Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-31

Arthur Berries home at Greenville
was burglarized and the robbers Sc
cured $500.
Bicyclists Mt the Agricultural college
will build a track To Lansing, three
miles away.
Thieves stole pair of colts valued
at $500 of VIM Watts, a farmer three
miles north of Jonesville.
David Kromenaker, brakeman on
the Manistique railroad, was killed at
Au Train while coupling cars.
The tenth annual reunion of the
Fourth Michigan Cavalry association
will be held at jackson, September %.
A log train ran into freight near
! KawlIawlin. A caboose was ruined,
and the engineers and firemen had to
jump for their lives.
Jacob Kuite, Jr, and William Van
derveer, prominent butchers of Hol'
land, were arrested for selling butter
inc without a license.
John Reid, accused at Bay City of
selling adulterated milk was acquitted,
for although the milk was watered 1t
could not be proved who watered 1T.
A daring attempt at horse stealing,
which resulted in an exciting shooting
affray, occurred at Baskerville, little
village some II miles west of Bay City.
Richard Newllirk has struck vein
of coal at Avoca, st. CLAIR county
People think there is good chance To
mine the black diamond all along Mill
creek.
,dJ;o~.,r's ,,o,,,,o1 =. .o.o,,>;,,,.
with the company that wants to put
in an electric railroad. The council
demands an ultimate city ownership
clause.
John Mooney. freight brakeman on
the Grand Rapids 81 Indiana railway.
fell under the wheels while getting off
his engine at Sand Lake and died from
his injuries.
Jackson has many idle men and
needs many improvements. and is
thinking seriously of issuing bonds in
the sum of $4,000 to get rid of the
former and secure the latter.
Farmers around Bangor tired of
raising fifty cent wheat and grew Gu
cumbers instead of cereals this season.
They are now shipping great quanti-
ties to Benton liarbor pickle factory.
The preliminary survey for an cleo
trio railway from Buchanan to st.
Joseph has been completed, and the
projectors of the road claim that the
work of construction will commence
at once.
Max Driefl<e, was shot during a row
by Julius Fischer at a dance near
Tawas City and died from his injuries.
Fischer is Bay City policeman who
was spending his vacation there. lie
is in Jail.
A 5-year-old son of DR.. Fred Bel
KNAPP, of Niles, fell from a second-story
Office window, falling backwards Is
feet, his head and shoulders striking
on the cement walk below. He is alive
but his recovery is doubtful.
The Port Huron & Lexington cleo
trio railroad has obtained franchise
through the north part of Port Huron.
All the required bonds, except $4,000,
has been raised, and nearly all the
right of way has been obtained.
The tri-county Grange picnic, con.
sisting of the oranges of Ingham,
Eaton and Clinton counties, which
was held on the college campus at the
Agricultural college at Lansing, was a
success far beyond expectation.
While playing ball at Marcellus
John f. Swain, night telegraph oper-
ator in making a home run, collided
with the third basemaD with such
force as 20 fracture the large bone in
his right leg between the knee and
ankle.
William IIauce. 90-day man from
Midland county, and Lewis Crew, SEN
fenced from Montcalm county, both
TRUSTEES escaped from the farm at
the state house of correction at Ionia.
reward of So each is offered for
their capture.
Edna Fuller, plucliy school ma'am
near Ashley, found the school house
almost surrounded by forest fires. got
badly burned conducting the children
TO place of safety and then came
back and fought the fire with her own
hands all the afternoon.
Gov. Rich spoke TO the state horti-
culturists at South Haven. Delegates
reported a short crop of fruits every
where except along the lake shore in
Berrien, Van Buren,, Allegan, Ottawa
and Oceana counties, where n three-
quarters crop may be expected.
IA The entire manufacturing plant of
the Wetzel turning works, at Nance
Iona, was destroyed by fire, with about
200, 900 broom handles and a large
quantity of cheir stock. This was one
of the largest and best known handle
factories in the country. Loss SIS, 600.
Receiver Flanagan, of the Chaplin
mine at Ishpeming, has begun fore
closure proceedings, and the mine will
be sold in October if the bond holders
do not put up money TO pay royalty.
In case 1T is placed at auction, it is
stated John ID. Rockefeller will buy it.
A method of propelling street cars
by the application of electricity with
out the aid of trolley or storage bat
terry has been invented by V. Il. Ran
dali, of Burlington. Mr.. Bandalrs
father invented and built the first
Irvine binder ever constructed in
Ameli lea.
The seventh annual meeting of the