Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07

City murderer, was to have been re-
sumed, but Oh account of the absence of
leading witnesses it had to be post
poned.
The Dundee Fair association has de-
cided to hold grand matinee on their
track July 4, and that the village shall
have an old-fashioned Fourth of July
blow out.
Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, of Portland,
Mich, president of the Fifth district of
Michigan w. G. Il. U. will give series
of lectures and drills through the
Seventh district.
The drug store of DR.. O'Gould, at
Henderson, was robbed. From $50 to
$500 worth of goods and So in change
are gone. A lot of Bibles are among
the goods stolen.
Ex-senator Benson was badly hurt on
his farm near Mt Morris. A horse
knocked him down and kicked in the
back. Benson was unconscious for IL
kours, but will recover.
James Smith, brakeman on the Flint
& Pere Marquette local freight, while
coupling cars at Starns' siding fell
under the wheels and had his left leg
cut off. He may recover.
By the smashing of buggy by an
electric car in West Bay City Miss
Brady and Mrs. Waldbauer were in
iured. There was no conductor and
the motorman was collecting fares.
An unknown man, 80 years old, COM
mitted suicide near Romulus with a
pocket-knife. He left paper on
which was written: "Relatives'' adj
dress, Scott, Vanwert county, Ohio.
Thomas Reed of Thompsonville, fell
into the river and several logs rolled
on top of him. He broke a shoulder,
dislocated a knee and was badly cut
about the head, bat will pull through.
DIR. Vaughn, of the University of Mich
igan, was called TO New York to testify,
as an expert, in an important morphine
poisoning case. This is considered a
marked compliment, both to DIR. Vaughn
and the university.
The Michigan Schoolmaster's club
will meet in the north wing of the
University hall at Ann Arbor, April s.
A number of the principal educators of
the state will be present and interest
ing papers will be read and discussed.
A project is on foot at Decatur to inn
prove the race track established there
last season and to build stables and a
grand stand. An effort will be made
to hang up purses large enough to at
tract some of the best horses in the
Michigan circuit.
Mrs. Hiram Cox and her husband, of
Wakelee, will both recover. Cox is the
nj 90
der his wife, and tried to end his own
existence by cutting his throat. He
will probably be declared insane and
sent to the asylum.
Tim Daley, the well-known lumber
man of Marquette, committed suicide
at his homo at Beaufort by cutting his
throat with razor. lie was generally
cheerful and popular among his fellow
workmen, and no cause, save tempo
rary insanity, can be assigned for his
rash act,
Judge and Mrs. j. II. Lucas, both
well-known attorneys of Lansing,
were badly injured in n runaway ac-
cident at that place Mrs. Lucas arm
was broken and her face seriously dis
figured, while her husband escaped
with numerous painful but not dan
gerous injuries.
Geo. w. Owen, editor of the Amer
lean at 0wosso, has begun another
$4,000 libel suit against f. o. Dewey,
of the Times, accusing Owen of work.
ing in the interest of Corunna against
Owosso. This is the second suit Owen
has instituted against Dewey, neither
of which has yet been tried.
A valuable horse attached TO buggy
was stolen from an alley at jackson
and the next day word came from
Charlotte that the rig and thief had
been captured there. The man gave
his name as Neil Anderson, who is said
to be Montcalm county burglar re-
leased from state prison two days be-
fore.
The Pontiac sportsmen will by a
series of shoots determine who will
represent the club at the Worlds Fair.
There are some shooters there of the
| highest grade in the state, having won
at different times the state medal for
trap-shooting, and certainly ought to
make creditable showing in the fast
est company.
The Ludington life saving crew, in
/ charge OF CdpU. CndS. lu1JS, were Sc
| lected from the hundreds of stations in
the United States to represent the life
saving service at the Worlds Fair.
They took possession of the new sta
ton prepared for them at jackson
Park, April 1, where they were pro-
vided with an entire new outfit of
boats and apparatus.
Here is a spring frog story that has
frst-class backing: In digging up the
masonry at the water works at Jackson
which was put in 20 years ago, a por-
ton of the cement was pried apart and
a live frog found. The masonry was
solid all about his frogship and the
latter was trihe stiff in the joints at
first, but, being warmed up, made hops
that could knock any frog out born
last summer.
The Michigan State Medical society
will hold its 2sth annual meeting at
the opera house at Muskegon, May IL
and IL. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all members of the profess
sion to attend. Members desiring to
read papers are asked to notify the
secretary so that he may reserve a
place for them on the program, which