Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
General News.

business.
The county Jail is receiving numer-
Gus repairs.
Romeo deer hunters say they killed
a 300-lb bear.
The new foundry at Croswell has
started operations.
The open season for deer shooting
closed last Saturday.
Roller skating is being again hugely
enjoyed at Richmond.
A store about two miles west of Port
Sanilac, was robbed of $50 last week.
Richmond young men will make eff
forts to have u popular lecture course
this winter.
A. f. Pilkard, of Lake Odessa, will
be the publisher of a new newspaper
at Memphis.
Peter Janette, an old settler of San
lilac county, died at his home in Lex
ington Nov. II.
f. Z. Hatch, of Lapeer, came very
near being killed by an electric wire at
st. Clair last week.
f. b. Taylor, formerly of Port HUI
ron, recently gone to California, has
located at Lakeport that state.
The state immigrant inspector at
Port Huron, DR.. III. X. Mills, will be
maintained at his post all winter.
The Brown City Banner in its last
write-up of the village of Melvin.
Geo. f. Adams, of Armada, lately of
the customs force, has received the
appointment of chief clerk at Jackson
prison.
+. g. Gleason, of Richmond, has a
Bible printed in 1910 and u copy Of the
first issue of the Detroit Gazette print,
ed in 1917.
The barns of John Kelley, near Mar
lette, were burned one night last week
with most of their contents. Loss
81 800. Insurance 81 $50.
A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Gleason, of Port Huron, was
run over by a delivery truck and in
jured so badly that she soon died.
The F. q p. NJ. are sending large
quantities of ties out on the Sand
Beach division and it is believed that
the road will be changed to broad
guage next spring.
A new magazine is now being pub.
lished in Port Huron called the
"Alarm". A. l.. Mccormick, w. A.
Mustard and Il. j. Mccormick are the
editors ana publishers.
Last week travelling man for q
Detroit firm while driving between
| Romeo and Almont, was held up by
| tUn man urhn JapnonHaJ hic
He whipped up his horse and escaped
from them.
In the city clerk contest at Port HUI
ron, verdict has been given in favor
of w. f. Wagenseil over ID. j. Steph
enson. 1t is probable that Mr.. Steph
enson will carry the matter to the
Supreme Court.
Mrs. Mary II. Burns, of Grant, has
been arrested for larceny. 1t il
charged that holding a mortgage or
one-third of the crops of Thos. Kins
ley, she during his absence, seized
nearly everything on his farm.
1t is rumored that b. Mills, of Marys
Vile, will purchase the Samson saw
mill at Prescott and cut his lumbe,
there instead of at Marysvile. The
plant will be further completed by tn,
addition of a new engine and the mil
will run summer and winter and tn,
people of that vicinity are jubilant owe
the proposed purchase.
Dayid Turner claims that he was pu
to work in the tunnel in the sane
pocket when high pressure of al
was on and kept at work continuousl,
for 16 hours without food after beiny
at work for the previous "a hours
When he got out he became uncon
scious and finally deaf. lie bring
suit against the tunnel company 70
$40, 600.
Geo. II. Beatty, of Richmond, Will,
at the station standing too near thu
edge Of the platform, was struck by
train backing up. lie was knocked
down but fell out of reach of TIT
wheels or death would have been tn,
result. The next day travelin.
agent rather drunk, tried TO board
moving train but tripped backward
and fell between the rails. If it wa
not that he was on the rear end Of the
last coach he would have been killed