Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-10-18
MICHIGAN.
Premiums awarded at the last s'ste
fair amounted to ST., QUO.

Co,dwater has all of its tire-bugs
ack, with one exception. Perk' VINO Is /
till in Ionia.
Greenville. Montcalm county, mas
nilt two substantial iron bridges across
he Flat river this season.
The common council of Flint has un-
Ter consideration q plan ior hahins
,ity prisoners work on the streets
Alonzo Rogers of Marshall was Jeal'
,us of his wife, and shot her the olher
lay. She may recover, but 1t Is aoup'-
ful.
brakeman named Bellmore, 20
years old. was run over and killed by
freiobt train near Standish few nights
ago.
An expert rider won q bet OF SlOO by
riding his horse from Chelsea TO Dexter
a distance of eight miles, In "a MIN
utes. The bet was made on ~ MN
utes.
The proposed work on the Ottawa
Lake drain i'm Monroe county Will cost
about $4,000. The contracts nave
been let
In seven days the Muskegon boom
company RATED over 100000 logs ana
the Tittabawassee boom company near
ly 100000.
The board of Supervisors of Mecos'a
county think they can raise S3O.0oo py
direct tax for the purpose OF building
court house.
Conductor Bert Cole, who was SER
iously injured by cars at Eaton kap,ds;
is better and hopes are entertained OF
his recovery.
Chase has grown TO be one OF Tue
largest lumber shipping points on the
Flint and Pere Marquette railroad. III
has seven busy mills,
Trap net fishermen in Thunder Bay
are annoyed and chagrined because the
expected swarm of whitetish don como
where they can be caught.
G.. ID. Culver has secured 90 years
lease of 125 acres of land near koscom
mon, on which oil indications are good,
and will sink several test wells.
Intimations come from Allegan OF a
series of h ,rrible outrages on i've little
girls, whose ages range from } to IL,
committed by a full grown man.
The old schoolhouse Mt Thea, burned
down the other morning. Loss $1,000;
insurance $1,000 A new school build
ing worth S25, 900 s neariag completion.
Judge Green of Bay City holds that
the new county of Arenac was illegally
created, and the case is TO be taken to
the supreme court in double-quick or
der.
An attempt on the part of several
prisoners in the Monroe county jail It
escape, was prevented by the vigilance
and decisive action of the Sheriff
wife.
The Rev. DIR. ID. w. G. Durgin, pres
ident of IillsdaIe college will represent
: the American Free Will Baptists ut The
: meeting of the general Baptist associa
ton in England.
{ The state sportsman 5 association ha'
grown tired of spending 900 II yea
to pay Il game warden tor enforcing th'
state game laws. and he therefore zoe
out of commission.
/ A movement is on foat n: East Sagi
} nav TO take all books which are of al
amusing or uninstructive characte
from the public library and to buy NJ
more light literature.
A bold but unsuccessful attempt wa
made the other evening to burn tn
a hou. es of X. ID. Scott and Jackson Vor
: bees of Pontiac The affair cause
, great excitement in that plate.
g There is trouble in store for the ney
> county of Arenac, that is if it is
= county, and about this there is som
doubt. The supervisors of Bay count
arc trying to solve the problem.
> The Bay City Tribune thinks Their
is no doubt that great many peopl
s living in the so-called county of Arena
v would be very glad if the township
. were again attached to Bay county.
VIM. Smith is in Jail at Charlotte 70
: having shot n lad of II, named bod
Mudica, with fatal effect. The TRACED
C occurred cast of Nashville, which is Of
+. the border line of Eaton and Barr
G counties.
4 On the third day of the fair ut Pa,
Paw n little son of Eli Bierce was caugh
on the shafiing that ran the agricultu
raj machinery and had one arm broke
- and received other serious injuries; bu
the prospect is he will recover.
During the late war the chief of Tn
Escanaba Iron Port was an officer i
: the l.. s. military telegraph corps. an
n at a reunion OF the corps recently hi
J. old comrades presented him hant
h some silver service.
. During the week of October 22nd
that eminent tragedian, John McCu
. Tough. will appear at the Detroit Oper
: House in "Virginius," 1.-The Gladia
J, tor, and Richard H." Special rate
n on all railroads III the state.
2rhe Presbyterian church n Albion
.he largest and finest house of worsbi
l. IN the place, was burned the other night
e and il is alleged that it was fired by a
n incendiary. The loss is $4,000, O
which there Is 80, 800 insurance.
The promise comes from East Tawa
that within six weeks the Detroit. Ba
: City and Alpena railroad will be com
l. pleted TO its western terminus nea
Wells in the northwestern corner G
what is now called Aranac county.
William Holland was run over an,
killed by passenger tram on the Chi
: cago and West Michigan railroad nea
{ Grand Rapids. He was intoxicated an,
q had gone to sleep OIL the track. Hol
, land was about 80 years OF age and un