Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-05-11
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.
John ". Budtow lost fine house
near Schoolcraft by lightningi

AVA
Four years ago the assessed valua-
tion of Oscoda was 81, 9oO,O 900. Now it
is S5O0,OO0
Sebewaing has been decided TO build
a half-mile track and reorganizc the
old fair association.
A man named "Stubb" Johnson
claims to have got 100 recruits for
Coxey in MuslSegon.
Rudolph Ritzie's large barn, near
Capac, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
The 4-year-old child of stephen
Douglas died at Marquette from the
effects of vaccination.
John A. Young, finance keeper of
Simoneau tent, *. o. Il. NJ. of Saginaw,
is missing with $1,000.
Over 10000 fruit tress have been
planted in Alpena, Altoona and Pressure
Isle counties this spring.
Union City's common council placed
liquor dealers bonds at $1,000. Nine
dealers have taken licenses.
Burlington proposes TO have electric
lights, utilizing the plant located at
Union City, five miles distant.
At the examination for naval cadets
in Coldwater. Charles Harphan, of
Quincy, drew the coveted prize.
Charles Taylor, farmer of Pittsford,
committed suicide by taking morphine.
He leaves a widow and enc child.
VIM. McReavy, a farmer living west
of Sanford, hanged himself in his barn.
Business troubles and dependency.
Burlington's burnt district is being
rapidly rebuilt. A new X. o. T. VI.
hall will be among the new structures.
The s-year-old daughter of Mr.. Golley
was fatally burned at Bcgle's camp.
near Cheboygan, while playing around
a fire.
Rev. Montgomery NJ. Goodwin, of
Ypsilanti, the newly appointed naval
chaplain, will have to report for duty
June l.
Senator \. 0. Wheeler, of Manistee,
announces himself as Republican
candidate for congress in the Ninth
district.
Henry Dove, of Port Huron, was
drowned in the st. Clair river. His
four companions in the sailboat swan
safely to the shore.
The work on Jackson new postofice
is progressing rapidly. The contractor
says that il will be ready for occupancy
about September /.
Gift enterprises and drawing schemes
have become so common in Tekonsha
that the village council have been APP
pealed to 10 stop the unlawful prac-
ticc.
A Chicago man has planted so acres
of tobacco in Robinson, Ottawa county.
He says there is no reason why tobacco
cannot be grown in Michigan as well
as Wisconsin.
The body of Andrew johnson, the
MusheCOn farmer who has been miss
ing two weeks, was found by fisher
men in MuslSegon lake, near Hacliley
q Hume 5 mill.
The body of Chas. Spaeth, a we'll
known harness-maker and esteemed
citizen of Saginaw, was found in n hay
loft rear of the halfway house" two
miles from the city.
The State Fireman's association will
hold its annual meeting at Milford on
May IL and u. A large number of
delegates will be present from leading
cities and towns of the state.
The Michigan State Medical society
a committee of five to get a
law enacted for shutting out quacks
and impostors. They claim that Michi-
gan is a dumping ground for such
practitioners.
James Lapree, a farmer who lives in
Moorland, was found nearly dead in
his stable. He had shot himself three
times. He was subject to fits. lie
was 40 years old and has wife and
six children. He cannot live.
Promoters have been looking over
the ground for proposed electric rail
road to connect Pennington with De-
troit. The distance is about Is miles
and it is estimcted that enough patron
age could be secured TO make the road
pay.
The wife of Richard Blankenberg
committed suicide at Grand Rapids by
hanging herself from a rafter in the
cellar. She had been in i'll health and
was melancholy. She was thirty-one
years old; her husband and seven-year-
old son survive her.
A competitive examination for the
of cadet to the United
States Military academy from the
Seventh congressional district, upon
the recommendation of Congressman
will be held at Port Huron,
June o. a large number
will compete.
John Tobin. a 14-year-old boy of
Gladwin., met with terrible accident
while handling gun. 1t was an old
fashioned muzzle-loader. and the ram
rod became stuck inside, so he dis
the weapon to dislodgc it,
The breech burst and part of it
struck the boy in the face, inilicting
serious wound.
Thomas Chubb, aged II, hanged him
self at Lapeer. lie had so frequently
threatened TO kill himself that it had
become an old story, and no attention
was paid To his threats lie hung him
self TO the ceiling in the kitchen,
which was so low he had to bend his
knees 20 be free from the floor. He
leaves an aged widow and Ave children
grown up.