Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-17

Charles b. Conway left Big Rapids and
with his family went tolive in Australia
Thirteen days at Sidney satisfied him, and
he is new hack at big Rapids, haying
Travelled 81, 900 miles since July 10.
Uncle Sam will now begin to do a
money-order business at these places;
Rives Junction, jackson county; Elmira,
Otsego county; Ferry, Oceana county;
Marion, Osceola county; also postal note
office at Penasa, Osceola county.
Mike Boland, pressman of the Flint
Journal, attempted TO clear out the whole
Office Saturday. He banged two or three
of the employees. and finally wound up by
thrashing the city editor. Boland is now
in DURANGO vile with three warrants out
against him.
| Ed. Dickerson Grand Rapids lather,
allowed he could lay $500 lathes in 10
hours. John Sullivan doubted il and $50
bet was made. DickersOn won it easily,
Friday, doing the job in less than nine
hours. In doing this job he drove II, 500
NAILS an average of 49,. Z nails per minute.
Jennie Smith of Muskegon is trying to
prove that her name is really Mrs. Mon
tague, and she is the rightful owner of
$50, 900 which Charles S. Montague has
left by death. She says she can prove
she is his legal widow. while the other
heirs never heard of her marriage to him.
Three Meade ladies' tainted when they
counted up their church supper money and
found 500 bill in the pile. They were
revived and would have soon had it spent
had not travelling man for
brewery sent word back along his route
that he had lost such bill. This is abso-
lutely a true story. yet it is difficult 10
explain what business u brewery man had
at a church social.
The Hager & Johnson manufacturing
company is the most recent corporation
organized in Marquette with a capital OF
SO. 900. IL will engage in the wood
working business. and will build upon an
eight-acre site in West Marquette.
John Clayton. Of Melvin, thought that
his cow was likely TO be run over by the
cars one day last week and made frantic
efforts to keep the animal OF the track.
He was successful, but did not know when
the train struck HIM. His condition is still
critical, but the COW is alright.
James Mathews Of Cassopolis is to be
confined at jackson 90 years, for killing
his s'stor-in-law, Mrs. John j. Mathews,
last August. When the william had re
ceived his sentence he said; THAT SEN
tence is a large one for killing n blank
nigger.' He shot his brothers widow for
refusing to marry him, anu then tried TO
kia himself.
Henry Polkington, tending the hosting
machine at the Palmer mine, near Mar
Quette, died from his injuries Monday He
was tending the drum around which the
cable to lift the car run, when by misstep
his coat caught in the cable and before
anything could be done he had made two
revolutions of the drum and the cable
wound around and crushed him.
David e. Hollenbeck, of Mullilin, has
been arrested for alleged completely in the
North Branch store swindle. The four
now under arrest are G. L. Franks, j. II.
Wassen, w. II. Darker and Hollenbeck
The men bought goods from everybody
that would give them credit, insured them
for large amount and wero spiritlng goods
away from the store when captured.
Isaac Smith and wife, en- route from
their home in Albany to Grand Rapids
arrived at Jackson Tuesday with a dead
child in the mothers arms. The little girl
was IA months old. and was taken with
cholera infantum, and she died near Ann
Arbor. An undertaken. who was
summoned, was ready at the
laid out the child A purse of $25 was
continued their journey to Grand Rapids.