Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-22

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John Nelson, well-to-do farmer, of
near Menominee, committed Euicide by
shooting himself through the head.
No cause is assigned for the act Nelson
was aged about 40.
Acknowledgement G. l.. Eaton has
issued an appeal TO the Michigan Ma
tional Guard To assist IN the relief of
upper peninsula miners and asks that
all commanding officers take action at
once.
Kalamazoo has moral fit The po-
! lice stopped all dice throwing and
cigar gambling wheels in cigar stores.
Faro and poker rooms, suffered TO eX-
! list, were not molested.
Patrick Vaugan attempted suicide at
! Negaunee. He took an overdose of
Paris green, then, swallowed some
whisky. Vomiting saved his life. He
was then thrust into Jail.
The creamery at Azalia, five miles
south of Milan has burned. 1t was
built last spring by stock company
of farmers and cost $1,000 The fire is
supposed To be incendiary.
Gillian Dewitt, the former Flint girl
who was kidnapped in Detroit several
weeks ago and left the city to avoid
unpleasant notoriety, has been married
to a DIR. Vegas, of Buffalo.
State Bank Commissioner Sherwood
reports that the fees for examination
of banks this year will aggregate S.
600; almost enough to pay the expenses
of the banking department.
Detroit has over 5000 families de-
pendent upon charity; it will require
about $50, 900 per month to care for
them for the next four months and the
poor fund is entirely exhausted.
John II. George was killed by a pre-
mature explosion in the Hecla mine,
near Houghton, and John Bell was so
badly injured that he will probably
die. His sight Is gone in any case.
Every body in southern Michigan has
heard of Rev. w. p. Wastell, who has
died at Clinton. Mr.. Wastell was born
at London in 1904 and was a resident
of st. Clair and vicinity for so years.
William Palmer, of Saginaw, is now
on trial for the fourth time for the
murder of his brother Albert. The
first two trials the jury disagreed, and
in the third Palmer was convicted, but
a new trial was granted on account of
error.
William Davisser, who died at Kala-
mazoo was one of the second band of
pilgrim fathers" consisting of II fam
lilies, that came TO America from HoI-
land in the '40s to escape religious per-
secution.
Arthur Turgeon, son of Capt. Tur-
geon, of Ludington was missed from
home. In the afternoon his body was
found floating in the ice, near the f. &
p. NJ dock. 1t is supposed he slipped
and fell into the water.
Miss Louise Townsend and Percy
Edsall, of Ionia and Greenville respec-
lively could not get the young lady's
consent to be married, but they skip
ped to Belding and now are tied as
tight as the Congregational parson
knew how.
University medics were playing
Rugby with a skull and having mock
hanging of student while waiting for
lessons in the lecture room when one
of the ''profs." dropped in. Several
ldNNo oAO hON AAAoSilB ilhOhR Nlit
"smarties.
The ladies of the AID society of the
Methodist church at Albion gave a
merchants carnival in the opera
house. A gorgeous scene was pre-
scented, about GO young ladies taking
part, all the costumes being supplied
from Chicago.
Manistee's contribution to the
miners, amounting to $500 cash and
$7OO worth of clothing and provisions,
has been sent. Manistee people feel
an especial duty in the matter, as they
themselves were helped by outsiders at
the time of the great contagration.
Chaplin & Son, of Niles, who own
valuable mine-fees in the neighbor-
hood of Iron Mountain have
disarmed criticism by sending
check of $500 for the suffering
miners in Iron Mountain. Their agent
announces that they will send another
check for like amount on Jan. Is
next
d. w. Waters, the Grand Rapids
phllanthropist, is not satisfied with
giving S. outright TO the charity
fund. Now he comes before the com
mon council and offers to loan the city
any sum of money it may need for the
next six months to care for the unem-
ployed, at n rate of interest to be fixed
by the council.
c. c. Beach, treasurer of Nichols,
Shepard 81 Co., at Battle Creek, re-
ceived letter from a man who signed
his name as Debtor in which the
writer stated that 60 years ago he had
borrowed piece of log chain from Mr..
Beach's father and had never returned
it. The writer inclosed a $40 bill to
pay for the chain and interest.
Two trappers near Champion were
attracted by the bowls of a dog TO the
frozen corpse of a man. The faithful
dog had not deserted its master, who
had evidently frozen to death Beside
the body was an upright stick, on
which was letter addressed to son
in Italy. The old mans name was
Pascoe Falanca, and he had lost his
way in the woods.
Three engines on the D., b. G. & A.
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