Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-10
General News.


sic store in Port Huron.
+. q. Spalding, of Port Huron, has
been granted pension.
Fourteen persons were confined in
the county Jail last week.
About 500 tons of flax were grown in
the vicinity of Croswell this season.
A. IIespler, bogus check swindler,
was arrested last week in Port Huron.
Seward l.. Merriam, late Mayor of
Port Huron, will again locate in that
city.
Capac has large new floral hall on
their fair grounds which is nearly COM
pleted.
Horse and bicycle races will be the
attraction at INLAY City, August 22nd
and 23rd.
A little son of J. X. Randolph, of
Algonac, was drowned in st. Clair river
las: week.
William Quick, of Columbus, has
marketed so far this season seventy
bushels of raspberries.
Alex G.. Campbell, of Marine City,
will be arrested on charge of selling
liquor without license.
The Alpha Oil works in Sarnia were
partially destroyed 10y fire on Thurs
day of last week. Loss $4,000.
Out of 80 CroswelI voters a were in
favor of bonding the town for 50 900
to put in a system of water works.
Thieves broke into hardware store
at Lenox and secured four revolvers,
five razors and forty pocket knives.
The different Sunday schools of
Capac will unite in picnic at HUI
roma Beach on Wednesday, Aug. lG.
The new Gamble House at Brown
City, has been rented to John AFFORD,
of Oxford, an experienced hotel man.
There is movement to organize an
other Eastern Star lodge in Port HUI
ron. The one lodge has 100 members.
Kenockee can boast of three of the
oldest men of st. Clair county, James
Rabidue 50, Basnet Dell 80, and Levi
Cronk 70. They are all hale and
hearty and their combined age would
he 2ll years.
Mrs. Joseph Cottington, of Memphis,
was seriously injured in the hay field,
az she went to carry lunch to the men,
10y the horses becoming frightened at
her umbrella. The hay rake struck
her and catching in her clothing
dragged her some distance.
Five st. Clair men, who it seems are
well known smuggling crew, went
out on st. Clair river and overhauled
boat belonging to Chas. Gilman,
who sold vegetables, butter, eggs, etc.
to the river craft. The men beat Gill
man and stole his stock together with
S23 in money. Later the men were
arrested and an interesting case will
follow. The charge will probably be
made piracy on the high seas.
S. f. Aldrich, of Capac, citizen
well-known throughout the county,
died at his home last Friday of con-
sumption. lie was first taken with
bleeding of the lungs over three years
ago, and was confined to the house
most of the time until he died. The
funeral was held from the house last
Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev.
j. w. Wallace. The remains were in
tered in the Inlay City cemetery.
Calvin A. Blood, of Marine City was
found dead in II room OH the second
floor of the dwelling at S74 Fifteenth
street, Detroit, at II o'clock Wednesday
vi JnlS Wecks opportunities llulCdleu
that he either committed suicide or
was murdered. There was bullet
wound in his side below and to the left
of the naval which had been inflicted
with 32-calibre revolver. The revol-
yer was on the floor behind dresser,
two feet from where the body lay when
discovered Blood is wel.to-do mer-
chant and the cause of his death is q
mystery.