Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-07-27
. Kalamazoo college has a summer
school of 60 DuDils

was fatally injured.
The Buss machine shops at Benton
Harbor shut down because of scarcity
of fuel Fifty men are idle.
Hartford schemers are working to
have the county seat of Van Buren, re-
moved from Paw Paw to their own
town.
John ID. Groves, well-known livery
man at Kalamazoo, was kicked by a
horse. He had three ribs broken, and
may not recover.
Nina Strang. the 9-year-old daughter
of Charles j. Strang, of Lansing, was
struck by c. & G.. T. train at Olivet,
and instantly killed.
Several hundred dollars worth OF
clothing, and n small sum of money,
were stolen by burglars from the q.
Il. 81 l. elevator at Kalamazoo.
The family of John Rock, of Battle
Creek, consisting of five members, were
poisoned by eating canned beef, and
were in precarious condition.
The s-year-old son of Daniel b.
Beardslee, farmer living near Perry,
accidentally shot himself in the side
while cleaning a rifle. He may recover.
Centerville people are talking of con-
structing a new water works system.
Chesaning is to have an election soon
to determine upon the same improve
ments.
While drawing wheat Joseph IIaire,
a Leslie bachelor about G5 years old,
fell from the load, breaking his neck.
1t is supposed his fall was caused by
sunstroke.
Gertie Young. of Grand Bapids,
sloped with Sydney Refs. drum
mer." Gertie's mother caught on and
stopped the pair at Chicago and forced
a marriage.
Mr.. Wall, of Bancroft, tried TO end
his life with arsenic, but physicians
pumped him out A quarrel with his
wife, which resulted in their parting
was the cause. He says he will try
again.
An explosion occurred in Charles +.
Clark's meat market, blowing out the
plate glass front of the store. The eX-
plosion was followed by fire, which
did SO, 500 damage. The cause is a
mystery.
Deputy Collector p. A. Dewitt, of
Grand Rapids, collared Ed. Blake on a
Chicago steamer at Holland for selling
liquor without a tax. The company
settled but Uncle Sam is after others
of like ilk.
Edgar Warner was arrested at Ann
ArboT charged with excessive cruelty
in beating his 4-year-old stepson.
Warner has spent two 9O-day terms in
the Detroit house of correction for the
same offense.
a huge pile of meal sacks in Bots
ford's elevator in Port Huron tumbled
over, burying Fred Nuerberg and
John Irvine. 1t was 20mluutes before
fellow employees could release them.
Both were severely injured
Ex-Justice of the Peace Oliver NJ.
Dix, of Greenfield, Wayne county, who
was under arrest on the charge of as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm, on the complaint of his son,
ended his life by taking arsenic.
Mrs. Allen Thayer, of Osceola, Liv-
ingston county, tipped over the kero-
sene stove. Her entire clothing was
burned from her body before neigh
bOrs came to her rescue. She died in
terrible agony few hours later.
The Cleveland Cliffs Mining company
is building S25O,OOO furnace at Glad
stone for the manufacture of coke and
charcoal iron. The company has
bought 9. ZOO acres of timber in Delta
and Alger counties for fuel for the
furnace.
Louis Kanitz. of Muskegop, depart
ment commander of the Grand Army,
has resigned as member of the Ionia
prison board, because he was disgusted
with the way the furniture plant at
the prison is operated and he wished
to have it either made paying insti-
tuition or abolished altogether.
Two strangers were arrested at Ben
ton Harbor by United States mar
shall from Chicago for passing bogus
money that has been in free circula-
ton for several days past. In their
possession was found $3.50 in counter
felt money. More arrests will follow
until the entire gang is caught.
Atty Gen. Ellis has given it as his
opinion that where butter, eggs, meat
or other produce are sold from wagons
the seller is liable for the peddlers'
license fee. He has also decided that
the 20 cents charged for advertising
each description of delinquent tax
is paid before the sale OF the land.
Lewis Livingston, Is years old, lately
taken from the reform school by All
Eckles, of Commerce, stole a span of
horses and buggy belonging to George
Fields Deputy Sheriff Slaughter, of
Milford, caught him several miles
away asleep beside the road. He will
likely go back to the reform school.
The official census figures show that
Saginaw has fallen off nearly 5000 in
population since 1891. This is not an
isolated case. for Muskegon has lost
5000 in the same period and West Bay
City nearly 600. The total gain in
Saginaw county since the federal CEN
sus was taken is only a trihe over
5000.
w. S. Slagle purchased atrychnine
for mice poison and two days later his
wife died suddenly. A post-mortem
examination disclosed the fact that
poisoning was the cause of death. The