Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-08
STATE ~ .EWS,


Owosso city fathers think new city
hall Is needed in that place
There is about 100000 900 feet Of
standing pine in Allegan county.
A second rich find of gold has been
discovered between L'Anse and Michi-
CANINE.
The Upton manufacturing shops Of
Port Huron will be in running order
about January 10.
Paul Loerscher the Montague wife
murderer. has been sentenced to hard
labor ia Jackson for life.
The Duplex Printing Press Company
will soon be organized in Battle Greek
with q capital stock of 100000.
Jackson county supervisors will order
an election for prosecuting attorney at
the regular spring election, in 1885.
s. II. GARNER of Lansing is dead.
Mr.. GARNER was the only Greenback
member of the state legislature in 1880.
Vim Fisher, the Oldest typo" in
Ann Arbor, died on the 30th ult Fisher
had 'stuck type" over 80 consecutive
years.
Fife Lake is to have new school
house. The building is TO be ready for
occupancy at the beginning OF the next
school year.
The Gale manufacturing company.
whose works il Albion were destroyed
by fire some weeks since, will rebuild
in the same place.
Col. McCreerS of Flint has engaged
three lawyers TO sue the city OF Flint
for damages caused by not affordipg
decent fire protection.
The total grain crop of the United
States for 1884 was 5000, 600, 900
bushels. or this amount Michigan
produced 100000 bushels.
w. j. Cowan has been convicted of
manslaughter in the circuit court at
Saginaw City. Cowan shot and killed
w. III. McClintock last October.
While cleaning snow of from the
roof of his house Sunday morning, Dec.
rs, Samuel Born of Kalamozoo fell in
such manner as to break his neck.
Elder Baron, an Oakland county
pioneer, was instantly killed at his home
in Groveland on Christmas day, by fall
ing from scaffolding. His age was IS.
Who is entitled to The reward for the
apprehension of the Shoultz murders ?
is question which the board supervisors
of Iosco county, will have to decide at
its next session.
Gov. and Mrs. Begole gave o. recep-
ton to tho teachers in attendance at
the state institute, in the executive par
lors of the capitol Tuesday evening,
December 80. The reception was
great success.
Miss Emma A. Hall, formerly super
lntenden. of the girls industrial school
ut Adrain, died on the 28th inst, at
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she
had been serving as matron of an
Indian mission school.
Gen. Peter Stagg well known to
Michigan soldiers as the commander of
the celebrated Custer cavalry brigade,
died in Patterson, N. j., on the 26th
ult. Gen. Stage was formerly from
Trenton, Wayne county.
Mrs. M. Whitaker, mother of Deputy
Sheriff Whitaker of Bronson, died in
that place the other night of cancer of
the stomach. She had not eaten anv
food fo- nearly five weeks.
Mary McArther brings suit for $10,-
900 against the city of Saginaw for the
death Of Angus Macarthur who was
killed in that city December 5, 1883 by
being thrown from wagon colliding
with lumber piled in 2 street in that
city.
At Battle Creek, Nicholas, Shepard e.
Co., threshipg machine manufacturers,
have increased their capital from $780,
600 to $1,000,000 The Advance COM
pany, also makers of threshers, have
increased their stock from 100000 to
S200,000.'
Armstrong, the murderer of his wife
and Guy Bates, near Newaygo, tried
for the murder of the first and acquitted,
is again arrested for the murder of
Bates, at the complaint of citizens, who
have visited for the new Prosecuting
Attorney to qualify.
The Saginaw river mills manufactured
during the season of 1884 978, 497, 900
feet OF lumber. 26l, 900. 900 shingles.and
127, 346, 900 pieces of lath. besides other
products. There are 458, 900, 900 feet
of lumber now on the mill docks. The
hardwood lumber cut amounts to a.
061, 900 feet.
DR.. Sira Carman, who has been the
proprietor of the Flint Medical Hospital
IL Flint, left town suddenly December
80, leaving some $1,000 to $4,000 in
debtedness behind him. The hospital
has gone into the hands of b. +. Cotha-
rim and j. A. Pierson, who will con-
tlnue the business.
Citizens of Kalamazoo signed petit
ton circulated by the law and order
league asking Gov. Bego.e to revoke
the Van Waggoner communication of
sentence. and the petition went forward.
Eminent legal authorities, however, ex-
press the opinion that Communication |
cannot be revoked.
Mr.. +. Z. Ward of Kalamazoo, WHO
has been suffering for some time with |
an indefinable pain, was greatly reliev- |
ed the other afternoon by having a
needle work out under the right should
or blade. He has suddenly recovered,
but how the needle came to be part of |
his anatomy is a mystery to him.
Superintendent David Howell of the |
public schools, chairman of the |
on school legislation, In a
report submitted at the recent teachers |
institute in Lansing suggested that |
workshops for the benefit of students be |
placed in the Michigan agricultural |
college and the state normal school.
On Christmas night Miss Stella Leila |
Of Manistee, aged % years, was fatally |
burned. She was awaiting the return |