Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-27

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agent 500 by fire in tho Greenville
freight house Sunday.
The coal test we'll at Bad Axe is down
400 feet, and there being no signs Of coal
the well will be abandoned. The borers
got along well, that's all.
The Hackley soldiers monument at
Muskegon will be 40 feet high, of Vermont
granite, and have figure of victory Ia
feet in hight at the top.
The Negaunee strike is over; the men
received their pay and returned to work. 1t
is estimated that the cost of the strike TO
miners was over 81, 200.
The cantata of ''Christophorus' was ele-
gantly given by the Ann Arbor choral
union Saturday night, assisted by talent
from Detroit and Toledo.
The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
depot at Saginaw and the American ex-
press company's Office adjoining were
burned late Tuesday night.
Frederick Klimer is now in quod at
Saginaw charged with embezzling $40
watch from j. A. G. Hack, his former
employer. Klimer was caught in Wyan-
dotte.
Il. Morril Smith, baker and grocer of
Jackson, closed his doors Wednesday and
will not open them again. The indebted
ness is not large and he expects TO pay
dollar for dollar.
Mrs. Myrtle Mccoy, the wife of Mayor
Mccoy of Hastings, was buried with i'm
POSING ceremonies Thursday. She was
but 80 years old, and greatly beloved by
all who knew her.
w. j. Daily and Paul Ulrich of Mt.
Pleasant paid l.. y. Campau IS, 900 for the
Sherman house, Mt Clemens, last week.
and will hereafter give the hostelry their
personal attention.
Robert Pangborn, driver for Robert
Emmons of jackson was kicked on the head
and instantly killed by horse he was
grooming Sunday. Paugborn was 80 years
old and unmarried.
The parishioners OF Rev l.. G.. Clark of
Worthwhile celebrated his fifth anniversary
as pastor by swooping down on him in a
body and leaving a goodly number of gifts
as tokens of esteem, etc.
The collision Of two freight trains on the
Grand Trunk railroad, 65 miles from
Battle Creek, Sunday, delayed traffic FIVE
hours and resulted in the destrucs;en OF
several cars. No one hurt.
A 3-year-old son OF John Eitinger, of
Shepherd, became possessed of package
of strychninc and made lunch off it.
He will live, but the doctors had the live
liest kind of tussle to reach this happy
end.
Mrs. Julius Housemap. the divorced wife
of Julius Houseman, died suddenly at
Grand Rapids Sunday. Although divorced
from Houseman for 20 years. he contribut.
ed TO her support and left her IS, 900 by
will.
Under the guidance OF Gen. Poe, the
workmen succeeded in stopping the leak in
the 500 cofferdam Saturday, and the pumps
were started to clear the lock pit There
is some doubt about the repair being per-
manent.
Lansing butchers have petitioned the
common council TO pass an ordinance regu-
lating the sale of meats, claiming that the
veal season is coming on and there will be
no end of bob veal If something is not
done TO stop it.
James Flanagan, an aged resident of
Norway, died Thursday. He settled in
the upper peninsula in 1850. and has seen
the country grow up marvelously. He
leaves family of grown sons and daugh-
ters and comfortable property.
Joseph Giy, a rag picker of Saginaw,
found $40 in money in lot of paper. 1t
was all paper money and torn into little
shreds, and Giy is wondering who tore it
up and what for, but is not letting his
wonder prevent him from trying TO paste
the pieces together.
Adolph Schumacher and David Barker of
Dearborn were coon hunting Saturday aud
cut down the tree into which they had
chased the coon. When the tree fell Schu-
maker was too anxious and ran under it.
He was so badly crushed and bruised that
he died in Il few hours.
At the request of the leading citizens Of
Bay City Senator Mcmillan wired Archi-
tect Window Saturday to have operations
on the Bay City government building sus-
pended until Bay City people could be
heard from. The Bay City people object
to style ard everything else and want
change.
There is coal famine in Negaunee ard
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from Wisconsin points and they are mad
because the Wisconsin dealers charged full
price and did not throw in the extra $40
pounds to make up long ton. Failure of
a couple of coal boats to arrive in the fall
was the cause.
Orville Reed was arrested in Saginaw
Thursday. charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses by the old bogus
check racket. The police think Reed is the
man who lives at Birch Run, and has
served term for murder; but Reed says
no. that he lives in Mt. Morris. and has
nothing to do with the other Reed
Daniel Bostwick and wife of Grand
Rapids are under arrest charged with
setting fire to their own home. Bostwick
is in hard luck and had his furniture
insured for $500 while it Is claimed it was
not worth 5000. He also had mortgage
TO meet and the fire which broke out in
mysterious way in a closet in the house is
said to have been caused by himself and
wife.
John Barrett of Grand Rapids keeps the
Barrett house and thought his boarder,
Ethel Miller meant to skip her board bill,
so he placed an attachment on her trunk.
Ethel replevined the trunk and threw
the costs on Barrett who refused to pay,