Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-13
ADDITIONAL MICHIGAN NEWS.

James A. Burns is the chief oil inspector
for the Manistee district.
Saranac has new Knights of Pythias
lodge, with about 40 charter members.
The residence of NJ. II. Foard, of Mar
quette, was burned Friday with loss of
81, 600.
The people of Holland will vote on the
question OF issuing Sl7, 900 worth Of bonds
TO improve the water works.
William e. Clark and George Shaw of
Saranac have been held to the circuit court
on the charge of conducting lottery.
The Goth annual exercises of the Abel
phic society of Olivet college was held
Friday night and was a great success.
A. p. Harris drug store and residence
at Mull.ken burned Wednesday at loss
OF 81. 500. Tue occupants had narrow
escape.
A new Mennonite church will be built at
Yale at cost Of over $1,000. The same
denomination will erect house of worship
at Lynn.
Tho two year old daughter OF John
Schutt OF West Bay City was fatally
burned by setting fire 70 her clothing
Wednesday.
A new hotel is in course of construction
at Palms and when finished VIII be the
finest in that section. III Smith will be
landlord and proprietor.
Six thousand trout were planted in Soule
Creek, Clinton county, by George H Soule
last week This is tho first planting of
trout in Essex townsh D.
The peach raisers of Eau Clare have
examined every blooming bud on their
trees, and say that not one of them is
ruined by the late cold snap.
Joseph Moran, recently convicted of
feloniously assaulting Mrs. Rachael East
man, of jackson, was sentenced to 20
years Imprisonment Saturday.
The Herald mining company, with 81,
600. 900 sdpital.. was the lar yest company
organized in Michigan last week. The
headquarters are at Negaunee.
The Michigan mining school students.
at Houghton. have organized a college
athletic associat on, and are putting on
other frills like full-hedged college.
George Conlxlin. father of Deputy Post
master Conklin of Cold Huter, was found
dead in his chair Friday. He was - years
old, and heart disease caused his death.
At the Democratic judicial convention in
st. Johns Friday, Charles j.. Wllett. of
st. Louis. Gratiot county, was named for
the iudgeship of the Twenty-ninth dis
trict.
! The measles are so prevalent in Reese,
Tuscola county, that all business is practi-
cally suspended, and the town people are
devoting all their time TO nursing the sick
and lodging the disease.
The electric light company at Paw Paw
have started their machinery and the
village is now lighted by electricity. The
citizens can go home now in the evening
without carrying a lantern.
J. f. Cue. a guest at the Union hotel.
Jackson, was found dead in his room Sun
day. An empty bottle that had once con-
tanned morphine told the manner OF his
death. He was about 80 years old and no
cause for the suicide is known. He had
relatives in Ingham county.
There has been some crooked work In
Mt. Pleasant ren estate as is shows by the
tremendous and unaccountable rise in
values. and il is surmlsed that the old land
swindle In being worked. One man soil q
lot for $3.50, and In four sales that property
had worked up to value OF $1,000. The
land ia nothing but heap of sand, and
Inquiries arc DO ng made as 10 who has
been the swlndler.