Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-02-05

By a railway collision at Ottawa Lake.
a fireman and two brakemen were Injured,
a caboose burned, and three freight cars
and a locomotive demolished.
A circular saw burst and few in all
directions at Newogo. Charles Mosher,
in his efforts to escape, fell down and had
q severe wound inflicted in tho head.
The proposition to prohibit the
sale OF intoxicating liquors in Gratlot
county, submitted to the people, carried
by majority OF something over VI, 600.
Mamie Coleman, aged 90, one OF Grand |
Rapids fallen daughters, tried 10 commit |
suicide by cutting her throat with piece
of glass during an attack of acute alcohol
ism.
Stack Bros building at South Lake
Linden has burned; loss 81, 000 Tho fire
originated in the dance hall upstairs,
where ball was conducted the night be-
fore.
Major Williams OF the Nineteenth
United States infantry. is enjoying his
first long leave In % years spending the
time with relatives in different parts OF
the state.
Jonathan Boyce OF Muskegon. has
made the people of Essexville exceedingly
happy BIZ deciding to operate large saw
mill, single mill and a planer in their
young city.
Stella Warren, Hartford, sued the
father, brother and stepmother or George
Warren for damages for alternating his
affections. On a second trial the jury
awarded her $500.
A gang of surveyors are setting grade
stakes between Jerome and Jonesville on
the new short line which, it is claimed,
the Lake Shore will construct between
Detroit and Chicago.
State Oil Inspector OBrien orts that
during the past six months he has turned
into the state treasury $l2, 512 % over all
expenses, as against s., 436. AZ for the first
six months of the fiscal year.
Fifty persons have been sent to insane
asylums from st. Clair county during the
past three years, and yet ST. Glars cl:-
mate is all right. Eleven of the 90 have
been returned to their homes as cured.
! A branch of the Flint s. Pere Marquette
is being built to the Dawson & Gardner
mill, eight miles north of Crooked Lake.
A force of 40 men is employed and the
branch will be completed within short
time.
The stock necessary to secure fiat
, bottomed passenger and freight boat Tor
Grand river has been subscribed, aud the
boat will be constructed in Toledo at ouce.
1t will run between Grand Rapids and
! Grand Haven.
z Capt Ed. Cox of Sturgeon Bay, has in
a vented a new iceboat. The power is from
s two small engines, driving two wheels six
a feet in diameter, which are shod with iron
, spikes. The speed attained is about ~
d miles an hour
Frank Curtis, of Ludingtol, became
jealous, or pretended to be, OF DR.. Edwin
A. Whitney, who was attending his sicH
wife. and assaulted and battered him
n The doctor says Curtlss attempted to rol
;. him, and he has been arrested.
s Jacob johnson. an Indian. who hat
IS worked hard in the woods several months
g to save 500, spent one day In Saginaw ant
d at its close had heavy whisky jag ant
= 20 cents. He caused the arrest Of tw'
r men for taking his watch and money.
a Grand Rapids Owosso and Detroit COT
fin and casket manufacturers have gon
into comb ne that is reported TO be stronge
and more binding than ever before. I'll
combine of grip and pneumonia seem
to have added strength and courage TO tn
coffin business.
- Grand Rapids furniture men will kee
their exhibit at the worlds fair we
punched, and the expense of decoratin
ne aud advertising will be divided betwee
the firms exhibiting Thus far 23 manu-
ne facturers have decided to DO represente
in the cty's exhibit
III THE ice on Saginaw Bay is now firm
and the hundreds of fishermen who al
nually form village thereon are begir
at ing to haul their shanties out, cut hole
through the ice and commence spearin
n the running trout and piokereL AS "
the catch has been light
at James ]. Carpenter, wealthy farmer
Cooper township, Kalamazoo county, III
given bail in the sum of IS, 600 for his a.
j. pearance on February Is to answer TO u
charge Of making a criminal assault upf
"a Martha ]. Heffner, aged ID. The girl WI
employed as a domestic in the Carpent
home.
~ Ryerson. Hills & Co., one Of the bigge
lumber firms that ever operated in MI
kegon. have sgnalized their retireme
in, from business by presenting to each
son eight old employees so acres of good far
ing land. The eight men have been co
ito tinuously with this firm for more than
ats years, and one has worked 80 and anoth
80 years.
lin. GAINESVILLE has never had saloon, b
md the drug store business has been immen!
Now they have driven out the prescripti
counters in the back rooms, and sale
cry is coming in. In any event Clarksvl
will be IL gamer by the amount OF licer
the saloonkeeper will pay into the treasul
IA. and they VIII get better quality
and whisky.
Mrs. Phebe Hilldingcr, daughter
ost- James L. Tolrey, of Onondaga townsh
of Ingham county, is under arrest charf
with placing strychnine in the farm "
with intent 10 kill off the family. A lii
pc girl of the household discovered the WI
ueo powder sprinkled upon the pump and
curiosity TO know what it was saved
e Of family.
Oh Cassus Schiller and wife, aged peol
whose house was on the banks OF
Bav Lake. started to drive home from
o IL Rapids. TO shorten the distance they
,o,nrtad m cross tho lake. but the