Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-02-06

/ craft county anu az MS uoho III OOrTlhc,
was killed Tuesday while Telling trees
near his home. Ho was Al years old and a
bachelor.
The residence of John Vivian In Carroll.
ton was burned Saturday n ght during the
absence of the family. Tho loss will be
about 500, with $500 insurance. Cause
unknown.
Lucinda Baker, the Mecosta county
| school teacher, who was arrested for
numerically beating chiid. has been dis
charged. The town is divided over the
Justice of the verdict
William Spicer of Kalamazoo went home
| Sunday, smashed in the door, broke the
furniture and beat his wife into insens =
hility. II is feared that she cannot
recover. Spicer is in Jail.
A central organization of the farmers
alliance has been established in Clinton
county and a sort of roundabout invitation
issued for all patrons who desire to enter
the only way of political salvation.
Suttons Bay has resident, nearly 20
years old, named Henry Thompson, who
! plunges into the icy water OF Traverse Bay
every day in the year, no matter how cold.
| He is now breaking ice for his bath.
Deputy Sheriff Frederick of Mecosta
county arrested G. II. Smith of Stanwood
for selling drugs without license. Smith
talked spitework at first, but GU city antied
$40 and costs on his of plea Of guilty.
The circuit court OF Sanilac county did
! up its business in a hurry and adjourned
Saturday night after sentencing Albert
Hearn TO one year and Robert Mcknight
TO six months at Ionia, both for stealing.
William C. Langdon of Bangor was
drowned in the mill pond ia that village
Friday. HIS companion, who skated into
! the same hole was rescued after hard
work. Langdons body has been recovered.
The lawyers in and around Besscmer
have moved that all their important cases
! DO stricken of the docket in Judge
Williams court openly charging the judge
with fayorng the corporations in his
decisions.
Mrs Albert Vradenburg, wife OF a
prosperous Worthwhile farmer, was thrown
! from her carriage and seriously in ured
| Thursday. The accident was caused by
"a drunken man driving into Mrs. Vraden-
burg's buggy.
A revival at Homer has resulted in the
conversion of 39G persons, majority OF
whom are over 80 years old. The result is
that cobwebS are growing in the saloons
and the church subscriptions increased to
"a great extent
| The Kalamazoo county fair association
listened to the treasurers report at the an
nual meeting Saturday. The late fair was
a success and increased the amount in the
treasury to 300. O. Snow is president
and Sidney Dunn treasurer.
A Marlette physician recently gave an
old lady patient some qunine in capsules
The other day she brought back the 'l.ttle
! bottles as she called the empty capsules,
to have them rehlled as their contents
''had done her lots of good"
Mrs. Bochcs, French-Indian, who has
| been in charge OF Kalkaska county for a
number of years. died Saturday. aged III
years. She was the oldest person in the
county aud probably in the state, and had
! alwa=s lived in this vicinity.
Crystal lodge of Oddfellows of Luding-
/ ton dedicated their new hall Tuesday
afternoon by aid of delegations from Pent-
water, Hart and other neighboring towns.
! 1t was a gala occasion and the hall, which
cost $1,000. is the finest on the west
shore.
John Cole of Forest, 35 years old, and
I Mrs. Francis Belknap, aged 81 years,
clopel together and now a deserted wife
/ and husband are looking for their
respective partners and talking with the
! prosecuting attorney. Neither leaves any
children, so IL is not 20 bad as il might be.
A Bay City resident has hauled TO the
f,sNp Of lie fY.or -,
where he discovered il, a large white stone
weighing about three tons, which has every
appearance of being pctrifed OK. Only
head and legs arc missing from the other
wise perfectly formed counterpart Of q re-
clining bovine.
Royal George. the Rome farmer who had
his skull fractured in conflict with Ira
! Wilcox, neighbor is dead, and Wilcox,
! who has been arrested for the
| killing, is now out on bail. Tho trouble
between the two men is said to be due to
an insult given Mrs. Wilcox by the dead
man, for which Wilcox called him to ac-
! count
Jerome Bristol had a second wife, and
two children by his former spouse. The
combination was deadly and the two chill
dren disappeared about week ago and
J
gone to relatives in New York state and
the other to Canada. The boy, who is In
New YORK. is Is years and the girl IL
! years old.
Detective L. W. Montchreafis Napoleon
of finance. Recently DR.. G. II. Brucher of
Lansing committed bills aggregating $50 TO
him for collection. Montc!sr at this time
was the United States collecting agency.
He collected the bills, paid DIR. Brucher 80
(at least says he did. but the doctor denies
! it) and charged S3s. Is for doing the work
He had the grace, howe YER. TO give the
doctor receiptel bill for the full amount
A real life romance Is 80 seldom found
outside Of cheap novels that the experience
OF certain young Bay City lady, recently
married, is worth relating. About nine
years ago she went to Chicago 10 study
music, and while there lived with a
cultured family. A gentleman who
boarded In the same house became one o.
her ordinary friends. Soon after she
returned to Bay City and the gentleman
settled in the far west. Last fall she
received letter from him, the first words
she had heard of him in nearly nine years,
and II contained a proposal Of marriage.
The proposal was Immediately accepted