Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-20
MICHIGAN.

for the deaf and dumb. frot
M. T. Gass has been appointed super
intendent of the institution, the position
of principal has been abolished and Dan
III. Church takes his old place as stew
ard. Prof. M. II Gass was formerly
connected with the schools at Fenton
and of late has been superintendent OF
the public schools of Flint.
DR.. +. b. Kimball, physician OF the
Jackson prison has resigned, and Free
man l.. Crosby, of Napoleon, appointed
TO fill the vacancy.
A Charlotte dealer in frogs has ship
ped nearly 1000 of the "birds" to CHI
cago this season.
The furniture factory now building
at Newaygo will be completed End run
ming by January next. 1t is being built
by stock company, capital $4,000.
While VIM. Trip was digging well
in Tittabawassoe township, Saginaw
county, a child rolled stone down
upon him, crushing his skull and per-
haps fatally injuring him.
Spencer & Barnes, of Buchanan,
who had 81 900 in notes and four l,O0o
mile railroad tickets stolen from their
safe last June, recovered the same
few days ago. They were found IN a
coke car in Chicago.
Daniel Levely of Hope, near Midland,
insane on religious subjects, attempted
to roast his baby as sacrifice.
The more progressive farmers in the
older portions OF the state are urging
and in many cases practicing, the aDo-
lition of road fences. Stock owners are
compelled to keep their stock out OF the
roads, and the fences are then taken
down and the land cultivated down to
the very edge of the roads.
Southern Michigan farmers complain
of people who travel through the coun-
try in covered wagons and help them,
selves to vegetables and live stock, and
in fact, almost anything they can get
their hands on.
While playing with revolver Mamie
| Selkirk shot and quite seriously wound
ed Emma Robinson. The girl will prob
| ably suffer some Inconvenience, but no
fatal result is feared. This occurred In
Charlotte
Roscommon is sure il has struck oil
1t Is proposed in the Michigan M. +.
conference to change the name OF Al
bion collegeto the Asbury Centenary
university.
Heman j.. Redtield, at one time state
senator, and one of the best known law
yers of Monroe, was found dead in his
| lot in the cemetery in that city the other
dav, having sho. himselftwice in the head
and once in the breast. For some time
| he has been in ill-health and very des-
pondent. and this is the only reason as
signed for the act.
From all parts of the state come re-
ports of the damage to crops 6y the
late cold snap. Millions of dollars
worth of crops were destroyed in the
two nights of September s and 9. In
many places corn and clover are en-
tirely dead and all sorts of garden
truck is as dead as q door nail.
Louis Moreau of East Saginaw took
a dose of Rough en- Rats" by mistake,
and it was mighty rough on him. A
physician and stomach pump helped
him some.
| The new sar;tarium at Ypsilanti
has been opened,
The heaviest mails handled at Grand
Rapids are those for and from the north
via the G.. r. & |. railroad.
? II Hillsdale saloonist goes out oil
business, the city council refund him
par. of his license money. Generous
council, that.
Since the 1st of May Mrs l. q. Grit.
| feth, of near Charlotte, has made nearly
500 pounds of butter from the milk OF
three cows.
The governor has appointed w. f.
| Turner circuit court commissioner fol
Shiawasse county, vice &. +. Hutchin:
resigned.
II. r. Bancroft, of Romeo, boasts Of
having apples of the Jonathan variety
that are just as sound as when gathered
n year ago.
Augusta, Kalamazoo county, is tC
have a new school house costing $4,000
"Ben" Joslyn, the aereonaut, is SOL
of Judge Joslyn, of Ypsilanti.
Among the attractions to be present
ed ut the Eaton county fair, to be hello
at Charlotte. September 1928, will b,
an exhibition of bicycle riding by w
M. Woodside. champion of Ireland, snC
w. j. Morgan. champion of Canada.
The effect of the compulsory schoo
law is seen in the increased attendance
at many of the schools i'm the state
Scarlet fever has ragged so iiercely il
Morenci, Lenawee county. that many
parents were obliged TO take their chill
dren into the country until the scourge
abated.
2George Storms, late of jackson, was
killed by the explosion of threshine
machine boiler near Ashton, Dakota
recently.
Says the Dowagac Republican: l.. c
Bishop, of Mason township, with q
Nichols q Shepard 32 inch cylinder, AZ
inch separator and 10 horse power
traction engine, tbreshed in six days
6,315 bushels of grain, 1857 Of which
was oats, the balance being wheat. In
the meantime he made eleven sets and
Travelled IL miles.
Frances A. Wordell, the pension
agent who is serving n sentence in TIE
Detroit house of correction, for forgery,
was notified the other day of the death
of his little daughter at New Bedford,
Mass.
The third edition OF Michigan and
It's Resources has just been issued by
Commissioner H. N. Walker. The
work is intended for distribution where
it will do the most good in inducing
emigrants to settle in Michigan. Copies
of the work may be obtained by ad
dressing the Commissioner of Immigra-
ton, Detroit, Mich.
The corner stone of the new $4,000