Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-02-19
STATE NEWS,

uo OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES uIllNou III otohu
Haven Feb. Q after p days drifting in
the ice.
George Washington, an aged colored
man of Detroit, was frozen to death
near his home in that city Feb. 10.
James O'Jonnison stole a horse in
Schoolcraft the other afternoon, but was
arrested in Kalamazoo before night.
Rev. Geo. w. Harris, we'll known
Baptist minister, u pioneer of the state,
died in Battle Creek on the 9Th inst.
Work on the Lansing, Alma & Mt
Pleasant railroad, which has been tenn
porarily suspended, is TO be resumed.
A patent medicine company has been
organized in Kalamazoo with a capital
of $4,000. Latham Hill is president.
DR.. Walker of Glen Arbor. Leelenaw
county, claims to have had 120 barrels
of cranberries to the acre as his last
years crop.
The Centerville knitting factory
idle since early in the fall, will start up
again soon, furnishing employment to
about rs persons.
Mrs. George Mcdonald, an opium
eater of North Muskegon, has crossed
the dark river. She used 32-calibre
revolver as a send-otf.
Reports from all parts of the state in
dictate the fall of snow on the 9th and
10th az unprecedented but accompanied
with less severity in GOODNESS.
> John II. Kingry. respected citizen
of Buchanan for more than 40 years,
extricated himself from financial en-
barrassments by hanging himself in his
barn.
The Detroit public building bill, in
creasing the limit of expense to $780,
600 and providing for change of site,
has passed the House of Representa-
tives.
l.. H. Bailey, late of tho botanical
gardens connected with Harvard col
lege, has been appointed professor of
horticulture at the agricultural college,
Lansing.
Arguments for change of venue in
behalf of Henry Holcom0, charged with
perjury by Joseph Allen, will be made
during the present term OF court at
Jackson.
Rumor hath it that Muskegon is to be
made the terminus of the M. q o.
railroad, and that daily line of steam.
ers will soon ply between that city and
Milwaukee.
John Danson. who was implicated
with DR.. A. j. Kniffen of East Saginaw
in forging a deed for 500 acres of land
in Maple Grove township, has turred
states evidence.
Esther Thomas, aged 60, was burned
to death in Detroit on the night of the
18th. The apartments In which she
lived took fire and the woman was too
drunk to escape.
The proposed New Orleans excursion
by the Western Michigan Press associa-
ton is now "off," as satisfactory
arrangements could not be made with
southern railroads.
Travellers on the Toledo e. Ann Arbor
railroad were obliged to camp for three
days in trackman's shanty a few miles
north of Owosso, the snow blockading
them on all sides.
A grand jury will be called at Evart
in March to inquire into the Osceolo
county treasury robbery. committed
last May, and several other criminal
occurrences yet in mystery.
L The jury at Big Rapids, after a four
days session, in the Phillip Wyman
$4,000 damages case against the De-
troit, Lansing and Northern Railroad,
disagreed, seven favoring the plaintiff.
Joe Howard, the thief who robbed
the Ccldwater National bank of SIC, O0O
in 1883, has been captured il Phlladel-
phia, and is held in that city to wait
he action of the Michigan authorities.
The remains Of Alfred Freese. the
Bay City carpenter wEo died at New
Orleans of injuries received by tho fall
ing of roof of one of the exposition
buildings, have been sent to Bay City.
By q recent decision in test case be.
fore the court of claims, certain custom.
house employees of Detroit and Port
Huron are to receive back pay for
amounts withheld contrary to law.
These amounts vary from Sill up to
$1,200
The Calumet & Hecla mine is now
shipping daily from five to eight cars OF
copper, the ultimate destination OF
which is France. II goes via Milwaukee
Twenty-one carloads passed through
the city Thursday. Marquette Mining
journal.
DR.. w. II. Gum of Howell, and late
ly of Detroit, has been convicted of an
assault and battery on 14-year old
girl. committed on December 6, 1884,
in Holly. The court sentenced him to
ninety days in the Detroit House OF
Correction.
An unusually large stick of timber has
been prepared for shipment at Thomas
Nester's camps, near Grand Marais. 1t
Is 40 feet in length, squared, and con-
tains 439 cubic feet, equivalent to $3.50
feet of lumber, board measure. 1t will
be shipped to Europe.
Nelson A. Dunning of Mason, declines
To accept the appointment of resident
Consul at Auckland, New Zealand, Civ
ing the reason that the salary is not
enough to pay his travelling expenses
and that he should be removed upon
the change of administration.
James Tolliver, colored barber of
jackson, became enamored of Mrs.
Wesley, also colored, and because his
affections were not reciprocated James
attempted 10 cut Mrs. Wesley's throat.
Failing to do this he operated upon his
own jugular vein with success.
A farmer named Huiskens was killed
recently north of Holland by falling
tree. He was chopping tree in which
another was lodged. Both fell and
crushed him causing his death in few