Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-06-22

John Vandenberg, n 15-year-old boy
employed in the Crescent mills at Grand
Rapids, was drowned in the west side
canal while bathing.
The gold medal oratorical contest
under the auspices of the Grand Lodge.
!. O. G.. r., will be held at Lakev:ew
on the afternoon of July 4.
The summer meeting of the Michigan
! State Millers' association will be held
| in the parlors of the Downcy hotel,
Lansing commencing July 10.
THE Michigan Center Mills, four
miles from jackson owned by Redfield
| q Son, was destroyed by fire together
! with 1000 bushels of grain. Loss Slj,-
/ 0O0
Abraham Burden, prominent farmer
near PinclIncy. was found dead in a
! field with his neck broken. 1t is
thought a young team with which he
was working ran away with him.
d. VI. Howie, of Battle Creek, night
/ ticket agent of the Grand Trunk, was
badly injured while splitting wood.
The axe caught on a clothes line and
cut his right ear off. His skull was
fractured also.
VIM Henshaw, OF Grand Rapids,
went out on the warpath and tried TO
kill Jacob Suffer, his father-in-law,
because his wife had gone back TO her
( parents. Ienshaw then shot and
killed himself.
Thomas nitroglycerine factory near
| Bay City, blew up at o'clock in the
morning, the shock being felt all over
the city. No one was injured. Loss
about $1,000. The other buildings of
the plant were badly damaged.
Ezra Leonard. of Newport, brother
of Louise Leonard, who died at the
! Merchants hotel, Detroit, visited her
while she was sick. lie is now down
with smallpox or varioloid. The Leon
ard house has been quarantined.
The plan proposed and being hustled
! through by Mayor Pingree, 20 use
vacant land in Detroit TO raise pota.
toes. beans, etc, for the poor and un.
employed is meeting with big success.
Saginaw has also taken up the scheme.
At small party given by Mrs.
Kezia Perkins at Ann Arbor Is people
who partook of the ice cream made by
herself were poisoned by tyrotoxicon.
DR.. Vaughn, the discoverer of this
poison, attended the sick, two of whom
were very seriously i'll.
The anticipated big peach crop in
western Allegan county is likely 10
prove disappointing to the growers
after all, especially to those situated
near the lake shore. 1t is supposed
that the late frosts injured the young
fruit. The Barnard variety is in the
best condition.
The police of Bay City are deter.
mined TO make things warm for the
saloonists who are selling without
I licenses. Warrants were sworn out
against 81 dealers and dive keepers,
and they will be made either to pay
the required amount for licenses or be
fined and closed mp.
Madeline Pollard was at Sault ste.
Marie on the steamer Peerless with a
party of friends Her name did not
appear on the passenger list, but she
was recognized by the passengers.
After spending the day in the city
sightseeing she left on the City oi
Duluth for Chicago.
William Shepard and Thomas Brans.
combe, the men arrested at Alpena for
counterfeiting, we're taken TO Bay
City. They now admit making the
bogus coin, but say they did it for fun.
The only money passed, they claim
was few nickels. Branscombc ad.
lnits making nicxels since he was II
years old.