Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-03-18


year.
Prof Myron Sherwood, of the Mar
quette high school, has been admitted to
the bar.
jackson is making an effort to enforce
the laws prohibiting the selling Of cigar
cites to minors.
The sash and blind works burned at
Tecumseh some weeks ago are liable to be
rebuilt In Adrian.
Sixteen good farmers have applied for
the position of keeper Of the Livingston
county poor farm.
Eighteen members of the Emmett Rifles
at Jackson have been suspended for non
attendance at drill.
The Peninsula carriage works of Kala-
mazoo will locate in Saginaw, plant, pro-
prietors, employees and all.
The stock barn of Frank Harff, near
Jackson, burned, including seven valuable
horses and IL head of cattle.
Louis Miller, Michigan Central brake
man, was seriously injured at Grand
Rapids by striking bridge
Within 10 days two men and a valuable
OK team were instantly killed near East
Jordan, in the lumber woods.
The dog poisoning fiend is at work near
Otsego. The other night 20 dogs were
transferred to the other land.
Mr.. John Gamble, farmer, near Utica,
has recently become the father of his
fifteenth child and eleventh son.
A Grand Marais man named John Moss
harnesses hog and uses the animal for
hauling wood and for other work.
Harrietta has discovered big deposit
of brick clay, and the man who will
establish klns there will get bonus.
The Girard, Olivet and Orangeville
grangers have sent petition to congress
asking for the passage of a pure lard bill.
A wheel weighing 1000 pounds fell on
Edwin j. Anderson's foot in the Lansing
Engine works. He will lose the member.
1t is estimated that the drive of logs
down the Muskegon river will be about
l75, 900, 900 feet during the present
season.
For violations of the fish laws of the
state. IL Saginaw men have been arrested
at the instance of State Game Warden
Hampton.
Charles H. Gill, ex-detective of Grand
Rapids, will sue the city for $500, claiming
he earned this amount by working over 10
hours day.
The superintendent of the Allouez mine,
at Allouez, has announced that the mine
will be closed down if the prices of copper
do not rise soon.
A white oak tree felled on the farm of
Ira Peake, of Richland made % logs 81
feet in length, from which were cut 6S
railroad ties, the first three logs making
32 ties
Marquette's prison warden saws Coul-
ter, who confessed to the murder Of his
father in Chippewa county, is sane, per-
fectly sane, just as sane as any man within
the prison walls.
Mrs. Ruth Clark, an old lady 81 years
old living near Coloma, was fatally burned
by an overturned kerosene oil lamp while
retiring. The neighbors saw the blaze but
TO late to save her.
Asa Reynolds, aged 65, of Grand Haven
dropped dead of heart disease. He was
an old resident and city recorder Of that
city, and was just leaving the city hall
when he dropped dead.
Chicago s. West Michigan railway sur
veyors have been carrying chains and in
struments between New Buffalo and
Hammond, and the old story of an indie
pendent line into Chicago is revived.
Frank Welsh, a Detroit, Grand Haven
& Milwaukee brakeman, was instantly
killed at Grand Rapids while attempting
to board switch engine. He slipped be-
meath the wheels and was cut in two.
The report has gained currency that the
Cincinnati, Saginaw 81 Mackinaw railroad
has consummated plans for crossing the
Saginaw river and making Bay City its
terminal point in the Saginaw Valley.
Detroit contractors are figuring on the
contract for 10 large regidences to be
erected on Biddle avenue in Wyandotte,
for summer residences. They will be
built for Mr.. Cartwright, one of Wyan-
cites capitalists
Notwithstanding the State Publ ic
School is without a state agent, that in
stitution has placed So children in excel
lent homes since January 1. This is the
largest number ever placed in homes in
the same length of time from that institu-
ton.
The society Of Friends at Penn, Cass
county, has mem bership of about 100 and
thore are three resident ministers, all of
one family, consisting of Rev. A. M.
Kenorthy, his son, and his sons wife.
There are many others who preach. but
are not recorded ministers.
Grand Ledge has pretty nearly solved
the tramp problem. If a tramp asks for
food and shelter he gets it. The next
morning he get sentence of 10 days or
more at the tile works, and the way he is
made to mold clay during his term causes
him to take short cut out Of town the
moment he is released.
Mary Lewis, aged 10. and Minnie Ste
vens. aged II years, have been missing
from comfortable Kalamazoo homes over
week. Alonzo Chase, aged Is, Of Ashland,
and j. T.. Stone, aged Is years, OF Muske-
gon. are also missing, but no one has sug-
gested the awful possibility that the girls
have kidnapped the younger pair.
Rev. Mr.. Arnold of the Baptist church
ut Tecumseh made tour of the saloons on a
recent night, and to his establishment met
men aud boys connected with churches and
Sunday schools of the various denomina-