Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-03
General News.


The Jail at Deckerville received its
first occupant last week.
Britain Clark, of Port Huron, has
been appointed special policeman.
A daily mail service has been es-
tablished between LenoX and Memphis.
Hon. Seth X. Shatterly, one of the
Oldest residents of Utica, recently
died.
When Deckerville gets its new paper
there will be eight papers in Sanilac
county.
Mrs. John Regain, of Brown City,
has gone to the Pacific coast to join
her husband.
A Ministerial Association of the NJ.
NoY. l3 and ii.
Prof. Both, of Port Huron has an
old German bible for which he has
been offered $1,000.
Thos. Sawyer, of Almont, has killed
81 coons this season. He captured a
white one among them.
For bringing stolen, goods into the
county Robert Cady is spending 30
days in the county Jail.
Michael Dwyer, of Port Huron, had
several fingers crushed by IL heavy
stone falling on his hand.
The scholars Of the Marine City and
st. Clair schools are editing paper
called "The School Record"
The Richmond Review is celebrating
its seventeenth birthday this week.
We trust it will see many more.
A Sand Beach man was out hunting
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injuring several fingers on one hand.
Mrs. Joe w. Avery, of Port Huron,
Friday last slipped in front of her
house and falling, broke her right
arm.
The terms of the circuit court for the
next two years will commence on the
fist Monday of February, April, June,
October and December.
The millinery store of Mrs. A. II.
Benjamin, at Romeo, was badly dam
aged by fire one night last week.
Cause of fire unknown.
\ grand concert is to be given early
in December by the Lapeer Avenue
NJ. +. church, Port Huron, under the
leadership of Prof. Sturgis.
ID. NJ. Washer, who has been en-
gagged IN business in Almont for the
past 2S years, has moved to Inlay City
where he engages in the harness trade.
While working on the roof of ware
house at Lexington, jeff Lucia sUs-
tanned severe injuries by the building
collapsing throwing him to the ground.
Mrs. Patrick Hushin has begun suit
against the city of Port Huron for
$4,000 damages. She claims to have
been injured by & defective sidewalk.
Geo. r. Brandt, principal of the
INLAY City schools, had all the fingers
of his right hand badly crushed by the
school building.
The Whitney Family show has gone
into winter quarters at Inlay City.
1t is stated that the show is about
$4,000 behind in running expenses for
the past season.
r. b. Dickson has commenced suit
for 5000 against the village of Minden
City, claiming to have received in
juries from falling on a sidewalk two
or three years ago.
Clothes lines are being robbed of
their contents at Marine City. Some
one helped himself to ten white shirts
and other articles from the City laun-
dry the other night.
Casco township, Macomb county, is
having an epidemic of dyptheritic dys-
entery. About 90 have been afflicted,
and three deaths have occurred in one
family, children of Stephen Graemer
On Tuesday while in Towards mill
yard, two horses belonging to farmer
named Heike, became frightened and
dashed through the yard and off the
dock into the river where they were
drowned.
The case of Edward Moore, for the
murder of VIM. O'Toole, of near Port
Huron, on March 9th, 1892, will be
tried this week. Moore has been out
on bail all the time. 1t is said he shot
OToole in self-defense.
Chas. Ford, Of Port Huron, who was
caught in the act of rifiing the mails
and who has been in Jail for the past
four months, has made q clean breast
of the matter and pleaded guilty. He
will be sentenced Nov. I.
The man who has been burglarizing
the stations at Appleford, bennington,
Carsonville and Minden City, was last
week taken at Bad Axe, while enter
ing the depot there. He gives his
name as Owen Nugent and age as GO.
He is considered tough character.
A company is being organized in st.
Clair for the purpose of making plans
for the construction of an electric
railway along ST. Clair river from Port
Huron to Marine City. The prospects
for standard steam railway are not
good so the people will take the next
best thing obtainable.
James Wilson, of near Richmond,
was taken in Sl0l worth 10y sharpers ut
the race meeting held in Richmond
last week. Wilson informed the Off
GERS and they succeeded in catching
the rascals who gave up the money.
Wilson was lucky in getting it back.
He should profit by this experience.
Last Friday evening, the barns on
the John Brown farm about J mile
west of Brown City, were found to be
on fire. They could not be sayed, but
by heroic efforts of the firemen the
granary and house were saved. The
barns belonged to w. A. Stone, of
Richmond, and were not insured.