Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-03

arrested the other day for chasing and
hugging women on the street. Hc was
| drunk.
II. A. Greeniey OF Grands Rapids was
thrown from his carriage and seriously, IL
not fatally, injured by a runaway horse
last week.
William Kerridges hardware store Mt
Hancock was robbed Of a lot Of miscellane-
ons stuff Wednesday night. No clew to
the thieves.
The strike of the stone-cutters, which
has delayed building operations In Detroit
| for a couple Of months, has been settled by
compromise.
The largest corporation formed in the
state last week was the great Eastern
mining company of Crystal Falls, with
| 81, ESQ, 900 stock.
The Bay City Presbyterians met last
Thursday TO lay tho corner stone of their
new church on Center street Judge Mil
Ter delivered the address.
Charles Mum, formerly Of Big Rapids.
but OF late an engineer on a Mississippi
railroad was killed in collision near
McComb, Miss, last week.
The postoffice and store at Eldred, jack
son county. was burglarzed Of a lot Of sill
verware and the like Monday night. Sup
posed to be the work of tramps.
Richard Butler, aged 90 years, died at
his home in Mt. Clemens on Sunday. He
was the father of tho late Milton II.
Butler, the well known banker.
Hon. Thomas f. Bayard delivered an
address before the Michigan university at
Ann Arbor on Wednesday. and was initi-
ated into the Phi Delta Psi fraternity.
The propretors OF the Detroit CONNER
cial Advertiser have been fined $500 for
running lottery. An edition Of the paper
was seized by the post Office authorities.
Mrs. S. A. Ferguson's residence at
Jackson was damaged 81, 500 by fire last
Thursday. The loss is covered by insur-
ance Dut the cause of the fire is not known.
Leroy Upton, Big Rapids lad, grad
uated With honors from the West Point
academy last week aud has returned to
his Mecosta county home for his vacation.
Hiram Olsen of Grand Rapids, IA years
old, was shot and dangerously wounded
by sparrow gun bullet fred by accident
by Moses Lobenski Sunday. The shooter
has been arrested.
Detroit had another whisky murder on
Sunday. The victim was John Casey,
mouder, aged "a years. He was shot by
Frank GillIgan, 20-year-old switchman.
with whom he had previously quarrelled.
The murderer is at large.
DR.. j. II. Chapman of Pontiac received
a cablegram from his wife in London Mon
day, stating that their daughter had been
poisoned by eating ice cream. and the
doctors gave up the case as hopeless. DIR.
Chapman started at once for London.
The graduating exercises at the state
school Tor the blind took place on Tuesday.
The only graduate of the literary depart
ment was Miss Mary Forton of Mt.
Clemens, who delivered very creditable
essay, entitled, only the Earned Truly
Owned"
The Michigan andidates admitted to
West Point on the recent examination were
o. W. Bell, M. o. Bigelow (alternate).
j. A. Girney, NJ. +. Smith and j. L
Viliont. Out of the the 146 who took the
examination from all over the United
States 90 passed.
The gauge Of the Saginaw, Tuscola g.
Huron railroad has been changed to stand
ard from Saginaw TO Bad Axe and the
new equipment will go into service at
once. This change will greatly aid the
Sebawaing coal miners in getting their
product to market.
Quartermaster General Fred Wood has
begun work on the new camping grounds
for the state militia at Whitmore Lake.
He has large number of workmen EN-.
ployed and he will spend very liberal
amount in making this new camping
ground ready for use.
Kehoe, the Manistee murderer, does not
show the least feeling nor does he ask how
his wife is getting along. He is trying to
ease up public sympathy by saying that
he was driven crazy by the nagging of his
wife and mother-in-law. He has no sym
patty from the people who know all the
| circumstances.
John Kierling Of Muskegon quarreled
with august Linderman and induced
Liudermans wife TO leave him, and then
capped the climax by pre-emptirg Under
mans house. Wednesday night, when
Linderman went home, the worthy pair
threw boiling water on him, and were both
arrested on the charge of assault with
intent to do great bodily harm.
Fire broke out in the engine rooms of
| the dynamo station OF the Bay City cleo
trio light works Wednesday night. At
first the firemen did not think it would be
much of fire, but there's where they
made mistake as it ruined the engine
and dynamos at a loss of SIS, 900 and left
the city without light 1t will take a
week to put in new engines and dynamos.
Albert Smith OF the firm of Chapman g.
Smith, cigar manufacturers at Grand
Ledge. skipped. leaving his partner. He
also left his wife and five children, and
from Chicago he wrote a letter that he was
of for California and did not want to see
anyone in Grand Ledge again unless it was
his baby. Grand Ledge people are
| divided as to Smiths sanity.
Minnie Webster, school teacher at
Grand Rapids, has become crazy by over
work and financial difficulties. She raised
disturbance in her boarding house Sun
day and had to be taken to the st. Marks
home for safe keeping. Her particular
mania was dressing herself in a white
dress with white gloves and slippers
and then getting frantic because the BRIDE
| groom came not.