Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-08-07

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Joseph X. Ritter, an old and honored
resident of Cassopolis, died in that village
Thursday night at the age of 90. He has
been in the mercantile business for %
years and was president of the First Ma
tional bank of Cassoplis.
The Grand Rapids police are all stirred
up over the rumor Of a prize fight that is
reported to have taken place in the alley
in the rear of the municipal building.
No one knows who the fighters were or
anything about it, in fact
The disappearance of Veterinary Sur
| geon Yonkerman causes a commotion at
| Kalamazoo but his friends, whose name
| is legion, all claim he will be back in good
| time, and il is nobodys business if he
don't, as he has left his family well pro-
vided for.
Merritt Williams, the 10 years old
grandson of the proprietor of the American
house, Mason, was instantly killed by the
cars one day last week while trying to see
who would be the last of a lot of boys to
cross the track in front of an approaching
train. He was last.
Albert Hicks, of Big Rapids, was caught
in a whirling shaft Tuesday and given
great shaking up. He luckily escaped with
IA broken leg, when everybody who saw
him whirling around that Shaft expected
to see him killed outright
The U. S. Grant post, of Bay City, has
chartered a special train TO take the men,
bers to the Detroit encampment, and will
| decorate thai train so that nothing but
| flying decorations can be seen. The Flint
& Pere Marquette railroad line will be
used.
w. w. Foster was arrested near Kala-
mazoo one day last week, charged with
stealing a hcrse and tin peddler's outfit
| from G.. Hollestelle about IL years ago,
Foster has been in New York state most
of the time slnce and had no sooner struck
the town than he was arrested.
While Hermann Steggmann, of Bay
City. was on his way home one night last
week two hghwaymen attacked him and
choking his wind off robbed him of all the
cash he had. The police were notified and
have caught one man. The other will
have to hustle, as the police are on bis
track.
George Schmidt, Tittabawassee farmer,
hired . fellow named Henry Cook to work
| for him and soon learned that Cook had
stolen $40 in money from the house.
| Schmidt chased Cook four miles. and had
the satisfaction of catching him and getting
the $40 back and seeing Cook sent up for
two months.
A Bay City ordinance requiring every
| person soliciting IA license as peddler 10
pay $40 for the first day and IS for each
subsequent day that he travelled on foot,
and if he travelled with horse, $50 for the
first day and SIS for each subsequent day,
has been declared invalid by the supreme
court of the state.
The official board of the Annapolis
academy has made the following appoint
ments for Michigan: Ray King, of the
ninth district; James Ralsey from the
tenth district; II. &. Winter alternate,
and b. E. Elder from the third. These
lucky young fellows will report in Septem-
Der for final examinations
The supreme court has decided that a
| local law fixing the weight of loaves of
bread for public consumption and prohibit
ing the sale OF under-weght loaves, is per-
fectly legal. The case was brought by a
number OF Detroit bakers who had been
| fined for selling bread in lighter loaves than
| required by city ordinance,
yer, u middle-aged widow lady who lived
| alone il tie township of Climax, was
found dead upon the floor of her kitchen,
strangled by cord that had been twisted
about her neck. The authorities of Kali
amazoo county have now offered reward
of $500 for the detection and conviction
of her destroyer.
Walter Fletcher and one Goddell, OF
Manstique, fought about a girl and
Fletcher was rapidly getting the best of it
when Goodell hit him over the head with
a cross-cut saw. Fletcher was badly hurt
and lost one ear by the operation, but per-
haps it is just as well, as Goodell has
skipped the country.
A venturesome miner, clad in a complete
suit of divers armor, went into the burn
ing Republic mine Friday. He fought the
flames with small hose sufficiently to make
| his way into the mine for some distance.
He found that the fire was burning down
to the sixth level. The damage so far
done will reach nearly quarter of a
million. and no limit can be set to what
may yet he done.
The striking molders at Battle Creek are
not content with staying away from work,
but congregate nights at the school furni-
ture works and boot at the men at work.
Public sympathy, which was with them on
the start, has gone the other way because
of these methods and the police have been
called out several times. Should an open
riot take place the strikers will be prom pity
landed in Jail, as the police are tired Of
| their work.
A pair of horses belonging to T. L.
Donohue, of Ishpeming, ran away the
other day without paying the least atten-
ton TO the gentle bovine that was hitched
TO the hind axle Of the wagon. They ran
two blocks with the cow on a lively hustle
and then brought up by smashing the cart
on tree. IL made the bovine so mad that
she tried TO hook the horses the instant
they stopped. The people on the street
had no end of fun watching her.
On the Sth of July Petrolia Slower, of
Otisville, who had passed her 25th birth
day ard owned up TO that number of years,
caught husband in the person of William
II. Tibbils, of Columbiaville, who is only
"a years old. Just three weeks of mar
ried bliss passed and now William is out
with a card saying that he won't pay any
more bills that Petrolia contracts in his
name Petrolia counters by saying that