Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-16

A vote will soon be taken at Bliss
field as to the advisability of lighting
the village with twenty arc lights. A
number of local capitalists have offered
TO do it for 5000 year.
Fifteen prisoners in Flint jail sang
hymns as loud as old-time Methodists.
The noise was SO great that their con-
federates almost succeeded In saving
off the bars and escaping.
Sault Ste. Marie Kings Daughters
have established rescue home for fall
len girls The ladies visit disreputable
houses personally and induce the girls
to abandon their sinful lives.
John Chapman, of Scottville, II years
of age, while trying TO board a moving
train on the +. & l.. NJ, at Ludington,
fell under the wheels and was killed,
one leg and one hand being cut off.
Attorney General Olney says the act
of Dec. 81, 1898, requiring 30 days
notice to be given before pensioner
| is suspended, is mandatory in every
case. even where fraud is admitted.
The fourth annual state convention
of the Epworth League of Michigan
will be held at Saginaw, March 81, %
and 20 at the jefferson Avenue Method
list Episcopal church on the east side.
Two men met with serious accidents
at Republic, one resulting fatally. Ben
Duquette had his left thigh broken and
received internal injuries, John Dunn
fell 800 feet down a shaft and was
killed outright.
| Iron Mountain special: "Snow has
nearly all disappeared in the woods
and men are coming to town in flocks
| The cut on the Menominee river this
winter will not exceed 800, 900, 900 feet
which is loo, 100000 less than last year
Peter Larson, an old man who has
been at work in Longs cedar swamp,
near Menominee, was found dead with
| bullet hole in the roof of his mouth.
| He had been sick for days and it is
| thought became respondent and COM
mitted suicide.
Mrs. Arabella Hicks, who was the
sole legatee of the will of the late Mrs.
Parkes at Port Huron has petitioned
Judge Black to set aside the will on
plea of Mrs. Parkes insanity Mrs.
Hicks says she would like to share the
property with her sisters.
A committee has been appointed at
Jackson, Prof. j. +. Seley, president
of the Michigan Music Teachers asso.
citation, to confer with similar commit
tees from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of holding inter-
state musical conventions.
Harry Bates, well known throughout
the state as a horse trainer and dealer
in fast horses, is dead at Saginaw,
where he has amassed a fortune of
! 500, 600. A peculiar circumstance in
connection with his death is the fact
that he has no known heir.
The Detroit, Bay City e. Alpena rail
road has already commenced work on
its road to Cheboygan. 1t has agreed
to have its connection in running
order by Jan. 1, 1895. 1t will only be
a short time now before the company
will have its own tracks into Detroit.
There is war in Muskegon's mill
tary company Capt. Crosser appointed
a man corporal against the wishes of
the men and % of them left the armory
in huff, saying they would never drill
again. The captain says they will
drill, even if he has TO take them by
force.
The state board of agriculture has
appointed A. A. CroZier as assistant
agriculturist in the experiment station
at Agricultural College, to fill vacancy
left by Prof. &. q. Holden, who re-
signed last summer. lie is q man of
practical experience in both agricul-
ture and botany.
Frank Ii. Flint. of the Sunfeld News
and Miss Lizzie Lothschiltz were mar
ried in St. Marks chapel, Grand Rap
ids. Both are deaf mutes and the cere-
mony was performed by Rev. A. w.
Mann, the deaf mute missionary. The
service was unique and impressive, all
in the sign language.
At meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Woman's Hospital Associa-
ton at Saginaw, Mrs. IL. A. Forrest,
president of the asso citation, announced
that the $4,000 mortgage which has
worried the members so long, had been
paid by Hon. Wellington r. Burt, leav-
ing them practically out of debt.
Henry Benson, one of the wealthiest
farmers in Genesee county, who resides
near Flint, has been arrested for
cruelty to animals. His neighbors aver
that two or three horses owned by Ben.
son died within short time of expos
ure, lack of food and water. The ut
most indignation prevails at the mans
inhumanity, and it is likely that the
extreme penalty OF the law will be inn
posed upon him.
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