Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-02
General Newa.


An athletic club has been organized
in Memphis.
A new Catholic church will be built
at INLAY City.
Deckerville is preparing for u big
building boom.
The Port Huron city opera house is
now being rebuilt.
The BARRIERS of Port Huron will or
ganize local union.
The Thornton knights will build 60
feet addition to their hall.
A four weeks State. Institute will be
held in Lexington next summer.
The three churches of Capac have
begun series of revival meetings.
A society for the protection of game
has been organized in Port Huron.
The Congregational society at Ar
mazda will place a piano in their church.
Gagetown has q handsome new brick
block used as bank and u general
store.
Nellie O'Mara, of Sand Beach, will
open a millinery shop at Deckeryille
April LIST.
There is u movement on foot to es-
tablish a postoffice at Columbus with
Daniel Hunt as postmaster.
Captain Alexander st. Bernard, the
oldest pioneer resident of st. Clair,
died last week Monday, aged IS years.
Mrs. John F. Seeley, whose husband
is proprietor of the bank at Caro-, died
very suddenly at Ann Arbor, where
she was visiting.
Radike Bros, of China township. will
put in first-class roller mill at Rich
mond, provided that village will furnish
a site and erect a building.
Two Alpena farmers have been ar
rested, charged with smuggling four
horses from Canada. The men claim
ed they were Canadian emigrants.
The libel suit begun against the De-
troit Evening News 10y w. +. Davidson,
of Port Huron, has been discontinued :,
it is stated, the News making a good
and sufficient apology.
Daniel Atcheson, of Sarnia, a yard
man at the tunnel, got his foot caught
in the switch which tripped him and the
wheels passed over his leg at the hip.
He died in few hours.
Mrs. G.. b. Hubbard, of Marysville,
took dose of laudanum recently with
suicidal intent, but doctor frustrated
the attempt. She still insists on sui
eide and her husband thinks she is
crazy.
James Burroughs, a member of
Daniels Band, of Marine City, is con-
fined in the county Jail, having become
insane. He will be taken to Pontiac.
He refuses to keep his clothes on and
prays all the time.
The post-mortem examination held
over the body of George Bedford, late
of Port Huron, revealed that his body
was entirely filled with small cancers
the worst one being in his stomach. 1t
was a remarkable case.
The ckerville-Downington school
building is said to be unsafe and in a
generally delapidated condition. The
lower story is used as a place for enter
tainments, the upper for school-room.
Bad lookout for the children should
the building collapse.
At we'll attended and enthusiastic
meeting of the p. of /. held at their
hall Wednesday, contract was en-
tered into with G. j. Cudworth for
another year at the same percentage
as heretofore. 375 families, residents
of Macomb and st. Clair counties are
parties to the contract.-Armada
Graphic.
There is some talk that an action
will be started against the st. Clair
Tunnel Company in the United States
court for fraud. 1t is said that most
of the materials used in building the
tunnel. after the shields met, were
struggled from Canada, no duty being
paid on anything except on stone and
cement. But it is also claimed that
the company had no intention of COM
hitting any violation of the L. $. GUS
toms regulations. The tunnel is an
international work.
Richmond is quite elated over rail-
road rumors rife recently, which, if
carried out will make of Richmond a
different town. Reports are being
spread that line between Port Huron
and Chicago will be completed, by way
of the Air Line Division, the terminus
of which is Jackson. A line Is miles
in length will connect Jackson and
Addison, on the Cincinnati, Jackson q
Mackinaw, which road it is said the
Grand Trunk Co. has lately secured.
The G.. & G.. L. will not be abandoned,
but this scheme will obyiate the neces-
sity of double tracking that line.