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

Ann Peterson, wife of Lars Peterson,
of Gowen, committed suicide by hanging
Tuesday morning Domestic trouble was
the cause,
Commissioner of Banking Sherwood has
issued call for report of the condition
of Michigan banks at the close of business,
October 2.
The German day procession in Detroit
Monday was overwhelming in its magni-
tude. There were Is divisions, bands and
people innumerable.
The laborers of the Au Sable lumber
company have seen lots of bears going
south this fall and from that argue that it
is going TO be cold winter.
Fire broke out in the slab yard of Lit
ties mill, Newaygo, Monday, and wiped
out the mill and lumber stored in the yard.
Help was sent from Woodville and Grand
Rapids.
Mary frost of Ray says her husband
Herman, lived with her one consecutive
day, the wedding day, and he has not
been seen since. She therefore asks for a
divorce.
The Michigan Central ticket Office at
Kalamazoo was robbed Sunday morning of
sI2, and the Lake Shore freight Office of
smaller amount. doc Collins is in jail
charged with the crime.
Henry Dunn and Fritz Redmond, Lans-
ing boys in quod for arson and robbery.
walked out of Jail Saturday night. Lumm
was caught Sunday, but Redmond is still
at largo and likoly to remain so, as he took
train.
Lansing's newest novelty is a red wagon,
upon which, in bold, black letters, is
painted, Collector of bad debts" and the
driver announces he carries revolver,
and the man who mOlests his cart will be
given bullet hole.
The sanitary convention under the
auspices of the state board of health,
which was to have been held at Holland
October and 10, is postponed by the
local committee. The time will be an
nounced hereafter.
A Claybank farmer went hunting coons
Thursday. He did not find any, but he did
find some boys raiding his melon patch on
his return and blazod away at them, The
village doctor has since been busy digging
shot out of the boys.
The little daughter of Ex-Mayor J. ].
Wood of Hudson was spirited away Friday
night, causing great local excitement.
The little one was found dressed in boys
clothing, and said that two men had COM
PEELED her to follow them.
Thos. lie Cue, Canadian Frenchman,
who has been trading with vessels passing
through st. Clair Flats, has been arrested
and his outfit seized for violating the Gus
toms laws by selling liquor to people living
on the American side of the river.
The Olin family annual excursion passed
through Marshall Tuesday afternoon on the
c. j. 81 M. II. Il. eastward. The train
consisted of As palace coaches and was di-
vided into four sections. The excursionists
on board numbered upwards of 5000.
The safes of Seaver Bros, and Amstay
& Co., general merchants of Pompeii,
Gratiot county, were blown open Sunday
| night. The burglars got sos worth of
| postage stamps from Seaver Bros. and
about 500 cash from Amstsy & Co. No
clue.
Clarence Farmer of Manceona was in
stantly killed by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun in the hands of Ward Baker, a
| companion with whom he was hunting
| Sunday. He was 40 years old, ard leaves
a family. Baker has been cleared from all
blame.
Anciel ID. Murray, young lad of Grand
RAPIDS attending the public schools, was
/ found in the street with his skull fractured
Monday evening. His teacher was the last
one who saw him and she says she sent
him on an errand. There is no clew to his
| assailant.
Charles Clark, young man employed
| by the Tittabawassee company, was in
such hurry to go to a dance Saturday
night that he jumped off a rapidly moving
train in Saginaw. His right foot was
cut off and his face lacerated in the acct
dent that followed his hasty leap.
Ed. Diclzerson Grand Rapids lather,
allowed he could lay $500 lathes in 10
hours. John Sullivan doubted it and $50
bet was made. Dckerson won it easily,
Friday, doing the Job in less than nine
hours. In doing this job he drove II, 500
nails, an average of 1877 nails per minute.
Dr. S. i. Rozema, prominent physician
| of Grand Rapids, had slight throat
trouble and went to his Office TO get some
medicine. He took gelsemium by mistake,
and only his speed in getting another doc
tor save; his life. Gelsemium is a poison,
and the doctor took enough to kill four
| men.
1t is said ex-Gov. Alger is negotiating
with Canadians for the purchase of the
timber on Hunters island. situated in Lake
| Langanaga and Rainy lake, on the north
ern boundary of Minnesota. The stump
age is estimated at from onc-half billion TO
billion feet. 1t will cost him at least
$500, 900.
4Clyde Moreton, 20 years old, clerk in
the hardware store of Baker e. Co., Shep-
herd. fell from the window of the second
story of the store building, distance of II
feet Saturday striking the walk with such
force as to break the planks. He was
drunk. No bones were broken but he will
be laid up some time.
The potato crop in Huron county
eclipses the yield of any of the past four
years, and it is going into the market
with rush, by rail over the Flint & Pere
Marquette railway, and by boat from Sand
Beach. The quantity already shipped
reaches over IL, 900 bushels. The crop for
market is about half sold.
The citizens of Tecumseh will enjoy one
| of the finest lecture and concert courses in