Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-30
Minor State Items.

room OF halamazoo county
George Greenwood of Bay City died
of lockjaw caused by broken finger.
VIM. Dukes of Hesperia raised half a
bushel of pea nuts from 8 cents worth
of seed.
Moody, the evangelist, swill devote
N November q, % and 2S to converting
Detroit sinners,
Weather prophets in northern Mich.
gan find hornets nests on the ground
and predict a severe winter.
Andrew Johnson, a workman at the
Osceola mine, had lis jaw broken by a
fragment of rock from blast.
A fund of o., 500 has been raised To
blild a gymnasium at Hillsdale college
and work upon the structure will be
begun at once.
The Hon. w. II. Montgomery of Hud-
son, member of the legislature from
Monroe county, died recently. He
was 70 years of age.
The Detroit electric tower lights can
De distinctly seen, on clear nights, from
u hill just outside of Plymouth village,
q distance of % miles
Corunna citizens have petitloned the
Common Council to appropriate $1,000
so that the coal which they think must
be there shall be found.
A new hospital has just been CON-
pleted at Grayling by j. o Hodley.
There will be two resident physicians
in constant attendance.
The report of the Ionia county drain
commissioner shows that IS, IA rods OF
dram have been constructed at cost in
round numbers of SIS, 600.
A two-years old child of VIM. Demo
of Bay City was run over by street
car the other day. 1t was fearfully
mangled and died instantly.
The Board of Supervisors of Cass
county have authorized the county
treasurer to borrow So, 600 for the cur
rent expenses of the county.
John Stout, switchman on the
Grand Trunk railroad, caught his foot
in frog at PIT. Edward, near Port
Huron, and was killed by train.
The Grand Rapids Board of Public
works have accepted the plans Of h. +
Myers, the Detroit architect, for their
new city hall. 1t is 10 cost Sl50,000.
The Toledo, Marshall and Northern
railroad company has been incorporat.
ed and it is purposed to begin the con
struction of the road this fall ifposslble.
A miner named John Murphy. EN-.
ployed at the Champion mine, was
killed the other evening by fall from
the surface TO tho ninth level distance
of 500 feet.
AS a practical means of boycottine
the Grand Rapids city railway company
the Knights of Labor of that city are
running 80 vehicles in opposition to the
company's cars.
Chas. Whitmore, Adrian, chief clerk
in the Lake Shore Railroad Auditors
Office, has been promoted 10 Assistant
Travelling Auditor of the Michigan
Southern division.
The coroner's jury which held an in.
quest on the body of the little daughter
of William Demo of Bay City, killed by
street car, returned verdict censur-
ing the railway company.
A man in Hamburg, Livingston
county, has six crops of wheat stored
in his barn. He says that there will be
famine before many years and his
fortune will then be made.
The case of Richard Wheeler. charg-
ed with killing William Mccormick last
winter in lumber camp in Schoolcraft
county, has been disposed of and the
jury returned q verdict OF manslaugh-
ter.
Mrs. Benjamin Stocking of Quincy
started from her home near that village
Sunday Oct. 10, on her way to church.
AS she was crossing the railroad track
the morning train struck her and killed
her instantly.
The other morning MIR. aud Mrs.
Welcome Campbell of Royal Oak were
found nearly suffocated by gas from q
coal stove. They had lain unconscious
for 80 hours. 1t is believed that they
will recover.
Hunting deer with hounds is forbid,
den by the code of the settlers about
East Tawas and the dogs taken into
the woods by hunters from Ohio and
Southern Michigan rarely find their
way out alive.
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found dead in her room q few night:
ago. She had apparently put her child
to bed in the dark and, STUN bling, had
fallen across an open bureau drawer
and broken her neck.
An alleged deficit Of $500 in the
township funds Of Franklin, Roscom
mon county, led to the arrest Of Willis
A. Fisher, township treasurer. Fisher
was lying sick in an East Saginaw board
ing house when arrested.
Three Flint boOtblacks bought 8
bottle of whisky and went to attend
the Blaine demonstration at Lapeer.
They all got drunk and were locked up
over night. The eldest of the lot was
not more than IL years old.
Joseph M. Taylor, an East Saginaw
veteran, who was wounded at Peach
Tree Greek, before Atlanta, has receiv.
ed $1,000 back pay pension and has
been placed OH the roll for S72 q
month for the rest of his life.
Charles Inman of Averill, Midland
county, raised this year 50 tons of hay,
800 bushels of potatoes, and 500 BUSH
els of oats on land which few years
ago was considered worthless swamp.
He has also two acres of fine onions.
The body of a man about rs years OF
age was found in barn at Bellevue
recently. A letter found in one of the
pockets stated that the deceased took
his own life, and wished to be buried in
q rough coffin four feet under the
ground.
Edwin Green, proprietor of the Fen.