Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-05
THROUGHOUT MICHIGAN.

county.
The South Haven stove works have
closed down on account of the falling
off in orders.
The Marcellus common council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting boys
catching on cutters.
Norway, the upper peninsula mining
town, now has her electric lighting
plant in operation.
ing of the city officials that all disre-
putable houses be closed.
The Maybee quarries will be oper-
ated all winter long, and thus many
needy men will be given work.
Hillsdale college students have
flooded their athletic grounds and will
make them into a skating rink.
John Ayers, of Michigan City, Ind,
was instantly killed near Three Oaks
by Michigan Central passenger train.
Earl, 1O-year-old son of d. j. Palmer,
broke through the ice while skating on
Pine Lake, at CharlevoiX, and was
drowned.
Hawley Gould, young man 20 years
of age, broke through the ice on Merl
lake, near Athens, while skating and
was drowned.
Mrs. j. Fred Whittemore, a promi-
nent Bay City lady, has died from the
effects of kick from horse received
over year ago.
Romeo will have an electric lighting
plant if +. p. Kinney, of Detroit. is
granted franchise. The necessary
stock has been subscribed.
Peter Gustafsen tried to walk from
Stephenson to Talbot while in an in
toXicated condition. He fell down in
the snow and was frozen to death.
The Second Michigan Cavalry at
Musllegon elected II. NJ. Hampstead, of
Saginaw. president; Edwin Hoyt, OF
Grand Rapids, secretary and treasurer.
South Haven will organize law
and-order league for the purpose of
closing up the numerous tonic joints
which now flourish in that local option
village.
j. K. Wirts, freight agent for the
Lake Shore at Clayton, was severely
burned about the face and hands while
removing an over-heated lamp from
semaphore.
There are several hundred counter
felt scent pieces in circulation in Ben
ton Harbor and st. Joseph. Two fell
lows were detected showing the queer,
but they escaped.
Fred Stevens barn, four cows and
all this years crops were burned at
Birmingham. The family was absent,
and the fire is supposed TO have been
caused by tramps.
William II. Ashley, of Eckford town
ship Calhoun county, hanged himself
in his barn. Dependency brought
about by sickness was the probable
cause. lie was about 45 years old.
Harriet Dennison, has commenced
suit by summons against Charles Van
Wormer and his bondsmen for selling
her husband, an habituai drinker of
Lansing, liquor. Damages claimed
$4,000.
Miss Lizzie McSweeney, of Detroit,
has been admitted To practice at the
Wayne county bar. She is the first Of
her sex TO be admitted at Detroit, and
also the first female graduate of the
Detroit College of Law.
Ira Bailey, while hunting with his
son in the woods near Coleman was ac-
cidentally shot by the latter, one of
the shots entering his face, near the
nose, and another striking him in the
neck. Bailey will recover.
+. Krusen, Brookfield farmer, was
found in his house, near CharlevoiX,
hanging by the neck. 1t was evident
that he had hanged himself several
days before as the body was in bad
condition. Krusen lived alone.
Martin Stern, of Macomb county,
was run over by train at Milwaukee
Junction, Detroit, both legs fear
fully mangled and were amputated
below the knees at Harper hospital.
He is 20 years of age and his recovery
is doubtful.
A mail bag stolen from the Bronson
depot two weeks ago was found two
miles from town. The mail was valu-
able. but not letter was touched.
The only things taken were pension
certificates, of which there were many
in the mail.
A split switch in the Ann Arbor rail
road yards at Ann Arbor was found
broken. 1t had APPARENTLY been started
by some one filing the rail. 1t Is
claimed that the switch was turned by
an unknown man in the face of the
approaching yard engine.
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, is now
enthusiastically advocating "a scheme
to tear down Detroit's old.style and in
convenient city hall and begin the
erection of a structure to cost SO, 00O,-
coo. He wants TO begin at once in
order to give employment to idle men.
The Erie flyer ran over a heavy log
on the track, near Attica, grinding it
into little pieces. Bert Ferguson, an
Attica boy, only IL, confesses that he
is responsible. He was drunk at the
time and wanted to see some excite
ment. The attempt at derailing the
train was at first kept secret, but the
arrest of Ferguson brought the thing
TO light. Had the log been placed on
the track in a different way the train
would certainly have been wrecked.