Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-09
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.


March 12 will be michigan" day at
the California midwinter exposition.
The Robbins table factory at Owosso
has started up again with full force.
Petitions are being circulated in
Hillsdale county for the repeal of local
option.
A prisoner in the Flint Jail amuses
himself by making canes out OF sole
leather.
Henry Franklin, aged 40 years, was
frozen To death while intoxicated near
Chelsea.
Elizabeth Groverott, an Indian wo-
man residing near Unionville, is 102
years old.
Fifty thousand salmon trout have
been planted in Diamond lake, near
Cassopolis.
A sawmill is to be erected at Lake
Ann with cutting capacity of 10000
feet per day.
The village of Manton, Wexford
county, will put in system of water
works this spring.
The Sandusky flour mills at Sanillac
Center, which have been Idle for some
time, have resumed business.
Henry Walgust, of Bridgeport, was
run over while boarding passenger
train. He died the next morning.
With the burning of A. Thompson's
home, near Stanton, 100 swarms of bees
stored in the cellar were destroyed.
The Agricultural college is thinking
of lighting the college and campus
from an electric lighting plant of its
own.
People in northern Michigan are
signing II petition to have all the lakes
from Charlevoix to Elk Rapids dredged,
to facilitate towing of logs.
Alexander Lalonde, of Grand Haven,
and a Mrs. Beach, wife of West
Olive farmer, were arrested charged
with being unduly intimate.
w. Z. Rooms, an old resident of
Buchanan, received injuries which will
cripple him for life bj- being thrown
from buggy in which he was riding.
The Mitchell mine, near Ishpeming,
closed down, throwing 200 men out of
employment. The mining situation IN
the upper peninsula is well-nigh hope
less.
Miss Frank b che, who was matron
of the Mich gan building at the Worlds
Fair, Chicago, has accepted similar
position at the asylum at Traverse
City.
DIR. and Mrs. D. +. Ahreman, of
I,anCin0r nv CraS FRI,
coal stove, and when found by neigh
bors were nearly dead from Its effects.
They win recover.
VIM. French, well-respected
farmer, 35 years old, who lived alone
on farm three miles west of Lawton,
was found dead in his house. Heart
failure is the supposed cause.
A man named Walter, from Ypsi-
lanti, was instantly killed opposite the
Michigan Central depot at Ann Arbor.
He had been stealing ride on
freight train and was jolted off.
w. w. Cleveland's Touring mill and
residence adjoining were destroyed 10y
fire at Marshall The fire caught from
a stovepipe running through the roof.
The loss will reach 5000, with no in
surance.
Sanilac county's prosecuting attor-
ney is engaged in a conflict with the
law breaking saloonkeepers, hotel men
and druggists in the county. Five or
six have been arrested and there is
plenty more coming.
The trial of DIR. Louis Barth, prom.
inent young Grand Rapids physician,
accused of climinally assaulting Miss
Amanda Swanson, young domestic
who visited his office for treatment, re-
suited in his acquittal.
Inasmuch as Hay lake channel, st.
Mary's river, is almost completed, the
secretary of the treasury recommends
that Sos, 557 be appropriated at once
for lighting and buoying the channel,
so that it may be made available for
passing commerce.
The appointment by Collector Phelan
of Howard Montague, of Caro-, as
deputy collector of internal revenue at
Bay City has created hard feelings
among the friends of ID. A. Patterson,
of Bay City, who say Patterson was
promised the position.
Mrs. Scott, wife of Rev. A. Scott, of
OobOli nus DNNOAhO AohC 10
but "a years of age. 1t is thought the
excitement produced by a protracted
revival, together with the recent loss
of her 4months old baby, brought on
+ her mental arrangement.
A wealthy farmer, Nathaniel Anten,
met with terrible death while hunt
ing north of Stanton. The hammer of
his gun caught on some underbrush
and was discharged. The shot struck
Mr.~&hten1n the face, carrying away
his face above the mouth.
Oliver Freed, an employee of the C. J..
& Nj. road, while operating circular
saw at Marshall was struck by piece
of timber, breaking two of his ribs and
crushing them through the lower por-
ton of his left lung and into his spine.
He lies in precarious condition.
The Congregational club of eastern
Michigan had n fine banquet at Ypsi-
lapti. Among those who responded
to toasts were George II. Angel, of
Detroit; Rev. j. w. Bradshaw, of Ann
Arbor; President j. b. Angel, of Ann
Arbor; Prof Barbour, of Ypsilanti, and
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