Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-04-13
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.


A high water tower will be erected
TO supply the Kalamazoo insane asy-
lum.
The Volunteer mines in Negaunee
have closed down. About 100 men were
employed.
On account of alleged family troubles,
Mrs. Owen Clarke, of Fife Lake, shot
herself through the heart.
Kalamazoo women of the w. C. Il. U.
have adopted resolutions asking that
the postotfice be closed on Sunday.
DIR. Frank II. Tyler of Kalamazoo,
has been elected president OF the
Southwestern Homeopathic Medical
society.
The Home and Foreign Missionary
society of the Detroit Presbytery was
held at Holly.
Lake Ann capitalists intend to erect
a planning mill which is to be in run
ming order in 60 days.
The body of the mate of the schooner
Minnehaha, which went to pieces near
Manistee last October, has been picked
up on the beach.
The affection known as pink eye has
become quite prevalent at Bay City.
There are 40 or so cases in the city,
mostly among adults.
A rushing river has been found under
Traverse City at a depth Of 230 feet.
TIE scheme now is to furnish water at
half the rate the city water costs.
At the annual meeting of the Michi-
gan Mutual Benefit association it was
decided not to confine membership TO
Masons exclusively, but make it gen.
eral in its nature.
The full returns of the recent cleo
ton in Alpena county give a handsome
majority in favor of bonding the county
for 500, 900 which is to be expended in
making good roads
A new corporation, to be known as
the Cadillac Handle Company has been
organized at Cadillac with a capital
stock of $4,000. The company will
manufacture broom handles.
The final count of the vote on the
proposition TO move the Benzic county
seat from BenZonia to Capital City has
been decided in favor of the former by
a majority of probably 100 votes.
Chris McCracllen, a well known young
man Of Grand Blanc, attempted suicide
by cutting his throat with a pocket
knife. He made two deep gashes in his
neck and another in his wrist. No
cause known.
The Michigan Conference associa-
ton of the Woman's Foreign Mission
airy society of the Methodist Episcopal
church will hold its fourth annual SEES
sion at kalamazoo, April 1919, in the
First NJ. L. church.
The Blue Iron Mining company
closed down its mine at Negaunec and
in consequence threw IS men out of
employment. 1t is feared that but one
mine in that city will be in working
operation by June.
In consequence of the arrest of an
old soldier, charged with drunkenness,
it has been discovered that Watervleit
has been unconstitutionally incorpor-
ated, and a new set of ordinances have
been adopted as a result.
Young Newl1irb, the defaulting
cashier of the Bay City savings bank,
was brought back from Texas. New
kirk says he cannot tell the exact
amount of his misrepresentation, but
he believes that they are about 1000.
John Dcgroat, teamster of Lapeer,
took a large quantity of strychnine,
and being resuscitated drank IA bottle
of ink. Although he will not die he
will be permanently paralyzed. Do
mestic infelicity was the cause given
for his action.
Three men were badly hurt in dy-
Mantle explosion at Berrien Springs.
One man had his arm blown off, an
other suffered fractured chin, while
another was badly hurt. The affair
was kept quiet, because the men were
dynamiting fish, contrary to the law.
Wexford county farmers have been
victimized out of many dollars by
sharpers. These fellows sell them a
lot of cheap goods at eXtortionate
prices and take the farmers notes.
The farmers have TO pay the notes and
they find they have little or nothing
to show for them.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Sal1ris Silvola, the eX-postmaster of
Calumet, who year ago was charged
with being short in his accounts TO the
amount of $2,361.77. Mr.. Silvola has
since made the amount good to the
government and now claims that it is
in debt TO him So, 800.
Mrs. Roelof Hazekamp was found
dead in her bed at Holland. She re-
tired in good health. Neighbors dis
covered that the doors were locked and
gained entrance through window. II
is thought a fire originated from an
explosive lamp and smothered the
woman. She was As years old and
lived alone about four miles south of
Holland.
State Game Warden Charles S. Hamp-
ton, of Petoslxey, asserts that the bust
ness of his Office has so increased that
it is necessary for him TO employ a
clerk. Attorney-Gencral Ellis has fur
nished Auditor-GeneralT Turner an opin-
ion in which he holds that the state
game warden is not entitled to a per-
manent clerk under the statute Great
ing the office.
The alleged cruelty of Mrs. Ursula
Burpee TO her foster-son, Ira Spangle-
berger, at New Lothrop, is still the
center Of excitement. One of the boy S