Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-21

John Barter, for nearly half a cent? N n
resident OF Saginaw county, died in East
Saginaw last week.
The teachers in Genesee county are agi-
tating the question of grading and classify
ing country schools.
A bill for the survey OF deep water
channel through the great lakes has been
introduced in the house.
Special election in Lansing Fob. Is TO do
eide the question TO bond the city for 49,
600 for new school houses.
John Schumacher, one OF the leading bust
ness men of Ann Arbor, and prominent
temperance worker, IL dead.
Aid. Bernard Kirk of Ypsilanti slipped
on the sidewalk in front OF his residence,
and broke leg in two places.
Mrs. Maggie Roach, charged with the
murder of John Taylor in Worthwhile some
weeks ago, has been acquitted.
Alderman Bialy of Bay City is danger
ously i'll in London, Eng. He had started
on an extended European tour.
Ship-carpenters in Detroit refuse to take
any part in the eight hour movement.
They work nine hours at present.
Albion's new watcr works are completed
a "a cost of 5000 There are eight miles
OF maius and u l32 foot stand pipe.
x-Postmaster- General Dickinson will
deliver IN address before the law school
of the university on the 22nd inst.
Henry Grtchel well-to do property
owner OF Niles, hung himself in his barn
the other day. No reason is known.
Hon. John Baxter, eX-member of the
state legislature, died at his home near
East Saginaw recently, aged IS years.
n.
Port Huron tunnel is completed and
thoroughly tested TO see how it works.
The fifty-third anniversary of Michigan's
admission into the union was celebrated by
Michigan people in Washington on the 10Th
inst.
Fred Burlinaw was seriously, probably
fatally, injured on the Mud Lake railway
near Alpena, by log rolling on him the
other day.
Gertrude Whitaker and Frank Allen,
forgers and clippers arrested in Colorado
recently, have been landed in the Ingham
county Jail.
Calvin w. Cumming, justice Of the peace
in Saginaw county, has been removed by
order of Gov. Luce, for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct.
Albert Huttkammer Of Alpena was
fatally shot by falling on his gun while out
hunting the other day, the entire charge
entering the abdomen.
"Ten Nights in a Bar-room," furnish
amusement TO the denziens in the villages
of Michigan. Notwithstanding its antiquity,
the play draws well.
Ed. II. Dunn, the expert pool-player and
well known travelling salesman, died at the
Burdick house in Kalamazoo the other day
from arsenic poisoning.
w. Y. Clark of Detroit has been elected
a member OF the national executive COM
mittee chosen by the convention Of colored
men held in Washington.
J. Il. Leadbetter, prominent lumberman
of Bay City, was drowned the other day,
falling between two boats as he was trying
TO get from one to the other.
Minnie Smith, servant in the family
OF w. p. Sessions Of Port Huron. is under
arrest for stealing Mrs. SIS. diamonds.
Minnie says she found them.
Representative Cutcheon has introduced
bill to remove the charge OF desertion
from the record of George A. Jeneries OF
Co. D., Ninth Mich regiment.
Harry Tillman of Detroit. declines the
appointment as supervisor OF census for the
first district and John &. Sharp of Jackson.
has been appointed in his place.
WITS. DdTT Ol LeSlle, COuLTdTy 10
the advice OF physician and the dentist,
took chloroform to have some teeth extract
ed and died during the operation
Mrs Martha Strickland, the Detroit
lawyer, has, at the request OF many promi-
nent ladies in that city, organized class
in parliamentary law and practice.
There have been $50 cases of la grippe in
the Soldiers home, but the Old vets.
fought with the same vigor as they did in
the los, and not Que was captured.
p. p. Nichols, absconding ex-mayor of
Codwater, is said to have been arrested at
Fort Townsend, Wash, the other day.
Nichols Indebtedness is over $780, 00
Thirty thousand dollars worth Of re-
pairs have been made on the furnace OF the
Carp River furnace company, and the pro-
duction of pig iron has been resumed.
j. b. Mulliken, vice president and gen
eral manager of the ID. l.. * N. and the &.
IL Nj. W. roads, has resigned Ills position
on these roads, to take effect March l.
f. A. Walton, formerly clerk in the
American express office in lonia, but more
recently in the Pacific express Office in
Dallas, Texas, is missing with $4,000.
ti-consoldatiopists of East Saginaw
have retained Judge Isaac Marston to
break the act passed by the last legisla-
lulC W NulCh biO WV CaNlto DOAOlhO OhO.
Senator Stockbridge wants the govern
ment To purchase the grounds and build
iugs in Worthwhile used by the United
States FISH commission as fish hatchery.
Judge Cooley will let the Interstate
commerce law run itself for the next two
months, which time he will spend in the
south with headquarters, in New Orleans.
Mrs. A. NJ. Pattengill, mother of Prof.
A. III. Pattengill of the university and Prof.
j. G. Pattengill, principal OF the high
school, died in Ann Arbor a few days ago.
The reform school board of control has
rejected the eight bids for erecting a new
$40, 900 main building and will re advertise.
The board declines to give reason for its
action.
The Michigan buggy company of Kala-
mazoo, has won its case against the Grand
Rapids * Indiana railroad company, the
demurrage association agent ordering the
car released.
Mrs Gill of Lansing, whose son Harry
was killed in Petoskey in saloon row
about a year ago, has brought suit for $10,-
600 against the m n who sold the boy the
liquor Harry was "a minor.
O. NJ Allen. Jr. OF the Allen Buggy Co.
of Kalamazoo has decided TO locate at Dali
las, Texas, where he will build and operate
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