Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-01
Minor State Items.

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/ The reunion of the LOOMS battery
will occur in Coldwater May 81.
The ME. church building in Saginaw
City was burned on the goth inst.
The News-Jonrnal of Grand Haven
has been taken possession of bv che
sheriff.
A seamless knit hosiery factory, en-
ploying 100 operatives, will soon be
built in Charlotte.
A fire in Moses Barney's livery stable
in Bay City was not subdued until $12,-
900 worth OF properly was destroyed.
Victor Merrill of Ovid, aged 20, shot
himself through the heart with 20-cali-
bre revolver. The shot was accidental.
Hillsdale county Greenbackers in
dorse Butler for President. Eaton
county Greenbackers say: $50 say we
all OF us.
Joseph Allen, the man arrested in
Hamilton, Ont. for the Crouch MUIR
der, was arraigned on April 26 and
pleaded mot guilty"
Hon. G.. L. Dibble, one of Marshall's
most pr ointment citizens, died in Akin,
s. c., whittier he had gone for his
health, on the ED of April.
Dr.. Anna Benson, formerly of Ann
Arbor, committed suicide IN Omaha
few DAYS since. Anna loved mot wisely
but too WE'LL" hence the suicide.
Mike Burns, of near Pinconning, has
been great sufferer and the cause
thel eof, tape worm 81 feet long with
874 joints, was removed recently.
Mrs. Hicks of Eaton Rapids, aged SO,
died few days since, after brief i'll
ness. She never required the service
Of physician but once during her long
life time.
The large nill in Menominee belong
ing to the Ludington. Wells and Van
Setback lumber company, was destroy
cd by fire the other day at loss of
100000.
Three hundred car loads of elm square
timber have been shipped from Reed
City TO Traverse City, where they will
be loaded on vessels and taken to
Europe for ship building.
Attorney General Van Ripper says in
response to letter from Supervisor
Mclaughlin of Elk Rapids that no per-
son can keep two bars running in a
building without paying tax on both.
Mr.. Kirwin, father of Richard Kir-
win, who was killed by the bursting OF
n fywheel near Deer6eld was rendered
violently insane by the news of his son s
death, and his wife is in a like condi-
ton.
A iarht 80 IN hn MT Z,
Marquette road fell through bridge
six miles east of Saginaw the other
evening. Twelve loaded cars were
carried into the river, causing great
loss. No lives were lost.
Daniel S. Holcomb has been appoint
ed administrator for the estate of Jacob
ID. Crouch. He gave bonds in the sum
of $50, 900. And he is at the same time
under bonds to appear for trial charged
with the murder of the same Jacob ID.
Crouch.
President Kendall Brooks OF Kala.
mazoo college, who was granted q
years absence on account OF his health
and went abroad, writes from London
that he is very much better. and will
return very soon to resume his duties
at the college.
Mrs. Eliza Knickerbocker was con-
victed in the Gratiot county court OF
adultery and sentenced 10 two years in
Jackson. She has been released. the
Judge having examined the law and
found that woman cannot be confined
there except for mur,ter.
Francis A. Wordell, the special agent
| e 81 Tns1 lot yhr,f 60.
ed the names of United States pension
agent Samuel Post of Detroit to nego-
table paper, and was sentenced to the
House of Correction in Detroit about a
year ago, has been pardoned.
Jackson is all stirred up over the
defalcation of Thos. G. Boughton, a
leading light in the First M. F.. Church
of that city, superintendent of the
Sunday-school, secretary of the Y. M.
G. A. and occupying prominent posi-
ton in society and business circles.
The suit brought by j. b Davis to
compel Barsga and Ontonagon coun-
ties to turn over the lands granted for
building the Baraga and Ontonagan
state road has been decided adversely
to Mr.. Davis, and in consequence he
will be compelled to complete the road
according to contract and specifications.
Ckas. g. Collins, an old business man
of OD:onagon, says that between 1854
and 1860 he took dimes in trading and
paid them out in change at the rate of
l2} cents. At TIE end of the six years
they had accumulated at that figure on
on his hands to the amount of $4,000
He got rid of them finally at 3 loss of
$500.
Stephen Case of Grass Lake IS 83
years of age and has followed the occu-
patton of a seafaring man ever since he
was IS years of age. So strong is his
attachment for the water that even ct
his advanced age he proposes to make
another summers campaign before The
mast and engaged on vessel for that
purpose
An attempt to wreck the Lansing
train on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad, which leaves Hills
dale at 3 p. M, was made recently.
A pile of logs and stones wac made on
the track two miles west of Hillsdale,
but the engineer discovered the obstruc-
ton in time to prevent serious damage
Detectives are working on the case.
l.. Barden, young man living at
Woodland Center, Barry county, en-
ployed rs a clerk by +. Hilbert ut that
place, while standing in the store the
other evening shot himself between the
eyes, killing himself instantly. He was
about "a years of age and highly re-