Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-04-27
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

Win SlecIrlclty soon.
Twenty saloonkeepers of Ishpeming
will go out of business on May l.
Secretary of State Gardner will soon
hire so extra clerks TO compile the
state census.
There is so much gambling going on
in Hart that the local paper makes in
dignant protest.
At Bad Axe, the 3-year-old daughter
of George Collins was so badly bitten
by a dog that she will die.
George Mathew and wife, of Ban
croft, have been arrested, charged with
keeping disordrrly house.
A Benton Harbor Negro tried to kill
Clifford Brown, his employer. By
ISLANDERS saved Browns life.
Wallace Mcneil, Battle Creek wild
over, was arrested on the charge of
assaulting Ethel Kepp, a 7-year-old
girl.
Prof. John Martin, of Battle Creek,
has been appointed professor of instru-
mental music at Olivet. 1t is a new
! department.
The London Daily News says that
Mr.. Gladstone is indisposed. His con-
dition is not serious, but his complaint
is a weakening one.
BV the explosion of boiler at the
Hutchinson Qowa) electric light
| plant, three men were instantly killed
and one fatally injured.
Mancelona business men will try to
| persuade the Toledo, Ann Arbor, &
North Michigan and Manistee & North
western railroads to build to their
| town.
Clarence w. Erskine, a wcll-known
Battle Creek citizen and Mrs. Belle
Hathaway were arrested at the latter's
residence. Mrs. ErslKine made the COM
plant.
In a runaway accident 10 miles north
of Greenville, John Dennis, Jr., was
thrown from load of straw and in
stantly killed and Fred Miller seriously
injured.
The 3-year-old son of John Kellogg,
living east of Battle Creek, fell into a
tub OF boiling water and was scalded
SO frightfully that he died in a few
moments.
Robert Dory, n South Shore freight
conductor, was run over by train at
Nestoria and had both legs below the
knee and his left arm cut off. He died
from his injuries.
A Red Jacket bolt of lightning
knocked down all the chimneys in John
! Wesala's house, filed the house with
smoke and ashes and knocked all the
| inmates SenseleSs.
Henry L. Dewey. prominent farmer
of Grand Blanc, Genesee county, has
been appointed deputy to Land Com
missioner Morse. He assumes the duties
of the Office at once.
Cheboygan citizens are hopeful of
getting a new railroad. Gen. Alger
and his party spent a whole day there
and said that the new line would surely
go through the city.
While C. +. Gordon and wife were
driving across johnson Creek, near Au
Ores, the bridge, 20 feet high, gave
way. Mrs. Gordon was badly hurt,
but Will recover. One horse was killed.
Ground will be broken for the Chi
cago u St. Louis Electric railroad, 1t is
said, in few days. Twenty miles OF
the road is to be built The company
claim it can run trains ct 100 miles an
hour.
Commander Louis Kanitz, of the
Michigan G.. A. r., urges the old sol
diers to make unusual preparations for
observing Decoration day this year. lie
says 800 comrades have died during the
past year.
Petoskey is in the midst of temper
ance revival, and petition has been
presented to the new council praying
for village ordinance under the law
of 1887 to prohibit saloons within the
village limits.
Ludington taxpayers have decided to
bond that city for $4,000, to aid in
locating the Epworth League training
school there. The f. &5 p. NJ, railway
and several private citizens gave S11,
600 moro for the same purpose.
Mrs. Elizabeth Slaughter was muir,
dered at Pomeroy, O., March 81 and
her husband was suspected. The other
night a spiritual medium detailed his
crime to him and he went into the
house and blew out his brains.
Newell b. Parsons, the alleged Ma
DOlcOnlC DOnu-Sbedlcr Oh SdBinaW, VIII
have to answer the charge Of stealing
$4,000 worth of jewelry, as well as
S463, 900 worth of bonds He has beer
held for trial under $47, 900 bonds.
Mrs. Chauncey Adams, of Highland
Station, ran sewing machine needl,
through her finger. She couldn't get
away, so she hauled the sewing ma
chine over to the door and yelled fol
help. Her hand was imprisoned fol
several hours.
The Lansing Lumber company has
commenced work at Dodge on a new
saw mill to replace the one recently
burned there. The mill will be ready
for operation June and will have be
tween 100000 and 100000 feet o.
logs TO work on.
The twenty-ninth anniversary o.
President Lincoln's death was cele
brated by a memorial meeting at tn,
Peoples church, Boston, at whicl
William Lloyd Garrison presided. TIL,
speakers were Gov. Greenhalge anC
Judge Albion w. Tourgee.