Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-04-24
THE NEWS.
Minor State Items.

NC OIOuCu CtSo HAS DcOu SGT lOi
June 10.
Detroit will celebrate the coming
Fourth in "gl.or-i-ous +" style.
The corner stone of the new court
house in Kalamazoo will be laid July
4tb.
John Steketee, Of Grand Rapids, has
been appointed Consul to the Neither
lands for Michigan.
Galen Brown las been arrested on a
charge Of adultery preferred by Edna
Brown of Battle Creek.
Clara Bell Wilson of Kalamazoo felt
bad because her lover left her, and
ended her troubles by drowning.
The general opinion at Maple Rapids
is that no case is being made out against
Creasinger, the banker at that place.
Mr.. Burrows is debating whether he
will accept the treasury solicitorship or
run for congress in the fourth di strict.
Jack" Waterman, supposed to be
connected with the Schollz murder and
robbery at East Tawas, has been arrest
ed.
Michael Brennan, arrested at White
more for the murder of the young
Schultz at East Tawas, has been re-
leased.
DR.. F. ID. Hemenway, for many years
a member of the Michigan M. L. con-
ference, died in Evanston, ILL.,, on the
10Th inst.
Gamaliel Townsend, wealthy farm
er of Dowagiac, has been missing for
n number of DAYS. His disappearance
creates much surprise.
Blaine and Lincoln is the ticket for
Bay and Tuscola county Republicans
Eaton county Republicans say give us
Edmunds and Lincoln.
The body of Daniel Murray, formerly
of Hastings, was found in a creek near
Saranao recently. He had not been
seen since November IL.
Alexander 3. Lee of Jackson took a
dose of morphine with SUICIDAL intent.
He lived two hours. He became insane
over the Crouch murders.
A fire broke out in Heyser q Sons
planning mill in Jackson the other eve
ming and destroyed property and lum-
Der to the amount of 5000.
John II. Lapham, prominent farm
or of Emmett township. Calhoun
county, suicided on the 18th inst. No
cause is assigned for the deed.
The excitement in Roscommon over
the oil discovery increases. There is
constant stream flowing into the pipes
at depth of 500 feet of black crude
petroleum.
Jud Crouch and Dan Holcomb were
arraigned on the 10th and pleaded not
guilty. Crouch entered the same plea
when arraigned for the assault on detec-
tive Brown.
The commissioner of insurance. the
Hon. Eugene Pringle. has revoked the
license of the Lansing mutual benefit
association, which has its principal
office at Mason.
"Scotty," the man who claimed TO
know all ABOUT the Crouch murders,
has beer taken TO Detroit to be tried
for the robbery of valuable papers from
n hotel in that city iu December last.
There has been a reduction of the pay
of laborers in the mills at Manistee,
and q number of French Canadians
have been brought to work there
whereat the local workers are indignant
The lumber and single mills in the
numbering districts of Michigan are
starting up with comparatively small
forces on account of the light demand.
even at existing low prices. for their
products.
Eaton county legal circles are consid-
srably stirred up by q libel and SANDER
suit for $4,000 brought by Michael
Kennedy, n prominent attorney against
John NJ. Corbin. brother in the legal
profession.
Mrs. Lucy Wharwell of Jackson,
swallowed u dose Of chloride Of limo,
and IN hour after died in great agony,
She had been deserted by the man with
whom she had been living rs his sup
posed wife.
Edward Bliss, employed in j. Il Me-
Gregor's saw mill at Freeland, was
strucS by n slab thrown from circular
saw, tearing out his left eye, cutting of
his nose and fracturing his skull. His
injuries are fatal.
Edward Murphy, who was sent to
Jackson state prison fer life for murder,
and who after serving IL years of his
time proved conclusively his innocence
by the death-bed confession of the real
murderer, is insane.
Charles Valley, years old, was
killed the other afternoon at Heyser's
lumber yard in jackson. by pile of
timber falling on him, on which he was
trying to CLINT. He lived fifteen min
utes after the accident.
John Franklin of Bay City, while in
terfering with Patrolman Cutber.. who
was making an arrest some days ago,
was struck on the head with the officers
handouts. Erysipelas set in and Frank
lin died few days siace.
Vincent Sawtell died in the county
jail in East Saginaw few days ago, of
derilium tremens. He went to East Sag
inaw from Pontiac n number of years
ago and bore an unenviable reputation.
He was confined for assault and bat
terry.
Mrs. Eliza Knickerbocker was con-
victed in the Gratiot county court of
adultery and sentenced TO two years in
jackson. She has been released. the
Judge having examined the law and
found that a woman cannot be confined
there except for murder.
Judge Gridley has rendered q decree
in the matter of the state taxes of
Jackson county. declaring invalid about
$500 ( taxes assessed, on account of
the illegality of the certificate of the SUI
pervisprs attached to the assessment
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