Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-24
YALE, St. Clair County. Mich, FRIDAY. APRIL "a. 1891
County Column.


Richard Dunn, an old resident of
Emmett, died last week.
40 copiesof the Detroit News are sold
in st. Clair every evening.
A new church is to be built in Port
Huron by the United Presbyterians.
$4,000 has been spent on the county
jail, $3,427 of which WAS for new cells.
Capec is going to hold bee to mend
the roads and put them in better shape.
There is talk of new hotel in St.
Clair. The Oakland already counts %
guests.
Four boys and four girls graduate
from the Port Huron high school this
spring.
David Dckey, pioneer of Mussey
township and 63 years of age, died
April 10.
David Wenstead, of Clyde, believes
there is money in keeping COWS. He
has thirty-three.
There is nearly an oil and sugar
| famine in Marine City on account of
the great ice-jam.
The outfit of Will T. Hendricks, a
| Port Huron dentist, was sold at public
auction April 22nd.
The Kings Daughters, of Port Hur-
on, have organized sewing school for
children over eight years of age.
Charles Hall, for five years telegraph
operator at Fort Gratiot, died at his
home in Port Huron Friday last, at the
age of 90 years.
Miss Dora Clark, of Clyde, was bitten
| by dog belonging to Chas. Lewis, of
North street. Miss Clark sued Lewis
and recovered SIS.
Christia Forbes, of Port Huron, will
teach in the Marine City schools in the
vacancy made by the death of Miss
Belts, of llillsdale.
The Marine City Stave Co., of Marine
City, have made numerous improve
ments and enlargements about their
warehouse and dock.
There have been 800 criminal cases,
| | ,224 chancery cases and ,73l civil cas-
es tried in the circuit court of st. Clair
county, during the past decade.
Mrs. NJ. A. Hopkins, S4 years of age
and a resident of st. Clair for nearly
sixty years, died last week. She was
well beloved and respected by all who
knew her.
Forty acres of land near the new de-
pot of the Chicago a. Grand Trunk Rail-
way, Port Huron, has been plotted and
is to be sold at public auction, begin
ming May 26.
Port Huron has held very enthu-
siastic meeting in regard to bonding
the city for 100000 for the purpose of
encouraging manufacturing industries.
The-citizens generally are in favor of
the scheme.
| Jos. Dunsmore, of Fort Gratiot, was
engaged in coupling cars at the c. q
G.. I. R'y yards on Sunday, when his
right hand became crushed between
the bumpers of the cars. He has lost
all the fingers of that hand.
John Conant had leg broken and
received other injuries, at crossing of
the c. d G.. L. R'y, in Port Huron. He
had stepped from moving train and
attempted to get on rear car. lie
was thrown down and crushed between
the car steps and pile of ties, sustain
ing the above Injuries.
JAS. b. Cavanaugh, of Emmett, has
entered IA suit against the G. IL G. L.
R'y for damages sustained by the water
flooding his place. The foundation of
his hotel seems to be crumbling to
pieces. 4 nights rain nearly carried
off stable in which were Il horse and
n cow. The company should put in a
large drain, sufficient to carry off all
the water.
VIM. j. Wideman, fireman on the
local C.. d G.. r. freight, is among the
missing since March Il. Wideman
boarded at the Woodbine house be-
tween Port Huron and Fort Gratiot,
and on the night of the seventeenth
of March had some words with a per-
son about $40 bill which he dropped
on the floor and which the person
picked up refusing to give it back.
Nothing more is known of the matter
but the fact that Wideman has not
been seen since gives rise to suspicion
of foul play.
On Thursday afternoon an engine
and one car were lowered by cables to
the tunnel entrance on the Canadian
side. The run was made to the Ameri-
can end in six minutes; the return trip
in seven minutes. Chief Engineer
Joseph IIobson, of Hamilton, accom-
panied by Chas. Percy, of Montreal,
assistant to the general manager of the
Grand Trunk, and Col. Tisdale, of SIM
coe, were among the passengers on the
train. The train was in charge of Con-
ductor Nelson Mckee, with Driver
VIM. Ovens at the throttle, and VIM.
Meme as fireman, to whom the hon
or of being the first to take Il train
through the st. Clair tunnel belongs
Fort Gratiot Sun.