Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-19

sunday work is now DISCONTINUED on Jno
Port Huron tunnel. This is the first mo-
ment there has been a cessation of work
since tbs hole was started, IA months ago.
For atsaul6ng 1S-year-sld girl Wm.f
Evans IL. Fort, Grakot is tnder arrest, \
while Mary Murphy, a sister of the girl, is
held as an accomplice for having aided
Evans.
A German youth named Bohm of Remus
struck dynamite cartridge with ham
mer. The cartridge is now in Bohm's
eye and Bohm is in Mercy hospital, Big
Rapids.
Tho electric road between Marquette
and Ishpeming is a go. A Cleveland firm
has taken the contract for its construction
and is to have it finished by the middle OF
next May.
The insurance companies refuse to
| liquidate the $50, 900 worth of risks on
the Au Sable lumber company's mill which
Ness and Burlington were accused of hay
ing burned.
The Cheboygan incenGiary fires are sup
posed to be the work of the Warner broth
ers recently released from Jackson, who
swore revenge several years ago, when Til
Warner was lynched.
Several head of cattle belonging to
Farmer g. White of Milbury, o., have died
ut the Detroit exposition grounds since tho
close of the fair, and the disease has been
pronounced Texas fever.
Rev. Adolph Doelling, who stole a gold
watch from u st. Louis brother preacher,
goes TO Ionia one year for repentance. Ho
came from Green Bay, Wis, and was ar
rested at Grand Rapids.
Kalkaska county farmers are indignant
over statement recently made in ore If
the Detroit papers to the effect that their
crops had all been destroyed by frosts. TbA
damage was in reality trihing.
Mrs. f. p. Richardson Of South Branch
left tub of boiling water standing on two
chairs. She returned IL find the tub
overturned and her two-yearold son
scalded so terribly that he died.
Mrs. L. C. Hurd of Paw Paw gave
''crazy party lately. and the Northerner
remarks that an outsider would have
thought that phalanx had escaped from
the asylum and been corraled there.
Cheboygan officers have been carrying or
a crusade against tramps. The other day
a note was picked up in the street, presum-
ably written by knight of the road
threatening to reduce the town TO ashes.
While young lady, daughter of L. l.
Ross, was looking for brcastpin on q
Leslie crosswalk a drunken brute named
Fred Kesler dashed her in the face with
whip. He paid fine Of SIS the next day
A Mennonite church is to be dedicated
at Lamotte. This creed teaches that there
is no original sin, that infants should not be
baptized that christians should not take
an oath, hold Office, or use physical force,
A large bear strolled into a berry patch
where Mrs. ID. w. Stewart of Five Lakes,
was filling up ner pals. Mrs. Stewart
was too frightened TO scream. The beal
was also frightened, but retrcated in good
order
A bride from Flint visited Libby prison
in Chicago. and found her fathers name
cut in window sill of the place. c. B.
Ford was the prisoner who thus left his
mark in the vile place, where he spent ten
months.
A. w. Wright. G. II. Davis, c. w. & Z.
S. Wells and other Michigandcrs, who
already own 700, 900, 900 feet of pine on
the upper Mississippi. are negotiating for
800, 900, 900 feet more, which will cost them
1925, 600.
During the past five years Is saw mills
have burned on the Saginaw river, having
an aggregate annual cutting capacity of
about $50, 900, 900 feet, and three new mills
have been constructed in the same time
having a capacity of about 80, 600. 900 feet.
The supreme court has decided that the
Al.
to cover the section prohibiting the sale
OF liquors in opera houses and concert
halls, and w. II. Smith, of Smiths opera
house, Grand Rapids. who was arrested on
such charges, is now free.
Wheeler & Co. Of Bay City on Thursday
launched the steam freghter Mackinac
which will ply between New York and
Baltimore. for the Saginaw steamship
company. She will have TO be cut in two
at Buffalo in order TO get her through the
canals.
The Indians near Elk Rapids cannot be
persuaded to cross Bass lake in winter OF
summer and although it is full of the best
fish they will never cast in its waters
They have legend that many moons ago
while fishing in the lake one of their num-
Der was seized and borne beneath its dark
waters by great, big, horrid monster
just like the one claimed to have been seen
this season by several parties.
On Tuesday morning fire broke out il;
the Michigan shingle company's mill at
Mushegon and totally destroyed it. togeth-
er with %, 900, 900 shingles and 800, 900
feet of lumber. The mill was valued at
$40, 900, and was insured for $4,000
The loss on the shingles is 1000. Tho
principal owners of the property are w.
L. Ducey of Muskegon and A. G. Soper Of
Chicago. The origin of the fire co2.d not
be ascertained. II started in a remote
part of the saw mill and may have been
the result of hot box. the fire having Seen
smoldering for several days.