Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-27


has Is Indian boys and girls.
Capt. Ira Wilder, of Flint, has re-
signed as national bank examiner.
Methodists and Congregationalists at
Ellsworth will build new churches.
Muskegon must borrow several thous-
and dollars TO meet current expenses.
There will be erected at Remus dur
ing the present year Lutheran
church.
The bonus has been raised and Bliss
! field gets a 75-barrel roller mill and
elevator.
A Reading attorney is advertising to
procure divorces at reduced rates for
short time.
jackson has bought eight snow
plows and now the sidewalks are
cleaned by the city.
A religious Liberty association has
been organized at Battle Creek, with
A. o. TAFT as president.
The West Bay City common council
refuses to negotiate with Bay City with
a view of consolidating.
The Calhoun county Patrons of In
dustry lodges have gone over TO tho
Farmers Alliance in body.
Seventeen employees of the Collins
car works at jackson went out on
strike, demanding better wages.
Grand Haven voted in favor Of the
proposition to bond the city for Sl5,,
900 in aid of $4,000 court house.
Calumet has girl years of age
weighing 1873 pounds. 1t is said that
she will be taken to the Worlds Fair.
Alpena county will vote in the spring
on the proposition to bond for the pur-
pose of erecting SIS, ZOO court house.
Cadillac expects to add 500 dwellings
to her possessions, during 1898, largely
owing to the advent of three new stave
mills.
Frank Thompson, of near st. Charles.
was fatally injured, being struck in
the abdomen by board flying of from
a saw.
There have been FIVE deaths from
diphtheria in Bath this winter. Henry
Sobers lost three children by the
disease.
A Grand Rapids furniture establish
ment captured the contract for furnish
ing the new, big Hampden hotel in
Chicago.
Esta Lundborg, Swedish domestic
at Marquette. tipped over a lamp and
was so terribly burned that recovery is
hopeless.
Mrs IL. Grjenen was found wander
ing in the woods near Portage Lake.
She says her husband drove her out of
the house.
The Epworth league Of the NJ. Z.
church will hold a state convention at
Grand Rapids April and g. Bishop
Ninde will be present
The Michigan Woman's Press
association held its midwinter session
at Charlotte. A number of papers
were read by members.
A stranger jumped from freight
train at Metamora, and, falling under
the wheels, was cut to pieces. He is
supposed to have lived in Detroit.
Crystal Falls has new hose tower
So feet high. In it there will be a
reading room and beds for crew of
six firemen to sleep there regularly.
Bay county has IS miles of stone
road, with work commenced on i2
miles more The commissioners have
$1,000 TO expend On them this season.
William Sparrow had a tooth ex-
tracted at Saginaw while in an enfee-
bled condition. the result of typhoid
fever. Blood poisoning ensucd and he
is now dead. e
Panama shareholders and bondhold-
ers have held a meeting and resolved
to form an executive committee with
25,000,000 francs capital and then to
apply for state aid.
Sand Creek Cemetery association,
which is composed entirely of women,
held their annual meeting recently and
then adjourned to the home of neigh
Dor and enjoyed dance.
An engine on the Detroit, Lansing e.
Northern passenger train, was de-
rallied few miles from Lansing by tho
breaking of a driving rod. The er CINE
was wrecked, but no one was injured.
The knitting department of tho state
prison at Marquette has earned 1000
the past year, and the broom depart
ment 81, 900. This Is exclusive of the
allowance of 50 cents per day for each
man.
Kalamazoo people are drinking river
water, which the board of health says
is impure and offensive, all because
the aldermen cannot decide how best
to spend the $4,000 which the voters
have declared should provide new
water supply.
The West Michigan fair association
elected A. Il. Cheney president, and
Col. t. G. Pierce, treasurer. They are
Ssl5 in debt. IL is said the West
Michigan and Kent county fairs will
continue their fight this year by select
ing the same dates.
A great crowd of men, boys and
girls were coasting upon Fountain
street hill at Grand Rapids when sad
accident occurred. A pair of hobs
collided with hack and dozen people
were more or less injured. Five of
them had their left legs broken.
Erik Kangas stands convicted of kill
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