Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-04

Eva Sovey, the little blind girl of Bay
City, whose clothing caught on ire whlie
she was tending the stove. died from the
effects of the terrible burns received.
Mary Foster the young woman of
Sparta who has been suffering from an
attack OF hiccoughs extending through the
past ~ weeks, is now said to be dying.
Six representative citizens Of Alpena
have gone to Washington, to assist Con-
gresham Weadock ia securing an appro-
priaton of 500, 900 for "a public building.
Over 100 high degree Masons attended
the annual meeting OF De Witt clinton
consistory and coordinate bodies at Grand
Rapids. The reunion closed with Dan
quet
An incendiary fire at Moltville, st.
Joseph county destroyed Hillman's black
smith shop and wagon works and DR..
Sutherland's Office. The property was not
insured.
Joseph Boyeau, 9-year-old boy en-
ployed in Rouscs mill AT Bay City had his
left hand so badly maugled by boiling that
amputation was necessary.
Ruddock Post No. 224, G. A. r., Che
boygan, has denounced in fitting resolu-
tlons OK. Assistant Secretary of War Dana's
malicious attack upon the war record of
Gen. Alger.
A company is being organized at South
| Haven TO build a frst-class hotel upon one
| OF the handsome bluffs that command a
sweeping view of Lake Michigan and the
| surrounding country.
Rev. c. w. Hiatt, secretary Of the
| American bible association, whose head
| quarters are at Cleveland, has been eX-
tended call 10 the First Congregational
church of Kalamazoo.
The Peoples party is organized in jack
son county with the following officers:
| Chairman, NJ. L. Day, of Springport; sec
rotary, Fred Price, of jackson; treasurer,
| G.. f. Pierce, of Summit
| No trace has yet been gained Of the
missing Mrs. Schultz, of Taylor Center,
and her old friends are confident that her
| disappearance has added another TO the
long list of Michigan mysteries.
| Bay City and West Bay City people will
I not take their drinking water through the
same intake pipe. West Bay City refuses
| to stand one-half the expense OF tho i'm
provement and negotiations are off.
Matt Gipp, who seriously shot jacob
| Ruther at Calumet several days ago,
claiming that he had been ordered TO do Sc
n dream, has been declared insane
| and sent to the Traverse City Asylum.
| Rose Selrord, the wayward young wo-
man, of Ionia, who threatened to divulge
certain scandals duplicating promnen,
| young men in that city, has been sent &c
| tho Adrian Industrial school until 81 years
old.
| Mrs. Erwin Hayes. of Milford, attrib-
| uted her broken leg indirectly to snow
DalL She was out driving when some
| small boys were out snow ballng. One
ball hit the horse, frightened it and the
animal ran away.
The bureau OF publication, which is com.
| posed of Democratic clerks in the severa
departments at Lansing, announces that il
has erred in making its last sensational
charge against T. M. Wilson, ex-clerk o.
the board OF state auditors.
Thomas Keller, living at Popple Huron
| county, bas become insane through at
tending revival meetings and insists in ex
posing himself to the stormy weather in {
| nude condition. He has suffered seriou!
injury through the exposure.
Saginaw's improvement association hal
secured four manufacturing concerns
within the past 90 days that will employ, al
told, 500 men. The latest is the Keyston'
Manufacturing company, which come
from Girard, Pa, and makes rollers ant
shades
DR.. M. p. Foglesong, Of Bronson, ha
been arrested by the sheriff OF Hillsdal'
county and taken there on the charge o
cnafdering his wife at Waldron last Aug
ust. Since that time and until recent.
the doctor has been in the asylum at Kal
amazoo.
Two Grand Rapids & Indiana freight
were wrecked at Paris, way station be
low Reed City. Ten cars were badl
smashed up. The only person injured wa
"a man named Alfred Taylor, who was
charge of stock car, but his injuries wi
not prove fatal
Richard Hetherngton's remains, hoI
ribly mangled were found on the LAX
Shore g. Michigan Southern track 4
Grand Rapids. He was a young, unma
red man aud occasionally drank TO excess
1t is thought when drunk he took shol
!. cut across the railroad tracks home an
was caught by passing train.
The Alpena Magnetic Spring compan
has at last got the genuine magnet
: sulphur water they have been so lor
, boring for. The smell of the stuff
] enough to drive any one out OF the dr
{ house. and the pipes are so strong
e | charged with magnetism that they wou
hold stranger and make him deliver
! his last dollar.
It is reported that the state board
control of penal institutions contemplat
recommending to the next legislature tn
The upper peninsula state prison al
branch house of correction located
Marquette be abolished and the building
be remodeed and adapted TO the care
d the insane. The overcrowded condit
of the state insane asylums at Kalamazo
=, Pontiac and Traverse City, it is declare
y makes the establishment Of an asylum
: the upper peninsula Imperative.
!. Theodore f. Bonney. Of Palo, Tor
county, was acquitted Of the terrible Grill
of assaulting his own 3-year-old daught'
$ The complaint was made by Bcnne
IS father and so strong was the feeling agaiI
the old man that spectators in the COZ
* room cried 'Hang old Bonney" when