Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-18
The Weekly ExpositoT.
FRIDAY. APRIL Is, 1890.
COUNTY COLUMN.

stores in the city.
DIR. G. l.. Cornell, of st. Clair, has To-
Gated in Algonac.
The Capac Jail has tramp ledger
nearly every night.
New seats have been put into the
Memphis school house.
Daniel J. Penney, of Port Huron. has
been granted pension.
The Doyle school il without teach
er. none having applied.
A new school house is being built
near Fargo, in district No. 3.
Thomas Stephenson. of Wadhams, is
said TO be temporarily insane.
Jefferson Barrie. of Fargo, has a
mouse trap which he will patent.
The Fish Commission have placed
50O0000 white fish in Lake Huron.
The firm of Cooley & Campbell, Port
Huron, has been dissolved, Cooley re-
firing.
There were SO marriages in st. Clair
county during the quarter ending
March 3lst.
Workmen in the tunnel have struck
for higher wages. They want five
dollars day.
Henry Stommel, of st. Clair town,
was recently kicked by a horse, and
badly injured.
Col. Henry NJ. Duflield, of Detroit,
will deliver the memorial day address
in Port Huron.
One hundred and fifty tons of flax
have Ueen subscribed at Capac to induce
4 mill 60 locate there.
Mortgages on Sanilac county proper
~ to the amount Of $lO0,000,ale held by
| Port Huron investors.
W. +. BOtsford and wife. of Port
| Huron. who have spent the winter in
| California. are now at home.
\ law partnership has lately been
| formed betW cen Geo. Il. VOORHEES, and
Geo a. haywood, at Port Huron.
1t is reliably reported that $4,000
will be- allowed by Congress for the I'M
provement Ofl}lack river at Port Huron.
| 4 Fort Gratiot man named William
Simpson has pedded milk for the last
seven years and has never missed day
or a trip.
Up To last Saturday night the tunnel
was completed on the Canadian side
l.6l5 feet and on the United States side
l,745 feet.
\ convention OF the Patrons Of In
dustry is to be held at St. Clair on 10Th
for the purpose of forming district
association.
VIM. Baird's barn in Marine City
took fire from lightning last week and
burned to the ground. Loss $500; in
surance $500.
Rev. \. II. Ross, of Port Huron, has
gone to Oberlin, o., for three weeks, &c
deliver course of lectures before the
theological seminary.
Geo. Buchanan, sent from Port Huron
a while ago to the Kalamazoo Asylum
has become very violent, and no hopes
are entertained for his recovery.
Capt. Robert r. McNiff, who dice
last week, was the oldest native borr
resident of Marine City and perhaps Of
the county, being born Oct 18. 1903.
Thomas Primrose. of Port Huron
has been pardOned by the president fol
counterfeiting. Primrose is now in Port
Huron. 1t is stated that he cannot
live long.
Arnold Baptist fell into the hold Of
the boat Servia while coaling at Port
Huron last Sunday, and was seriously
injured. He is now in the Hospita
and Home.
A large red fox, which had made lif,
a burden to Starrvile farmers by car
rying off their turkeys and chickens
was shot the other day. and a nest OF
six young ones found in the hollow o.
a tree.
A Chinese laundryman, of Port Hu
ron, wants to become an American cit
iZen and has so declared his intention
This is the first Chinaman who ever ap
peared in st. Clair county for citizens
papers.
James Love, of Port Huron, has es
tablshed quite reputation for getting
drunk and being arrested. Twenty
times or more during the past TIVE
years he has been arrested on the
same charge.
The diggers at the tunnel on Wednes.
day struck for SO cents an hour. The
reason for this is that the men now
have to work under pressure. Bulk
heads have been built in the TUNE
near the river bank and compressed all
used to prevent any caving in. The mer
claim that it is very difficult TO work
under this pressure, 1T having bad
effect on many of them. The bulkhead
consist of two partitions. with glass
doors. The men enter the first door
when compressed air is turned on be
fore opening the inner door. At lrst
the action of the air causes the nose tC
bleed, but the longer the men are inside
the easier it is to work. The Tunne
Company will probably compromis,
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