Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-18

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will be built at Palo.
Antoine Splits, of Roclsland, grew
turnip which weighs SO pounds.
Bishop Vertin dedicated the new
German Catholic church at Menominee
James Leach, of Muskegon, died at
his breakfast table while talking to his
wife.
Beaverton wants Michigan Central
extension from Gladwin, and talks of
| bonus.
A purse of $500 is being raised at
Houghton to ferret out the local dog
poisoner.
Ann Arbor's ward schools will be
closed owing to the prevalence of
| scarlet fever.
A 7-year-old son of S. Manor, of
| Newport, sustained fatal injuries from
u horses kick.
Alfred Lehndoeff, cigar manufact-
urer, has been appointed customs col
lector at Alpena.
A rifle lost by j. Il. Baker in the
river at Paw Paw nearly so years ago
has been recovered.
Horace Peck, of Dryden, was kicked
on The head by horse and the wound
resulted in his death.
The Lansing Gaslight company has
sold its electric lighting plant to the
city of Lansing for $4,000.
Frank Ward was caught in a re-
volving shaft at the South Hecla mine
at Red Jacket and dashed TO death.
Miss Isabella j. French has resigned
the principalship of the Michigan
/ Female seminary at Kalamazoo.
A Detroit syndicate with ex-Alder-
man Murphy at its head has purchased
500 acres of Harsen's Island, near AL
gonac.
A five-year-old son of c. f. Dicbel, of
Saginaw, drank n quantity of poison
from bottle and narrowly escaped
death.
The basket factory of Wells, Higman
& Company, employing 100 men, is be-
ing removed from ST. Joseph to Trav-
erse City.
George Phelps, farm laborer, was
run over by an engine in the Grand
Trunk yards at Flint and lost his right
leg below the knee.
The annual meeting of the Grand
Rapids District Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary society was held at the Epis-
| copal church at Hastings.
,;he Michigan Central are making
preparations to cut ice this winter on
the Lowell mill pond. A chute is being
put in with a capacity of 100 cars
dag.
The crew of the tug Grayling while
hauling in their nets off Sand Beach
found the badly decomposed remains
of woman, minus the head, part of the
legs and one arm.
An incendiary fire at the country
residence of ex-Congressman Comstock,
near Grand Rapids, destroyed that
structure and its contents, including III
head of blooded cattle.
In order to protect her 3-months-old
baby from the cold Mrs. David Root, of
Davidson, wrapped it up SO well that on
arriving home it was found to be dead,
having been smothered.
Miss Bina West, supreme organizer
of the l.. o. T. NJ, is forming a dozen
supreme hives in Pennsylvania. Miss
Eva Platt will go TO Indiana immedi-
| ately and commence work. Hives are
also being organized in California and
Oregon.
Rev. j. w. Arney has accepted call
to the new Congregational church at
Lake Odessa and has moved his family
to that place. 1t is believed that the
parsons love for good piece of horse
flesh will in no way interfere with his
work in his new field.
Frank Parrish, the Detroit thief
working out five years sentence at
Ionia, created quite a commotion in
the house of correction by disappear
ing. He was found in a loft over one
of the shops the following morning,
having been unable to scale the walls.
Neighbors broke open n house
occupied by family named Kolezyn-
ski at Grand Rapids and found him and
his wife on the bed, unconscious from
the effects of coal gas, escaping from a
defective stove. They were restored
with difficulty and are still in a critical
condition.
A petition has been presented to the
circuit court at Houghton asking that
william +. hegBS, Formerly prOSecut-
| ing attorney of Schoolcraft county but
now of Red Jacket, be debarred from
practice. The charges are corrupt con-
duct, malfeasance and misfeasance
while in Office.
I A desolate looking house across the
river in Kalamazoo that has been the
scene of suicide and years back of
murder, it is said, has the reputation
of being hauted and a select party will
stifle their fears and investigate the
place. The last occupants of the house
both went insane and one of them
committed suicide.
1t is charged that there were serious
| irregularities in the methods of con-
Quoting the elections in portions of
Presque Isle, Emmett and Manitou
counties. 1t Is probable that William
A. French, Republican candidate for
senator from the Twenty-ninth dis
trict, will contest the election of j. ID.
Turnbull on the grounds of these ir-
Irregularities.
The crew of the tug Hebard, while
cut in the lake a half mile from the
| braalxxvatar n faU DAVIS aUo saws the