Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-05
Minor State Items.


in case he is nominated
Henry HoIcomb will be tried for per-
Jury st the September term of the JacS-
son circuit court.
Alexander Balance, II bridge builder
was killed by being run over by an
engine near Lansing recently.
Reports from the Grand Traverse
region indicate that no extended dam
age was done there by the frost of May
2Sth.
Dan Ho!comb and his daughter Edith
will spend the time intervening between
now and the time OF his trial in Cali
fornia.
Mrs. II. S. Willy of Kalamazoo has
been sentenced To the Detroit House OF
Correction for IL months for shop
lifting.
Great preparations are being made
for the annual meeting of the state
press association to be held in Bay City
June "a.
James Hitler, of Rives, Jackson coun~
ty. was instantly killed by the bursting
of a circular saw around which he was
working.
Over $50,000 worth of property was
destroyed by fire in Cutler & Savidge's
lumber yards at Spring lake few
days ago.
The Dominion government refuses to
interfere IN the case OF Luke Phipps, the
wive murderer, and he will be hanged
in Sandwich. June II.
The State Association of Spritualists
ard Liberalists have decided to hold
their usual summer camp meeting at
Pine Lake near Lansing.
The sending of the man Stone to
Jackson for the murder of the little
Dyckes girl is the first committal for
life from Hillsdale county.
The man Newell, who was arrested
in Alaska several days ago for the murd-
er of one Brundagc, has been released.
Brundage having been found alive and
well.
Pond of Quincy, and associate editor
of the Herald of that village, died on
the 30th ult, of consumption, aged p
years.
Ii. II. Coolidge, the most prominent
member of the legal profession in
Berrien county and for six years judge
of the judicial circuit court, died on the
3lst. ult.
Farmers in the far northern counties
have plenty of good potatoes left, which
they are feeding to their hogs rather
than sell them at the low prices that
are offered
Elmer Crawford, Il recent resident
of Alamo, Kalamazoo county, was
killed few days since in Minnesota in
railroad accident, he being conduc-
tor on q freight train there.
Stephen Durfee, who shot and killed
Under Sheriff Scudder at Hastings, was
arraigned few days ago. He waved
examination and was remanded. His
wounds are serious but not fatal.
Great damage was done TO crops and
small fruit by the frosts of May 20 and
29. All parts of the state, with the
single exception OF the fruit belt were
visitsd by the cold wave in some Sec
tons ice forming two inches thick.
DIR. Isadore James, sent TO Jackson
from Detroit In 1881 for five years, has
been pardoned by Gov. Begole. The
pardon was received through the in
fluence of Recorder Swift and Superin-
tendent Of Police Conley of Detroit.
A crook named Thomas + Britton
was sho: dead in Charley Parker's
saloon on Shelby street, Detroit, the
other evening by another crook named
Bailey, alias Hickey, alias several other
individuals. The murderer escaped to
Windsor.
Mrs. Friedrich Heterman, of Detroit
has brought suit in the United States
District Court of that city, against the
city of Kalamazoo for injuries from a
defective sidewalk, received last Sep
TENDER. Henry M. Cheever of Detroit
is her attorney.
Decoration day was very generally
observed throughout Michigan-proba-
blvnever more so. There was large
participation OF the people and a gerer-
al and hearty doing of honor TO the
memory of the men who died that the
union might live.
William Douglass who with compan-
ion named Wade was reported drown
ed in the Clinton river near Mt. Glenn
ems few days ago, has returned to Mt.
Clemens. He says Wade concocted the
whole affair TO cover up financial en-
barrassments. and that he has gone
West.
Orno Strong, editor Of paper in
Nashville, Barry county, fired q
shot into the leg Of Dr. Foote
of that place. Strong thought
tho M ID was too Intimate with his