Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-29
THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN.

gan engineering society Will De uelu
at jackson, January PA.
The Choral Union of the University
of Michigan rendered the messiah
in very acceptable manner.
Burglars entered the depot at Man
istique while the employees were at din
ner and made away with $40.
In riot between Hungarians and
police at Scranton, Pa, one policeman
was shot and several others were badly
hurt.
William Moule's sash and door and
blind factory and foundry was totally
consumed by fire at Oxford. No in
surance.
John Clegg, the assistant postmaster
of Atlantic Mine, charged with a heavy
defalcation, has been arrested at Ga
lena, Ill.
Shirley Dafoe, of Coral, was kicked in
the head by colt. Sixteen pieces OF
his skull have been removed and yet
the boy lives.
James Picllford, one of the wealthiest
farmers in Rome township, Lenawee
county, fell on the ice fractured his
skull and is dead.
Marshall will hold a special election
January Is to vote on the proposition
to bond the city for $50 900 for a sys-
TEN of water works.
Mrs. c. $. Waller, Of Glenn, commit
ted suicide at South Haven by hang
ing herself with a towel. Cause, de-
spondency from i'll health.
Farmers of Leroy and Newton will
run cooperative creamery. Stock is
being subscribed, and the plant will
be completed within few months.
Bert Stewart was struck on the head
by n beam at barn raising near
Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county, and it
is thought that the injury will prove
fatal.
Noah Dodge, a pioneer of Spring
Arbor, died of la grippe, aged so years
His wife died the day previous of the
same disease and they were buried to-
gether
The Grange society has received new
life and vigor in Branch and Calhoun
counties. The local township organi-
cations are receiving numerous mem
bers at every meeting.
Mrs Henry Ide, living three miles
west of Coldwatcr, fell down cellar,
breaking her shoulder blade. The in
jury proved serious on account of her
age, she being 90 years old.
George Cherry, who eloped with Il
year old Armiuda Whitman, was SEN
fenced at Adrian to six years in state
prison. He pleaded guilty TO criminal
assault, the girl being under the age of
consent.
The grand master Of the grand en-
campment of the knights Templar of
the United States, Hon. Hugh Nc
Curdy, was quietly married at Char
lotte to Mrs. Emma j. Goodrich, of
that place.
James Ogle, Sr: owner of the Rose
house, Pontiac, was knocked down by
a fractions horse and frightfully cut in
the abdomen besides receiving numer-
Gus bruises. lie is about 20 years old
but may recover.
Frances, the wife of Judge Watson
Beach, died at Lexington. She had
her teeth all pulled out the day previ-
Gus by dentist at Port Huron, and
the shock to her system was so great
as 10 CAUSE ucdlD.
An ice gorge formed in the river Raj
sin at Monroe, caused the water to
lack up. All the low lands along the
banks are flooded, and several streets
in the city were under water. Consid-
cradle damage was done.
Congressman Thomas has introduced
bills in congress appropriating $40, 900
for improving the harbor at Saugatuck,
sos 900 for the harbor at South Haven.
Sill, ZOO for the harbor at st. Joseph
and $4,000 for the st. Joseph river.
Hon. Henry Hart, of Mt Pleasant,
will retire from the circuit bench on
December Slater Is years consecu-
tive service The lisa bella County Bar
association presented the judge with
an elegant roll-top Office desk as a
token of their esteem.
DIR. II. Il. Anderson, one of Traverse
City's prominent physicians, has been
arrested on "A charge of manslaughter.
1t is alleged that he performed the
criminal operation which resulted in
the death of pretty Elsie Price, and
the arrest was in accordance with the
verdict Of the coroner's jury. Mean
while the cause of her trouble is at
large.
While S. II. Haywood, of Lexington,
was driving on the Military street
bridge, Port Huron, one of the horses
slipped and fell, striking the iron
standard, which held the trolley wire
of the electric street railway. The
shock broke an insulator overhead, the
wire fell and the electric current
passed through the body of the horse
killing him instantly.
The Michigan Central and the To
| ledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan
railroads had a big rate war to secure
the holiday patronage of the University
students. The war became so warm
that rates were made: "a round trip t,
Chicago; So round trip to St. Louis
and SIS round trip to Kansas City.
Nearly all of the 1900 students took
| advantage of the rates.
The annual report of the statisticiau
! of the national bureau of education
shows that there are in Michigan forty
| public libraries, each with over 100,
bound volumes upon their shelves.
| Three of these libraries rank among