Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-24
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

DeeH OISdHlEcu ~ Luln'
Sparks from thrashing engine set
fire to Frank Carpenters barn at Lum,
burning it and stack of hay.
One of the largest RATS ever taken
into Bay. City arrived there one day
last week. 1t contained nearly 5000, 900
feet.
w. s. Kinsley, OF Holland, made APP
plication at Washington to be APP
pointed inspector of boilers at Grand
Haven.
Bay City is enforcing the stone side
walk ordinance and refuses to give
anyone permission to lay wooden side
walks inside the stone district.
The second district Republican legis-
lative convention of Lenawee county
is called at Blissield, September s,
with four candidates in the field.
Union City Baptists believe that the
heated term is good time for revival
meetings. They have just closed q
two-weeks series and made 80 CONVEX
sions.
II. NJ. Miller and wife, of Inlay City,
were thrown out of the buggy by the
horse running away. Mrs. Miller es-
capped serious INJURY but Mr.. Miller had
his arm broken and wrist sprained.
Union City's common council will
call special election to vote on the
question of bonding the village for
S25, 900 to purchase a system of public
water works and an electric lighting
plant.
Rev. w. A. Hunsbergcr, presiding
elder of tho Coldwater NJ. L. district,
has received a call TO the pastorate of
st. Pauls Methodist church, Toledo,
at a salary of 1900. He is liable to
accept.
The thrashing Of wheat is in pro-
gress around Hamburg. The yield is
reported as good and the berry full
and of a fine quality. Oats are light
crop and the yield of potatoes will be
only fair.
The Populists of the first legislative
district of Calhoun county met in Mar
shall and nominated Edwin ID. Bling
hurst, of Clarence township, a we'll
known farmer, as their candidate for
the Legislature
For the first time within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant" there was
no religious services in the churchly
town of Union City Sunday, August
10. The pastors were all on vacation
or attending camp meeting
Chicago electrical firm estimate
that it will cost 500, 900 to build the
proposed electrical railway between
COldwater and Union City, n distance
of - miles, and a movement is on foot
to interest capital in the project.
The continued dry weather in st.
Joseph county is fast absorbing all
the crops. Late planted corn and
potatoes are entirely used up and past
ures are fast getting slim. Farmers
are blowing, but owing to the drought
it is hard work.
James Hawkins, married man
residing four miles south of Jasper,
felt that there was no longer anything
worth living for. so he went out into
the woodshed and hung himself His
wife discovered the suspension and
cut the rope just in time.
The funeral services of the late
Emery j. Eastwood. of Dawson, who
suicided by hanging himself in his
barn. were held in the +. w. b. church.
The Masonic and Odd Fellow Fl aterni-
ties, of which he was a member, formed
part of the procession and assisted in
the last rites.
A state paper reports that the only
case it ever heard of where advertising
didn't pay was where burglar over
looked a large sum of money in a
house that he had robbed and the
papers of the next day announced that
fact. The robber read the item and
went back and secured the money as
well as some other stuff.
A tramp went into the office of DR..
STEPHENSON, of Adrian, and stole new
gold-handled parasol from lady who
was in the consultation room. Officers
we're notified and overhauled him just
as he had sold the shade for IS cents.
He declared he had to steal or starve,
ald tearfully protested any intent to
do anything criminal. He was jailed.
John Graft, aged 81 years. of Detroit.
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the right temple with a 3S-calibre
revolver. The only reason assigned for
the act is that he was about TO go on
lUt IOdu WIFI llOulS
and his concert company, but was dis.
suaded from the undertaking by the
professor, who told him his voice was
| too weak.
A young man attempted TO cross the
! Cincinnati. Jackson & MaclSinaw track
near Britton few days ago, on which
stood a line of freight cars. He got
caught between two cars, and foot
was so badly crushed that amputatior
followed Thursday. The conductor
one Wilbraham, was arrested on G
charge of obstructing a crossing foi
more than five minutes, the statutory
! limit. He was convicted and fined s.
and costs.
! There were 293 new cases of cholerf
and 1919 deaths from the disease II
Galicia. In Bulowina 80 new cases anC