Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-07-03
Minor State Items.

Minor State Items.
July 10 Marquette celebrates her. Sjth
anniversary.
Port Huron claims 10 be the best
wool market in the state this year.
Representative Burton Parker of
Monroe wants To be sent to Alaska as
governor.
The T. Il A. A. Il. Il. is now styled
the Toledo, Ann ArDor IL Northern
Michigan r. r.
For the week ending with June p,
Battle Greek bought nearly $4,000
pounds OF wool.
Mrs. Fred Hall. four miles south of
INLAY City was Knocked speeches. by
lightning the other day.
Two hundred and fifty workmen left
the mill ut Grard Haven the other morn
ing because of a reduction in wages.
George Sellinger's mill at Lumber
ton, Newaygo county, burned on they'd
inst. Loss 50, 600; insured for $4,000.
Creasinger, the Maple Rapids bank
or who has been under arrest for arson
and embezzlement, has been discharged.
II is announced that the spirituaiists
will hold a camp meeting on the Lam
sing fair grounds August 7th to 18th.
The cornerstone of Lenawee county's
new court louise was laid in Adrian,
Saturday, June %, with imposing GER
emonies.
The four strikers who were arrested
in Oscoda under the conspiracy" act
have been released and the charges
withdrawn.
G. G.. Comstock's new mill ct Grand
Rapids, leased by Cuppler d Co., burn
ed Sunday afternoon June %. Loss
$4,000, insured $4,000,
Crazed by domestic troubles Nellie
Smith of Kalamazoo, went to the river,
laid her baby down on the bank, and
then jumped in and was drowned.
The bondsmen of ex Treasurer Wood
of Lansing have surrendered him to the
authorities TO stand trial on charge of
embezzlement preferred about year
ago.
A Republican state convention for the
nomination of state Office and electors
for president and vice-president of the
United States will be held in Detroit,
August Is, 1884.
Henry Houghton, one of Baraga
county's eldest and most respected cit
izen, died at Baraga recently, aged 7S
years. He had been postmaster at
Baraga for many years.
In 1883 the rank of Michigan in re-
latlon TO the otherStates in cereals was
third in buckwheat, seventh in wheat
tenth in oats and barley, fifteenth in
corn and eighteenth i'll rye.
Glen Stevens, who lives near Dundee,
took load of wood to Deerfield. He
speu6 the money for Deerfield whisky,
went home aud beat his wife, and is
now under $500 bonds to keep the
peace.
Judge Grdley, sitting ut Lansing in
the case of city of Lansing VS.. the bonds.
men of ex-City Treasurer Wood, di-
reefs the city to return n verdict for the
full amount claimed by the plaintiff,
500, 1888 S3.
Chas. Z. Sanford, young man of
Grand Haven, in n fit of dependency
induced by excessive dissipation, com
mited suicide in Milwaukee the other
morning by jumping overheard from
the steamer City of Milwaukee.
Judge Smith of Ionia grants change
of venue in the case of Matthew Willard
convicted year ago last February for
the murder Of his wife at Palo; sentenc-
ed for life and granted new trial by
supreme court; goes to Kent county.
The Plymouth Union school has been
placed on the state agricultural college
list of those from which candidates will
be admitted to the college without ex-
animation in the studies required for
entrance, on certificate of graduation.
There will be a county teachers in.
stitute held in Mason, commencing Jul
ly 2Sth, and continuing two weeks.
Competent instructors will, be i'm at
tendance, and profitable and inter-
esting institute may be expected
Ingham County Democrat.
On the 10Th inst, Otto Zwerk, Ter
man of East Saginaw, disappeared from
home and no trace of him could be
found. His body was found in the river
June "a, with cash in the head. Al
the inquest verdict of murdered by
unknown parties" was rendered.
Long the wife murderer, will be kept
in solitary confinement pending action
on the matter by the board of prison
inspectors. His father and mother re-
fused TO see him after his arrest. and
this neglect on his mothers Part de-
pressed him most of all, and after that
he lost all interest.
The Oldest white settler in Pinconnine
township is j. u. Mech, and his grand
child. Henry Post, was the first white
child born in this township. Mrs. Mary