Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-11
County Column.


Circuit court opened Monday.
The county Jail contains eleven pris-
oners.
j. Bell, of Doyle, has purchased f..
buttons farm.
There are numerous cases of cholera
morbus in Blaine.
The board of supervisors will hold a
session next month.
Geo. Egerton, of Goodells, will re-
move to Arenac county.
Bertha Croker, of Fargo, will attend
school at West Branch this year.
Will Helmer is again night operator
in the G. q G.. 7. depot at Capac.
Mrs. Larkin Hatch, an old resident
of Starrville, died last week, aged sc
years.
Chas. Cantine and family, of Mem
phis, will go to Washington territory
shortly.
The Methodist ladies of st. Clair
have closed their ice cream parlor for
the season.
The shareholders of the st. Clair
Tunnel Co. will hold a meeting in De.
troit Sept. oath.
The liquor dealers of Port Huron are
slowly toeing the mark and depositing
their $500 license.
The Kimball town fair will be held
Sept. 20 and 30. Horse races will be q
feature of this fair.
Mrs. Ledeman, of Adair, died sud.
denly last week. She left seven child.
rem and husband.
Hubbard Smith, of Capac, has re.
ceived $500 back pay. He also gets SIC
per month pension.
John Croswell plead guilty to rob.
bling stores III Wales, and he will spend
five years at Jackson.
Richard Pestel, of Adair, who was
injured lately by "A well caving in on
him is improving rapidly.
Tramps are scarce article in Port
Huron this season. The chief of police
has frightened them all out.
The receipts at the county clerks Of
flee for the month of August were
S3,0l2.59, and disbursements, -, 206.62
II. ii. Bailey ,GoodelPs station agent
has recently returned from trip in
the northern and western part of the
state.
George Jackson has retired from the
Grand Trunk house at Fort Gratiot
Edgar Hill, of bennington, taking his
place.
Dick Forbes, of Port Huron, has
been arrested over forty times. Thi,
time he is in the county Jail for abus
ing his wife.
The school officers of Port Huron
| township will furnish the school house
in the Sturgis district if the board will
furnish the teacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Short were
thrown from their buggy last week 10y
their horse becoming frightened, and
were seriously injured.
A workman employed about the new
White building, Port Huron, fell down
an elevator shaft last Saturday and
broke his left wrist and dislocated his
shoulder.
Later intelligence concerning the
big slide on the Canadian side of the
tunnel says that there was only a
slight settling of the earth which will
not retard the work.
Memphis is greatly agitated over the
arrest of Mrs. Enos Sumner, of that
place on a charge of bigamy. 1t is
claimed that she had husband living
when she married Sumner.
The tunnel is expected to be i'm read
mess for the opening on Sept. 10. Jos
Hobson, chief engineer of the Grand
Trunk railway is in Port Huron, super.
intending the finishing touches.
Mrs. Emily T. Mcdonnell, of Port
Huron, wants $50, 900 from the Grand
Trunk railway company for the killing
of her husband in the railway accident
which occurred June %, 1890, near
CapetOwn, Ont, and also $50, 900 for
injuries which she sustained mt the
same time.
The car shops at Fort Gratiot were
discovered to be on fire last Sunday
and serious damage was done before
the fire was got under control. Fifteen
cars which were in the shops were
burned, besides lot of car material
workmen's chests of tools, patterns
ETC., also sixteen freight cars and a
Pullman which were just outside, were
badly burned. The loss will reach
$50, 900 or $40, 900, which is covered by
insurance. About 100 men are thrown
out of employment.