Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-03

Tor secretary OF state on the republican
| ticket is delivering war lecture in upper
peninsula towns.
Work has been started on the building
for the Hough furniture company at Mus
kegon. This company moves TO the boom
city from Charlotte.
Benton Harbor people are happy because
there is probability of their city having
direct boat communication with Milwaukee
the coming summer.
Freddie Gage of Muskegon was run over
some time ago by Muskegon street car
and the father has begun suit against the
company for $50, 900.
Chairmen Mcmillan and Campau have
issued Joint letter indorsing the amend
ment for increasing of Attorney General
Ellis salary TO So, 500.
Negaunee's new water supply pipes arc
now laid and the service ready for action,
the last length of suction pipe having been
sunk in the lake Saturday.
The unknown man who was found dead
in Chicago Sunday has been identified as
William Timms, a Jackson laborer. The
body was shipped to Jackson.
Earl Crandall, s years old, of Benton
Harbor was crushed TO death Thursday by
crawling under a moving train. He did
not know that it was going TO start.
There was young man in Saranac who
blew out the Crusaders bright lights. 1t
| was fun for him then but il has not been
since, as the local justice fined him round
| $40.
John Gesler of Fenton was chopping
| ha
off the handle and struck him in the head,
making cash that is likely to cause
death.
1t is now assured that an electric rail-
road will be built to connect Negaunee and
Ishpeming this spring, and real sanguine
| people think that work will be begun in
less than 30 days.
The business men Of Ithaca have organ
lied a booming association to be known as
the Ithaca improvement society, and pro-
pose to improve the town and induce
manufacturers to locate there.
The Jacobs car coupler company of
Detroit with capital stock Of $4,000, 900,
was the largest formed in Michigan last
week. The second largest was the
Sheridan mining company of Escanaba.
John K. Bradley of Au Ores owned q
barn and a measly old tramp owned a pipe
The coming together Of these two features
lost Bradley his barn. No returns have
been received from the pipe or the tramp
A Michigan Central conductor on the
Cheboygan division says a woodsman got
on his train at that city the other day and
said he had been robbed of Sl13 in cash and
his gold watch by one of the gangs that
hang out in that locality.
Julia Goddard, who sued old Dexter
Westcott of Grand Rapids for SIS. 900 for
blighted affections in a breach Of promise
suit, was given damages to the extent of
six cents. She was so mad that she will
not take it and will appeal.
Rev. w. S. SLY of the Franklin Presby-
terrain church, Lansing, has rendered his
resignation to take immediate effect. He
is decided in hisway and intends to devote
his time to the orphans home which is to
be established near Petoskey.
The people did not want the Flint &
Pere Marquette railroad company TO dis
continue their Fargo branch and had tho
courts enjoin the road. The officials said
it would be ruinous, but they are getting
ready to make the road standard gauge.
f. f. Coons, Mertie Coons. F. A. DEM
ing and Anna Dcming of Fennville have
been arrested for causing the recent fires
in that burg. The women were allowed
to go on their own rccognizance, but Dem
ing had to put up $500 bonds for his APP
| pearance later.
George Garfield and Jacob Williams of
| Palmer had a Touchdown and drag-out
time Monday. Garfield swatted Williams
with an AK and Williams got back by
| pounding Garfield with a hammer. Both
men were seriously injured. No arrests
have been made.
The Osceola county vote at the coming
| election will probably be relatively larger
| than that of any other county in the state
and all because there is a fight on in re-
gard to the change Of county seat from
Hersey to Reed City, and every voter in
the county will be looked after.
Work is to be begun at once on the
buildings for the West Michigan fair as
ISOLATION at Grand Rapids. The site is
said to be the best in tho state. The main
building will be 100 feet square, with four
wings 30xS0 feet each. There will be over
80, 600 square feet of flooring in the build
ings.
St. Joseph people are elated over the
fact that the government has made ready
to spend S35, 900 for the erection of an oil
supply depot there. The depot will be the
distributing point for all Lake Michigan
lighthouses and will DO located on the st.
Joe river. The building will be begun this
spring.
WILLIAMSON has religious scot called
the Stand Alones, who are just now in a
fight as to who shall preach TO them. Two
pastors, Messrs. Fisher and Warner, tried
it but stirred up discussion that it took
the village marshal to quell, and hereafter
each section Of the Stand Alones will
worship alone.
The Michigan salt associat on died Mon
day after a life of Is years. The associa-
ton kept up the price Of the product and
outside firms leaped the benefit Three
new associations, one at Saginaw, one at
Manistee and one on the St. Clair river,
will take the place Of the old, and salt will
go down in price.
Michigan is a great state. and while the
Marquette snow-shoe club is holding its
tramps the Alpena sailors are getting the