Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-09-04
Minor State Items.

ed IN Royal Oak
Vermontville, Eaton county, longeth
for national bank.
st. Johns new fruit evaporating
works is in full blast.
Hazelton, Shiawassa county, wants a
doctor and a drug store.
Detroit City Greys won first money
at the competitive drill in Milwaukee.
Considerable excitement is occasion
ed in Port Huron by the discovery OF
oil.
Belding is to have refrigerator fac
tor, operations in which will begin
October LIST.
Jackson's machine shop in Saginaw
City were destroyed by fire Aug, 20, at
u loss CT $4,000
Tho little hamlet of Harmon City,
Arenac county, has been completely
wiped out by fire.
DIR. Smart of Hudson has been APP
pointed to succeed the late DR.. Rynd on
the board of pension examiners.
John McDonough, formerly u promi-
nent stock buyer in South Michigan,
died at East Buffalo, N. Y. Aug. 2S.
A threshing machine engine burned
barn and some wheat and oat stacks
for John Ralph, living near Galesburg.
Murphy, the Jackson wife-inurderer,
has been declared insane. He has been
placed temporarily in the Pontiac asy-
lum.
Robert Mannery and Richard Bar
clay were drowned at Manistique by
the capsizirg of yawl boat off the vest
pier.
The Quakers are looking about in the
Black Lake region ia Cheboygan
county with the intention of establish.
ing colony.
A school-house in North Muskegon
burned q short time ago. Two young
bCys have confessed to setting fire to
the building.
Il. c. Aud OF Aberdeen, Scotland,
has bought farm near Ann Arbor,
and will go extensively into the raising
of blooded stock.
The embezzlement case of Michael
Brennan at East Saginaw has been
settled by Bremen giving security for
the amount behind.
President Durgin of Hillsdale college
will publish q work on Ireland. Hi:
resignation as president of the college
takes effect Jan. l, 1885.
DR.. w. w. Fountaine of Midland
naturally brilliant man, has become
Inc ktr, Ariv l. nd ho
taken to the Pontiac insane asylum.
There is q rumor that Grand Rapid,
and Grand Haven capitalists will organ
ize company, capital 100000, fol
numbering operations in Washington
territory.
The GreenbackerS and Democrats
have united in nominating Col. Nathane
b. Eldredge for a second term us rep
resentative of the second district il
congress.
An incident of the recent reunion a
Battle Creek was the meeting of faith
er and his son who had not met before
since the disoandment of their regiment
twenty years ago.
State Insurance Commissioner Prin
gle has closed up the Michigan Mutua
Fire Insurance Company of Graud Rap
ids, because for some time tOey have
not paid liabilities.
At Au Train, Schoolcraft county, 6
man named Coffman or Kaufman sho
his wife. Re received s., 900 pension
last spring and has been on continu
Gus drunk ever since.
A terrible story of an outrage on /;
little 11-year old girl comes from Bay
City. She was enticed from home OF
the promise of stranger that he woulC
buy her some candy.
Taxpayers of Dundee are kicking
because their new school house vii
cost about $4,000. They think /,
cheaper building would have answered
the purpose just as well.
Thomas Murphy of Jackson, the MAI
who killed his wife the other morning
with pair of shears, will probably b
sent tol the asylum at Pontiac. His in
sanity is doubted by no one.
One McDermont of Isabella county
is under arrest charged with stealing
chickens. With companion McDer
mont travelled with light wagon, rob
bed hen roosts and shipped the plunde
to Detroit.
Relatives of Sergeant Israel, of tn,
Greedy expedition, refuse to allow hi
remains to be disinterred. Youn,
Israei's mother has been assured b,
Commander Schley that the remain
we're intact when placed in the alcoho
tank.
Thomas II. Burnett, clerk in th
Grand Rapids Fourth national bank
and well known in social circles in tina
city, has been sued by Miss Arleophii
Smith for seduction under promise o
marriage. Five thousand dollars dam
age are claimed.
In Blissfield, Lenawee county
Wednesday, fire destroyed or seriousl,
damaged Bartholomew furniture stor
and lumber yard, Small's undertaken.
establishment and Carriers hardwar
store. The total loss is put at from
$4,000 to SIS. 900, and the insurance
is comparatively small.
The Vassar Wooden company has Sc
cured the contract tor furnishing tn
Michigan state prison with cloth TO
convict clothingfor the coming year
The cloth is heavy steel gray Saline
weighing twelve ounces to the yard
and of course strong material, ant
about 1000 yards will be called for.
Live stock for exhibition at the stat
fair will be transported free over thu
Michigan Central. TO prevent imposi
ton freight charges TO Kalamazoo mus
DO prepaid, but II the stock is returne,
before Sept. 80 the money will be re