Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-01-24
MICHIGAN
Snow is 20 inches deep on the level in
Roscommon.

The railroad bridge over The hlne
river a. An Sable is completed. The
first train passed over on the 10Th inst.
The faculty of Hillsdale college have
expelled several students for viola
tion of the rules and there is consider
able ferment
Lowell thinks new bridge is neces-
sary, and asks the supervisors to
say the town can be bonded for $4,000
for that purpose.
Byron Crouch has returned to his
house in Texas, leaving the work OF
finding the perpetrators of the awful
crime to the detectives.
The total cut of lumber in the Cad
lilac mills for 1883 foot up 10l, 300, l4S
feet; the wages for cutting the same
amounted TO S127 ,976.35.
The bridge across tho Muskegon riv-
er at Hersey is completed, at the cost of
S5 900 1t replaces the one carried
away by the flood last spring.
A gang of counterfeiters was broken
up in Big Rapids and the tools, dies, etc,
contscated. The officers surprised the
gang while they were all at work.
Secretary Folger SAYS he has examin"
ed the law upon the matter and arrived
at the conclusion that he can do nothing
about changing the site of the Detroit
postofflce.
Luther Pierce was fatally stabbed the
other night III Otsego, Allegan county.
by q man named Wallace Botsford An
old scandal with Botsford's wife led TO
the crime.
There is sorrow In st. Johns because
the ST. Johns manufacturing company,
which furnished employment TO over
| 100 hands, has shut down for an indeii-
mite period
Five hundred voters in Cass county
have signed a call for temperance
mass convention 10 discuss the new
Union Party movement. February
is the time set.
The eleventh annual convention of
| the Michigan state association OF agrl-
cultural societies will meet at the
Capitol building. Lansing, Wednesday
and Thursday, January 80 and 81.
While speaking in a prayer meeting
at the Baptist church in Ann Arbor,
Miss Valiy M Green suddenly fell back
dead. An attack of heart disease was
probably the cause of her unexpected
| demise.
Josiah Cetewayo, alleged brother of
the Zulu king. burly Negro with two
hearts, two sets of ribs and other
superfluous physical features is in
the house of correction at lonia for
vagrapcy.
The examination OF Mrs. Vim. Van
derhoof and John Chapman, living
near Niles, on IA charge of numbering
the woman's husb band by poison in De-
cember last, has been adjourned until
February.
Horace McDermott was killed by a
falling tree in Bovine township, Kent
county, January 10. He mad been in
the country three months. lie leaves q
wife, seven children and an aged
mother in the old country.
The jackson board of supervisors
have appointed committee of three of
their number To act with the sheriff in
ineurring whatever expense they may
deem necessary in prosecuting the
search after the murderers of the
Crouch family.
Mrs. Eliza Dunn of Carrollton. widow
of the late Patrick Dunn, has just re-
ceived back pension of 81, 1856 and s.
a month for the balance of her life.
Mr. Dunn served in the 9th Michigan,
and died in 1881 from rheumatism
contracted during the war.
Justus Mckinney of Byron, Kent
county, was found dead in the road in
November, 1882, il was supposed by
being thrown from his wagon in run
away. Now two men have been ar
rested in Dorr, AIlegan county, neal
where Mckinney lived, charged with
his murder.
At the annual meeting of abe salt as
ISOLATION held in East Saginaw, w. Il
Burt was elected president: Albert Mil
Ter of Bay City, vice-president; ID. G.
Holland, secretary; Thomas Cranage o
Bay City, treasurer. The sales for tn,
past year were reported as being
2,377.749 barrels.
! The Wheeler boys, just sent to Jack
son from Newaygo. for horse stealing
are tough customers. The older one
Sumner, WAS identified by citizen o
Baldwin, Lake county as the man VIII,
held him up and robbed him of Sl,50t
last fall, and the gang are wanted in a
least half dozen counties.
. Drs. Rynd and Reynolds of Adrian,
and Parker of Blis6eld. will constitut,
the new southern Michigan pension ex
7 aiming board Parker is brother o
, Representative Burt Parker, of Monroe
, who WAS one of the most solid of the
Immortal nineteen" anti-Ferry mel
in the late senatorial contest.
Another "clue" has been struck il
! the celebrated Crouch case, to which
, some of the officers pin their faith. III
ABOUT a stranger" who drove iron
that direction the morning after tn,
tragedy, and left his horse with farm
! or in Adams township, Hillsdale coun
) ty. and has not yet called for the nag.
, Judge Ira Xix of Kalamazoo. a grea
, sufferer for two years from rheumatism
died recently at the age of 81. Mr.. Blk
with few months Of interruption ha,
been a resident of Kalamazoo AZ years
} settling there in 1886. He was one O
, the first associate judges of the county
and was highly esteemed and public
spirited citizen.
An effort is being made to secure tn,
pardon of Frances A. Wordell who wa
sentenced to the Detroit House of Cor