Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-02
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

A lodge of Loyal Americans has been
organized at Grand Rapids.
j. w. Mccain found several nuggets
of gold on his farm near Newaygo.
The D., L. & N. depot at Chadwiclx's
burned to the ground. 1t is a total
loss.
Jerry LeDuke, aged twenty-five,
was instantly killed at Escanaba by a
falling tree.
Richard Dougherty, of Three Rivers.
has converted his wheat fields into a
skunk farm.
Blissfeld saloons and billiard halls
have been ordered closed at o'clock
each evening.
FIR. Mcnamara, of Muskegon, has
organized total abstinence union,
which now has 225 members.
A special conference of the Evangel-
ical German Lutheran church of south
ern Michigan was held at Adrian.
Mrs. Rowan, of Petoskey, organized
hive of Lady Maccabees at East
Jordan, with a membership of fifty-one.
Jacob Anspach's clothing store at
Wyandotte was burned out. A lamp
had exploded. The loss is So, 500, fully
insured.
Twenty runaway freight cars belong
ing to train No. Ia on the q. Il. & l. Il.
r. were wrecked at Edgerton. No one
was hurt
The ninth annual session of the
Michigan State Assembly, Knights of
Labor, will convene at Holland, Feb.
10 and IA.
Allegan wants to. be Incorporated as
a city and will have a special census
taken to find out if she has sufficient
number of citizens.
Howard Spohon and Charles Louclxs
have been arrested at Bay City on
charge of wholesale chicken thieving.
Mrs. Spohon makes damaging admis-
sions.
The Haskell Home for Orphans,
built at Battle Creek under the direc-
ton of DR.. kellogg OF the sanitarium,
has been dedicated. Bishop Gillispie
delivered the address
Bay City men, headed by w. II.
Sharp, propose to put in plant at
Marine City able to turn out $500 bar
rs to $50 men the year round.
Peter Paulson, proprietor of the
Menokaunee House, Menominee COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head at his home. Paul
son has been on protracted spree.
The new inter-urban electric road to
be built between Adrian and Ann
Arbor is to be known as the "Ghost
Line" 1t is suggested by the inten-
ton of having all the cars painted
white.
Gov Rich has appointed Henry A.
Haigh, of Detroit, assistant paymaster-
general with rank of captain. He has
also appointed Fenton K. McCreery, of
Flint, assistant commissioner to the
California Mid-winter exposition.
George Bridges and wife went
sleigh-ridIng at Grand Rapids, taking
their three months-old baby with
them. After being out half an hour
the mother discovered that the child
was dead in her arms. 1t mad been
smothered.
w. G. Fellars, of Onsted, was ar
rested for spearing fish in Devils
Lake, and has been sentenced by JUS
tice GROCER to pay a fine and costs
amounting to $50 or go to jail at Adrian
for ten days. Other prosecutions are
| yet to follow.
Capt. Kemp, of Bangor, Mich, who
built sailboat N 1892 to take his
family to Florida, wintering on the
| Illinois river a year ago, is only half
way down the Mississippi. He is held
indefinitely in bayou by log jam
and has had many hairbreadth escapes.
Mrs. Ed. Silliman, wife of the junior
partner of the firm of Martin & Sill
man, lumber shippers, of Cheboygan,
and her mother, Mrs. Moore, of Cleve-
land, were found unconscious on the
floor being nearly asphyxiated by coal
gas from the furnace. Prompt treat
ment saved them.
Friends of the University at Ann Ar
Dor have already contributed $4,000
toward the SIS, 600 necessary to get the
big Worlds Fair organ. There is little
doubt that the remainder will soon be
obtained. The organ will be me-
mortal to the late Prof. Frieze, who
was fine organist.
Judge Person, of Ingham county,
has announced that he will certainly
call grand jury. He was going to
can one in March, anyway, for the
Central Michigan Saving bank matter,
but he will call it earlier now, so that
the salary amendment scandals may
be investigated at once.
The stock of the Mendelson Manu-
featuring company, at Ludington, in
Guiding 1900 pairs of finished and
5000 pairs of unfinished pants, the
machinery, uncut cloth, etc, was sold
at sheriff s sale for S24, 900. Thus ends
this concern which has been one of the
features of that place for the past year.
The store and stock of John McKin-
ley, dealer in general merchandise, and
the drug store and residence of ID. j.
w. Jackman, of Caseville, were totally
destroyed by fire. The total loss is
SO, 900; total insurance, $4,000. There
is no fire apparatus in the place, and 1t
was only by hard work that the Ross
hotel was saved.
Cadillac's city marshal has warned
all keepers of disreputable houses to
close up their places and get out Of
town, bag and baggage, by Feb. 1. A