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

business on I'll c lakes is improving.
Pontiac Catholics will build n S., 900
rectory.
Flint is ticllled to death because she
has frog with three legs.
Wheat is threshed by electricity at
the Agricultural college farm.
James j. Halls boat capsized near
Manistee and he was drowned.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana depot
| a Edgcrton burned to the ground.
Over 100 peach trees were condemned
at Kalamazoo because of the yellows.
Dangerous forest fires are still re-
ported in Gogebic and Ontonagon coun-
ties.
Three Osceola county girls drew cuts
to see who should have the common
I lover.
There is a st. Ignace baby three
months old that weighs only four
pounds.
Ludington reports corn, potatoes
and garden vegetables ruined by the
drought.
c. Buob, n Hastings baker, a hard
drinller and respondent, died from a
dose of aconitc.
Melons, tomatoes and cucumbers are
! almost failure at Benton Harbor, on
account of the drought.
The keystone Manufacturing com
pany, of Saginaw, has filed mortgages
amounting to Slo,9s4.5o.
A new tannery Is in process of con-
struction at Muskegon. 1t is being
built by Chicago capitalists.
Thomas j. Lynch, of Saginaw, has
been held for alleged criminal assault
on prominent young lady of the city.
Coldwater has revived an old ordin-
ance closing everything up on Sunday
except livery stables and boarding
| houses
William Il. Golf has been appointed
! postmaster at Brookfield, Eaton
county, vice Charles w. Walker, re-
signed.
People still go to st. Louis, Mich,
instead of the big Missouri town. A
Russian lady was the last to make the
mistake.
| c. l.. Brundagc, of MuslIegon, has
| been nominated senator to represent
! the twcnty-third district by the Re-
publicans.
A Pentwater man, for a wager, rode
his bicycle headlong into IL Feet of
water. lie and bicycle were fished out
much the worse for wear
The great Columbian organ, now be-
ing erected in University hall. Ann
Arbor, has 3O1 pipes. It's the biggest
organ in the United States.
A dispatch from Bessemcr says that
! forest fires destroyed the business
portion of the town of Watersmeet.
The loss is placed at SIS, 900.
Crops in the vicinity of Howard City
J are almost a failure owing to drought
and recent frost. Some of the farmers
are cutting the corn in order to save
! the fodder.
! The 10-ycar-old son Of Peter Putnam,
! at Union City. felt so bad about a
/ whipping that he hanged himself.
| 5-year-old brother cut him down in the
nick of time.
Prof. II. T.. King, late superintendent
! of the Ludington schools, has left for
| Pellin, China, where he will preside
!
recently established.
The Ann Arbor street railway, DOR
| mant for seven or eight months, will
| be in operation within month. Work.
men have begun fixing the track and
putting in extensions.
The eleventh annual reunion of
Michigan Battalion regiment will be
| held at Goguac Lake near Battle
! Creek, Aug. 1920 in connection with
the reunion of the Calhoun County
! battalion.
Newaygo is discussing the best
means to insure its population plenti-
full supply of water in the summer
time. AS il is now the village is with
out the protection that it should have
| from fire.
Thirty different nationalities arc
represented at Calumet and Red Jacket,
including a few Araoians, Chinese,
| Africans. Laplanders. Australians,
Brazilians, Spaniards, Turks, Jews and
/ MeXicans.
The Jones e Mccall Company, print
ers and binders at Saginaw, have filed
chattel mortgages aggrcgating SIS, 900.
Clarence i. Judd is trustee. The First
! National bank OF saginaw IS the prin-
cipal creditor.
The Fins and Scandinavians in
IIoughton, appear to be fiocking out
of the country. All the foreign steam
ship agencies in the county have been
notified that all outward bound steam
ers for the next ten days are booked
for all the passengers they can carry.
Washington J. Durfy, farmer liv-
ing near Bad Axe, is under arrest,
charged with ruinilg his 14-year-old
daughter, Elizabeth. who is about TO
become a mother The feeling against
him at Bad Axe is so strong lynching
has been threatened. His wife has
been dead several years. He has n
large family of children, including
several grown sons.