Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-18
MIDoR MICHIGAN NEWS.

Twenty Port Huron saloons have
closed owing TO inability to pay the
license.
Willie Brown, aged six years, was
drowned by falling into the river at
Tawas City.
All bids for the erection of n water
tower at the Kalamazoo asylum were
rejected as being excessive.
Jerry Mahoney, aged co years, sui
cided at Manistee. Laudanum. De-
spondency from the drink habit.
Mill owners at Evart have offered f.
w. Elliot and A. c. Bath, of Hillsdale,
bonus to establish mill there.
j. II. Copas has purchased the old
wooden mill property at Owosso and
will at once erect cold storage build
ing.
But one mill is now idle at Alpena,
that of the Comstocks. There are
seven mills now in commission in that
town.
Grand Rapids bloods will wear
lnicl1erboclIers instead of trousers and
will urge their lady friends to don
''bloomers.
Charles Workman died of lock jaw at
Milford. He ran nail in his foot
about a week ago or so. He was about
II years old.
VIM. Conway was arrested at Detroit
and taken to Ann Arbor for stealing
dog belonging to Mrs. Walker, of the
latter place.
The State Agricultural society will
put up $4,000 for horse races at the
fair on the Detroit exposition grounds
next September.
Port Huron cyclists have to pay
license and display tags on their
wheels. They were killing too many
people on the streets.
Harry Smith was drowned near
Menominee while at work on the drive
He was % years old and had been mar
ried only few months.
Business men of Edwardsburg
raised S., 900 for the purpose of keep
ing the Sweetland furnace plant,
which is expected to open at once and
employ fifty men.
The Canadian $500" canal will be
opened for service June 30. 1t is 900
feet by 60 feet and will have water
depth of 30 feet and 3 inches. 1t was
commenced in September, 1892.
Elmer Anscomt a farmer, living in
| the vicinity of birmingham, caught a
sneak thief making off with $40 that
| belonged TO him. MIR. Anscomb caught
the thief and he was sent to Pontiac.
The big -Four" railroad is building
a new dock and warehouse at st.
Joseph. 1t is for the accommodation
of their flour trade between that place
and Duluth, and will be over 200 feet
long.
2Judge GouYerneur Morris died at
| Monroe, aged SO. lie was born in
| Springfield, VT, and his grand uncle
was Gouverneur Morris, who was the
writer OF the constitution of the
United States.
A competitive examination will be
! held at the senate chamber in the city
| of Lansing on Friday, June 8, for the
election of a candidate for a cadetship
| at West Point from the Sixth con-
gressional district.
Benton Harbor is much gratified be-
cause of the recent appropriation of
| S30,000 made by congress for improve
ments to the st. Joseph harbor canals.
and $1,000 for the river. Work will
shortly be commenced on them.
Thomas Malone, of Coopersville,
while driving into Grand Rapids with
a load of hay, was tipped over He
| fell underneath the load and struck
| his head on stone, tearing his scalp
half off and fracturing his skull He
will die.
An electric car ran into Mrs. John
! Waller on the viaduct at st. Joseph,
! seriously injuring her and a lady
| friend. The lady was wheeling a baby
carriage. 1t was hit by the car and
broken to pieces, and did not awaken
| the baby.
Anthony Brouwer, a teamster in
| Grand Rapids, was instantly killed.
His team, becoming frightened, ran
away, and colliding with telegraph
| pole, he was thrown from the wagon,
breaking his neck and knocking his
brains out. lie was single man.
The body OF Lars Larson, n civil
engineer who had been missing from
! his home in Menominee since April %,
| was found in the bay. lie had threat
! ened TO drown himself several times.
Larson was so years old and leaves a
| widow and several grown children.
Joseph Hermann, of Calumet, be-
came suspicious of two men hanging
around his jewelry store and land for
them. About a. m. he saw four men
| trying to break in and he promptly
fred. Jack McCarty stopped one bull
let and was caught but the others es-
capped.
Josie Bryant, an 1s-year-old domestic,
employed by Bert Rorick, of Seneca,
attempted suicide by taking Paris
! green. She was bound-out girl from
the Adrian industrial school, and her
home is in Manistee. An unfaithful
lover at Seneca had made her despond-
ent and jealous.
Charles Salisbury, a stonemason, of
Grand Rapids, while breaking n
boulder with his hammer felt sharp
pain in the abdomen. A doctor was
sent for and IL was found that silver
from his steel hammer had passed en-
tircly through the mans body, pene-
trating several intcstines. He was
| taken 10 n hOSnital