Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-16
County Column.

II. C. Seigel, of Capac, is putting in
private waterworks.
The Port Huron police made ~ ar
rests during September.
During the past month the st. Clair
city waterworks pumped lO,S0l 300 gal
Ions of water.
T. II. Bottomly, Of Capac, has discov-
cred new dye which he warrants not
to crock or fade.
A wagon ran over little six year old
girl of John Derry, of Marine City, in
juring her fatally.
G.. Testers elevator ut Capac was set
on fire one night last week, but was
quickly discovered.
DR.. A. III. Ross and wife, who have
been in the old country this summer,
arrived home in Port Huron.
l.. A. Sherman, manager of the Port
Huron telephone exchange since 1880,
will give up that office soon.
Only one boat day now between
Port Huron and Detroit, the Greyhound
and Cole having been laid up.
+. Orttenburger' shoe shop in Port
Huron was entered by thieves the other
night and $40 worth of goods stolen.
The Fort Gratiot NJ. +. church socie-
ties have raised 1915 during the past
year which will be applied on the par
sonage debt.
The amount of tax to be levied in st.
Clair county to help pay the expense
of Michigan's exhibit at the worlds
fair is given as SSS4.96.
Robt. j. Randall's house at st. Clair
was entered by burglars on Wednesday
night of last week, while the family
were absent, and $40 taken.
A man was arrested one day last
week in Port Huron for smuggling a
suit of clothes. He was made to give
up the clothes and pay $50 fine.
Hattie C. Sleeper, who has been con-
nected with the Port Huron Times for
about three years, has resigned her po-
sition, and will take place on one of
the other papers.
Waterman stepped off dock at
st. Clair the other night in the dark
ness and very nearly drowned, but
finally succeeded in saving himself.
No one saw him fall.
Mrs. NanConant, of Memphis, ar
rested for bigamy, claims that she
thought her husband dead when she
married again, and when she found
that he was alive left the last one and
has since been living alone.
Isabella Leonard, of TT. Gratiot, con-
fined in the county Jail, threw her two
year-old daughter, whom she had with
her, out of second story window.
Deputy Sheriff Clark, who was stand
ing under the window, managed to
catch the child.
The six-year-old daughter of James
Whitney, of Port Huron, was burned to
death on Tuesday. 1t seems that the
mother locked the child in the house
while she went out washing. The fire
in the house went out and the little one
ignited and spread to her clothing with
the above result.
Mrs. Kuhn, of Port Huron, was bad
ly burned Wednesday of last week.
She had placed some wood in the stove
and dropped some Goals unnoticed.
Continuing her work of ironing near
the stove, she noticed nothing until
her clothes were in flames. Neighbors
soon came to her assistance, but not
until she was horribly burned.
The inmate of the county house who
attracts the most attention is boy IL
years of age, the son of man and
woman residing in Marine City. He is
scarcely larger than child two or
three years of age. The little one
knows absolutely nothing. In the
morning he is taken from his bed and
placed on a chair and there he remains
until he is put back on the bed. He
cannot walk or talk. Although he has
the use of his arms he never uses them
except to throw them over his head and
around his body. An attendant feeds
him, and he never gives sign that he
has enough, but will keep right on eat
ing until he is sick if the food is forced
upon him. His only amusement from
day to day is to sit on the chair and
roll his eyes. His parents are both liv-
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