Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06

lie improvements.
James Adnnes has been appointed regis
ter OF deeds of Are9ac county, vice George
w. Brown, deceased.
Public schools in Ludington have been
closed on account of la grippe. There are
800 cases in the town.
A c. Fisk of Coldwater has sold the
stallion Hamilton Wilkes TO j. Is. Murphy
OF Chicago, for $4,000.
A dispatch has been received at the state
department, announcing tho illness OF Min
lister Palmer at Seville.
William McKelop OF Perry, who was
swindled out of 5000 by the gold brick
game died a few days ago.
Rev. c. G. Draper of Hillsdale has been
! appointed presiding elder over the Fort
| Worth, Texas, conference.
! Mrs. f. G. Newman, who did pioneer
work in Eaton county, died OF consum
ton, at Diamondale, recently.
Two Hungariaus fell down a shaft at the
| Ludington mine at Iron Mountain the other
day, and were fatally injured.
Clarence b. Wordell has been appointed
circuit court commissioner of lonia county,
vice Buggy p. Phales, resigned.
| Some Grand Rapids hunters must tell
the state game warden why they shot deer
in Manistique, contrary TO law.
The trades unions of Jackson have or
| ganiZed trades council TO force wages up,
and number OF working hours down.
The stock of general merchandise of r..
| q. Bruce of East Jordon, has been seized
on a writ Of replevin by a Detroit firm.
The war department has officially de
| clared that Gen. ClitZ, who disappeared
from Detroit some months ago, is dead.
| J. +. Miller, civil engineer of much
| ability and prominent in his profession,
died in Benton Harbor few days ago.
Jerry Moore of Saginaw, an f.. g. p. NJ.
| brakeman, had his collar bone crushed be-
tween two cars in Detroit the other day.
| Stockholders Of the FIT. Wayne & Jack
| son railroad meet in jackson the other day,
and elected officers for the ensuing year
Grand Rapids furniture men are negotiat-
| ing for thousands of acres of hardwood
timber lands in Midland and Bay counties.
! The II. M. Loud & Sons lumber com.
pauy mill at Oscoda has begun its winter
cutting, the first ever done in that vicinity.
The clerks in the Detroit postoffice have
| formed an association with view TO join
ing the National Postoffice Clerks associa-
ton.
W.Q. Atwood of East Saginaw will rep
| resent Michigan at the conference OF col
ored men to be held in Washington in Feb
! ruary.
Frank Hofacken was hit on the head by
! a gang of toughs at u dance near Indian
! River, and may die. The parties have all
| been arrested.
The attorneys for Geo. T. Smith of the
Jackson Purifier company ask that the
assignees be removed and receiver ap-
pointed for the company.
Alex. Mckenzie, who shot his wife in
| Grand Rapids last November, has been
| convicted OF murder in the first degree, and
sentenced TO jackson prison for lie.
Thomas Nosior, who purchased large
tract of land in the upper peninsula, has
been enioined from cutting timber until the
government investigates his claim.
James Ferguson, an employe of the
Sheffield car works at Three Rivers, had
his arm and side badly crushed the other
day while unloading heavy castings.
Prof. Samuel Dickie of Michigan. chair.
man of the national prohibition committee,
who has been seriously i'll at Rockville,
Conn, is now convalescent.
Three Sweeds of Grand Rapids drew
$3.50 in a lottery. Two of them took
their share and went TO Manistee where
the money was stolen from them.
Calhoun county farmers will hold an in
stitute in Battle Creek Feb. 1914. Gov.
Luce and Warden Hatch Of jackson prison,
will speak.
Ed. Mills, charged with horse stealing,
was arrested in Port Huron the other day,
just as he had gone on the ferry to cross to
Canada.
DIR. w. w. Woodwork and NJ L. Par.
martin of Gaylord, and DIR. l. L. Barber of
Ithaca have been appointed pension exam.
lining surgeons.
DR.. Bion Whelan has been appointed a
member of the Hillsdale pension examining
board, to succeed his father, Dr. A. T..
Whelan, deceased.
L. +. Mills Of Adrian, has been appointed
to secure statistics from the registers of
deeds in the second congressional district,
Tor the census bureau.
A. b. Woodrow, lumbermon, was as
saulted by Billy Nicholson in the latter 3
saloon in Bad Axe the other night, and died
from injuries received the next day.
Samuel Will, colored man of Cassopolis
was killed by the cars near that place the
other night He was intoxicated, and was
walking on the track
State Armorer John p. Tremper, died in
Lansing this week of pneumonia a result
of la grippe. He served with a good re-
cord in the late war.
Young attorneys of Grand Rapids have
organized for mutual beneftand advance
ment. ID. l.. Marsh is president OF the
society
The fruit growers of Berrien county met
in Benton Harbor the other day and re-or
ganized the Berrien county horticultural
society.
Sanford Childs of Santield. Eaton county.
died a few days ago. He was IL prominent
Mason, and enjoyed the distinction of being
the oldest Oddfellow in the United States.
Congressman Burrows has introduced a
bill for monument TO Queen Isabella OF
Spain, through whose good offices Coum-
bus was enabled to discover US.
State Senator L. S. Palmer of Big Rapids
has resigned, and has already assumed the
duties of district attorney for the western
district of Michigan.
Editor Lake of the Presque Isle County
Advance, has recently located 40 acres OF
land in that county, on which there is over
10000 feet OF standing pine.
A. b. Crenshaw, the bigamist, whose
matrimonial ventures are so we'll known
has been convicted in the recorders court
in Detroit.
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