. 3. Daboll recently saw an item
to the effect that James Fires of Ovid had
kept horse in confinement for IA years.
just for revenge, and he swore out war
rant for the merciless mans arrest Fires
was arraigned but could give no excuse for
his action. The justice Of the peace real
lied the enormitY of the offense and nofi-