Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-02-15
MICHIGAN.
STATE NEWS.


J Just received an order for $4,000 worth OF
Texas hotel furniture.
Last October Otis WILDER, of Sturgis,
put $500 in gold In his trunk, but the other
day when he came to count 1t, S15 had disap-
| peared.
Judge Hooker at Charlotte, sentenced
| Reuben Hall, who was convicted Of assault with
intent to rape, to five years In the state prison
| at jackson
A fourteen-years-old boy, named Eu-
gene Kellogg, employed at Bonsield's wooden
| ware works, Bay City, caught his hand In
jointing saw and had 1t spit through the mid
die to his wrist. His arm will have to be am
| putated.
NJ B, Russell, for many years APRON
inent citizen and justice of the peace ut Battle
Creek, died at Idaho Springs Colorado, whittier
he had gone for his health. His remains Will
be returned to Battle Creek for burial by the
Odd Fellows of which order he was member
of high rank
A. j. Daniels, retiring school super
| ntendent at Grand Rapids, was presented with
| an expensive gold watch and chain from the
teachers OF the city schools. Prof. Irving
Mitchell, the incoming superintendent was ON
the same day presented with an easy chair by
the pupils Of the grammar school.
While John Syden and wife, of Essex
| ville were visiting sister in another part OF
the village, having left three small children at
| home, their house took fire and was burned 10
the ground. Scarcely any furniture was saved.
| Syden had allowed his insurance to expire, and
| loses everything, amounting in all TO about
| Sl,100 He is working man and has nothing
| left.
The faculty of Hillsdale college
continued to hold their defiant attitude,
and the seniors have been obliged to apologize
The class, however, wish it distinctly under
stood that the concession was made for the sake
of averting from the college an impending
calamity, which would surely have been the
result of the decided stand taken
still maintain the reasonableness OF
their previous position and the injustice OF the
manner in which the faculty have treated the
matter from the beginning.
During January 10000 barrels of
-four were shipped by Cyrus Stiles and G. G.
johnson d Co., millers of Monroe.
The fine dwelling of Fitz Shaw, of
Charleston township, Kalamazoo county, and
all It's furniture burned few nights ago
Peter Lang. a Grand Rapids Poland
er, sues the d., G. II. 81 NJ. company for Sl4O
worth of baggage lost on the road some months
ago
A Hoytville company has received an
/ order from England TO furnish 100000 hard
wood rollers TO DE used in making laundry
machinery.
| O. G.. Young, a well known mechanic
| of Charlotte, died very suddenly OF heart dis
| ease. He had been up town but short time
| before his death.
A man named Dolby had his left hand
| caught in straw cutter at the Lowell paper
mill, Ypsilanti, and his arm so mangled that 1t
was amputated above the elbow.
Miss Tracy Zweck, of Bay City, sues
the Michigan Central company for $4,000 for
injuries while getting of train at Blissield
| junction on the Bay City branch year ago.
j. Harris, formerly of the Mineral
| Springs house at Grand Ledge, has, In com
| pany with Thos. Moran, Of Toledo, taken an
| interest in the Commercial house at Lansing.
Prof. Cassidy, who has mad charge OF
the agricultural college greenhouse st Lansing
for the pass nine years, has been appointed
| professor of horticulture in the Colorado agri-
cultural college at Fort Collins.
Jennie McLeish, n l5-years' old girl
| living in Ypsilant accidentally set fire to her
| clothing while carrying Goals, and despite her
own and Others efforts to extinguish the flames
with water and by rolling in the snow, was so
| seriously burned that she died the next after
| noon.
Scarlet fever at Crofton and the
schools ordered closed.
Seventy-three Kentuckans have re-
Gently settled near Boyne Falls.
The Adrian college societies are ar
ranging for a grand literary contest.
An encampment of oddfellows was
established at Bronson not long since.
Frank Melbourne, Charlotte me-
chanic has fallen heir to about S22,OOO, left
him by an old uncle In England
James Vanderburg has been appoint
ed deputy oil inspector for the sixth district,
Wit bpa1nnartprR "A Grand
The Kalamazoo Telegraph publishes
statistics TO prove that the postoilice in that
village does more business than that at Jack
| son.
Down in the Constantine region the
crust cuts the horses legs, and 1t Is impossible
to haul fuel and produce into the towns Hence
some folks are on short commons.
Some folks at Hudson are greatly ex-
crcised by the fact that several recent converts
were baptized by immersion through holes cut
In the ice. The converts took 1t more coony
than some of the spectators did.
The Mecosta Advance says +. X.
Wood Of Stanton, has recently bought the
Shearer tract of land near Stanton for go, 900,
| and also the Windsor mills and lands. A spur
track Is to be run from the ID. l.. 81 n. X. X. to
the mill.
Walter Arndt, clerk of the Eagle no.
tel at Grand Rapids, did not desert his post
| when the hotel was burning, out WORKED ike u
hero arousing the guests, directing them 10
safety and assisting in rescuing the servants
One fick girl he carried out in his arms.
The supposed earthquake felt in many
places in southern Michigan proves toh have been
the shock caused by the explosion OF oil tank
cars on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railroad, east of Laporte, Ind. The shock was
distinctly felt at Niles, 20 miles distant, ana
even 12 miles further north.
The Eaton county soldiers are to have
a reunion at Charlotte on the 18th.
At Charlotte the snow is so heavy up
on the roofs that 1t has to be removed to prevent
their breaking down.
Mrs j. ID. Sholes and Mrs. M. Murray.
two prominent ladies and old residents of Te-
cumseh died at that place recently.
A fve-year cid lad named Peter
Guarkema of Grand Rapids was run over by a
loaded sleigh a few days ago. sustaining q
broken leg and other serioug injuries The lit
tie fellow fingered along in great agony until
death relieved him.
The wood of the gum tree, so well
known In the south, has heretofore been con-
sdered practically worthless, on account of its
aggravating tendency to warp ard curl out of
shape, but Michigan man has invented pro-
cess of steam kilning 1t as soon as II comes from
the saw, whereby IL Is as tractable as any other
wood. Geo. III. Van Etten, formerly OF Bay
City, is the hero who has conquered the hither-
to unconquerable gum tree
Those desiring to send for friends in
the old country should now avail themselves OF