Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-09-24
STATE sIFTINGs.

Frank White, son of the postmaster at Por
Huron, is under arrest To- ri1ing letters In
transit through the Port Huron Office. White
is young man OF % years, and was registered
letter and money order clerk in his fathers
Office. He was brought TO Detroit, had an
examination before United States Commits
sioner DAWSON, and committed to jail in de-
fault of 81 200 bail. Mr.. HenShaw, the post
office inspector who arresteI White says that
in an experience Of twenty-three years he never
saw neaier work done In such case. 1t is
thought that White has beea at the business
for two or three months, and as he slept at the
office he had every opportunity To rob the
letters rs they were detained over night at the
Office. He had no accomplice and had hitherto
borne good reputation.
The homeopathic doctors of Michigan are
making an effort TO secure the legal services OF
Hon. Jaw Hubbell in an effort TO procure an
Injunction to restrain the trustees of the north
crn insane asylum Mt Traverse City from vio-
lating the law of 1SS3-which was reafiirmed in
Disappointing for the appointment of q
homeopathic medical superintendent of the
asylum. The homeopathists strongly recon-
mended DIR. Henry II. Stiles of New ork city,
for the place, but the trustees at meeting
held last week appointed an allopathic physi-
clan. In the legislature last spring Senator
Hubbell took an active part in advocating the
homeopathic asylum measure and securing its
passage.
The officers and attendants at the asylum
for insane criminals at Ionia are as follows
o. K. Long, Nj. d., Ionia, medical superinten-
dent; A Stanley Dolan, Lowell, assistant ply
stefan; j. G. Taylor, lonia, clerk and stewart Z;
p. u. Cutler, 1onia, trea urer; John feathers,
Montcaim county, engineer; Mrs. j. b. Hart,
Lap,tr, matron: b. r. Fales, Orleans, clerk
Neil McLarty, Pontiac, supervisor. Attend
ants-D. a. Gould, New Hudson Leander
Berry. Orleans; G. w. Draper, Plainwell; Floyd
Boomer, Muir; j. Greenhoe. Ionia Thos.
Magill, P0ntac; B. 4. Spencer, Ionia Miss
Jennie Cmik, Oakland county; Miss /. A.
Carlisle, Detroit
The new engine and boiler house at the
Jackson prison is being rapidly pushed along
the walls are nearly finished and work has been
started on the snokestack which Is twenty feet
square at the ba and will be 40 feet high. A
cast iron plate weighing about two tons will be
placed on the top guard against the effects
OF tie weather. Event, conyicts and nine free
men are employed on the building. There is
considerable stone cutting To be done, for
which outsiders have t. be employed, as there
is bat one stone cutter among the convicts.
+. w. Cook of Muskegon, discovered fatal
error in the complaint upon which {. &. Biinn,
the labor agitator, was arraigned and the in
formation wa qua shed and Dir. Blnn discharg-
ed. Another complaint was ma le, bur when
an effort was made 10 arrest Blinn he could not
be found. In the Saginaw circuit court Hon.
Thomas Barry was arraigned charged with
conspiracy. An effort to have the information
quashed failed, and Mr.. Barry refused 10 plead
A plea of not guilty was entered by order Of
the court
e. H. Newell, Superintendent of the street
railway of Muskegon, in company with J. j.
Fay OF Stimson, lay ~ Co., and Gus Neumeis-
ter, druggist, went duck hunting up Muskegon
River about seven miles. While pulling his
boat over sand heap Mr.. NewelPs gun was
below the knee. His companions tied up the
wound, but Newell bed 10 death before a doc
tor could reach him Tbs deceased was 80
years of age, and was formerly chief of city
police.
d. G. Blinn the Bay City labor agitator has
been taken TO Saginaw by his bondsmen and
surrendered to the authorities OF that county.
His case for conspiracy was called In the Sagii
nav circuit court, and an adjourned until DC
tober Is. lie was I'm jail In Bay City for crimi-
nal libel, and to produce him In Saginaw 1t
became necessary to give $500 bail In Bay
City. He will now be permitted to board at
Saginaw county's expense for while. Both
cases grew out OF the recent ten-hour strike.
An attempt was made a few days since by
some heartless wretches to wreck the south
bound train on the Toledo. Ann Arbor ~
Northern Michigan railway by placing pile
Of ties on the track, about four miles north OF
Owosso. Fortunately the obstruction was dis
covered In time and the trains speed slacxcn-
ed before strik ng, thus saving lives rs well as
the destruction Of property Certain parties
are suspected, and IL caught viii be punished
to the full extent 4 the law.
The Charlotte common council win begin
preparations for the construction Of water
works at an early day. The plan proposed
will require "a miles Of main and 50 hydrants.
The system recommended by the
committee, and which win prob
ably be adopted, Is that Of . well
and combination OF the direct pressure and
reservoir principle, with pipes notsmallcr than
six inches in diameter.
Mrs. Nettie Lawrence and John Jackson OF
Ann Arbor have been arrested charged with
arson. jackson, who Is colored, Is accused OF
firing a building on Washington st, several
weeks since and Mrs. Lawrence IL said to have
inspired the job for the insurance money!, she
holding an able-bodied policy thereon. Jack
son comes 10 the scratch and confesses, but