Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-09-25
Minor State Items.
Fores. fires are abatipg.

rOIoSs ureS aro uDdtlDR.
The entries at the state fair made
grand total of 5,619.
Calvin Hill, the fourth white settler
of Barry county, is dead.
Michigan will not make an exhibit at
the New Orleans exhibition
Holland was visited by destructive
condagration the other morning.
The street car barn in Jackson was
totally destroyed by fire Sept. Is.
The attendance at the state fair on
Thursday, the 18th inst, was over 25,-
600.
Mayor Fisher of West Bay City has
been nominated for congress in the 10th
district.
Lieut.. Col. Orlando II. Moore, of the
18th infantry has been placed on the
retired list.
November is the day fixed by
Judge Gridley for the trials of Jud
Crouch and Dan Holcomb.
A syndicate has been formed in De-
troit for the construction of o new over
land telephone line in Michigan.
Business men of Detroit are taking
the initiatory steps toward securing a
permanent exposition in that city.
Mrs. Abram Allen of Lansing, widely
known throughout the state for her
work in the temperance cause, is dead.
j. b. Sweat of Marquette is award
ed the contract for building life-sav-
ing station at the Portage Lake canal.
i. Z. Ulber of Port Huron has dis
covered q new method of producing
portraits and landscapes with printers
ink.
A fire in the vicinity of McClure's
mills, about six miles from East Sagin-
aw. destroyed property valued at Sl2,-
900.
One John Morris of Detroit has been
arrested on suspicion of being the man
who fired at Mayor Robinson of Char
lotte.
Joel Mason, aged IS, son of VIM.
Mason of Mortified, was thrown from
horse he other afternoon and instant
ly killed.
the engineers of an all-uight saloon
at Muskegon are under arrest on a
charge of selling liquor without paying
the U. S. tax.
Miss Lila Hinkle of Cassopolis, while
skating at the roller skating rink in
that place the other night, fell and
broke her leg.
There are about $500 Seventh
Day Adventists in Michigan, the ma
jority of whom are now holding camp
meeting in Jackson.
John Wellington of Mayville, who
was shot by his wife q short time ago,
las since died of his injuries, blood
poisoning having set in.
The Temple manufacturing shops,
ETC., in Muskegon, were burned to the
ground on the afternoon of the 18th.
Loss S3S, 900; insured for S2S,00
Mrs. Z. Cushing, a pioneer of Cass
county, died very suddenly the other
morning, aged 81. She was i'll only
five minutes. She leaves large fam
lily.
The Grand Rapids furniture associa-
ton haze contracted for the erection OF
a separate Building for the exhibition
of their wares at the New Orleans exhi-
bition.
A brakeman named Duhel was ter
ribly mangled near Mt. Pleasant the
other afternoon. Both legs were broken
and his back frightfully hurt. He can
not live,
The foundry and wheel department
of the Peninsular car works in Detroit
was burned on the 18th inst. Until re-
built over 200 men will be out of en-
ployment.
Morris, the man arrested for attempt
ing to kill Mayor Robinson of Charlotte
was removed to the Marshall jail for
safety, threats of lynching being too
loud in Charlotte.
Corunna people are greatly agitated
by a report that the Grand Trunk rail-
road company wilt not longer use the
Corunna coal. Operations in the mines
will be suspended.
The Flat river bridge on the St.
Louis division of the Detroit, Lansing
81 Northern railroad, is giving the COM
pany deal of trouble. 1t persists in
sinking in the mud.
Burt Sampson, who escaped while
en- route from jackson to Ionia to serve
one year. was recaptured az Portland.
bare headed and bare-footed, with the
handouts still on him.
1Several Grand Haven men are pro-
posing to visit the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton by making the trip thither by small
boats, via Chicago, the canal, Illinois
river and the Mississippi.
A fragment of an exploding cannon
at Democratic pole raising near Bliss
field struck Daniel Owen in tie thigh
and crushed The leg so that amputation
will probably be necessary,
A mound in the woods near Big
Rapids has just been opened and found
to contain remains that must have been
buried n century or two ago, and of
people of very large size.
Supervisor Stringer, of Levonia town.
ship, dug 60 potatoes from one hill,
weighing 229 pounds, and so of them
were fit for market or use. The six
largest weighed six pounds.
Charitable people of Newaygo are
trying TO raise 1926 with which to pay
off mortgage on the home of Daniel
p. Van LEW, who was killed at the
soldiers reunion there Sept. 8.
Andrew Davis, of Richland, Kalama-
zoo county, was actively enjoying him.
self on roller skates at Galesburg,
Saturday night, and on tuesday morn
ing died of malignant diphtheria.
The farmers of Shelby and vicinity
have organized themselves and are
building warehouse, and propose 10