Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-09-14
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

Der . to 5.
Sebewaing's fireman's tournament
for September 10 and Ii was Cancelled.
A high wind blew tree over on
John Lal1to at Trout Creek and killed
him.
The annual Michigan conference of
of the A. NJ. Il. church was held at
Lansing
Bert Andrews, near Corunna, was
kicked by horse and it is feared that
he will die
Mr.. Clark Henixa, of Augusta, was
seriouly injured by being thrown from
a carriage and has become insane.
The infant child of Farmer Land
shaw. near Alma, pulled pot of hot
tea off the supper table and was fatally
scalded.
James Heal, n Dawson farmer, lost
a clover huller. Some miscreant set it
on fire in field where it had been left
for the night.
Chauncey Stone, secretary of the
Grand Rapids Cold Storage company,
has disappeared, having overdrawn his
account 81 200.
1t is said that no less than 5 families
in the Third ward of jackson have the
'shalles." 1t is malarial fever caused
by bad drainage.
The annual Detroit conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church was
held at Saul ste. Marie and was quite
largely attended.
Rev. II. f. Dosller, d. D., recently
appointed extra professor of the West
ern Theological seminary at Holland,
has taken charge.
Rain storms at st. Joseph blew hun
dreds of bushels of peaches off the
trees and the owners turned their hogs
in to eat them up.
The Christian Endeavor societies of
the Ninth and Eleventh congressional
districts will hold a joint convention
in Cadillac, October s. 6 and :.
During a thunderstorm the horse Of
w. 5. Shankland, of Port Huron, be-
came frightened and ran away. He
was thrown out and had five ri BIS
broken.
James Cook was killed at the Kirby
Carpenter companys millyard at
Menominee by a blow on the head
from a stick of hardwood falling from
the carriage.
Several mysterious fires have re-
Gently occurred at Grayling, and it is
suspected that n fire bug is in town.
They have all taken place at o'clock
in the morning.
The barn of VIM. w. Sage, near
Ionia, was struck by lightning and
! burned, together with 600 bushels of
wheat, $50 bushels of oats and % tons
of hay. Loss $1,000.
Lightning struck many places at
Kalamazoo. Several patients at Brook
asylum cottage were shocked. Kleas
! Ii. Boos, a celery digger, aged %, was
instantly killed in the field.
During a severe electrical storm at
Jackson, the residence of c. II. Schuy-
Ter was struck by lightning and badly
| damaged. Two young men occupying
an upstairs room were severely shocked
by the bolt.
The Pine Lake Iron company has
been attached on claim of SIS, 900
subject to n mortgage. The stock is
in possession of Sheriff Stewart.
business depression is said to have
been the cause.
The Bissell Carpet Sweeper COM
panys plant at Grand Rapids, which
has been idle all summer, has started
up with so men and the number will
| be rapidly increased until the full
force of 300 men is employed.
Ebay City schools opened with the
largest attendance ever known. The
present school buildings are made
quatc TO hold all the pupils and ar
rangements will have to be made inn
mediately for more buildings.
Edward Wasser, aged IS, died in the
homeopathic hospital at Ann Arbor
from the effects of having both legs
crushed in the Toledo 81 Ann Arbor
yards. To escape the rain he had
crawled under box car and fell asleep.
There were 2i,7OO pupils enrolled at
| Detroit schools this year, as against
22,S75 last year. Owing to lack of
room there are LOO little children
from five to eight years of age who are
| forced out of school one-half of each
day.
The wife of Justice w. o. Westfall,
|
taking carbolic acid She was alone
in the house and her death was not
discovered until night. She had been
at the Kalamazoo asylum, but was re-
Gently back as cured.
Thomas Harrison recently neglected
to hitch his horses properly at Milford
and they ran away. A horse was
killed and buggy belonging to Lou
Andrews smashed into kindling wood.
Mrs Phipps, of Inl1ster, was laid up
with life long injury, which it cost
| Harrison $500 to settle.
Lightning struck two large barns
belonging to Frank Gates, six miles
east of st. Johns. The buildings, to-
gether with contents, were entirely
destroyed loss, $4,000. Curtis Stat
ford, of Desplain, Clinton county, also
lost a barn and contents including
three horses; loss, 81, 900. Two houses
in ST. Johns were also struck.
A company for the manufacture of
safety bicycles will shortly be organ
lied at Grand Rapids. The stock
holders will be largely composed of