Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-01-01
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Iron Mountain is hard at work trying to
raise S12, 900 bonus asked by the Quinnesec
logging railway for its proposed extension.
They are living like heathens in Jeddo;
no church, no Sabbath school, no socials,
no meetings. Diphtheria has got grip
there.
Isaac Mills, of Carsonvllle. has pur-
chased the site and will build kite track
all by himself, If others do not care to
chip in.
Treasurer S. o. McFarlaine. of the
trainmen's brotherhood at Escanaba, is
said to be in Canada with $1,000 OF the
lodges funds.
David Monroe, who was injured while
working in the st. Clair railway tunnel,
has sued the tunnel company for $500, 900
alleged damages
Alfred Thomas, employee of the Wolver-
Inc mine at Red Jacket was asphyxiated
by powder smoke by going into a drift
soon after blast
A jackson legal firm will bring action
against Warden Davis for false imprison-
mont for holding one OF the indeterminate
sentence prisoners.
John Dahlstrom, a miner at the Saginaw
mine at Ishpeming, which but recently be-
gan operations extensively, was instantly
killed by fall of rock
Col. Robert d. Burns, of Kalamazoo, a
well-known member Of the loyal legion
and for years trustee of the Michigan
asylum, is dead; heart disease.
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Lansing with Representative Frank w.
Cook, of Muskegon, as his counsel, and
says he Is not ready to say ''quip' yet.
Nine horses and other live stock and 900
bushels of wheat burned when Mrs. Gid
con Sterner's barn, near Niles, was de-
stroyed by fire, the total loss being 81, 900.
Grandma Compton has died at the home
| for aged women in Bay City, from the eff
fects OF injuries inflicted by her insane
daughter, Mrs. George ID. Seaman. She
was So years of age.
The Detroit Grand Haven & Milwaukee
railroad company is replacing many of its
] wooden bridges with iron structures, and
just now the bridges between Holly and
Fenton are being rebuilt
The 16-year-old son of Thomas Wilson,
of Hartford, stood with his arm over the
muzzle of a shot gun. The stock slipped
off the end of the platform he was stand
ing on and he had his wrist shot &c pieces.
Charlotte Hanley, young Grand Rap
ids orphan, is dying. She claims that she
was grossly assaulted by man, after be-
| ing rendered unconscious by some LIQUOR.
| The warrant has been issued for the
| brute.
The Stickley Bros. chair manufacturers,
have changed their base of operations from
Binghampton, N. Y, TO Grand Rapids,
and As families move with them. The
firms new factory is ready for the ma
chinery.
The highwayman is still making life
miserable for Pontiac citizens. The latest
victim was William II. Foster aged 20,
who was knocked down, and robbed of
| $l75. He claims three men assaulted him
and he is badly bruised.
August Johnson, a miner at Crystal
Falls, was fixing q steampipe under
ground when his candle went out. While
cropping around in the dark he fell into a
tank OF boiling water and was fatally
scalded. He was 23 years old and I'M
| married.
Mrs. John Frphling, of Grand Rapids,
disappeared, and next morning was found
dead in a cistern. She had pulled the
cistern cover closed after crawling in.
She was % years old and had been
married 10 years She had suffered long
from i'll health.
After year of great and seeming I'M
certainty the supreme court has decided
that John Mcqueen is citizen of the
United States, and legally qualified TO hold
the office of Sheriff CT Kent county. Mr..
| Mcqueen has been serving as sheriff since
January last.
The Saginaw hosiery, Hotel Vincent,
whose proprietor, e. Kirby, recently filed
mortgages to the amount Of about $25, 900,
will remain open. Who will be the pro-
prietor has not yet been decided. There
is some talk of Dan Webster, of the Wright
house, at Alma.
George Jacob Sehweinfurth, of Rock
ford, ILL.,, has again succeeded in obtaining
James Ogilvie, of Alpena, as a disciple and
has lured the old gentleman back to the
Illinois heaven. Ogilvie has given up his
mortgage upon the estate and his earthly
possessions will now go as he first directed.
John Craig, the Toledo shipbuilder is
| BOluR W COuSJruCb Tue new SUcSl SIedlueT
that is to run upon the heavy dew and
about three feet OF water in the Grand
river channel below Grand Rapids. The
boat Is to be a modern river craft and
something of novelty in the line Of
marine architecture.
The Congregational church of Saginaw
has found new channel for usefulness.
IL raised purse and sent a tradesman to
the Dwight inebriate institute. The man
has returned home and is working at his
bench, as though he never knew the taste
of liquor This branch of home mission
work will be continued.
p. M. Church, of Sault Ste. Marie,
claims to have made a valuable discovery.
He says if a person will refrain from ex-
polling air forcbly through the nasal pas
sages he will never have catarrh, and if
one who has the disease will also refrain
from forcible exhalaton the disease will
be cured. The remedy is so inexpensive
that the merits Of Church's claim can be
tested by thousands.
l.. E. Rowley, deputy secretary Of state,
has rendered the governor his resignation
as a member of the committee to investi-
gate the state department. The governor
| Immediately named Prosecuting Attorney