Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-13

is Rev. John Atkinson, and no was born in
1897.
j. T. French, ono of the publishers of the
Battle Greek Press, is missing and his wife,
business partner and others wonder where
he is.
The Warren featherbone factory, now
located at Three Oaks, is looking for
new location. The company employs 400
girls.
The Michigan railroads earned $780,
SIS 50 last month, which was more than
half million over the corresponding tlme
Of last year.
John Sherwood of Grand Rapids was ar
rested as tramp month ago ana neld In
Jail over night. He has sued sheriff Bishop
for ZOO damages
Rogers City and Presque Isle county will
give Mr.. j. II. Potts $75, 200 if he will build
his rairoad that far into the wilderness
from Oscoda county.
John Murphy, burly Grand Rapids
laborer, is under arrest for felonious as
sault on his daughter, aged Is years. She
makes the complaint.
This year ends the pine business on the
Boardman river, unless somebody buys the
q. II. Il l. lands and manufactures the
lumber in Traverse City.
Prof. r. G. Carpenter has resigned the
chair of mathematics at the agricultural
college TO become professor of eX pertinent
al engineering at Cornell.
Montcalm county people paid off 66 per
cent moro mortgages during the last month
than they recorded. Farmers in this sec
ton are getting out of debt
Pontiac has a house in which seven poo
pie have died in as many years. An under
taker heard of man about TO move in 1T
m a
John G. Stradey owns $40, $50 worth Of
the 500 water power canal, and has begun
suit in order to have what he considers
may be crooked financial management
shown up.
Frank Robson, assignee of the Capitol
wagon company at Lansing, has distributed
$lS,000, a dividend of % per cent to the
creditors. He is running the factory and
making it pay.
A Detroit man lost $3.50 diamond stud in
Battle Creek Friday. +. II. Estabrook,
night operator at the Battle Greek tele-
graph office, found the stone and returned
II to the owner.
John Sebald, who placed three ties on the
Michigan Central track near Sebewaing,
and hadn't the hardihood TO deny it, is be-
lieved to be insane, and experts will exam
inc into his case.
SudS NJ. bOOuTlCH, u SeCOU u nduu uedler
at Grand Rapids, is N isSing, and IL is
charged that he has been raising money on
forged checks. Goodrich had always borne
good reputation.
Neataw anita is the name which will des-
ignate the universalist resort on Traverse
Point. Each pre- lcher OF this creed in the
state can have lot free, provided he will
build u house on IT,
The Columbus & Lake Michigan railroad
has been granted the right of way in the
city of Allegan. 1t is expected that the
road between Allegan and Saugatuck will
be finished this season.
Joseph Clayter of Muskegon, didn't want
to sit on jury, so he boarded boat and
started Tor Chicago. The sheriff followed
with tug, brought Clayter back, and the
Judge fined him $50 for contempt.
Mrs Sine of Grand Rapids fell from the
porch OF her home recently, and she has
begun suit for $1,000 against the owner of
the building. John Il. Strahan, claiming
that tho porch was in bad condition.
When George Hill of Mayfeld, awoke
the other morning he found mock of chick
ems in his room, and subsequently found
his pantaloons out in the road. The money
he had when he retired is still missing.
The young men who insulted Olivet col
lege ladies and were soundly punished by
Olivet boys, but hailed from Kalamazoo
and were decorating the library building.
Norman and Albert James, colored toughs
at Lansing, assaulted Mrs. Palmer, the
wife of a salooukeeper, because she object
ed TO having her husband beaten by the
young rdscals The James brothers are in
Jail.
Everybody at Novi wants to hunt wood
chucks since the town board offered bon
us of p cents per capita. Up TO date 6l1
scalps have been paid for and one man
made SlI 30 during one week in the bust
ness
Horses could not stand the compressed
air which the men breathe while working
in the Port Huron tunnel and mule power
was substituted. The mules get fat and
sleek on it, and do not seem to mind the
pressure.
Wool is coming in at Ithaca and about
5000 pounds have been bought so far.
Prices range from 16c to 24c for unwashed,
and 24c TO soc for washed. Chas. +. Web
ster. the Nelson Barber Co. and Thos.
Crawford are the buyers.
The festive new tin poison seems to be
getting in its work early this season. AT
Berrien Springs Thursday IL ludes were
taken suddenly i'll after eating of chicken
prepared in new dish. None OF the vic
tins died but they were very sick.
A Battle Creek humorist poured gasoline
over the feet of sleeping friend last Tues
day, aud then applied II match. He is now
under bonds to answer to charge of as
saut to do bodily harm. The victims feet
were terribly burned, and perhaps crippled.
The commencement exercises at the
Michigan Military academy will take place
on the 18th inst The address TO the grad
uating class will be delivered by the Hon.
w. Z. Maybury, presentation of the diplo.
mas by the Gov. Buccalaureate sermon on
the 18th by Rev. H. p. Det'orest
Minna Row of Ashley, was arrested for
| truancy. She was found at the residence
Of Albert Shaw, and first told the officers
that she had gone there TO escape cruelty
OF her parents. That story didn't Ike and
she amended by asserting that Shaw was
! trying to bride her to marry his son.
Dan Oaks kept saloon In Reed City T..
II. Peacock was sold liquor at his bar
Mrs. Peacock recently brought suit for
damages against Oaks for the injury she
has sustained by reason of her husbands
| folly, charga5le, as she believed, to Oaks
and jury has given her a verdict Of $500.
John b. Nicola, a Swiss, who lost all his
property by the wrecking of the steamer
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