Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-07

Grand Rapids is TO have two new buSi-
ness blocks that will equal in style and
general appearance anything in Detroit or
Chicago. Work is to be started at once.
Gen. o. A. James was installed as de-
partment commander of the Union veter-
ans union at Hillsdale last week in the
presence of large gathering Of veterans.
The new consolidated street railway
company Of Grand Rapids has bought the
Reed Lake electric railroad, and now owns
everything in the street railway line in the
city.
d. Mclaughlin and II. A. Emory have
bought lot of land at one of the princi-
pal corners in Bay City and will erect "A
handsome four story block, the finest out
side of Detroit they say.
Andrew Newman of Leroy wedt coon
hunting the other day. He fell OFF the
limb of tree, while chasing u coon, and
had to be carried home with a broken
thigh. The coon escaped.
While services were in progress in the
church at Shelby, Sunday, fire broke out
in Mooro's hotel II ar by, and the preacher
himself went to the fire after talking to
empty seats about five minutes.
A Grand Rapids police judge has de-
cided that man cannot be held for at
tempting 10 defraud hotel where he inn
forms the landlord of his inability to pay
and promises to do so when able.
Col Ludlow and Gen. Poe are to make
a tour Of inspection along the river from
Grand Rapids to Grand Haven to see if it
can be transformed into "a ship canal.
Grand Rapids Will bear the expense.
William Fitsgibbons of. the firm of
Fitzgibbons & Soule, Saranac, tried to
show new man how to run Il stave ma
chine. He lost two fingers by the opera
ton and let the new man teach himself.
A number of Saginaw merchants have
been victimizod by the bogus check racket,
and seem to have been caught as easy
as if they had lived in the bacl1woods
all their lives and never heard of such
things.
Charles Clark of Yorkville planted some
potatoes last spring; he carefully tended
them in the summer when the sun blIstered
his neck. and now is mad because some
one saved him the trouble of digging
them.
Rev. John Munday, new pastor of the
Episcopal church at Alpena has organ
lied his boys into military company and
is giving them regular drill. His expert
ence as chaplain of the Fourth regiment
comes in nicely.
The Fort Gratiot and Port Huron cti-
zens jointly discussed the scheme of annex
alton Tuesday night and the almost unani-
nous opinion was in favor of union. A
lawyer will put the scheme in shape to be
presented to the legislature.
John c.. Yawllcy, the Saginaw boy who
shot John james ODonnell, a lumber
man from Maple Rapids at Hazlehurst,
Wis, three weeks ago, has been acquitted
of murder, the jury deciding that he fired
in self defense.
Elmer Risden, a careless bicycle rider,
rna down Miss Carrie King of Grand
Rapids Saturday night Miss King was
taken home unconscious and serious re-
suits are feared. Risden says he did not
see Miss King.
William G. Wilson of Lansing won the
praise of the city by saving Willie Leibs,
six years old. from drowning the other day.
The boy had sank the third time when
Wilson dove to the bottom of the river and
brought him up.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
Michigan schoolmasters' club was held at
Ann Arbor Saturday. Papers were read,
matters of interest to the members dis
cussed, and E. G. Thompson of Saginaw
elected president.
John w. Campfeld, the oldest resident
Of st. Clair county, died in Port Huron
recently, after an illness of several months.
He was the charter president of the
Masonic lodge. and one of the oldest shoe
makers in the county.
The annual meeting Of the Farmers
mutual insurance company at Adrian, held
this week, was the largest ever held. The
old president l.. Cook of Raisin, was
voted out of Office, and J. NJ. Judson of
Dover elected in his place.
Seven well-to-do Port Huron men have
formed the PIT Huron 81 St. Clair River
railroad company and will build broad
guage road to Marine City. They have
$3.50, 900 ready to back the project. The
surveyors commence work at once.
Joseph Needcau ST., an inmate of the
A'iiNhiSeh ooihiNio hOihS' SOb vi uhh ADduui-
day afternoon and went to sleep on the
North Park railroad track in Grand
Rapids. He was struck by train and
instantly killed. Necdeau was 90 years
old.
The single and lumber mill Of the Mus
kcgon single and lumber company to-
gether with lot of material on the docks,
burned Saturday at a loss of $75, 900.
Insured for SAL The mill was the
largest and best in the place. Cause of the
fire unknown.
A box of sheet lead, weighing LOO
pounds, fell on Miss Alice Male of Alpena,
the other day, and two men rushed to her
assistance. They could not move the box
and called in two others. They thought
she was fatally injured. but examination
showed only slight bruises.
The Michigan glass works will remove
its works from Chicago to Grand Haven
and has already made preparations for
the move. Tho site has been selected, the
company stocked at 100000 and the
Grand Haven people will take n SO, 900
block of stock and build the factory.
Mavcrn Chisholm, q Grand Rapids
smooth man. was fined SIS Tor gamb-
ling, and Lad no sooner paid the fine than