Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10

The Huron house, of ST. Ignace, was
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss 81, 500,
insurance $1,000.
Dickinson county will be bonded for
$50, 900 TO aid the unemployed during
the coming winter.
More than 100 pounds of cells were
taken from the wheels of one of the
Otsego paper mills.
The Methodist parsonage in Mar
shall was nearly destroyed by fire.
Boys had built bonfire.
j. III. Hanly & Sons, of Marlette, are
preparing 100000 dozen picked eggs
for the New York market.
Will Mckee has raised 5000 heads of
cabbage this year on less than an acre
of the big marsh in Florence.
f. w. Hagen, hardware merchant
of Alpena, has assigned, with liabil-
tiles of 50, 800 and assets of ST., 900.
Avery Chapman has been found
guilty at Gaylord of criminal assault
upon his l3-year-old stepdaughter.
Thirty-eight cold dollars is what IT
cost a couple of Toledo gentlemen TO
shoot couple of pardridges at Dundee.
The Baraga council has decided to
dispense with the services of the town
marshal, and has SO notified that
officer.
Charles Parks, of Bay City. has gone
insane over spiritualism. He imagines
all the while he is conversing with UNI
seen beings.
The farmers about Minden City, some
of them, have announced that no shoot
ing will hereafter be permitted upon
their farms.
Thomas Merryfield was killed in the
Pewabic mine at Iron Mountain by a
cave-in. lie leaves a widow and a
large family.
Bay City's new government building,
erected at a cost of Sl6O,000, is now
finished and will be occupied by Uncle
Sam at once.
The Standard Oil company has leased
a large amount of land south of Dun
dee, presumably with the intention of
boring for gas.
Arthur Hare, aged so years, and one
of Inlay City's best known citize ms,
fell and broke the bones in his shoulder
and dislocated his arm.
A man named Jewell disappeared
from Carleton II years ago, and has
just turned up, safe and sound. He is
now trying to explain.
Manley Reynolds was terribly
crushed on his head and chest at the
lumber camp of Lewis Il Shickels, near
Farwell, by logs rolling upon him.
T. A. Winans, of Mt. Pleasant, has
lost ten fine wool sheep by worthless
dogs, and Mt. Pleasant is going to be
an unhealthy place for ownerless dogs
hereafter.
The sheriff of Barry county took the
asbestos off some steam pipes, think
ipg the workmen had neglected to re-
move it and then tried to burn it in
the furnace.
For fear of straining his gun Burt
Ritenberg, of Woodland, climbed tree
to shoot a squirrel. Physicians have
amputated the arm that was under him
when he fell.
There are SO many offenders against
the law in Arenac county that the Jail
is full and the authorities have had TO
arrange with ogemaw county to care
for the overflow.
The Northern Michigan Hardwood
Lumber association held meeting at
Traverse City and decided to decrease
the next seasons cut to 60 per cent of
what this years was.
Joseph Wessinger, of near Howell,
went into a stall to unite Holstein
bull, when the animal attacked him.
Mr. Wessinger's collar bone and two
of his ribs were broken.
]. Trombly, ST., of Traverse City,
slipped down the steps of his home,
breaking his thigh. The shock is a
severe one and may result fatally on
account of his age, which is n years.
A large rock fell in Tamarack No. 3
shaft at Houghton, striking Thomas
Slinter and crushing his head COM
pletely. Deceased was an Austrian,
80 years old, and single. Tamarack
shaft is 3,700 feet deep.
Ionia is to have house for the ex-
press accommodation of tramps 1t is
to be 16x22 feet in size, and built of
brick, and will stand on corner of the
Jail yard. Electricity and all the
other comforts are provided.
William Woolever, a farmer residing
in Penfield, committed suicide. He
tied string to the trigger of his rifle,
then took off his shoes and pulled the
hammer with his toe. The ball en-
tered his stomach, aud he died instantly.
He was married and about 35 years old.
The Mendelson pants factory, which
started at Ludington several months
| ago under the bonus system of the de-
velopment company, has been seized by
the sheriff under an attachment for
debts owed some eight or ten New
York firms for cloth, amounting to
| ST., 200.
Mrs. Mary i. Burgess, an eccentric
old Port Huron lady, rs years OF age,
who has been familiar figure on the
streets for number of years past, was
found dead in her sons gun shop. II
is believed she went there to spend the
night, as She had done before and
while there died of heart disease.
The body of ole Olson, an old and
respected citizen of Ludington, was
found floating in the water. Mr..
Olson had gone out to small fire and
was not seen afterwards. 1t is sup
posed that he accidentally walked of
| the dock. He leaves widow and sew