Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-29
STATE NEW -

A test sal. well is to be sunk at Port
Huron.
About 400 of tho prisoners confined
n the ionia prison have nothing to do.
The supervisors of Jackson county
will not pay the board bill OF the Crouch
jury.
Thompson p. Sinclair, for 80 years q
dispenser of justice in Grand Rapids, is
dead.
Miss Frank Chandler, q Coldwater
lady, has invented several surgical in
strumeuts.
w. II. Allen of Dowagiac has been
arrestt for sending obscene literature
through the mails.
David Mclaughlin has been nomi-
mated for collector of customs for the
Grand Haven district.
George Dibble, son of the Livingston
county farmer where the charivari
tragedy occurred, is under arrest.
The House committee on commerce
decided to reject bill providing for a
lighthouse ut the Grand Marais, Mich
igan.
Philanthropic citizens of Grand Rap
ids have organized citizens bureau
TO furnish employment to the unem-
ployed.
The detectives bill in the Holcomb
case has been allowed by the supervi.
sors of Jackson county, amounting to
81, 9S3.
Horse thieves are industrious in Shi-
awassee and Clinton counties. Three
were stolen from South Lyons the 9th
or night.
Jacob Boyce, who died in Lenawee
county on the 18th inst, was the father
of 20 children, all of whom lived TO
reach their majo ity.
In the trial of Frank Abrams of Liv-
ingston county another adjournment
has been secured and efforts to prove
insanity will be made.
The state has increased the number
of farmers during the past year by the
number of actual settlers required to
occupy 800, 900 acres,
nj. II. Martin has been arrested for
distributing obscene literature in East
Saginaw. The officers caught him Civ
ing the publications away.
Lucy Wright, a girl of IS years near
East Tawas, froze both feet recently
and had 10 have them amputated. She
refuses to tell how she froze them.
An infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ack-
or of Moscow, Hillsdale county, picked
up screw from tho floor. put 1t into
its mouth and soon choked to death.
Three burglars hlowed tho safe and
captured nearly $1,000 from Stark
weather's store in Plymouth the other
night. they made good their escape.
The terms of the trustees of the state
prison have been fixed as follows:
Dwight S. Smith, Jackson, six years;
William Chamberlain, Three Oaks, two
wears.
Recent assays of quartz from tho
Ropes gold mine, recently discovered,
give an average return of S62 to the
ton in gold and silver. silver FREEDOM
mating.
A state asylum and house of correc-
ton are talked of for the Upper PENN
sula. We need them, and if they can
be secured let Isbpening be remember
ed.--The Iron Agitator.
Jabe knight has been found guilty
of manslaughter in the circuit court of
Bay City. Jabe is the man who killed
Lou Hall, a woman of the town, in Bay
City several weeks ago.
The supreme court has granted John
Sweeney new trial. He vas in Jack
son prison serving a ten years SEN
tence from Bay City for assault with
inteLt TO commit bodily harm.
Clark, Brennan and Larney have
been sentenced each to 20 years At
Jackson for the burglary and outrage
at the second toll-ga:e near Bay City
on the morning of January LIST.
Col. Henry M. Duffield Of Detroit
has been dire cted by Gov. Alger to re-
port TO Washington as Gen. Sheridan's
abide camp from Michigan during the
Washington monument celebration.
Geo. II. Pelton, city collector of Mt.
Clemens, was taken i'll while shoveling
snow recently, and went into the house
and died in few minutes His trouble
was paralysis. He was 65 years old.
Miss Minnie Carnahan of Lansing,
daughter of frederick Carnahan, of
the State Printing House, took dose of
strychnine installing it for quinine.
Prompt medical attendance saved her
life.
Peter Mcdonald, laborer of Bay
City, met with fatal accident the
other afternoon at Linwood. He was
struck on the head by stick of timber
which crushed his skull. He was about
40 years old and married.
A supplementary will of Madame Is
abella Vom Limburg of Florence, Italy,
the heiress of Gen. Cass. has been filed
in the probate court of Detroit. Minor
requests 10 servants and others are
contained in the document.
George and Roy, two little sons of
Officer Sweet of Battle Creek, were
playing doctor" the other day. George
was the doctor and administered dose
to Roy, from the effects of which the
little fellow died in few hours.
Ingham county poor house in
Meridian township, was burned Jan. p.
No lives were lost. Different families in
the vicinity kindly cared for and case
shelter 10 the inmates. The loss is
about $4,000, partially insured.
Lacey's bill for the survey of canal
to connect the waters of Lake Michi-
gan with the Detroit river has been ia
vorably reported by the House com.
mittee, but the bill will probably share
the same fate as many Of its predeces-
sors.