Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-09

with capital stock Of $4,000.
After raising about SIS, 600 for the fire
sufferers, Saginaw people are trying
to raise So, 900 for Fourth of July cell.
ebration.
The Woman's Relief Corps of Vicl1s-
burg is putting in a foundation for a
soldiers monument to be erected in
that village.
The common council at Niles has APP
pointed committee to look into the
matter of getting a new system of
water works.
T. j. Martin, of Dowagiac, claims to
be the oldest tonsoral artist in Michi-
gan, having worked at his trade for
over 60 years.
Alpena will celebrate the glorious
Fourth in great style, a Thousand dol
lars in prizes for races, and everything
in proportion.
1t is considered as practically settled
at Washington that Judge Wheeler, of
Ludington, will be appointed pension
agent for Michigan.
TheCha mpion Ore Co., of Ishpeming,
has sold considerable ore during the
of men to ship its present stock.
Considerable comment was caused at
Battle Creek by the marriage of Clara
Rathfon, white girl, to Frank Harris,
a colored man living at Pcnntield.
Bay county wheat and corn is in bad
shape. Water is standing on many
fields to the depth of several inches, and
the grain is rotting in the ground.
John Murphy, a burglar was shot by
Officer Hilmer at Marinette, Wis, died
at Menominee. Murphy was but 10
years old, and said his home was in
| Toledo.
William McRath, of Chesaning, has
commenced the erection, at Cadillac, of
potash factory. Wood ashes will be
used. Later plant to make pear ash
will be put in.
George Jackson, the alleged accom-
plice of Gallagher, the lonia brute who
is now serving three years at Jackson
for criminal assault upon small girl,
was arrested near Holland.
j. Z. McCloskey, commissioner of
schools FOR Montcalm county during
the past three years, has been en-
schools for the ensuing year.
The trustees and ladies of the Con-
rational church, of Copemish, have
by lots of hard work and perseverance
just completed a neat little church.
The first services will be held ON June
IS.
The Ann Arbor road will no longer
give traveller the sensation of being
rocked in cradle. w. Il. Burt saws
he is going TO have the entire line
graveled, raised a foot and supplied
with heavy rails.
Edward Stoddard and his brother
Howard, aged 7 and respectively,
went fishing at Lake City. Howard
missed his brother and after search
his body was found in the water where
he had stumbled and fell and drowned
The ocean steamship Oregon from
| Liverpool arrived at quarantine below
| Quebec with $50 passengers aboard.
! Five deaths occurred during the voy-
age, with what is alleged to be diph-
! liberia, and there are Is cases aboard
| the vessel.
A syndicate of Chicago capitalists,
headed by Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., is
looking over the ground between st.
| Joseph and Niles with the intention of
building an electric railway with a
| possible southern terminus at some
| point in Indiana.
Edward II. Rankin, Of Tecumseh, re-
covered 81 coo from Albert IA. Crane,
o. Z. Bills and Nathan Bradley for ma
licious prosecution. Four years ago
they had him arrested on a charge of
embezzlcment, but failed to have him
bound over for trial.
Corunna citizens held meeting and
passed resolutions denouncing the
recent lynching of the murderer,
Sullivan, at that place and calling upon
Gov. Rich to appoint a commission to
investigate the disgraceful affair and
bring the lynchers to justice.
The Alpena &c Northwestern railroad
is being rapidly pushed through the
forests, and by October l passenger
trains Will for the first time awaken
the inhabitants of Pressure Isle county
with shrill toot. This is the first
railroad TO touch the virgin forests of
this county.
An incendiary fire in the warehouse
of the Maripett paper mill No. 3, OPP
posite Menominee, destroyed paper and
alum to the value of $4,000, fully in
sured. Wads of paper saturated with
kerosene were found. This is the
third FIRE of an incendiary nature dur
ing the week.
The steam launch May Carter, owned
by Joseph Burns, of Duluth, was stolen
from her dock at that port by some un-
known persons. She was seen passing
through the canal shortly after mid
night, and no trace of her has been
found. The May Carter is of four tons
register and is valued at $1,000.
Susie Smith, a Holton girl, is in
trouble She was employed as house
keeper by farmer named David p.
James. She says he promised to pay
her SO per week, but refused TO do so.
AS result she was forced TO steal from
him. She says she took Sl1. James is
about 60 years of age, while the girl is
1S.