Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-06

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may lose the right eye. 1t was accidental.
St Ignace is to have electric lights and
has figured things 50 fine that the corpora
ton will be at very little expense for its
lights after private users have paid their
bills.
Mrs. John l.. Thresher, of Kalamazoo,
has had her husband placed in jail for non
| support but just how this has made her
situation any more pleasant does not APP
pear.
Benz. Allison, of Goodland, Lapeer
| county, 40 years old and said to be a crank,
is under arrest, charged with attempting
TO poison a neighbours cattle with paris
green.
The residence OF b. L. King, j. II. Da-
wilson, j. A. Watson and II. w. jennings,
of st. Joseph, were destroyed by fire last
week. Loss, $4,000; partially covered by
insurance.
Benton Harbor has lately secured a
candy mandatory for the iobbing trade;
also large tack and nail mandatory
from Chicago that viii employ from as
to 100 men.
The Decatur union school has such an
excellent reputation throughout southwest
/
pupils in the high school department arc
foreign scholars.
The central board of control has APP
pointed John Tanning, OF Albion, superin-
tendent and bookkeeper of the state school
for the blind, TO succeed Miss Josephine
Pampell, removed.
Miles Burt, of Laingsburg, who has
made $50 an acre on experimentally rails
ing chicory, could open a chicory institute
and make money. Every farmer wants TO
learn the how of il.
w. f. Griffin has retired from the man
agement of the telephone exchange at
Flint and will so to South America to en-
ter the employ Of the Tropical American
telephone company.
Muskegon farmers have organized an
exchange and are going TO market their
farm products through it, The exchange
has $40, 900 capital stock and may so into
general produce business.
Edward Rogers, serving life sentence
in the jackson prison for the killing Of
Hattie Moses, at Saginaw, is very i'll from
the effects of the bullet wound inflicted
upon himself at the time OF the tragedy
The City of Erie while loading slabs at
| ellis pier at Leland was caught in a heavy
gale which prevailed Tuesday and being
unable TO get away dragged its anchor and
went on the beach. Tue vessel is a total
wreck.
The Saginaw river is lower at the pres
| ent time than it has been this season,
! which virtually means for many years,
ana the sand bar in tho middle of the
stream near the Mackinaw bridge is high
and dry.
The ladies of Otsego deserve much credit
| They have just completed the hAndsomest
| library building of any interior town in
the state. The village donated tho loca-
ton and tire ladies' library association fur
nished the funds
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan rail-
way company are building a large grain
elevator at the mouth of the canal between
Benton Harbor and st. Joseph, TO be us
feet high and with power for unloading
sixty cars per day.
The schooner Rob BOY, owned by San
| derson g. Co., of Milwaukee, is high and
dry on the beach at Platte River. IL miles
north of Frankfort She went on in Tues
day nights gale. Her crew is safe, but
the schooner is in a bad condition.
G. A. Bergland, the wealthy Swede, OF
Cadillac, bought all the pine that the G. r.
& ]. railroad offered in Kalkaska county.
He paid 500, 900, and tho estimate is A.
900, 900 feet Cadllacers rejoice because
it means a five-year cut in their midst
Some Nortbport citizens are after the
habitual poker players with sulphur aud
| cayenne pepper. They bore holes into the
lair and then smoke out tho card players.
Prominent town officials were made to
jump from a second story window as the
latest smokeout
Rudolph Diederick, of Saginaw, has
brought suit against the Gateiy &e Burr
company and Deputy United States Mar.
shall Crabbe for IS, 900 damages for false
Imprisonment Diederick was arrested for
failing to pay for an album bought from
the firm, was tried and discharged.
While Thomas Boyles and young man
named Little were at work at the now
building of the Listowel furniture factory,
at Listowel Ont, Monday, u scaffold on
which they were working gave way and
precipltated them to the ground so feet
below. Both men were instantly killed.
Mrs. J. b. Rhodes and William Haynes
eloped to Battle Greek from Kalamazoo
| litSJ week ana put up db Cuc f1aullln mousse.
They were arrested and taken back upon a
warrant charging them with larceny, in
selling the household goods of the Rhode
family. They were en- route TO Kansas
The rails on the Chicago & West Mich
igan reached the depot ground at Elk Rap
ids last week, aud the town turned out en-
masse TO welcome the construction train.
The town and saw-mill bands furnished
the music, the furnace, chemical works,
tugs and steamboats, the whistles, bells were
Sung, and everyone had tip-top time.
Business was suspended and tho town
dressed up with flags and bunting.
Two hand cars, running in the same di-
rection near Traverse City, had Just got
their second wind and were flying over the
ground at tho highest rate Of speed known
to the hand car species, when the first ono
was suddenly checked in its progress. To
prevent a collision, Bert Brown, who was
on the second car, throw himself upon the
pump handle by which man power is con-
v1rted With transportation. He was thrown
up into the air aud came down on the track,
receiving serious damage 20 his back and