Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-06-12

saSyer, was struck in tho head by a board
from the saw Thursday, and instantly
killed. He leaves a widow and six small
children.
Miss Carrie A. King, Michigan
woman, has been appointed to 50 a day
position in the office OF Indian affairs,
Washington. She will pound the keys OF
typewriter.
A rifed mail pouch was found in a barn
at Ypsilanti Tuesday. and Investigation
showed that it was the one which came in
on the night train and had been stolen
from the depot.
Henry Morse, the inmate of the soldiers
home who stabbed a fellow soldier and
escaped last week, has been arrested in
Detroit, where he went to draw his pension
on the 9Th inst.
Alfred w. +. Gwinner, one of Ann
Arbor's most influential Germans, and well
known throughout Washtenaw county,
died Thursday, aged 81 years. He leaves
a widow and large family.
J. p. J. Krogan, a Manistee hardware
dealer, could not make both ends meet i'll
his trade and has filed an assignment. He
has 81, 45S in assets, So, 3l9 in liabilities
and 50, S62 due preferred creditors.
Prof. j. M. B. Sill of the state normal
school at Ypsilanti gave the senior class
of the institution reception at his resi-
dence Thursday night. Music and refresh
ments constituted the entertainment
Rev. f. e. L. Caster of West Bay City
is in Jerusalem and writes home that IL is
the dirtiest city he ever saw, and that he
has nnnnOh auH IL ahnnt IN for tho
best place on earth; namely Michigan.
Henry Morse. the man who created such
a rumpus at the soldiers homo last week,
is under arrest. He was arrested at the
pension agents Office in Detroit on the 9Th
inst, while about to draw his pension.
Daniel Wilson, who has lived in Worth
township, Sanilac county, since 1854, died
OF the grip Wednesday, aged 90 years. He
was u member of the state legislature in
1859 aud 1875. A widow and five CHI ildren
survive.
Some Saginaw people are tickled half to
death because they have been invited To
the marriage of Miss Selma Hetherington
Cadwaller at London, Eng. Just think
how glad the bride must be to shake such
a name.
Up. Ivory, wife and son ate canned toma-
toes at their home i'll Mayfield township.
Lapeer county. Ivory is dead and the rest
are in precarious condition. The toma.
toes show traces Of arsenic, supposed To-
DO due TO the can.
Judge Westfall of Grand Rapids had a
spasm of indignation Tuesday when the
strikers were called before him for dis
turbing the peace and he fined every
mothers sor OF them SIS with 80 days in
Jail as the alternative.
Nearly 400, 900 barrels of salt were in
spected in the state during May, divided
as follows: Manistee. III, 1874; Bay, S4,-
400; Saginaw, 77,0sl; Mason, a., 415;
Iosco, 32, 362; st. Clair. 81, $50; Huron,
3,613; Midland 2,s35.
An Athens man has a queer idea of fun
and thinks he is having no end of a good
time by taking his wife and child on boat
ride TO st. Joseph. The boat is one of the
kind that you have to fan the water with
the oars to make it 60
When Hiram Doubleday of Union City
died leaving $40. 900 and four sons he gave
the bulk of it to two sons leaving the
others very much in the cold. The Branch
county probate court is now engaged in
will contest on the case.
George Fox and wife. an aged Caledonia
couple were thrown from their wagon by
runaway accident near Grand Rapids.
Mrs. Fox was 50 badly injured that fatal
results are feared She is the mother of
Sheriff Mcqueen of Kent.
Mrs. Eliza Grard sued the city of Kala-
maZoo for damages sustained by falling on
a defective sidewalk and recovered a YER
dict of 81, 600. This makes the third case
of this nature that Kalamazoo has lost.
Three others are TO be tried.
Newaygo county was ablaze with cleo
tricity Thursday. The heavens were
illuminated almost continuously during an
hours storm. Il. A. Hamilton's barn in
White Cloud was struck by lightning and
consumed with its contents.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Michigan opened its annual
session in Grand Rapids Tuesday with 100
delegates present. The number increased
to 800 by the evening session and matters
of interest to the union were discussed.
William Higgins, Jackson driver, took
big dose of morphine, Tuesday, because
his best girl. Mary Wilson, went TO merry
go-round with another fellow. He will
probably recover He is % years old, but
he didn't like to Mary go round with a
rival.
Robert Baker, superintendent of the
school for the blind at Lansing, has
resigned on account of i'll health. The
board of control has appointed the matron,
Mrs. Josephine Pampell. superintendent,
and elected John Tanning of albion
steward.
Delbert Tidd of Bachelor was driving
nail Monday, when the hammer failed TO
hit it on the head aud the nail flew up,
striking Tidd in the eye. He will lose the
sight of the eye, as the nail stuck there
and had 10 be pulled out by his fellow
workmen.
Those northern Michigan summer re-
sorts might as we'll go out Of business.
The terrible sea serpent, always feature,
has been shot in Gladwin county. The
reptile was only an uncommon snake, but
il measured 33 feet in length and two feet
around the head.
The state w. G. r. U. elected the fol-
lowing officers at its meeting in Grand
Rapids last week: President Mary II.
Lathrop Of Jackson; recording secretary,
Lizzie M. johnson of Flint; corresponding