Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-25

master at Brinton Isabella county, vice S.
M. Meader, removed. rr.
Fred Abbey. who lost leg while at
tempting to board moving train at Gay
lord died ON Wednesday.
Citizens of Pontiac are to vote upon the
question Of bonding the city for S14, 600
for an electric light plant
John Ready, living near Bay City, had
three barns burned last week. Loss ST.
500, with small insurance.
1t is reported that the Carruthers manu-
featuring and supply company of Corinne,
Mackinac county has failed.
A fraud is travelling through the state
representing himself as an agent for a
Masonic insurance company.
Bishop Newman has decided to return
Rev. Mr.. Callen as pastor of the First
Methodist church at Jackson.
1t is reported that the City national bank
of Marshall will pay depositors in full.
The stockholders will lose heavily.
William Moore and Peter Jackson, the
pugilists, who foughts in room at Sagi-
nav, last week, have been arrested.
The Western Van Buren, aud Allegan
county agricultural fair will be held at
South Haven, October 10, IA and Is.
John w. Jones, of Three Rivers, has
submitted proposition to Kalamazoo by
which they can secure park of ia acres.
Henry ABBOTT has confessed to the muir
der of George Bryant, at Dowagiac, and
has exonerated the girls arrested as Access
sol les.
John Manly, of Alpine. superintendent
of the sheep department of the Kent county
fair, was kicked by horse Wednesday
and will probably die.
j. Walty. employed by the Smith lum-
her company at Kalkaska, was struck by a
belt Saturday and had several bones of
his right hand broken.
The depositors and cred itors of the bank
rupt Milford state bank have resolved to
investigate in order to confirm the charges
of crookedness if possible.
The barns of Dwight Hagaman, near
! Weston, burned last week. The fire
started by COW kicking over a lamp.
just like Mrs. O'Learys famous beast.
Decatur's four peppermint oil distilleres
are busily engaged in distilling the large
acreage of peppermint raised on the erst-
while worthless tract of swamp land near
the place
Clyde Beeman. Of Lima, aged Is, STUN
bled and fell while running down a hill
last Saturday, breaking both his arms.
He broke them three years ago by falling
from a tree
Dennis Heenan. an inmate of the sol
diers home at Gran d Rapids, but on leave
| Of "a hCsn cd M
evening of tremens. He had been on a
spree for three weeks.
While trying to shoot partridges near
Hurontown, Houghton county, the other day
George Smith discharged his gun toward
a wagon containing four men, iniuring all
Of them but none seriously.
Cadets have been appointed to the West
Point military academy as follows: L. II.
Holbrook, Northheld. third Minnesota;
Bruno b. Hammer. Chaska, third Minnie
sofa, alternate; Edwin London, Monroe,
second Michigan; William A. Sickles,
Adrian, second Michigan, alternate.
The Second street church people of
Grand Rapids, who petitioned Bishop
Newman for a new preacher. are very
much put out because Rev. w. III. Thomp-
son was reappointed. They wanted one
who was young and vigorous. whereas
Rev. Thompson is old and unpopular.
Jacksonites are hugging themselves in
the most enthusiastic glee over the grand
success of the first trip made over the new
electric street railroad at 3:20 O'clock Sat-
urday afternoon. The motor car attained
a speed of twenty miles an hour in the
suburbs and returned without hitch.
The remains of Mrs. Foglesong, of Wal
dron, who was alleged TO have been pois-
oned by her husband in August last. has
been exhumed and the stomach will be an
alyzed. The taking OF DR.. Foglesong, by
a friend, TO Bronson, his former home, and
having him ad. judged insane is looked on
by Waldron people as blind.
Some time G. II. Van Wagner, of Mar
shall, was arrested, charged with embez-
cling from the Peerless reaper company at
Homer. for which he was acting as agent
When the trial came on, the case was
thrown out Of court, and Van Wagner now
brings suit against the company for mali
cious prosecution, and last week received "a
verdict for $1,000.
The state board of equalization has
finished its labors. The state is equalized
at 81, 100, 600. 900, an increase over the
equalization of the boards of supervisors
of over 1894, 500, 900, and over the amount
fixed by the state board OF 1885 of 1854,
500, 600. Last years assessments we've
on .66& per cent of the actual values,
while this year it is rs. per cent.
During the severe electrical storm that
passed over Almont place last week, the
barn of Mr. Muir. between that place and
Dryden, was struck by lightning and to-
tally destroyed, together with its contents
consisting among other things, of some 500
bushels Of wheat and oats. A boy in the
barn at the time was knocked from drill
upon which he was sitting, but was other
wise uninjured.
} Charles f. Rogers, of Crystal Lake, i:
} now ia jail at Grand Rapids for having
used the mails for matchmaking purposes
! He saw Mrs. Schaupe wife of the station
agent, parading under the trees with 9
man, and wrote her a letter demanding 81
hush money. The man proved TO be hei
husband, and he with two officers went Il
the place the money was TO be paid. cap
tured RoOera and after the husband ha(