Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-12

DIR. ID. C. Gee of Centerville has been
arrested by United States officer, charged
with slandering j. +; Orwick, preacher,
by sendn aeostal through the mait re-
fiecting on his character.
The towns that have increased most in
population since the last census are those
on the line of the Ann Arbor railroad in
upper Michigan Clare, for instance, has
gain of plump 1000.
The necessary amount of money for So
curing the Grand Rapids, Chicago & St.
Louis road through Holland has been
raised and it is promised that the road
will be hustled through at once.
l.. c. Plunket, one of the linemen in
the employ of the Lansing electric street
railway company, toyed with live wire
Saturday, and can give reliable inform
alton about the power behind the Lansing
line. He will live.
Mayor McIlwain of Port Huron has
placed his official veto upon city ordin-
ancc making eight hours a legal day
work in all departments of the city govern
ment, also making it misdemeanor to
hire an alien or imported laborer in the
doing of city work.
A four-year-old son of William Prime of
North Lansing was drowned in cistern
Sunday. The cover of the cistern by some
automatic action closed, and the acct
dent was not discovered until tho mother
attempted to draw water, and found her
boy floating upon the surface.
Charles Bonnie, Vandalia farmer, at
tached a six furrow capacity gang pillow
and largo harrow to a sclf-propelling
thrcshing engine and is blowing from 10
TO 10 acres day with IT, The
ground is narrowed Immediately after
being plowed and not allowed to get hard
and packed
William L. Thorn of Jackson met Carl
Il. Peterson on Chicago & Atom train | |
years ago and each became infatuated with
the other. Business caused them to sepa-
rate but they did not forget each other,
and the other day when Peterson's will was
opened it was found that he had left $780,
900 to his friend.
Charles Johnson and Mary L. Kersey,
| choir singers, who paraded about Devils
| Lake camp meeting as Mons. and Nine.
De La Corsey, without having gone through
| the marriage ceremony, were tried for this
| breach of social decorum Monday, and
Johnson went to jackson for IA year, while
the woman will remain in the county jai
| just 10 months.
The union holders and the Dawson
manufacturing company of Jackson are al
| loggerheads, all on account of the union
| trying to dictate who should be hired. The
Dawson company plainly said no dictatior
would go, and very plainly added that the
concern would hire goo. workmen when
ever needed whether they belonged to the
union or not.
Lorenzo ID. Blackman is poet of pas
sion. He lives at Algoma and recently
| published an alleged love song written tc
the woman he adored. 1t took her ear and
heart and she sent him an answer the
same day. The two have just been mar
ried, he being GS years old, thrice mar.
ried and once divorced, and she 81, twice
married and twice divorced.
Maj. Anderson, the railroad solicitor, has
been in Fort Gratiot and Point Edward il
is believed in the interests of the Canadian
| Pacific railway. A staff of government
engineers examined tho sand bars at Poin
Edward three months ago, it 10 said, will
n view of tunneling under the river
Other indications also point to the fac
that the Cadianian Pacific will take early
action to secure crossing.