Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-08-14
Minor State Items.

ust 4, ct a loss of $4,000
All of the bewitched family at Mount
Morris, Genesee county, have been ar
rested and lodged in Jail at Flint.
The seventeenth reunion of the 18th
Michigan infantry will be held as bas-
ket picnic at Devils lake, on Tuesday,
aug. 26.
The Monroe female seminary proper
ty has beer sold TO the Roman Catholics
who intend 10 use it for educational
purposes.
Friends of Gen. Alger of Detroit are
confident he will be the nominee for
governor.
Fhilanthropic citizens of Grand Rap
ids will soon start a free kindergarten
that city.
There is strong probability that
grand jury will be called to investigate
alleged corruption IN the common
council of Detroit
The body of Hannah Murphy who
was drowned with five others at the
huron dam disaster Oh the morning Of
January l, was found floating in Port
age lake few days ago.
William Mcdonald, convicted of lar
ceny and burglary in Kent county and
sentenced to the Ionia house of correc-
ton tor two years, July 6, has been
pardoned by the governor
Murat Brown of Hudson wishes he
had not purchased steam thresher.
He lost about 500 bushels of wheat, n
straw stack, and some farm implements
by fire which was caused by the s. t.
Thos. Lemay has commenced suit in
the Bay Circuit Court against the Mich
igan Central Railroad placing damages
at $4,000. He had son killed on the
railroad near PIncOnning some months
ago.
Farmers in the southern tier Of coun-
ties were obliged to get their oats In
with all possible haste, to save them
from the ravages Of n small-sized grass
hopper which came without warning
and in large numbers.
A Marshall man who had had sever
al unpleasant experiences with pick
pockets, sewed fish hooks on the inside
of his pockets and went TO
the races. The plan worked excellent
ly, thief being caught in very short
time.
A prominent man of Brighton, has
been found 10 have been the main char
acter in aiding the b y bandits TO flee
from justice short time ago, and the
knowing ones are now trying to fasten
the webs OF some of the gangs crime up
on him.
During July there was inspected in
Michigan 496, 766 barrels of salt. the
largest production of that article ever
recorded. For the year beginning
August lst the amount inspected ex-
ceeds that of 1888 by nearly 100000
barrels.
An old cannon, a relic of the war of
1912 and of the battle of the Rai,in,
which for ten or twelve years past has
been owned by the Monroe foundry, has
been bought 6y the citizens. Ii will be
properly mounted and placed on tho
public square.
An injunction has been served against
the Brush electric light company in
Detroit, TO prevent them from erecting
any more of the towers with which the
city was to be lighted. Until the ques-
ton in dispute is settled, the city will
HhNo W rely uPOn DIS.
OF the Mt. Morris family, whose re-
latiors TO witches" have been so much
commented upon lately, Mrs. Sumner
and Mrs. Livingston have been sent to
tho Pontiac insane asylum, and Mrs.
Whitney and the children were taken to
the county poorhouse.
During the month of July II men
were discharged from the jackson state
prison on account of expiration of sem
tence, II new convicts we're received and
one prisoner died. There are now in
the prison 65l convicts, II more than
at the same time last year.
Hattie Cox and her mother, Mrs. Am
brose Cox, of Johnstown township,
Barry county. have been arrested and
placed in jail in Hastings charged with
the murder and concealment Of an ille-
climate child of the former on July 8.
Hattie is only IA years old.
Henry Munroe of Alamo, Kalamazoo
county, took dose of Rough Oh
Rats" with suicidal intent. He died
in great agony, agonizing shTieks being
heard great dis lance. Bloody froth
oozed from his mouth, and his eyes
protruded from the sockets.
A gang OF 20 convicts was employed
outside tho Jackson prison walls in
filling up the quarry the other day,
and at $50 o'clock, while marching
In, four OF them broke ranks and start
ed to run. Two were Captured imme-
diately by the officers and the others
within five minutes.
John ). Peck having paid the tax to
sell liquor in the city of Adrian sold on
the fair glound during n show, claiming
that he had right TO sell anywhere IN
the city. The court took an opposite
view of the case and assessed him 500
fine and costs and ten days in Jail. He
appealed to the circuit.
Geo M. Hawkins, aged IA, of Stan
ton, shot Ida Queer, girl of IL, living
Ia the family, in the forehead, killing
her Instantly. His story is that he was
taking a revolver of 80 caliber down
from p shelf and did not know it was
loaded. Ii went off accidentally with
the above result. The coroner's jury
rendered verdict of death through the
criminally careless use of firearms by
the boy. The boy Is under arrest.
Edward Lynch, boiler maker at the
Michigan Central railroad shops at the
junction near that city. while under.
meath locomotive for the purpose oil
repairing the boiler, was scalded so that
he will die. The locomotive was carry.
ing 40 pounds of steam at tho time and
the plug blew out, the unfortunate man