Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-11-02
MICHIGAN.
STATE NEWS.

There are 250,O0O,OOO feet or logs
afloat In tho Muskeeon, and the rear of the
drive Is a few miles above Big Rapids.
The seasons shipments of lumber,
ETC., from Bay City, up to the present time,
were as follows: Lumber, 47O,5i4, l75 feet;
shin gles, 79,7l2,O0J; lalb, l6,lll,OO0.
Two Laingsburg boys got together
money enough TO buy a pistol, took their
clothes from home and starred out to devas
tate the great west; but one Of the boys had a
sister who heard 81 the scheme and pursued
them to stay their fell designs.
j. M. Longyear, agent of the Lake
Superior ship canal. railway and iron company,
has been on an exploring trip through the
Gogebic iron district in tho upper peninsula,
and reports on all the ora openings made, and
his extended report to Davis, president Of the
company. is to the effect that Gogebic Is big
thing, with "slathers' Of ore therein.
Clifford Mulliken, son of Station
Agent Mulliken and nephew of Superintendent
MnIliken, Of the Detroit, Lansing d Northern
railroad, was thrown from horse at Lansing
and so injured that he died about an honr
afterward. He was about nine years old.
DR.. G. G. Yemans of Detroit, has re-
ceiyed a letter from his son, DR.. Herbert Ye.
mans, dated at Departure bay, VaLcouyer's
Island, in which the young surgeon says The
country surprises him. The climate is beauti-
full the settlements numerous, and the country
as near like the upper peninsula Of Michigan
as can DO imagined.
A fire broke out in the barn of BlOn-
din'e hotel at Manistee and soon spread to and
consumed the hotel and the residences of H.
johnson and N. S. Hunter The total lOss is
$1,000, with an insurance OF $1,000. Miss
Lena Pierce, young woman employed at the
hotel TO take care of Andrew Carleson, a sick
man, discovered that her charge bad not been
removed from the burning building, and she
dashed through the fiames took the sick man
in her arms and bore him to place of safety
amid the plaudits Of the crowd OF spectators.
A joint stock furniture manufacture
ing establishment is to be put Into operation
at Muskegon; capital, $4,000.
Orange Baker, well TODD farmer
living near Forester, Sanilac Co., recently
committed suicide by hanging. He leaves
wife and children.
A vein of coal four feet thick has
been found on the farm of K. W. Barber, near
the Air Line Junction, Jackson.
Besides manufacturing wood alcohol
| acetate Of lime and tar, the chemical CON-
pany at Elk Rapids have just commenced
the manufacture OF potash. The works
have a capacity OF about three tons per
month.
Burglars worked all night on Swift
Il Crous safe at Worthwhile recently and didn't
get in. They got "a from the till.
VIM. Palmer, an old farmer of Read
ing was thrown from his wagon few days
ago, striking upon bis head He is now
paralyzed below the shoulders, and may
die.
Wm. Blake, Of Alaiedon, Ingham
Co., while threshing near Williamson
was kicked By horse and fatally injured,
death ensuing few hours after ward. He
leaves large family.
For several months past Ludington
and the region round about has been greatly
interested in big lottery scheme by which a
$4,000 house and lot was to be raffled off,
Nov comes dispatch 10 the effect that the
man who was managing IL has left with
about $4,000 in his pockets and that no rattle
has yet taken place.
A boy burglar is under arrest at
Kalamazoo. His name is John Wood.
One Charles Bristol is under arrest at
East Saginaw for robbing the Methodist
church.
An Ionic youth, named Dunbar
while hunting blew the whole OF bis chin
of.
Shaver s. Gibson's jewelry store at
Uoloma was robbed recently. Loss, 300.
Lottie Stewart, aged IL years, was
struck and terribly injured by a railway en-
CINE at Bay City.
A Mrs. Atwell, of near Kingley's,
Grand Traverse county, was severely and per
haps fatally burned by her clothes catching
fire. while she was about her household work
1t is stated that during the last two
years there have been A circuit judges In
Michigan and Is designations during the same
period. This Is owing TO the meagre salary
paid.
The South Saginaw Baptist church,
although unfinished, was. thrown open recent.
ly to large audience, who were addressed by
Revs. z. Grenell Of Detroit, Shanafelt and
Collins of East Saginaw, Jamison of Saginaw
City and Beals Of Plymouth. A statement was
made Of the church finances, which showed
that the organization, which began in 1856
with five, has now 45 members, and has ex-
pended 81, 100 upon their new church building,
which needed 1915 more to complete it. This
amount wasspromptly raised
Eddie Hausman, Is years old, was
mile above Owosso. The unfortunate boy had
been fishing with his boat fastened to the
shore. and was taken with ft and fell over
board. His brother went up the river to Join
him and found his lifeless body hanging part
ly in the boat.
The Cincinnati, Wabash b Michigan
railway is now completed TO Benton Harbor
and party OF citizens of Niles and officers of
the road have had an excursion to the former
place.
A year-old child of Chas. Schmidt of
Niles was lost and was found at the bottom Of
the rain water cistern. A physician was sum-
moned, who succeeded in restoring animation,
although the child must have been In the water
10 to 10 minutes, and was rigid when taken
out.