Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-27

| sula. Ishpeming braves will institute
new tribe at Red Jacket.
Dick vos, OF Grand Haven, beloved by
everyone, is dead. He was born in Grand
Haven In 1857 and was noted for his BRAY
cry In the fire department.
Flint has branch OF the united COM
mercial travellers Of America, and it will
be kno VA as Flint council No. 30. II
starts with Just 80 members.
A milling company at Albion has turned
out All barrels of -four in one day, and the
same day received orders from abroad
| that will require SO cars TO carry the
| -four to the seaboard.
The strike at Wheeler & Co.'s shipyard
| In West Bay City is at an end and work
upon the four government boats under
contract is going ahead rapidly.
Richard Goddard shot himself at Delta.
He worked at Owosso last summer for Mr..
| Woodward. Letters we're found at his board
ing place that show he has u brother in
Detroit and one in Rochester, N. Y.
While carrying basket of clothes,
which prevented her seeing an uncovered
cstern, Mrs. w. II. Hall, of Gaylord, fell
into it and was drowned this afternoon.
She leaves baby three months old.
| The Lansing wheel company has taken
new lease OF life by Incorporating with
a capital of s100, 900. The plant will start
its wheels to making wheels January
next and will give employment 70 100
men.
| While entering the river ut Cheboygan
In a sailboat, Howard Phillips 21 years
old and singl was knocked overheard by
a boom aud drowned. His companions
could not save him. His body has net
been recovered.
| While cutting wood near his residence
in Goodwill township, Newaygo county,
| Charles Prt, German, aged 80 yours,
| was struck by falling tree and almost
| instantly killed. He made his home with
a widowed mother and two sisters.
| Minneapolis has raised guarantee fund
of 100. 900 to secure the national republic
can convention, and a delegation of prom
| inent citizens, headed by Senator Davis,
| has gone to Washington TO present the
claims Of the oity before the republican
| committee.
A woman known as Maggie Hughes
committed suicide at Battle Greek by TAX
| ing rat poison. She died next morning.
Il
man uamed Newman, but they soon sep
arated. More recently she has been living
with a man named Mead. She leaves u
small child.
Two freight trains on the Grand Rapids
branch of the Michigan Central tried to
pass upon the same track u few miles
north OF jackson. The locomotive men
reversed Their engines and jumped, and
In sheep pasture The wreck was mag
nifcent for its picturesqueness. No one
was injured.
AS result Of passing a SEQ counterfeit
bill upon George Rupp, Bloomfield
farmer, Michael Herb. butcher haling
from jamestown, has been jailed at Sagi-
nav. He rendered il TO the farmer in
payment for some oats, and when Rupp
doubted the genuneness of the bill, the
butcher insisted that it was all right, and
the farmer finally accepted 1t.
meeting of knights of the grip Of
Jackson, was held last week 10 make ar
engagements for the state meeting in that
city Dec. 30. Judge Peck will act as toast
master at the banquet and toasts will be
responded TO by Gov. Winaas, ExtGov.
Luce, Rev. Washington Gardner, John ].
Bush, OF Lansing, John L. McAuley, OF
Detroit, and Alden Smith, of Grand Rapids.
Several days ago Undertaken A c.
Posner, of Grand Rapids, was called TO
embalm the body OF Frank Fenrich, killed
by passenger train. During the opera
ton he pricked his thumb. and. although he
at once cared for the scratch. the next
day il began to pain him. He is now con-
fined ~ his bed with blood poisoning and
is very low. His friends are alarmed at
his condition, although he is received the
best of medical attention.
Mrs. Alonzo WEIGH, of Clinton, is one
OF tho few women who cannot carry two
dishes, a can OF fruit, a basket of potatoes
and a lamp down the cellar stairs without
accident. Mrs. WEIGH slipped and fell
the whole length of the stairs. The lamp
was broken, the oil caught fire and Mrs.
WEIGH was rendered unconscious by the
fall. Her daughters timely arrival saved
her from being burned to death and now
she Is recovering from the injuries.
Engineer James Smith, of Grand Rapids,
who was injured in the collision near Mau-
ton, died. Engineer Dennis Murray, OF
the freight train. gave himself up TO the
authorities at Manton aud is now in Jail at
Cadillac Conductor Sherman, of the
freight Train. disappeared lmmedately
after the accident and officers are looking
for him Murray admits that the freight
crew Is wholly responsible for the disaster
having forgotten entirely that the passen-
ger was due.
The 2, 900 people of Otsego set them
selves up as modeis-no saloons, no gamb-
ling. no use for police projections; yet three
assault aud battery cases the last week on
the public streets resulted in a, merchant
having two black eyes, the village clerk
carrying himself around in a sling. and a
would-be professional completely knocked
out Aud the latest fad is ''tho Otsego
Hand club, (" to dispose of 100 lots to 100
members. someone to get an elegant resi-
dence;no lottery scheme however,; oh, mop
Rev. S. II. Robin, pastor of the Uni
versalist church of Bay City, has accepted
call from the Columbus avenue Univer-
sallst church, Boston. He will leave Bay
City for his new field early In January.
Robins departure will be generally re-
GREETED by the citizens, as he Is highly re-
spected both within aud without his con-
gregatlou. Rev. T. w. Maclean, pastor of
Trinity Episcopal church, has declined an