Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-12-07
STATE NEWS.

baby ID at Adrian visiting friends. senate
Chaffse, Mrs. Grants father, formerly lived nj
Adrian, and she has relatives there.
DR.. Edwin Shaw died at Allen the
nrst of the week. He had practlced medicine
In that vicinity for about 70 years, and was
widsly known and much respected.
The notes, checks, etc., stolen from
Barrows IL Sons safe at Armada last June,
have been found where they we're secreted pS
the thieves, under crosswalk. They were
all there and in fair condition.
The butter plate factory OF l.. Car
penter Il Co. and the basket and box factory oil
N. b. Hall Il Co, at Benton Harbor, burned
recently. The loss OF Carpenter d Co. Is about
$1,000, with no insurance, and that OF Hall d
Co. about. IS, 600, with 5000 insurance.
Some Grand Rapids workmen, In
leariag down an old fence, struck a mine OF
silver spoons, knives, napkin rings, etc.,
which had been left there by some bur-
glars.
There is good sleighing at Beading
and whereabouts.
A Grand Rapids deputy sheri II
started TO Ionia with two prisoners few
days ago but when he returned acted az II
he was not feeling well. Eventually 1t leak
cd out that his prisoners got away before he
reached Ionia, and he hasn't been able 70
hnd them.
Dan Van Wagner and Dan Root,
who escaped from the Ionia priEon the nrst
Of the week ware recaptured at Holland by
Chicago detective and an officer from Grand
Rapids. Van Wsgoser's father, who lives In
Chicago, was seen to express a package oil
money to Dan at Holland The officer board :
cd a train and came through with the money,
meeting Van Wagner at the train and
taking him into Gust ody. Root was found In
bed at a hotel. The prisoners have been re-
turned to Ionia.
Capt. Charles E. Bradley, who dur
ing the war was a member OF the Eighth lii
nOis cavalry, died at his home, between Cor
unna ana GossO, few days ago.
Samuel w. Murdoch, a pioneer of
washtenaw county, died at Dexter recently.
He came from Pennington, Macs, Al years
ago. and had been in the iewelry business al
Dexter ever since.
Tekonsha now claims to possess the
neatest opera house Of any small town In the
tats.
Miss Tina Mallory, Of Reading, an
estimable young woman whe has been Ill near
ly all her lifetime, died l. 7sntly.
A woman in the northeastern part
OF the town OF Leslie was discovered recently
who with her four children had lived on nc
other food than boiled pumpkin for several
days, and bad no fuel except email sticks pick
ed up wherever she could fnd them. Her in
mediate necessities we're relieved az soon n
the facts became known.
An Adrian boy has been sent to the
reform school for I've years, having been Con-
victed OF stealing mans dinner.
An old man named Anderson COM
United suicide at Frankford recently by cut
ting his throat He was the father Of ]. @
Anderson, superintendent of the Frankfort
furnace company and was 30 years old.
George Smith, Of Sand Beach, was
accidentally shot in the legs few days age
by huuter.
A company has been formed at Mus.
kegon for the manufacture Of barrel hoops
It will make 1900 per dsy.
There was balance of 81, 496, S16 IL
In the state treasury at the close Of bushes.
the last day of the month. The reseipts dur
Ing the month were $9S.!l2 20, and tn, dis
bursmenis ssss,40s II.
A large addition is being built to the
Occidental hotel at Muskegon, and lumber
mans exchange will be fitted up In a portion
of Il.
Saginaw lumbermen are busy In
Duluth this winter. Duncan & Gamble iu-
tend putting in 100000 feet OF pine in thai
region this winter, Chaplin d Delson $500 ,o0t
and Brewer q Osborne 100000 feet.
An eastern-bound passenger train
on the D., L. d N. railroad ran into some
freight cars standing on the main line at Grand
Ledge wrecking caboose and one fat car
damaging an engine, and shaking severa
people very vigorously. No one hurt, how
ever.
VIM. B. McCreery of Flint has been
chosen member OF the state board OF agricul.
ture TO Nil the place made vacant by the death
of. Webster Ohilds.
The Office of steward of the Michigan
agricultural college has been abolished and the
students are hereafter to mess in clubs con-
trolled by themselves, In accordance with the
idea recently made known through their petit
ton 10 the authorities OF the college.
A stranger hired a team and buggy
at aIDserfield livery saying he wanted to 20 and
look for some cows. As be has not come back
yet II is feared he has not found the boylnes.
The horses have been recovered at Bronson.
Hank Goodman, variety performer,
has been arrested at Grand Rapids charged
with shooting at IFran Vinegar, SON Of a
prominent citizen. Goodman claims that Win
ega- robbed him Of his wife's affections. He
paid dne and was discharges.
Some unknown villain fed poison to
Is horses owned by n. P. Merrill, of Bay City
killing two valuable Psrcheron colts.
The Republic mining company now
lights Its surface works by electricity, and will
also introduce it into some Of It's largest under
ground chambers.
Mrs. A. L. Himebaugh, of the Black
Hills region, Is visiting her old home at Spring
Arbor, Jackson county, and has brought with
her ahandsome tame antelope
A Bay City report sets forth that a
man named Lincoln, who had been making