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

Ironwood again.
The Eleventh Michigan cavalry will
hold q reunion at Greenville, Sept. ~
BY the spreading of an old and new
dock at the 500 so tons of soft coal
dropped into the river
Mrs Mary Hunt, wealthy widow
of Corunna, has been adjudged insane
and sent to the asylum.
i. NJ Link, who keeps restaurant
at Britton, is under arrest for selling
liquor without the proper license.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph celebrated
its fiftieth anniversary by issuing
16-page edition profusely illustrated.
The wooden mills burned at Carson
vile. The origin of the fire is I'M
known. The loss is estimated at about
1000
VIM. Hoyt, aged 80, was found dead
at his home, two miles north of Garlic
ton, with revolver ball in his temple.
Suicide.
A digger named Charles Carr, aged
As, was buried in cavern near Hol.
land, and sustained fatal injuries. lie
left family
Brakeman Barney Hebner, of Au
Sable, fell under the wheels at McKin-
ley, and both legs were cut off. He
cannot recover.
While Joseph Smith was sitting at
window in his fathers residence, near
Newaygo, he was struck by lightning
and instantly killed.
Charles Pierson, young man aged
%, committed suicide at Ludington by
jumping into the lake. He was de-
spondent on account of his discharge
from employment.
Mrs. George j. Huntley, aged 90.
shot herself through the heart, dying
instantly. at Holland She had been
married but few weeks. No cause is
given for the deed.
Marcus Peterson, ex-clerx OF the
board of state auditors, will publish a
book on what he knows of the salary
amendment frauds. The title of the
volume will be Modern Dcspotism."
Rev f. Nelson Glover, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Bay City, was
thrown from his bicycle under the
wheels of a carriage and was kicked
by the horse. Conclusion of the brain
resulted.
Oliver p Mcqueen, of Hastings, n
carpenter by trade, committed suicide
at the Irving house in Lansing, by
taking morphine. The deceased was
60 years of age and leaves a widow
and two sons.
At the annual fair, September 81,
the school children of Calhoun county
will hold a rally. Supt. Pattengill, of
Lansing, and others will give adj
dresses, and 10000 children will carry
flags and banners.
DIR. Howig, an ingenious citizen of
Big Rapids has been experimenting
with his bean crop by giving the vines
electric shocks. He finds that the
beans thus treated are fully ten days
earlier than others.
The board of prison inspectors met
at jackson and signed contract with
the Derby Cycle Co., of Chicago, for
the manufacture of bicycles, tricycles,
etc. The contract calls for the EN-
ployment of IS men.
Mrs. Henderson, of Jackson, while
standing on top of step ladder gath
ering fruit with picket of fence in
her hand, fell to the ground, the
picket penetrating her body. Little
hope for her recovery.
Two large barns, extensive sheep
sheds, farm produce and utensils,
| owned by Hon. j. ). Crosby, and stu
ated three miles east of Greenville,
were destroyed by fire. The fire
originated from sparks from locomo-
tive. Loss 50, 900.
Ionia has a law and order league
which is alive TO the interests of Sun
| day observance, and through its in
| tluence the common council passed an
ordinance forbidding the opening of
all places of business on the first day
of the week after October /.
An underground lake exists on the
north side of Pleasant lake, in jackson
county. 1t appears 20 have no bottom
and all attempts to fill up have failed.
The lake covers about an acre OF
ground, and the land in the immediate
vicinity is all the time settling.
Norvell Crane, of Hillsdale, disap-
peared about two months ago, and the
only trace of him was his clothes,
which were found on the banks of
Sand Lake. 1t was reported that he
was alive, but the mystery has been
solved by finding his body in the lake.
Jerome w. Bristol was found at the
bottom of an old-fashioned open well
at Coldwater. About midnight he had
stepped out of the house to get some
water and finding the rope broken and
the bucket at the bottom he tried to
fish it up and tumbled in headfore-
most.
The big wooden steamer Robert
Mills and the Union liner II. J. Jewett
collided in the Straits of Mackinac.
The Mills was seriously injured and
was run ashore. The Jewett's steel
hull had apparently suffered no injury,
and she went on he way. The COLI
sion occurred in a thick fog.
Guy McGregor, 19-year-old son OF
Capt. j. NJ. McGregor, of Detroit, died
of very singular affection. A few
days previous he was attacked with
toothache. The glands of the throat
swelled to an enormous size, causing