Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-08-10
MINOR MICHIGAN NEWS.

A heavy frost visited the Tawas
region.
Trenton has about decided to put in
water works.
Calumet is To have new Swedish
Lutheran church, seating 500.
The Ludington Congregational
church has dedicated 80, 900 organ
While in delrium Philip Govette,
of Crosswcll, cut his throat. His wife
saved his life.
hundred members of the Indiana
Republican Editorial association had
an outing at st. Joseph.
Showers came at Buchanan which
broke the extended drought. Many
crops viii be saved by it.
Raging forest fires to the west
threatened Crystal Falls village. Citi-
zens fight the flames day and night.
Forty marble and granite dealers
held n state meeting at Port Huron
and banqueted at the Oakland, st.
Clair.
Charles buchanan was found dead in
n tree near Crystal Falls. While hunt
iliS mo BUN ""' "~Ni"S NAhiy VIZ
charged.
Lewis T.. Dean, near Midland, was
killed while loading telegraph poles
on IA wagon, when one of them fell off,
crushing him.
The st. Johns Manufacturing com
pany, which employs over 200 men and
has been shut down for month, has
resumed business.
The Adventists of Battle Creek are
agitating the question of the second
coming of Christ which they maintain
will shortly occur.
The 3-ycar-old child of David Carver,
of Laketown, fell into pail of hot
water and was scalded SO badly that
she died few hours later.
A small peach crop is expected neal
Ann Arbor. Orchards which ordinarily
have yielded from 5000 TO !, ZOO bushels
each will yield only about 500 this
year.
Floyd Mcintosh was killed by light
ming near Orleans, while returning
from Flat River. His horse was also
killed. Walter Reed was severely
stunned.
Peter Fakabalier was struck by light
ming during a storm al Kalamazoo and
instantly killed. lie leaves a family.
Lightning struck several places in this
vicinity.
Josie Holman, a 11-year-old girl of
OwosSo, was thrown off her horse.
Her foot caught in the stirrup and she
was hurled violently against a tree,
dying instantly.
The Grand Rapids mine at Negau-
nee, which has been idle all the sea-
son, has resumed with large force of
employees A big order of ore for inn
mediate delivery is the cause.
All the factories at Marshall shut
down one day so that the employees
might attend the harvest jubilee
! Among the orators were ex-Gov. Luce,
p Mulvaney and Mrs. T.. Mayo.
Cynthia NJ. Il. Gorton, known under
the pen name of Ida Glenwood. 1.-The
blind bard of Michigan" died at her
home at Fenton. The deceased was a
poet and author of state renown.
Niles has purchased the Niles cleo
trio light power and plant for S37, 500.
The power is to be utilized, in addi-
ton to furnishing light, to furnish
power for new water works system.
w. II. Haines' large barn ne.- Cas-
sopolis was struck by lightning and
burned. Ninety tons of hay. 800
bushels of wheat and a large number
of farming implements were consumed.
Bay City figures that it is the third
city of Michigan-that is, including
West Bay City and Essexville in the
grand total. This gives Bay City a.
$50, while the consolidated Saginaws
have A, 64l.
Pontiac has only s62.25 in the treas
ury with which TO pay bills aggre gat-
ing 81 .0O0 The aldermen have already
used up all the money they can borrow
in year. The smallpox scare alone
cost the city 1900
The sixth annual reunion of the SOL
dicrS and sailors of Jackson, Eaton
and Ingham counties, will be held in
Mason, Aug. 20 and 81. One hundred
tents will be pitched in the court house
grounds Gov. Rich will Speak.
The Peninsular Car works, Detroit.
opened up in all departments. The
car wheel foundry has been running
for some time. About 5000 men had
assembled around the works at
o'clock, but only about /, 100 were put
20 work.
William O'Connor, who claims to be
organizing A. p. a. lodges. attempted
suicide in the county Jail at Kalama-
zoo, by hanging by his suspenders.
lie was cut down just in time to save
his life. lie appealed piteously to be
allowed to die.
A storm at Bclding burned some of
the electric light wires and part of
the town was left in darkness. The
barn of Charles iIagadorn, with his
whole crop of grain and hay, together
with four horses, was struck by light
ming and destroyed.
The dry weather has so dried up the
water in the st. Joseph river that the
river steamer can only go up about six
miles instead of "a as usual. Farmers
are compelled to haul their fruit from
/ rnner pOintS of the river down on