Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-13

Barn burners are operating about
Rockville.
Ice boating is great feature on
Cavanaugh lake this winter.
Two dredge scows are being built at
st. Joseph for service on the Mississippi
river
Commander Dean, of the G.. A. R., is
being pushed for regent of the State
University.
A wealthy Shylock at Bridgeman
gets as high as go per cent interest for
money let out.
There is some talk of booming Judge
Camp, of Saginaw, for regent on the
Republican ticket.
1t is rumored that the Cincinnati,
jackson 81 Mackinaw carshops will be
located at Addison.
Miss Emma Gates, of Charlotte, has
been hired to sing in the Worlds Fair
chorus at $50 per week.
J. S. Davis and Thomas Armstrong
set fire to their hunks in the Jail at
Hersey and escaped during the excite
ment which followed.
The state central board of control
will return SIS, 900, unexpended balance,
to the state, after paying current ex-
penses for 1891 and 1892.
Fr. Macy, of Hudson, received two
fawns by express from northern
Michigan, sent TO him by Lawyer
Moriarity, of Crystal Falls.
A. II. Petrie, of Muskegon, sues
John Torrent of the same place for
100000 Both are wealthy men and
have been quarreling for years.
The convicts in the branch prison at
Marquette refused to work until the
warden, with the aid Of few rifles,
persuaded them to the contrary.
The drinking water tank in the
Chicago 81 Grand Trunk depot at Cass-
opolis was poisoned. c. S. Keafer, who
imbibed some of the water, is critically
ill.
The editor of the Peoples party
paper at Greenville sued six candidates
for booming them. He got S106 and
the ungrateful politicians have APP
pealed.
An Adrian woman has patented
device for holding up trains. High
way men need not apply for state
rights, as this article is intended for
ladies only.
A. d. Hopper has sold his home in
West Bay City because SO near the
Salvation Army barracks. He says he
is not surprised that their noise drives
the devil away.
Lora Kellogg, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of a farmer near Marquette, was
lost during big snow storm and was
so severely frozen before being found
that she will probably die.
David Scott, aged co years, who
lived alone at Prospect Hill, seven
miles from jackson, was found dead in
his home. 1t looks like case of foul
play and the coroner is investigating.
Guy Bathriclx, the Now boy who
murdered his father was arraigned at
Pontiac on charge of assault with in
tent to kill. He was discharged and
Immediately rearrested on a charge OF
murder.
Union City is manufacturing good
citizens out of class of old topers who
have haunted the beer corners for a
generation past. She has turned out
seven complete jobs already, and has
an unlimited stock in the rough"
The w. G. T. U. ladies of Branch
county are subscribing 500 each to be
fund for the prosecution of the viola
ton of the local option law. There
are 81 organizations in the county, and
they expect to make up a very effective
purse.
Mark w. Stevens, secretary of the
Worlds Fair commission, has collected
81, 475 from the lumbermen in Saginaw,
5000 in Bay City, SS25 in the upper
peninsula and 81, 400 in Detroit for the
states exhibit of forestry products at
the Worlds Fair.
Paul O'Hamlin, of Dublin, ireland,
rescued his daughter Maggie from a
house of evil resort at Jackson. She
ran away with student, who deserted
her. The man returned to O'Hamlln,
confessed his sin and suicided.
o. Hamlin has been seeking his daugh-
ter three years.
Mrs. Frank Dewitt, of jackson. was
riding with her father, ID. G. Wing,
when the horse became frightened and
ran away. The sleigh was overturned
and both were thrown out. Mr.. Wing,
who is very heavy man, fell upon his
daughter. She was taken to her home
and was found to be seriously injured.
w. w. GUNNER, of Cadillac, recently
purchased $4,000 acres of hardwood
land in Wexford county from the
Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad and
the Agricultural college, He will soon
build narrow guage road from Cad
lilac TO the farthest limit of the land
and will carry the timber to that town
to be manufactured. This insures
Cadillac's prosperity for at least Is
| years to come.
A couple at Holloway started on.
their wedding tour somewhat hur-
riedly. Arriving at the depot as the
train was pulling o ut, they jumped or
to the first platform back of the
!. tender, expecting they could gc
through the express cars to tn,
coach, but found IL impossible, and
were compelled to ride to the nexi
tstation In tho ~9pen air with tn,
thermometer near.zero,
rThexg4,Sns fever epidemic seems ts
d a..