Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-17

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spanked.
Hing Lee, an Ypsilanti Chinese"
don't care if his country is licked. He
would like the present Tartar dynasty
overthrown.
In Standish every mill and factory
is running full blast, and a new fac
tory, the Star Wooden works, is rap
idly approaching completion.
A new barn on the farm of j. w.
Sutherland, five miles north of Lapeer,
was burned together with all its con-
tents. Loss $1,000; insurance small.
Incendiary.
l.. Brooks, who lives near Lawton,
is so years old, but thinks he can't
afford 90 live the few remaining years
of his life. He cut his throat three
times with case knife, but his wife
and son interfered in time to save his
life.
Charles Lounsbury was run down by
| two farmers and arrested at Jackson,
charged with entering two farm
houses north of the city and taking
money, watches and other valua bles.
The stolen property was found on his
! person.
When the state militia were in Iron
wood the gay soldiers simply cut the
! Ironwood boys out with their brass
buttons, blue clothes and engaging
smiles Now the lronwood boys have
organized a boycott on the tickle Iron
wood girls.
, Mrs. Kitzinger, wife of Otto Kit
Finger, a Manistee lumberman, was
thrown from dog cart in which she
was riding, striking on her head and
! fracturing the base of her skull. Her
! physicians say there arc no hopes for
her recovery.
George II. Eastman, we'll known
and wealthy lumberman at Grand
Rapids, has given trust deed TO the
Peninsular Trust company. of that
city, covering all his property. lie is
old, and no longer desires the rcspon-
sibility of management
Flora Ouclette, the Marine City girl
who claims the power TO make the
water give up its dead, made an I'M
successful attempt at Port Huron,
TO find the body of Daniel McLeister,
the Detroit boy who was drowned in
the st. Clair river the other day.
A cow belonging to John Parker. of
/ Mulliken, gave birth TO calf with
seven legs, two heads, two tails and
eight perfect feet. The calf was per-
feet in every particular. 1t has been
taken TO Lansing, where it will be
stuffed and placed on exhibition.
| Reports to the state board of health
show diarrhea, rheumatism, neuralgia,
consumption, cholera morbus, in the
order named, causing the most sick
ness in Michigan during the week end
ing August 4. Consumption was re-
ported at 300 places, scarlet fever at
33, typhoid fever ct %, diphtheria at
II, measles at 8 and smallpox at 3
places.
Rev. William Anderson, pastor of the
INLAY City Congregational church for
the past six years has accepted call
TO the churches at Maiden and Dover,
Ill. He will begin his labors on his
new charge the LIST of September. He
and his family have large circle Of
friends.
Residents along the Black River at
Port Huron say that the odor from
that stagnant stream is sickening dur
ing the present hot weather. They
clam that it is ineXcusable, that an
inlet could be put in from Lake Huron
in three weeks at an expense of less
than $1,000.
A peculiar accident happened to Mrs.
Henry Ebling, of Newaygo, recently.
| The lady was passing n cow at the in
slant it threw ITS head around TO rid
itself of flies. She was impaled on the
horns of the animal and received
wounds from which il will take her
some weeks to recover.
An Adrian man invited certain
woman TO stay in his house and keep
away his wife, on whom he had soured.
| The plan succeeded for a while. until
the certain woman objected to the rats
nests in the mans bed and threw the
entire outfit out the window. The man
kicked. but was told he could go if he
didn't like things. Now he has brought
suit to have the woman elected.
The senate committee on military
affairs has reported adversely upon
the bill TO recognize Frank ID. Baldwin
as Northumberland of the Nineteenth
Michigan infantry from May u, 1855,
the committee claiming the commits
sion was given when the office no
| longer GNlSJeu. i nc ldSb MlCnlRdn
legislature passed bill authorizing
Gov Hich TO commission him as lieu
tenant-colonel from that date, and the
commission was ISSUED.
The steamer Puritan, of the Chicago,
st. Joseph & Benton Harbor Transpor-
tation company, ran into the ferry
steamer Richmond and cut her in two
The ferry runs between st. Joseph and
the Hotel St Joseph, and was crossing
to get passengers from the morning
boat when the Puritan struck her. She
struck just aft of the pilot house, car
rying away pilot house and cabin, and
sank in three minutes after being
struck. The crew were rescued from
the water by the life-saving crew.
Another proof that advertising pays.
About four months ago +. p. Buel lost
a horse, and after nearly two weeks of
search in every direction the horse
was given up as lost. Last week one
OF his neighbors bought at the Record
Office package of old papers, among
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