Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-13

found dead In his howell near Dorr.
c. w. Kent, of Armada, was badly
hurt by kicking horse and may die.
Orlin Barker and A. l.. Allison have
walked to the Worlds Fair from Ben
zonia.
The Seventh Day Adentist college at
Battle Creek now has 750 students en-
rolled.
L. S. Durham, of Concord, has re-
Gently imported rs Shropshire sheep
from England.
The Otsego chair factory has re-
sumed operations, after being closed
for three months.
After service of so years in the
ministry Rev. John Russell, of New
Haven, has retired.
Owing to smallpox in Kalamazoo all
school children have been ordered vac
cinated within 80 days.
The postoffice at Inlay City has been
burglarized 10 times during the present
incumbent's occupancy.
Burglars secured $500 worth of dia-
monds from the house of Mrs. A.
Brown at Sault Ste. Marie.
Montmorency will vote on the ques-
tion of issuing $4,000 in bonds for
building at Atlanta, the new county
seat.
A large summer hotel and 100 cot
tages are to be erected on South Man
itou Island in time for the season of
1894.
The grand encampment of Oddfel-
lows was held at Pontiac. Fully 500
delegates and several thousand visitors
were present.
The 10Th annual convention of the
Wholesale Druggists association of the
United States was held in Detroit with
large attendance.
A severe epidemic of scarlet fever
has broken out at Luther Public
schools have been closed by order of
the board of health.
Miss May Wolcott, school teacher at
Lansing, is charged with cruelty beat
ing Ada Barnes, who is ID years of age.
She was forced to resign.
The annual session of Michigan Uni
versalists was held at Bay City with an
opening sermon by Rev. George A.
Seine of Benton Harbor.
A thick bed of limestone of good
grade has been discovered at Newport,
the drills showing it to range from
eight inches to over two feet.
A unique relic in the shape of
stone bullet mold with an iron cover
was found in the crotch of a tree at
UanyAnia To-
j. r. Hooper was arrested at Port
Huron on the order of Detective Car
penter, of Montreal. He is charged
with the murder of his wife with prus-
sic acid.
A dozen young men in Battle Creek
have formed company To go north
trapping this fall and winter. Inabil-
ity TO secure work leads them 70 hunt
for a living.
The Democrats of the First congress
sional district have named Levi i,
Griffin, a prominent Detroit lawyer, as
their candidate for the seat of the late
Hon. j. Logan Chapman in congress.
After two years trial the Prohibit
tionists of Branch county are of the
is sold than ever before, and this, too,
without the usual license restrictions.
Several business places were partly
flooded and considerable stock des-
troyed by a heavy fall of rain at Ben
ton Harbor. Damaged to the amount
of several thousand dollars was done.
Albion college commenced it's SD
year with the largest class in its his
tory. L. Il. Moulton has succeeded G.
+. Allen as director of sports. Roy Il.
Way has been named as foot ball man
ager.
A. II. Calkins. of Chicago, has sold
to the Spring Lake Hotel company the
Spring Lake hotel and adjoining prop
erty. Consideration, $4,000. The
company is composed of Chicago capt.
talistS.
The Custer Bridage reunion which
was to have taken place at Grand Rap
ids Oct. 10th, has been indefinitely
postponed. The annual reunion of
the Sixth Michigan Cavalry will be
held there Jan. l, 1894.
A very pleasant event was celebrated
at the home of w. ii. Marvin, editor of
viz - biNb N'ChbihNl' ~ ONllR bliC Ntu-
ding of his eldest daughter, Luna, to
II. r. Mason, manager of the telephone
exchange at Ypsilanti; and the 25th an
niversary of the brides parents.
Edwin ID. Sage was instantly killed
at Smyrna. He was at work on the
abutments of bridge, and some of
the workmen were lifting a large stone
with crane, when something broke,
and the stone in falling struck Sage
upon the head. He left family in
Strengthened circumstances.
An enormous crop of grapes was
harvested in and around st. Joseph.
They were put in 10-pound baskets and
sold for about Is cents each in Chicago.
The baskets cost "a cents, which,
with freight and commission, consti-
tute the charges. Even at these rates
the land produces $50 to 500 per acre
net.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati,
jackson e. Mackinaw Railroad company
will hold their annual meeting in
Toledo, November /. They will vote
upon extending the road from Addison
to Jackson. The survey has been made
and the road can be built very cheaply.