Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-01-31
MICHIGAN.

H. NA. ildWIcntc vi OiShN A~Nt'.
succeeds Judge Mills as secretary ana
of Hillsdale College.
James Stoddard. resident OF West
Bay City, was crushed in the fly-wheel
in liners saw mill i'm Beaver township. |
Because of the ice blockade at Port
Huron, the water in the St. Clair river
is lower than at any time in 30 years
From q detailed statement of river
and harbor expenditures from 1889 TO
1882 it appears that Michigan received
S7,S2S, $50.
Drs. Cyrus Smith, Jackson, nj. III.
Raymond, Grass Lake, and VII liam
Williams, Jackson, are the board OF
pension surgeons at Jackson.
George Hicks, eolored, of Detroit
has been sentenced to 10 years inn
prisonment in Jackson for the murder
of William Johnson in August last.
The Detroit and Alpena railway has
purchased the steamer Pearl and Will
run ter next season in connection with
the road between Alpena and Oscoda.
Z. j. Mapes of Marquette is in WASH
ington to look after the interests OF
| Upper Peninsula people who are al
fected by the Ontonagon IL Brule River
grant
James Ii. Wilke, who was stopping in
Detour, Chippewa county, took an
overdose of medicine to relieve pain,
and it caused his death. His home was
in Carrolton, Ont.
David Pickard, who was convicted ut
the January term OF the Sanilac cir
cult court for horse theft, has been
sentenced by Judge Wilson to five
years imprisonment
Matthew n. Lefevre, formerly post
master at Climax, Kalamazoo county,
has been fined 500 in the United States
court at Grand Rapids for the embez
element of the funds of the office.
Christopher Bluemkc, who stabbed
and killed John Lange, in Saginaw
county, during quarrel about the
right of way on the high road, has
waved examination and been released
on $4,000.
The Governor has pardoned Martin
Perk, the last of the two Coldwater fire
bugs; also, William Woods, sent to Ionia
from Wayne county for burglary, in
1875. Woods sentence called for IL
years Imprisonment.
The Hillsdale Standard has the fol.
lowing hog story: "Pomeroy IL Son, OF
the Genesee mills sold at Lambert s
market Saturday one dressed hog
weighing 2,562 lbs, at &c per pound,
amounting to S1S7 49,
The annual encampment OF the Mich.
igan Department of the Grand Army OF
the Republic held in Detroit was largely
attended, and proved a most enjoyable
affair. DR. II j. Shank of Lansing wa,
elected department cofnmander for the
ensuing year.
The directors of the Western Michi-
gan Agricultural society have voted to
issue 500. 900 of four per cent improve
ment bonds, running 80 years for the
purpose of procuring suitable grounds
for holding the future fairs of the socie.
ty near Grand Rapids.
The officers of the Mich, Ind. 81 st.
Louis railroad have been informed by
the contractors that they are only wait
ing for the disappearance of the snow
when they will commence throwing up
the grade. Work will begin at Sturgis
and that part between there and Goshen
will be the first completed
j ohm Nichol of Dandy, Ionia county,
has been elected drain commissioner 10y
the board of supervisors. Salary, 81 80
per diem and bond, $4,000. The au-
thority of q township drain commits
sioner to 90 into the adjoining towns
for outlets to drains is questioned, so it
was decided to appoint a county COM
missioner.
The I'd regiment Michigan militia,
through committee of their officers,
have promulgated resolutions in favor
of an annual national encampment of
the militia of all the states to be held at
some central point, for the purposes of
drill and instruction in general military
work, the expense to be borne, ia part,
at least, by the general government.
A. j Beach, superintendent of the
Flint wagon works, has just invented
m; chine for holding spokes in position
and guaging them whilst they are being
driven firmly into the hub. It's stated
that such Il machine has not before been
perfected by any inventor, and that it
will execute satisfactorily ajob that has
heretofore been delicate and often
poorly accomplished one.
Senator Palmer introduced three bills
in the Senate the other afternoon, one
for the relief of VIM. Flack, one for the
relief of Richard Hawleys & Son, and
one for the relief of Catherine 4. Whit
all. The latter bill was introduced last
year by Senator Ferry. This bill gives
TO Mrs Whitall S1,034.50 in settlement
of accounts of her husband, the late
Major John A. Whitall, paymaster in
the United States army.
A few days ago while Frank Griffin
! was getting out ice from lake near
Charlotte he wound the lines around
a stake in his sleigh, and left his team
standing near the hole from which ice
had been taken. The team commenced
backing, and before he could get to
them, backed into the hole, where one
of the horses, valued at 5000, was
drowned, and the other seriously injured
before it could be rescued.
The Mason school board has Just en-
forced, in the case of Frank Squires, a
recently passed resolution to expel any
pupil who entered saloon. The boy
went in to get candy, and the Mason
Democrat says there was an unjust
diGcriu, =, n tion in this paGp and thot