Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-06-26
Minor State Items.


The state rifle shoot comes off al
Brighton August 5 G.
A new Catholic church was dedicated
at Hillsdale on the 10Th inst
Luke Phipps. the wife murderer,
was hanged at Sandwich, Ont, June IL.
Galesburg's one saloonist offers to
close up his business If the citizens will
pay hin 1926.
u is very probable that Michigan S
wal claim swill be allowed before con-
gross adjourns.
Mrs. Fred Hall, four miles south OF
Inlay City was knocked speechless by
lightning the other day.
A. S. Burdick of Lansing has lived in
Michigan 81 years, and has never
needed the services of doctor.
McGregor q Coreyon's mill in Bay
City, which was destroyed by fire a
few nights ago, will be rebuilt.
The Hon. X. G. Horr delivered a
very able address before the literary So
cieties of Kalamazoo college on the
10th inst.
Roscommon wants band and pro-
poses to appropriate $500 from the VII
lage treasury for the purchase of in
struments, etc.
Bush d. Patterson of Kalamazoo have
secured the contract for building the
sheds and stalls for the coming state
fair for S11, 900.
The proposition to hold district fair
in Jackson this fall did not meet WITH
approval on all sides, and the plan has
been abandoned.
AL the mills at Oscoda are closed and
the strike has settled down into one of
stubborn resistance on the part of both
employers and laborers.
Andrew Long, the murderer of his
wife, now in jail at Ionia, has made a
full confession. He assigns no motive
for the commission of the crime.
Samuel +. Hopkins, a resident of st.
Clair since 1928, died in that place on
the 21st inst. He was a brother of the
millionaire Hopkins of California.
A scheme is on foot in Mason to es-
tablish another fruit drying establish
ment there, its scope to comprise evap
Grated fruit. cider making and corn
bulling.
Kalamazoo officers arrested and lodg-
ed in Jail the other night man who
was found praying on the street. The
sound of prayer was strange one to
the officers,
Mrs. Frances Townsend asks the
city of Port Huron to hand over to her
the snug little sum of $4,000 for in
juries sustained by reason of defective
sidewalk in that city.
Thirteen thousand one-half bushel
cases of strawberries were shipped from
st. Joseph to Chicago by boat in one
night recently. The crop is the largest
and finest known for years.
The latest dodge being worked in the
state to secure farmers signatures to
policies which afterwards turn up in
The form of notes. is manipulated by
pretended agents for tombstomes.
George Drawer of Grant, near New
aygo, was thrown against a circular
saw and literally disemboweled by a
cut IA inches long; intestines cut in
two. He fingered two days in great
agony.
An unusual sight was witnessed at
the Detroit house of correction few
days ago: A mother and son, a lad of
ten summers, were brought there to
serve three years sentence for MUIR
der committed in TT. Gibson, Indian
Territory.
Thomas Haire, on trial at Berrien
Springs for the murder of lack Nc
Crone in Benton Harbor in October last,
has been found guilty of manslaughter.
He has been given time TO file a bill of
exceptions.
William Campbell was suffocated
while digging q well in Berlin township
near Port Huron. He asked to be
drawn up, but when near the top was
overcome, fell down and was dead
when got out.
Hon. James n. French, Chairman of
the New York Educational Board, and
well known by his arithmetical text
book of the Robinson SERIES" has
leased the Somerville School at st.
Clair for a term of years.
Ed. G. knights, a popular travelling
salesman of Chicago grocery house,