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

Matthew Mccormick, vice president of
the Branch county alliance and IA promi-
nent member of the Union veterans union,
was found dead in his bed Sunday morn
ing. Heart disease.
Dan Soper, the newly elected secretary
of state, has scheme. Instead Of taking
sons of well-to-do parents for pages and
the like, he believes in picking out bright
newsboys and giving them show.
The numbering firms in Luce county will
harvest 80, 900, coo feet of logs during the
winter. a large number of logs cut last
winter and held over on account of the
break up last season will be included in the
drive next spring.
David Ballantne of Bay City turned up
missing short time ago and his wife
called in tho assistance of the police.
They found Dave in Saginaw and he is
now in custody on charge Of non-support
preferred by his wife.
The mill owners in the Saginaw valley
have got together, talked over the season,
looked at the fire record and decided that
they have had an Improbable season, and
that fire has wiped out number of the
best plants in the valley.
Those who claim to know say that the
summarized vote of Methodists in Michi-
gan on the question of admitting women
to the general conference stands in favor
of the affirmative. The German Meth
odists as a rule vote against
Judge Perrott of Bay City had petit
Jury case the other day and proposed to ad-
journ at five o'clock in the afternoon. The
jury objected and the Judge got even with
them by refusing to adjourn the court at
all until the case was finished long after
midnight
Daniel Stokes of Greenvile has spent
his spare time the past three years raising
! cats Of tho same color and then killing
| them. He did not do it for fun alone, and
now has the finest robe in that section
made Of 20 catskins.s Local experts say
it is worth SIS.
John ID. Nichols, formerly assistant
postmaster at Berrien Springs, man of
good family and liberal education, has
| been sentenced to twoyears in the Detroit
house of correction and to pay fine OF
$42S.7S for stealing postal order funds.
He stole the money to gamble with.
Bement & Sons implement works at
burned until So, 800 damage was done.
| The firm is hustler and before the blaze
was out on one end of the building had a
gang of workmen laboring at the other.
The loss will be fully covered by insurance.
Mrs. Laura Clermont, who has been liv-
| ing in tumble-down hut on the outskirts
of Kalamazoo for years, has at last been
| taken in hand by the authorities. She
has considerable money, but believes the
| whole world has conspired to rob her, and
| abuses everyone going near to offer assist
ance.
A portion of Scotten's tobacco factory
| in Detroit was burned on Tuesday morn
| ing, involving loss of about $125, 900,
insured for about S1O7, 900. Two firemen,
| O. G.. Robinson and Patrick Coughlan,
were killed while trying to extinguish the
flames, and several others were severely
| injured.
A twelve year-old daughter of Frederick
Krenger of Monroe, was instantly killed by
| Lake Shore railroad train on the trestle
| bridge, four miles below Monroe, Thurs
| day. The father saved the other two chill
| dren, who were accompanying himself and
| the daughter, by plunging into the creek
with them.
Frederick Emmert, employee Of the
| Flint & Pere Marquette railroad company,
| was arrested in Chicago Saturday at the
| instance of the company charged with
keeping on the pay roles and drawing the
salary of man who had died over a year
! before. He was taken back to Saginaw in
charge Of an officer.
|
to Dawson short time ago and
made love to his niece, making her believe
that he was no blood relation. After they
had been married she learned differently,
and now Austin is on the road back from
New York state, where he was captured
on the serious charge made against him.
The girl is held blameless.
A Saginaw young man named Wixou
had a felon on his hand and wanted Il
shake it. Somebody told him that sal,
and turpentine were good for it, and he
bandaged the finger with the combination.
He held his bandaged hand in the fire tc
see what the effect would be, and now hi
knows. He does not feel the felon any
more, hut it will be weeks before the hand
and arm ore well Of the burns.
Mrs. Leander Maclzey of Manistee left
her three children at home Tuesday after
noon while she went away on an errand
The children got hold of some matche:
while she was gone, and were having {
torchlight procession when the clothing Of
tho 6-year-old child caught fire, and the
lite one was fearfully burned before thu
mother returned. The flesh dropped il
chunks from the body and the child died
in short time.
Sheriff Bishop Of Kent county, with th'
candidate who was defeated at the lat,
election, Is doing his level best to keel
SherifY-clect Mcqueen from taking hi
seat. They claim he is an alien and has M
right to vote, lot alone holding Office. Gen
Rutherford. McQueen's counsel. admits
that Mcqueen was born in Canada, bu
says he came to Michigan when a mer'
child and does not need naturalization
papers. The case will go to the courts.
Allegan is excited over the oil well tina
was struck there three years ago ant
abandoned. IL is limited that experts, VIII,
have recently made an examination, sa.
the oil is the best in the world and tn
inhabitants, who have been putting tw'
and two together since then, think tina
they find tour in the fact that the Standar,
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