Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-22
TIE NEWS.
Minor State Items.

A heavy frost along the fruit belt Is
reported on the 10th inst.
The Crouch murder trial has again
been continued to the September term
The village of Breedsville, Van Blu
en- county, was almost entirely wiped
ont by fire on the 18th.
Henry Holcomb's examination on a
charge of perjury has been postponed
until Wednesday, May %.
John Carney fell from a third-story
window in East Saginaw, fracturng
his skull and five ribs; he will probably
die.
Barney Rousseau of Alpena has
been sentenced to seven years inn
prisonment for the murder of Julius
Savage.
The strike among the mill hands at
Grand Haven is on the increase, the
strikers receiving almost daily Access
sions to their ranks,
Miss Edna Abbey, an estimabley Dung
lady of Wayland, died from the effects
of dose of strichnine taken, it is sup
posed, with suicidal intent.
DR.. A. M. Ransom and Carl BJst-
wick. two we'll connected young men
of Kalamazoo, have been arrested
charged with being tire-bugs.
The schooner Emma ID. Heyes was
caught in body of ice on Lake Supe-
rior the other morning, and jammed SO
badly that she sank in ten minutes.
A school for weak-minded children is
20 be established in Kalamazoo in the
near future. DR.. c. II. Wilbur is at the
head of this very worthy enterprise.
Miss Grace Spencer of Battle CreeA
captured the first prize for wood engrav
ing and dra wing at the Cooper institute
examination last week in New Yorl
city.
Miss Annie Meredith, former sweet
heart of the late II. j. Perrin of Mar
shall has brought suit against his estat,
for $4,000 for alleged breach of con
tract.
A Berlin dispatch says that Mark S
Brewer, American consul general, viii
start for the United States May 27, T.
be absent four months. Mr.. Brewers
home is in Pontiac.
DIR, A. M. Rawson and Carl Bost
wicks of Kalamazoo, arrested q few
days ago on charge of arson, have
been discharged, the evidence agains
hem being insufficient.
Charles b. Peck, ticket and station
agent at Kalkaska for the Grand Rapid
and Indiana company, is missing, anC
shortage in his accounts of $500 ha!
IN discovered. He has been drinking
v for month or more.
es Neville. the coachman will
n aliases, and as many wives, VIII,
eio,a,d recently from Detroit with thu
daughter of G. j. Whitney, the we'll
known theatrical mans ger, has beer
held for trial il Toledo, on charge o
bigamy.
A train on the Detroit, Lansing ant
Northern road ran over u mau neal
Gowen the other afternoon. He ha'
dug u hole between the ties, removin,
nearly all his clothing, and then lai'
down with his head on the rail. He wa
instantly killed. He is unknown.
There will be- a convention of inven
tors in this state early in July, and al
inventors and patentees are requisite,
10 forward their names and full addres
to Mr.. Garland, Bay City, so thai com
mitteemen may be appointed in eacl
county to organize the county and cleo
delegate to the state convention.
Joseph Moves of Adams, Hillsdal
county, who mysteriously disappeare
in March last, was found near Alpen
the other day. He is supposed to b
insane. ard left home TO 90 to Manches
ter, and lost his way. He left with
team and sleigh, and when foundi heJ
one horse which was nearly tired out
James Duffy, of Tawas City, lat
foreman for Prescott ~ Son of Eas
Tawas, in an attempt to pass from on
log car to another on the Detroit, Ba
City q Alpena railroad, fell petwee
the cars and his head was severed froL
his body. His right arm was also Gu
off. The entire train passed over him
The members of the 102d Unite
States colored infantry of Michigan ar
making extensive preparations for a re
union at the fair grounds in Ann Arbo
July 81 and August /. Col. Henry l.
Chapman will be present and make a
address as will also Major M. II. Delane
of South Carolina. The latter was tn
only colored man who held p commits
sion during the rebellion.
jeremiah Mahoney was shot in tn
hotel at Standish, Arenac county, b
William Quigley, the other day, an
expired in less than an hour. Th
shooting was the result of quarr'
over log driving. Quigley was arreste
and waived examination and was boun
over for trial in the Arenac circu
court, May 26. The prisoner is
Bay county Jail, Mahoney was 20 yea
of age and leaves a wife and two sma
children.
The conditions named by which Il
executive committee of the state agr
cultural society agreed to hold the ann,
nj fair at Kalamazoo having been full
complied with, the contract has bee
duly signed. The officers of Il
state society will spare no effort an
withhold no outlay or enterprise
make this the grandest meeting of I'll
society ever held. In this effort Kal
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