Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
GENERAL STATE NEWS.


A sanitary convention is to he held
at East Saginaw Dec. 2 and 8.
John Mann, q resident of Montcalm
county since 1856, died at Greenville
Nov. p,
Fire in Otisville, Genesee county,
destroyed $40, 900 worth of property on
the 21st inst.
Mrs. Christiana Adams, resident of
Branch county since 1885, died in Cold
water recently.
Luther MISSIONER, one of the wealth
lest residents of Bay City, died Nov.
16, of paralysis.
The Eldred milling com pany will
build an elevator in Jackson of $4,000
bushel capacity.
Miss Kate Beckwith of Port Huron
died few days ago, after suffering the
removal of a tumor.
The grand division of the sons of tenn
perance of the state of Michigan meets
at Lansing Dec. 8.
The A. w. Wright lumber company
of Saginaw will get out $4,000, 900 feet
of logs this winter.
The soldiers monument at Reading
was unveiled on the goth inst. with ap-
propriate ceremonies.
A. b. Hoppe of East Saginaw COM
mitted suicide Nov. 16. He had had
some domestic trouble.
Arthur r. Trip has been appointed
prosecuting attorney of Oakland county,
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The Lansing wheel company recent
ly sent 1000 sets of their patent wheels
to London, Ontario, parties.
The Bedding agricultural society has
voted to give up. its organization and
sell its fair grounds at auction.
Mrs Williams gets verdict of $3.50
and costs in a suit for SANDER against
Peter Ulrich living at Fowler.
The Wadsworth family of Ovid, have
fallen heir to $4,000, left them by q
deceased sister in San Francisco.
Frank Lawson, who broke out of the
Big Rapids Jail few weeks ago, has
been re-captured at South Bend, Ind.
Doris Abbott, the young man who
accidentally shot himself at Eaton
Rapids few days ago, has since died.
The Valley City improvement COM
pany has been incorporated at Grand
Rapids with capital stock of $40, 1000.
j. j. Woodman of Michigan was the
presiding officer at the National Grange
meeting held in Nashville, Tenn, re-
Gently.
A Manistee Democrat has named q
pair of twins of which he came in pos
session last week Cleveland and Hen
bricks"
A car load of mineral specimens will
be sent to the New Orleans exposition
to represent the Lake Superior copper
county.
Otisville, hitherto one of the best
wheat markets in Genessee county, has
this year shipped only four cars Of
the cereal.
Daniel Oglivie, farmer near Evart,
lost two barns, four cows and years
labor in products of the farm by fire the
other night.
Lenawee county is said to have cast a
prohibition vote which was exceeded in
size by only one other county in the
United States.
The Agricultural college closed its
regular fall term November IA, and
will not be again opened to students
until February rs.
Tho annual meeting of the Michigan
short-horD cattle breeders association
is to be held in the capitol at Lansing,
December and 8.
The grist mill of Ogden. Adams & Co.
at Otisville, has been closed, pending
an adjustment of differences among the
partners in the firm.
The managers of the great sanitari-
UNI at Battle Creek have decided to
care for an average of five charity pa
tients the year round.
B. F. Whitnall, whip and glove man.
ufacturer, Coldwater, has made an as
Segment to L. z. Rose. Liabilities
and assets unknown.
The projectors of the cable system
of street railways in Grand Rapids will
expend $1,000 in the construction and
equipment Of the lines.
Detroit contributed $5, 900 toward the
expenses of the Michigan commission
engaged in preparing the exhibit for
the New Orleans exposition.
Mckay, the Muskegon bookkeeper
who IL charged with the embezzlement
of 81, 900 from his late employer, hao
been arrested in New York.
Farmers about Benton Harbor are
feeding wheat to their stock, the price
being so low that selling the grain
would involve positive loss.
William O'Brien, a workman at the
jackson fire clay company's pit, five
miles from the city, was killed recently
by cavern of bank of earth.
Captain Woods, of the Muskeqon
life-saving station, has been appointed
keeper of the exhibition life-saving sta
ton at the New Orleans exposition.
FATTY" Peck, an Adrian saloon
keeper, has been sentenced to S25 fine,
$44 costs and to mediate in Jail 35
days for violating the liquor law.
Frank Lum, q member of the New
York State Senate, dropped dead in the
Office of the National hotel in Mt. Glenn
ems, while conversing with friend.
A team of horses valued at $500, the
property Of Emery & Mclaughlin of
West Bay City took fright and backed
into the river. They were drowned.
Frank Raymond, formerly q brake
man on the Lansing division Of the Lake
Shore q Michigan Southern, was re-
Gently killed by the cars at Charleston.