Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-10-11
MICHIGAN

Thomas Raddle had $500 stolen from
his pantaloons the other night.
Deer are SO plenty around Evart that
they come boldly into that village.
The oil excitement at Roscommon
continues. A stock company has been
organized.
Merritt Moore, of Ionia is TO work for
the prohibitionists of Michigan the conf
ing campaign.
Alma Congregationlists are TO have q
new church edi.ice. The cost thereof
will be 81 600.
A farmer of Ingham county claims
TO have raised 500 different varieties OF
potatoes this year.
School-teachers should remember
that the laws of this state forbid the
pulling of children's ears.
Roscommon is to have new opera
house. 1t will be completed ready for
occupancy the coming winter,
The barns ON the county poor farm OF
Monroe county were burned the other
night. The loss will exceed $4,000.
Quincy, Branch county, celebrated
its scmi-centennial Oct. 3, in regular
old-fashioned Fourth-of-July manner.
While excavating for fire reservoir
at Owosso q stream of water was struck
which gives an ample supply for fire
purposes,
Interest in silver mining prospects In
the upper peninsula has been thorough
ly revived by the success of the Ropes
enterprise.
The 10th annual meeting of the Ma
tional w. c. Il. u, is to be held in DE
troit beginning Oct 81 and continuing
four days.
About 5000 bushels OF wheat are
being marketed daily at Portland
which is one Of the busiest little towns
in the state.
James Curtis, who murdered Macon
Wilson at the emancipation celebration
in Calvin in August last, got 10 years in
state prison.
The annual report of the treasurer OF
the state for the fiscal year ending Sep
TENDER 80, 1888, will show n balance on
hand Of S1.074, 267, 20.
At Maple Grove in Manistee county,
Tuesday, seven years old son OF
James Daily accidentally killed an in
FAINT brother with an AK.
A large expanse of land in Bay county.
heretofore useless for agricultural pur-
poses, has beer rendered tillable by
the construction of dykes.
Bert Cole, Lake Shore freight con-
ducior, fell under the cars at Eaton
Rapids and received injuries
which will probably prove fatal.
Frank Badly, special policeman at
the Central fair, was shot at dance in
Lansing by man named Louis Stark,
and death is expected to be the result.
Rev. j. Morgan Smith, pastor of the
First Congregational church of Grand
Rapids for over 20 years, died at Dams
vile, N. Y. the other day,whither he had
gone for his health.
A lad of II years named Barker, liv-
ing in CORTLAND township, Kent county,
blew into the muzzle of his gun and re-
ceived charge in his face, from the ef-
fects of which he died.
John Coulter's body has been eXhum-
ed ut Dandy, Ionia county, and an eX-
animation instituted to determine the
truth or falsity of certain rumors about
his having been poisoned.
In q game of base ball at Edwards
burg, Cass county, Brad Sampson was
hit on the side of the head with swift
ly pitched ball and died from the effects
of the blow the Same night.
G.. A. Plummer of Bay City has ship
ped 5000, 600 feet of hard wood lumber
this season to Raine and Milwaukee,
and expects to ship about 5000, 900 feet
more before the season closes.
James Curtis, who killed Macon
Wilson al the colored peoples celebra-
lion at Calvin in Cass county on the
10th of August, has been convicted of
murder in the second degree at Cassop-
oils.
Brooklyn, Jackson county, is believ-
ed to be the first of the 100 villages in
the state, entitled to do so, to adopt pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic under the
local option law passed by the last leg
islature.
G.. Merrill d Co. of Muske2on report
sales of 5000, 900 toet of lumber at ST.
%. S14.50 and $50, and 100000 feet at
SO, Sl8 and S3S. The firm in.
tend to put in only about $4,000 600 feet
of logs the coming winter.
Daniel Garry, who was injured by
falling down stairs while attending
meeting of the salvation Army in
Iiilsdale on the 23d ultimo, has since
died. A corners jury will endeavor to
find out where the blame lies.
Coldwater is on the lire of the an
cient Indian trail, and later the first ter
ritarial highway between Detroit and
Chicago. The highway is called the
Chicago road. and is the same which s
known by that name in Detroit.
The farmers of Branch county com
plain that they have paid 100000 into
the treasury of the Mansfield, Cold
water and Lake Michigan railroad with
out having gained ANYTHING by their
generosity-neither the road nor any
prospect of it.
Col. McComas, commanding the 1st
regiment, M. S. T., in his report to the
brigade commander recommends that
the state troops be armed with Spring
field rifles, caliber 40, and that the term
of the annual encampment be lengthen-
ed to At least eight days.