Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-11-05
STATE SETTINGS.

STATE SETTINGS.
Gov. Alger has received lett, from q New
York city gentleman, who stalks that during
the war he came into possession OF meer-
schaum pipe with amber stem, and that a sh Il
time ago he un lertook to clean the black &C
posit from the silver band ON the pipe, ami
much to his surprise discovered an inscription
reading as {, llows: "Maior VIM. III. NIcols,
by the officer Of the It'll Mich. Cav, June Is,
1854" Knowing the value soldiers feel for
such momentos, the present owner desires 10
return the pipe 10 Nicols or his heirs, and IL
any one can throw any light on the identity or
whe, eabouts of Mr. Nicols, and will do 50 by
addre :sing the governor, at Lansing, he will
confer a favor upon those mostfnterested.
Sherwood Hall of Grand Rapids, and Ed.
Grouse were hunting on Platte lake. Grouse
left Hall i'm boat while he went into the
marsh, saying that he pight see bear Later
Grouse saw an OBJ ct which resembled large
| game, AMI he bla cd away. II proved to lie
Mrs. Briggs Of Platte township, who, in Il
STOPPING posture, was picking cranberries.
Ate the accident Grouse carried the woman
a house near by. She remained conscious
some time, telling the particulars OF the ac-
cdcnt Mrs Briggs died the next morning.
No blame is attached to Grouse
Frank i. Hogan Of ST. Thomas, Ont, was
arrested the other day in Ann Arbor by
sheriff Walsh, charged with having uttere II
forged sight draft on John MacFarlane Of De
| troll. Endorsed 10y A. f. ilangsterier of Ann
Albor. Tie draft cal'el Tor 800, and with
! IL Hogan presented letter, alleged TO be from
MacFarlan'. giving Hogan permission to
| draw on him 10 hallarcs account. Hogan
| WIS married about two weeks ago in st.
Thomas AMI has since lived in Ypsilanti. He
refus to admit or Geny his guilt but says he
was very hard up
tguus an excitement was created in Howell
! the Oil @ DAY by the deliberate and bold Il
| tempt 10 steal "a sTan Of horses and buggy.
Tin ampbell, as he gives his name, and
clainu. Il lelong in Shiawassee county, nm
| hitchcd and drove the team away and was max
ing good headway. The theft was soon disCov
ered when Shar.iT CooS, taking u livery rig,
gave chase AMI captured the man, who now
| languishes in jail, Two other similar attempts
have been made recently, and II looks like the
work Of an organized gang.
1uscola county has for years past been re-
markablv free from mu der, but We find that
! what will probably ultimately end in murder
ccurrei in the township of Akron the other
me rAng. Samuel Wood, farmer, during O
| quarrel with lis wife, stabbed her in the right
| Il ,e with butcher knife, inhicting three
wounds, any one Of VIII ch would probably
! prove 70 "a. Woodman was brought to Care
and lodged in the county jai
The troub grew out of a quarre
over one of their boys.
Frel Johnson. formerly bartender al
! Cheboygan, was arrested at Crawling rC Gently
OF an old chaigt of assault with intent TO kill
Last July ilGmln Dctman spoEe slightngly
Of John ol'S wfe, when the latter tried to de
end hs wifc's name. Detman gave him
severe beating Later Johnson and his wife
met Dctman. and while the former held 6
revolver 1T abe latter's head, Mrs. johnson
gave her traducer sound horsewhiUping.
Two horses valued at $500 were stolen from
the barn of farm or residing some four miles
northwest of Marshall. On the same night th'
barn Of William Alexander was ransacked anC
twenty wheat agS taken therefrom, and also
double horse wagon, while from another BARI
in the same locality fifty bushels Of wheat wer'
stolen. 1t Is supposed the same parties com
mitted the three dcprodations.
