Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-03
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.


chesaning votes for water works
August s.
A S12, 500 school house is to be built
at Manistee.
Manistee will build swing bridge
across the river.
Grand Rapids has been made post
Office of the first class.
A new elevator, with capacity of
90, 900 bushels, has been erected at
Athens.
President Fish, of Albion college, is
very i'll at Bay View with an attack of
peritonitis.
James Dougall, of Chicago, was
drowned near Grand Haven. lie was
30 years old.
George j. Tomas, who ran the first
locomotive on the Michigan Central,
died near Ann Arbor.
The hardware store of Emil Jochen,
at Saginaw, was damaged by fire TO
the extent o. 81 500.
The st. Joseph river is so low that
passengers are landed from steamers
IN Skltts at Berrlen springs.
The city fathers and number of
business men of Jackson combined,
and the result is "A public bath
The baby daughter of VIM. Walter
fell into boiler of hot water in Allie
gan, and was shockingly scaldcd.
Frosts are reported from Blooming
dale. Several of the farmers maintain
that several fields of corn were killed.
Tekonsha will have regular IL
censed liquor saloon, with Albert Cone
as proprietor-the first in over ten
years.
The board of supervisors, of Gogeb bic
county, have appointed A. w. Peter
son, a brother of the late county treas
urer, as his successor.
The recent visit of the Coxey army
at Saginaw has borne fruit. A labor
leader named Casey organized an army
of just an even hundred.
Mrs. Thomas Cough, of Manchester.
Washtenaw county, took IA dose of
opium to make her sleep, and in the
morning was found dead.
The 4-ycar-old daughter of Frank
Prouse. of Ncgaunee, was so severely
burned while playing with matches
that her life is despaircd of.
Charles L. WEIGH, an aged cOlorcd
man, fell eight feet from hay loft at
Niles, striking his head and breaking
his neck. He died instantly.
Buchanan is to have a new axle fac
tory, with a capacity of 600 aXles daily.
Two brick buildings, with plant to
cost S35, 900 will be erected for it,
Secretary of State Washington Gard
ner used his eloquence to good effect
at Benton Harbor, and the debt of
$4,000 on the Methodist church has
been wiped out.
A 6-year-old boy named Lester Wood
ruff was drowned in Eagle lake, near
Battle Creek. He was the son of Rev.
James Woodruff, of Ohio, and was
visiting his grandparents.
benjamin Balm, of Petosley, was
poisoned by paris green. He sprinkled
the stuff on his potato vines, and the
family were sick for some time from
the effects of eating the tubers.
Charles Chattuck, of Lansing, was
found guilty of brutally beating his
little daughter until she was covered
with bruises. He was fined SIS or 90
days in the Detroit house of correction.
A daughter of John Curtiss, farmer
living near Belding, was criminally
assaulted while in the woods picking
known. The girl is in precarious
condition.
Ionia has struck gusher in It's new
we'll just added TO the city's water sys-
TEN. A sheet of water was found at a
depth of only Is feet, which is feeding
500, 900 gallons day of cool and spark
ling water.
The body of the unknown man found
half burned in the woods near Iron
wood has been identified by the num-
Der in his watch as VIM. Spry, Of Hur-
ley, who disappeared three years ago
He was dcmented
Prof. Bartholomew has arranged to
take the jackson base ball team for a
tour of the interior towns of the state
The Jacksons will try to beat contest
ing teams at ball. and the professor
will furnish a balloon ascension and
parachute drop.
The Battle Creek bondsmen of JAS
w. Wood, the defaslting treasurer of
the grand lodge of the a. o. L. w,
have located him in Wisconsin. AS
Wood is trying to make an honest liv-
ing, the bondsmen will give him u
chance to square himself.
The citizens of Niles are agitatcd
over the discovery of iron ore on the
farm of Nicholas Eich, two miles
south of that city. Specimens of the
ore have been examined by an expert
and pronounced good. Steps are being
taken to investigate thoroughly the
supposed vein.
Charles Forrest, young barber, was
arrested at Cedar Springs for burglary
at Carey, o., and Howard City, Mich.
The crime was committed last sum
mer, and he with another prisoner,
was confined in Jail at the latter place,
but burned their way out and escaped,
although they were handcuffed to-
gether.
Charles Miller, an old man claiming
his home as being in Detroit, was