Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-16

Grand Rapids will build new city
hall at cost of 1856, 200.
The Western roller mills of Fairfield
were burned on the 4th inst.
The legislature will probably adjourn
May Is.
A company is being organized in
Owosso To start for Oklahoma.
For the first three months of 1885,
400 prisoners were discharged from
Ionia prison.
Olive Clark, aged 20, of Harbor
Springs, is violently insane from relig-
ious excitement.
2 Two salt springs have been discover,
ed on II. Benefits farm, about one
mile and half from Saline.
George Conklin of New Haven Town
ship, Shiawassee county, fell off load.
cd stone boat and broke his leg.
Gao. Hardness, deputy treasurer of
Oscoda, Iosco county, charged with de-
falcation, has been declared not guilty.
Miss Catherine Bush, resident of
Washtenaw county since 1889, died in
the county house of that county April
4th.
DR.. o. r. Long of Ionia has been APP.
pointed medical superintendent of the
new asylum for insane criminals at
Ionia.
Mrs. James Fletcher of Scott Lake,
Van Buren, county, drowned herself last
week, owing to poverty and discourage
ments.
Robert A. Griffin, an old resident and
lumberman of Big Rapids, died sudden
ly at Randall's camp, six miles distant,
on the 9th inst.
Twenty-Five Michigan ''medics" have
offered themselves to the Russian
minister in Washington for service on
the Afghan frontier.
The Centerville creamery has begnn
operations. When running their full
capacity they turn off from 1000 to l.
200 pounds or butter per day.
Reported that certain detectives in
the famous Crouch case are to be pro-
ceeded against for tsmpering with wit
nesses connected with the case.
The annual strengthening festival of
the Northwestern Sheep Breeders AS.
sociation will De held at the residence of
Nelson Brewer of Gaines on the 28th
inst.
Grave robbers were caught trying to
snatch body in the Valley City ceme-
terry at Grand Rapids the other night,
but the gbouls escaped without identifi-
cation.
w. P Perry has bought and shipped to
Wallace johnson of Buffalo, since Au-
gust l of last year 2,043 bushels of
clover seed costing 9,499 75.-Hillsdale
Leader.
Napoleon Larrevee fell between the
cars Of logging train about five miles
west of Mecosta. Several cars passed
over him, completely severing his head
from his body.
Jack Wolf of byron. Shiawassee
county, was drowned in the mill pond
in that place. Boys who saw him
threw large stick within his reach,
but no refused to ;a&oi it.
DR.. A. w. Chase Of Ann Arbor, the
famous recipe man, ia financially en-
barrassed and he asks his old friends TO
advance him sufficient money to get out
third edition of his book.
Mrs. Wescott of Ovid, Branch county,
went into June's barn the other after
noon, set fire to the hay and burned the
building and herself. Che lady has
been of unsound mind for some time.
Capt. S. G. Mower, for several years
i'll charge OF the United States En-
gineer's Office in Grand Haven, and al
so Captain. +. United State troops, COM
mitted suicided in Milwaukee April, 10.
The Maple Grove cheese factory of
China. st. Clair Co., has begun work
for the season of 1885. During eight
months of 1884, out of about 10000
pounds of milk, some 10000 pounds of
cheese were made.
The Clinton County Wool Growers
Association will hold its second annual
shearing festival at the farm of ID. S.
French, four miles north of st. Johns,
on the 23d inst. A large and interesting
meeting is expected.
Action for $4,000 damages has been
commenced in the Circuit Court by the
father of Matt Clinton of Tenton- the
| boy SO badly frozen some time since
against l. G. & b. II. Lansing for sell =
ing liquor to tho boy.
Lands which are laying near East
Tawas and were numbered over several
year ago and only the upper grades of
pine then taken off are now being pur-
chased, and all the pine down to six
inches at top will be AIKEN off.
Albert Winkler young German
farmer residing IN the township of Ma
comb, eight miles from Mt. Clemens has
been missing since March 10. He left
home with $500 in his pocket with which
to purchase cattle. Foul play is sus-
| pected.
| | The president elect and four lprofes-
sors of the agricultural college, the
president and one professor of Albion
college, one professor of Kalamazoo
college, and two professors OF the Nor
NAL school are Michigan university
graduates.
The address on 1.-THE University of
Michigan in the work of higher educa-
ton" delivered by Prof. G. r. Adams
before the alumni of Washington, d.
c., has been printed In pamphlet form
by the authorities at the university for
distribution.
| There were 1922 prisoners at Jackson
at the close of last month. During the
month 23 were received, pardoned, 2
escaped who had not been recaptured,
and sentences OF IL expired. Bay coun-
ty led in the number of prisoners with
a contribution of 8.
Mrs. VIM: Humphrey Of Stanton was
taken i'll Of heart disease while at sup
per at the Hudson house in Lansing,