Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-28

Thomas Callahan OF Burton, Genesee
county, has caused the arrest OF his wife,
Mary Callahan, on a charge OF bigamy.
Bice, Beulell & Co. are building wood
working factory in Marquette, and say IL
will be the largest concern In the world.
Mrs Julia Griusinsk has sued Bay City
for $4,000 damages. She fell on de-
fective sidewalk and fractured her wrist.
Adolph Sporley, prominently identified
with the business interests in Bessemer
and Ironwood, committed suicide the 9th er
night. srr
During the spring vacation the cadets at
the Michigan militsry academy will take
trip through Virginia. In charge OF Colonel
Rogers.
Alton Bartlett, 15-year-old boy of East
Saginaw, was kicked ON the head by
frightened horse the other day and fatally
injured.
Lumbermen in the vicinity of Kalkaska
are jubilant over the large amount OF logs
got out, and the fair prices which they
brought
Representative Bliss has introduced
bill providing for the erection OF tatue
! TO Gen. Meade on the battle field of Get
tysburg.
G.. +. Ackley has presented Muskegon
Mrs. Hackley has given 900 toward the
monument.
Marquette will soon vote on the question
of issuing $4,000 for the purpose of i'm
proving Its electric light plant so as to
make II available for power uses.
A Flint capitalist wants TO build 80 miles
of plank roads leading into that city TO en-
able farmers to get TO market when the
roads are bad.
ID. w. Richardson of Standsh has been
appointed inspector and agent for this
state of the Long Distant Telephone COM
pany of New York.
Four hundred miners in the Aurora mine
near lshpeming, are on strike because the
two physicians employed at the mines
have been discharged
The Dayton Manufacturing company's
works IN North Muskegon, together with
its contents, were destroyed by fire the
other night, at loss OF $4,000.
John Coleman, q carriage manufacturer
| of Lansing, was taken to Corunna the other
| day TO answer TO charge OF unlawful par
entage. He will be tried in May.
The residence of ]. i. Heller of Vermont
| vile, burned the other morning. IL was
one of the oldest residences in Eaton coun-
ty, having been built over fifty years ago.
Gen. Soby Smith, who has charge OF the
work on the Port Huron tunnel. says the
project of connecting Lake Huron and
Black river by canal is entirely feast
| ole.
Fred c. Whitney, Detroit boy, has oh
tanned the consent of the Indian commits
sioner TO take 80 Indians from Pine Ridge
to Europe, as part of his wild West
show
The Eastern Michigan Agricultural So.
ciety has been re-organized, will pay OF in.
debtedness of old society, and continue as
heretofore.
Mrs. Turner OF Muskegon, whose hus-
! b nd died recently under suspicious cir
cumstances, has been discharged, the evil
dence all tending to show that she had no
hand in the killing.
A passenger train coll;ded with logging
train on the Wisconsin Central near Mar
engo the other night, and several cars
smashed. the wreck taking fire. E'ortu-
| nately no one was hurt.
The contract for the erection of the new
building at the state reform school bas been
awarded TO Qualmann Il Run of East Sag
inaw. The contract price is S54, 122, excln-
| sivc OF the steam fittings.
Miss Loretta Putnam of Flint who has
been studing art in Paris, has on exhibition
in that city, a. lifesi painting of Rhea,
the actress, in the costume and character
of the Empress Josephine.
Ralph Williams was arrested in Saginaw
the other day and lodged in Jail in Flint,
! TO await hearing upon a charge of stealing
$40 worth of sheep from Alonzo johnson,
farmer of Flushing township.
Mrs. Henry e. Lewis, widow OF the late
Henry g. Lewis, owner of the celebrated
art gallery OF Coldwater, was married TO
David b. Dennis, president of the Cold
water National bank, on the 18th inst.
Rev. John Donuelly, pastor of the
Wealthy Avenue Baptist church in Grand
Rapids. died on the 18th inst. from the eff
| fects OF la grippe, iged "a years. The re-
mains were inferred in Port Huron.
Representative O'Donnell has bill be-
| fore the committee on invalid pensions to
grant a pension and arrears to the grand
| father of Frank A. Dean of Charlotte, a
solder in the war Of 1912, and now 93 years
old.
viii p. Boylau of Lansing has abscond-
| ed with money belonging 10 his father, and
bes des his numerous creditors, leaves n
young wife and child unprovided for. No
trace of his movements has been OBJ
/ tanned
Among the II 900 Hollanders in Michigan
| there are some heirs to the old estate OF
! Marliusta Rosocrans, formerly OF Amster-
| dam. The will was dated 1893, and the de-
scendants OF one Leonard Cole now have
claim on the property.
Gottleb Schlagel, a German resident of
| Niles township, tried 10 commit suicide by
! cutting his throat with razor the other
night, but the razor was dull, and while
the wound is ugly, 1t is not necessarily
fatal. He was a widower, and was TO have
been married the next day.
A stranger bought farm of DIR. Mills of
| Port Huron, the other day, giving in pay
ment u New York draft for 81, 700. The
price of the farm was S2,O00, aud the doctor
Endorsed tho draft, had IL cashed at the
bank and gave the stranger his change
800 The draft proved TO be worthless
and the stranger skipped the town, and the
doctor is 200 out.
| The common council Of Holland has ap-
propriated 81, 5U0 for the purpose OF dredg-
| ing the harbor, the money 10 be replaced
from the next government appropriation.
| John Mcdonald has been convicted Of
murder In the first degree, and sentenced
\ for life in the prison ut Marquette. One
night last November he entered Duncan
| Boveridge's house near Bruce Crossing,
Ontonsgon county, and shot at Beveridge
and his wife, and Mrs. Redpsch. who was
10 bed. Mrs. Beveridge was killed. Nc.