Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-08

The Chemical sand prick company OF
st. Joseph, which really makes bricks
without straw that are stronger than baked
clay bricks, is turning out "a, 900 per day
and has orders for ., 900, geo from Chicago.
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley returned from
Washington to his Ann Arbor home last
week and was again taken Ill. His physician
says there is ne particular danger, but that
the Judge must refrain from working for
time.
| An employee of the Frankfort bottling
works lost two fingers by a bottle breaking
and the gas sending the glass through his
fingers. cutting two of them of as smooth
ly as a surgeons knife could have done the
deed.
A jury OF exceptionally good sense was
that which tried Robert Smith at Bay
City for the murder of his brother at
Linwood. IL took them but short time
to find him guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Those Ypsilant Methodists are thrifty
and had no sooner decided to build a new
church than they got ready to sell the old
onSwhich they offer at a bargain with the
suggestion that it can DO moved entire
without loss.
Reports from Gladwin and Clare coun-
ties bear out the rumor that large forest
fires are raging there with considerable
loss. Over $40, 900 worth of property has
been destroyed and the fire is still running
through tall timber.
Elliott Moore, Kalamazoo boot and
shoe dealer, was knocked down and robbed
of $50 by three men Thursday night He
was on his way home from the store and
had reached dark part of Kalamazoo
avenue when set upon.
Now there's chance for some one to
howl, as Postmaster Stevens of Muskegon
has appointed his son assistant postmaster
while number of patriots, who would
have been glad to hold down the position,
have been left out in the cold
Edward T. Cook, Bay City fireman,
was thrown to the ground by the capsizing
of hose carriage on the way to fire Sat
urday morning and had his left leg broken
in two places. The cart tipped over by be-
| ing caught in the street car strike.
Secretly Wade of the university went to
Alabama three weeks ago 20 find his
health. He intended to stay two months,
but grew homesiclS and took "a train back
| to his old work, firmly convinced that he
would rather die in Michigan than live in
Alabama
Rev. w. II. Clark, d. D. of Philadelphia,
the new pastor Of the Second Reformed
| church OF Bay City, preached his first
sermon there Sunday. DIR. Clark is
possessed of ability and eminent piety and
will make valuable addition to Bay City's
Satan fighting corps.
a Lapcer lad fixed up number Of boxes
and opened u little posto1ice Of his own.
His mother thought it was the cutest thing
in the world until she learned that he was
peddlng out lot of her old love letters.
That postoifice was discontinued at once
and the lads appointment revoked, too
quick
William Meyers and Quincy Hayes Of
Kalamazoo have been at outs for some time.
Recently Meyers tried TO thump Hayes
with an AK, but was badly cut for his pains,
ana last week tried it again with shot
gun shatter,ng nearly all the glass in his
neighbours residence. For this he is now
III jail.
Kalamazoo needs a vigilance committee,
and needs it very much. A well known
shoe dealer was held up and robbed early
last week, and Saturday night horse car
conductor was waylad by highwaymen
and relieved Of $12. He was knocked down
and beaten, incidentally. No arrests have
been made
Lizzie Alger, a young and pretty Ann
Arbor girl, tried to pass forged check on
local dealer Saturday and was caught at
it, Tho police think she had confederates
and are looking for them. They also
think that she and a girl friend were MAX
ing the financial raise 10 get money to be
married on.
William G. Boswell, one of the pioneers
of Menominee, died Sunday, aged ~ years
He was the first mail carrier in the district
and for years drove the stage line from
Green Bay, Wis, to Copper Harbor. He
had always been a prominent figure in up
per peninsuar politics and was more than
fairly well-tO-do.
On Sunday night, as the pastor at the
Fort street Congl egational church in De-
troJ was leading in prayer, dog that had
found its way through the front door came
down the center aisle, frothing at the
mouth and swapping at people in the end
! seats. He was mad. A panic was avert
Cd by Judsou Tunnison, au usher, knock
cur was then dragged out and killed.
The scholars in the Manu's Siding, Clare
county, schoolhouse had narrow escape
from being burned To death during the
forest fires The school had just been dis
missed, when the schoolhouse clearing was
discovered to be Oh fire. The teacher
| rushed the little ones back into the school
! house and kept them there while a lot of
neighbors fought back the fire. The chill
dren were panic-strcken and would have
rushed into the fire had they not been re-
! strained.
The university regents held a long
meeting Saturday, at which they voted
thanks to Frederick Stearns and Theodore
IL. Hinchman for donations TO the chemi-
cal laboratory, allowed Prof. Kelsey $3.50
for models OF archaeology of the Latns
and Greeks, apportioned the general IL
brary fund, appointed f. w. Arnold of
Detroit architect of the addition to the
new law and dental buildings, decided to
locate the new gymnasium on the campus,
and to inaugurate new department for
the training Of nurses. The following ap-
pointments were made: L. S. Novy, pro-
fessor on bacterioloQy: Alex Triyet assist