Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-03-20
Minor State Items.

with comparatively small insurance.
Minor State Items.
There are about 100 soldiers OF the
Mexican war in Michigan.
Maple Rapids contributes $11, 200
towards the Lansing and Mt. Pleasant
railroad.
Charles A. Davis, one of Fenton's
NEST promising young business men,
died on the 18th inst.
6The output of the Calumet and Hecla.
Quincy and Franklin mines for the
month of February amounted to 2,27S
tons.
The latest reckoning of the Allegan
fire places the losses at $431.320 and
the insurance as $163,450. The area
burned over was six acres.
John N. son of the late Ex-Governor
Bagley, was married in Grand Haven,
on the 18th inst, 70 Miss Esther p
daughter of the Hon. Dwight Cutler.
of that city.
While saving down tree in the
woods just north of Holland, in Ottawa
county, John Avery. aged II, was
struck by dead limb which broke off
and fell and was instantly kill.
Those who claim to know say that
Lake Superior, between the end of
Kewcenaw Point and the north shore. is
frozen over. Wolves, said to have come
acorss the lake from the wilds of Can
ada, were seen leaving the ice near Bette
Girls last week.
Six years ago one Henry Hall, one of
the patriotic boys in blue, was taken to
the Shiawasse county house from Vern
on township, where he remained until
his death, which occurred few nights
since. he having been found dead in his
bed in the morning.
The Rev. Hiram II. Hall, for 40 years
a prominent minister of the M. f.
| ly of heart disease Mr.. Hall had been
presiding elder of the Niles and Albion
district. and was widely and well-known
throughout the state.
The attorneys for Jud Crouch and
Dan Holcomb are working hard TO
break the force OF the damaging testi-
mony given by Harrington at the ex-
animation. They claim TO prove so
much against hlm as to completely as
tonish those who nave put any conf
| dence in what he said.
An old man named Cornelius Drum.
mond was found dead in a house on he
Potomac" in Detroit few mornings
since. The old man had served in the
Mexican and civil war, and was u
pensioner. He had just drawn his pen
sion money, and from the fact that mono
was found upon him, it is believed that
he was murdered and robbed.
At the examination of Margaret
Smith in Pontiac for the murder of her
husband,a brother of the dead man.
said the deceased told him that his
wife had poisoned the wine in the Jug
and that she said, II guess you have
got something you don't want any more
Of" Also that tho couple had quarrel
ed two days before deceased was taken
sick
The motion for a new trial in the case
of Mrs. Koren Larsen. of Muskegon,
was denied and she was sentenced to
Jackson at hard labor for the rest of
her life. 1t will be remembered that
she poisoned John Guild with rough
on rats last August. Her husband will
have his trial on the same charge in
May. She was taken to jackson at
once.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says that
President Brooks of, Kalamazoo College,
has been in Boston during the steady
cold weather, which agrees with him.
and has very perceptibly improved
during his rest. He left on the 18th
inst. for Mentone,a well known French
health resort on the gulf of Genoa. He
will remain abroad until the season is
well settled. but is expected home
in Michigan before the summer is over.
Mrs. Gen. Custer who is now travel
ing with Mrs. Calhoun, her late hus-
bands sister, says II finally con-
company her in her trips when she goes
about to give her readings. have no
relatives of my own-fathor, mother,
brothers or sisters-and she is the dear
est one on earth 10 me. She is very
much like the General. Her ways, her
laugh, are the same, and her quick
tones are very much like him. Some
times my heart almost stops beating
when hear her speak In another room
her voice is so much like that of the
one who is gone
Oscar Hopkins, who was convicted
of assaulting and rob5ing James Flan-
merry near Pinconning, has been sem
fenced to hard labor in the jackson
state prison for life. Hopkins, in the
hope of getting light sentence, plead
ed guilty, and told the story of his
crime. Flannery stopped at his house
for drink of water, and while getting
10 cents for one of the children exhibit
ed roll Of bills. Flannery was invited
to stay to supper, and after supper Hop
kins volunteered 10 accompany him.
taxing his axe along under the pretense
of getting some wood as he came back.
He struck Flannery on the head with
the axe, rined his pockets. and placed
him on the railroad track. where he
was found by two women, was rescued,
and recovered. Judge Green, in passing
sentence, stated that in his opinion the