Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-24


inee young man, was injured by log
rolling over him at Elmwood. He died
on his way to his home.
The priest of the Menominee Polish
congregation has been arrested for
slandering the trustees of his church
by accusing them of theft.
Grand Ledge Odd Fellows will have
big blowout Feb. 2S. They will de-
dictate large new hall. Visitors from
various places will attend.
Edward b. Lidell was sentenced to
life confinement at jackson for the
murder of C. s. Salter in the Cadillac
Hotel, Detroit, last November.
A petition is being quite generally
signed in Adrian, asking that Capt. Il.
+. Graves be made commandant of the
soldiers home at Grand Rapids
The Typographical survey of Connec-
ticut shows the area to be 1904 square
miles or $40 square miles greater than
supposed. The cost was $4,000.
The Charlotte Improvement company
was voted $1,000 by the city council.
An injunction prevented the payment,
but the injunction was dissolved.
st. Clair Co. cannot secure enough un-
prejudiced veniremen to try the alleged
murderer Kuhn, of Port Huron, and
the case may go to Lapeer county.
| Alva Rhodes and Norman Stevens,
10 years old, were arrested at Bay City
for numerous burglaries and confessed.
Their parents are highly esteemed.
Henry Benson, wealthy farmer liv-
ing near Flint, paid fine of $40, after
pleading guilty to cruelty to ANIMALS.
He starved his horses, allowing several
of them to die.
Muskegon people are already making
preparations TO entertain the Michigan
veterans on the occasion of the state
encampment, to be held in that city
March z, s and Q.
Miss Gertrude Beigh, u domestic at
the home of Clarence NJ. Putnam, of
Nashville, committed suicide by shoot
ing herself through the heart. The
cause is unknown.
A lot of beer in bottles arrived in
Champion few days ago from Mil
waukee. The lot was frozen and every
bottle broken. Somebody loses $500 by
Jack Frost's freshness.
William Galbraith, Sr. an old resi-
dent of Crystal Falls, while shoveling
snow from the roof of house slipped
and tumbled to the stoop below, break
ing his neck. He died instantly.
Three small children of John Schroe-
der, of Bay City, died from diptheria
last week. Schroeder is laboring
man and is in straitened circumstances.
He has two more children who may die
from the disease.
Fred Carney and A. c. Merryman,
Menominee lumbermen, have received
from the United States fish hatchery
so, 900 brook trout fry, which they have
deposited in a beautiful little spring
lake near Beechwood.
Mrs. Nancy Smith, a slightly de
ranged woman who lived with her son
near Eaton Rapids died from an over
dose of morphine administered, it is
supposed, with suicidal intent. Mrs.
Smith was 20 years old.
Mike McGraw, section foreman of the
| Elk Rapids division of the Chicago, q
West Michigan, was instantly killed at
Williamsburg. He probably slipped
and fell, four cars having passed over
| lAlu OClOlC liC was OloCONCICu.
John Winters, aged 60, well-known
Saginaw plasterer, was driving home
at late hour when his horse ran
away, throwing him out. His skull
was fractured against the curbstone,
and death was instantaneous.
The "Planlx tavern ont beach" has
been sold at st. Joseph for $50, 900 cash.
j. G. Fitzgerald, of Grand Rapids; j..
| III. Graham, of Milwaukee, were the
| purchasers. 1t will be called Hotel St.
Joseph and will be opened June l.
C. X. Eddy & Son, of Saginaw, have
added 100000 feet of Canadian pine
to their holding of 40O,000,0O0 feet in
Georgian Bay district. This latest
purchase is ON the Spanish river, where
| 5000, 900 feet will be cut before spring.
| Owen Blevens is an inmate of the
Calhoun county poor house and for
some time has had his funeral clothes
| laid away in the care of friend.
| Fred Swanagan has been arrested on
the charge of stealing the uncanny
| garments.
| +. S. Keskey of Ishpeming. sues his
| father to obtain possession of his son.
| Inc eluer heSkey Chains I'd per week
for ID years for board, clothing and
care of the child, amounting to over
So, 900, before he will surrender posses
sion of his charge.
The coroner's jury investigating the
recent fatal Manton hill wreck on the
Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad charge
the accident to the carelessness of En-
gineer Tate, whose train dashed into
the caboose of the standing train. The
company is not blamed for the death
of Henry Hurleson, who was warned in
plenty time to escape.
! The state council of the Michigan
junior order OF United American me-
chanics held a session at Saginaw.
| Their constitution is an exemplification
of the motto of America for Ameri-
cans" They are pledged to maintain
the public schools and to prevent sec
tartan interference Herewith. The
national society meets in Detroit in
June.
Mrs. ]. W. Chaddock and daughter,
of Kalamazoo, and Miss Lulu Williams,
of Ally, are in Springville, N. Y, con-
testing the will of bachelor brother
of the former, ID. ID. Ingalls,, who died