Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-08

Part of sand hill on which Eddie Fox
Is years old was playing at Grand Rapids
caved on him and he was suffocated.
The lifeless body of Charles Holmquist,
OF Jennings, has been fished from Crooked
lake. He fell through the ice while skat-
ing.
An infant child OF Glen Harris. of Hud-
son, ate paris green that had been left
within its reach, and as result the little
one is dead.
Albert Wheaton, of Kalamazoo, slipped
while handling piano and the instru-
ment fell upon him. His injuries may
prove fatal.
Attachment judgments have been taken
against the Huron mining company, in the.
circuit court of Huron county, aggregatng
Sl9S, 554.9
VIM. Duryea, of Jackson, who dsap-
peared at Michigan Center, has showed up
and is very angry because it was said he
had committed suicide.
The Hon. Peter White, of Marquette has
forwarded TO Gov. Winans his acceptance
of the worlds fair commissionership, ten
dered him to fill vacancy.
Prof. HARDWOOD, of Ravenna, o., has ac-
cepted the position of professor of agricui-
ture at the Michigan agricultural college,
rendered him by the board.
The annual meeting of the executive
committee of the Michigan state agri-
cultural society will be held in Lansing,
Monday evening, January IL.
DR.. S. A. Johnson, well-known Mus
kegon physician, contracted blood poison
ing while attending a patient and his
physicians say he cannot recover
A Congregational church, the first pro-
testant society ever formed in that wicked
place has just been started at Seney by
Rev. b. f. Aldrich, of the Sault.
Mrs. Arthur Hooper, of Bay City, is in
precarious condition. She started the
kitchen fire with kerosene and was terribly
burned. Her sight is in jeopardy.
Maj. w. M McGurrin, of Grand Rap
ids, one of the best known military men in
Michigan, trots the new recruits to his
infantry on both knees. They are twins.
The state fish commission met at Grand
Rapids. 1t was reported 1900, 900 trout
aud 400, 900 while fish at the Paris hatch
cry, which will be ready for planting next
spring.
Ex-County Clerk George o. Crane, of
Genesee county, has given two checks for
1888 TO cover shortage caused by one of
his deputies, for whose acts he was
responsible.
c. G. Durgan, of Grand Rapids, after
travelling 5000 miles through Michigan
declares that more shingle aud saw mills
are being erected in the upper peninsula
than ever before.
j. +. Selkrk, of Wayland, has invented.
and is now manufacturing a clock pump
1t does away with all the wheels. etc, of
the modern windmills. You wind it up
and it does the rest.
Rev. John Graham. broadside Methodist
and a veritable John Wesley in the pulpit
has declined the fattering offer rendered
him to become pastor of the First Reformed
church in Grand Rapids.
The proprietors of the new great North
ern hotel in Chicago have left an order
with one furniture manufacturing firm in
Grand Rapids for $40, 900 worth of furni-
ture. The contract calls for $50 bedroom
sets.
Gen. Ebenezer Sprague, past grand
high priest of the Arch Masons Of Michi-
gan, died at the Masonic home Grand
Rapids, of paralysis. His home was at
Lyons, and his remains were taken there
for burial.
Two thirds of all wrecks on the great
lakes occur within a radius of about 100
miles from Cheboygan, it is said, and it
is insisted that dry dock and ship yard
in that town would be very lucrative in
vestment.
The Graham g. Morton transportation
company is to have new steel propeller,
one of the finest on the lakes, TO be built
by tho Detroit drydock company. 1t will
run between ST Joseph and Chicago, and
will cost s160, 900.
Albert Hanson and Carl Merely, Of Jeni-
son, went RABBIT hunting with an AK.
Hanson struck at q rabbit with the weapon
and the blade grazed Morely's face, nearly
severing the ear from his head. He
nearly bled to death, but is recovering
now.
Sault people got very much interested
in the work Of an evangelist Rev. II. w.
Wallace, among the villagers on the Cana
dian side of the river, and there was
sensation when the shepherd married Miss
Rachael Z. Ross. colored damsel, sister
to the leading chimney sweep Of the place.
For some time two firms at Montague
have been missing goods from their stores.
On warrant search was made in John
Massa's premises which resulted in the
finding of over 800 worth Of goods identi-
fed by the two firms as their propert They
stores were entered by keys made from an
impression of the locks. Massa was arrested
and is under S400 bonds.
Michigan may have gold craze yet.
The Crescent gold mining company have
struck a vein where 1t leads over the side
of a hill and have discovered quartz Is
inches thick and gold is plainly seen as
far as drilled. The South Beaver has
taken some valuable yellow from the bot
tom Of 4S-foct shaft. Several hundred
tons of rock Will be hauled from the Fire
Center property TO the Ropes mill in order
TO make thorough trial test.
Gilbert Shafferan, an old man living
two miles south of Grand Ledge with his
son-in-law Ed. Fuller, attempted suicide
by cutting his arm between the elbow aud
wrist. The case is remarkable as the two
large arteries were laid bare so that the
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