Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-22

Marshall Burrows of Grand Rapids, who
was thrown from his buggy week ago,
died Friday from the result of his injuries.
He was 65 years old.
Hiram Weir, foreman of the boom COM
pany at Au Sable, disappeared Sunday, and
has not been seen since. II is feared that
he has been drowned.
The Three Rivers school board has
rented several churches and all the halls in
town, as the new building is not done, and
the school must begin Sept /.
A man with the joyful name of Paradise
is in a peck of trouble at Saginaw because
each of two women claim him exclusively.
He wishes TO cling to the last Mrs. Para
disc.
Frank Demmiug of Lake Odessa, G.. A.
r. man, is blind and helpless and has been
supported by his wife the past ten years.
He has just received pension Of $40 a
month.
Sand Beach people are sore on Ralph
Bingham, ''the boy orator." because he
grated in the church Saturday night and
then spent all day Sunday playing cards in
the hotel.
Robert Webster, South Haven man g.
years old, who married one wife, lived
with her "a hours was divorced, and on
the same day the decree was granted mar
ried again.
Charles A. Cressy left Flint Is years
ago to seek his fortune in northern Mich
igan. He acquired wealth and a good
looking wife as well, and went back TO
Flint the other day.
John II. Mccall Of Lansing hung him
self i'll a closet in his room, and remained
thore for day before his body was found
He used trunk strap and fastened one
end to a hook in the wall.
John G. Brown of Saginaw has been a
lumberman for Is years and cut annually
from 30, 900. 600 to 100, 900, 900 feet of logs
and he claims TO have handled more pine
than any other man living.
A fehow named CASTOR, who claims to
hail from Grand Rapids. is posing in
Denver as capitalist who proposes to
erect 500, 900 factory. No one in
Grand Rapids ever heard of Mr.. CASTOR.
Jonathan Royce of Grand Rapids has
contracted with the Michigan Central for
hauling 800, 900, 900 feet Of pine from the
vicinity of Houghton lake. and the railroad
will build a special line of road from West
Branch.
Nellie Corey, Il Lansing girl, went to
Chicago TO get married, and while await
ing events, burglars visited her relatives
house and stole her wedding trousseau in
toto, from slippers to veil, including
iewelry.
At Finn dance at Crystal Falls Mon
day night, one merry dancer stabbed an
other with miners candledck. The
wounded man will probably die, and Char
lie johnson, the assailant, is now locked
up in jail.
Col. II. II. O'Br,en. agent Of the Mime
apolis building and loan association, who
left Grand Rapids suddenly, under sus-
picion Of skipping, has wired that he will
return and adjust matters TO everybody
satisfaction.
John Osterhouse hung his trousers
alongside his bed when he retired Thurs
day night. Friday morning, when he
woke up. he found those same trousers in
the front yard but could not find his
watch and money.
1t is charged that John Bigham of Kala-
mazoo, changed his named to William and
was drawing pension by so doing; that
his brother William died, and that his
papers fell into Johns hands; that William
was good soldier. but John never smelled
powder, and that John took Williams rec
ord, secured pension and sit in the sol
diers' homo. He is now arrested for it.