An old man named Rhodes of Hart, Oceans
Co., died on the G.. II. u /. train between
Sturgis and Nottawa the other night of hear
disease. lie WAS % years old and was on hi
way TO Fife Lake 20 see a daughter. He was
resident of ColdWater for 4 number of years
having located there in 1850, when he estab
lished boot aud shoe business there. He wai
buried at Coldwater.
The Hon. NJ V. Montgomery of Washing
ton, ID. c., has written his assoCilte counsel il
Jackson that he will be unable Ia attend IN,
trial OF Henry Hoe NIB, for perjury, which
was to take Place at Hillfd he abou Nov. g. OF
account Of III health, and asks "A continuance
of the case 10 the next term. The case will b
continued until some time in the middle o
December
The board q upervisors for Glare county
have erected and set OF new township, EN-
bracing the territory contained in town i!
north, r nge west The township is to bl
called Hamilton. The boa q OF supervisor,
have also mad arrangeme nts to have tn,
court louise and Jail SUPP liel with water by
the water works.
Main Van Wort Of Adrian, insane with sal
Walton army religion, rose the other morning
at O'Clock and walked two miles in his nigh
clothes drumming an article of crOckery taker
from his room, waking up the people and not,
fying them that the resurrection was at hand
He was captured and finally jailed.
The second suit of Barnes Bros. against tn,
Michigan air line for damages done to Tho
plaintiffs wafer power To Rochester by defend
ants road terminated at Pontiac q few days
since. The plaintiffs were awarded $3.50
They claimed 81, 600 actual damages, and s15
was awarded in the first trial
Swan, White Il Smith, tle Missaullee county
lumber firm, have sold all their inter, SITS to IN,
Thayer lumber company, the considerat on be
ing $4,000. Included in the sale are 5000,
O0) feet of sanding pine, logging rluroat
and one of tha best equipped mills in th'
state.
One McAllister, claiming to be former De
troit hotel proprt tor and to have $4,000 in
vested I'm Gran Rapids was arrested at Portland
the other night, charged with defraudins
Grand Rapids dealers and the collector of in
ternal revenue, on the strength of his claims.
The ninth annual convention of the Won
ems Christian temperance union Of the thirt
district win he held ut Battle Greek November
1C-l,. Mrs.. Mary Wo db.idgc, state pre- siden
OF Ohio, said 10 be the peer of Miss France,
Willard, will take part in the proceedings.
Rcss,ll Wnbcr, who recently purchased Tia,
Chapman hotel property at Bay Springs, Cha
levOiX county, has sold a lalf interest therein
TO CIV. Waldron of Iiillsdale. The hotel |:
one Il the finest summer hotels In the state
and Is 10 ated on Pine lake.
A number of the leading citizens of Crane
Rapids met the other night TO take measures
TO fend tie suits begun in the United State,
court ON tho Shll niger patent concrete walks
infringements II was decided to employ abb,
consel to defend the suits.
Sparks from a steam ihrasher on the farm o.
George Roedcl, Jr. Of FrankeHmuth, Saginaw
county, set fire To two arms, both Of which
was destroyed with contents. Loss, S2,00O
insured for $500 In the Frankenmuth Fire In
,urance Trust Company.
Thomas McMullin, an employe upon the
road train of the Cincinnati, Wabash IL Michi
gan railway company in Niles, fell from train
and was almo t instantly killed by being run
over by the cars. A coroner's jury cxonerat
cd tie railway company.
The body of an infant was found floating In
the river at Chcboygan the other morning
sewed up in n sack Finger marks TN tn,
throat indicate that the child was stranglet
when few days old and deposited I'm the river
about week ago.
John Kunklcman and Matty Rullson Of
Lansing, while playing cards engaged In
friendly tussle, and Rullson iokingly drew 9
revolver and aimed Il at Kunkleman. The
weapon was discharged into Kunkleman's
face, and he may die.
John Shippo's daughter fell upon one Of thi
defective sidewalks in the village of Au Sable