Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-15
STATE NEWS.


"solid" for tho purchase by the govern
ment OF the Portage Lake canal.
White Pigeon wants manufacture
ing establishment and offers bonus 10
any firm that will start one there
Lou Hall Of Bay City, a woman of
the town, was brutal.y murdered the
other morning, by one John Knight.
Mrs. Willis 4. Stone of Dalton, Mus
kegon county, receives 1900 back
pension for the loss of son in the late
war.
Battle Creek and Ann Arbor each did
more than S20,0 900 of postofiice business
during 1884, and are therefore entitled
to free mail delivery.
Fruit growers on the East Shore"
say the peach buds are all right yet ex-
cept in very few localities that Ie-
ceived more than the average freeze.
lshpoming is sadly afflicted this whit
er. Diphtheria and scarlet fever are
taking off many children. and now q
malignant type of typhoid fever has
broken out.
II is proposed to take the township
of Newton, Garfield and Laketield out
or Mackinac county and make OF
them new county, with the seat OF
government at Newberry.
The Hillsdale agricultural society made
anet profit ofS1, 800 from the fair oflso4.
: 1t has property valued at $50, 900 and
its entire Indebtedness is $4,000. The
fair of 1885 will be held September 20
and so and October l and 2.
Orchard Lake military academy re-
opened after holiday vacation with an
attendance of 105 cadets. The new
barracks are already full 10 overhowing.
Col. Rodgers is accommodating some
of the boys in his own quarters.
Eaton county farmers are complain
ing bitterly because of heavy drain
taxes. which they claim they are obliged
to pay without value received. The
supervisors now in session at Charlotte
have instituted an investigation.
Sherman Mallory has been sentenced
in the United States Court in Grand
Rapids to-day fine of S5 and be i'm
prisonei in the Detroit House of Cor
rection for six months for burglarizing
the postoflice a. Trent, Muskegon Co.
The twel tn annual convention of the
observation-disclosures OF the poor aud the
union association of charities is 10 be
held at Lansing Jan. q and continue
is president and S. 5. Dryden OF ALE.
gan is secretary.
John Mcleod was instantly killed at
Blanchard kabout 8 o'clock the other
morning. He WAS employed by A. b.
Long & Son. Mcleod was helping
raise the rafters to a single shed, one
of which fell, striking him on the head.
He leaves a wife and child at Merrill.
. The postoffice at Orion was broken
into few nights ago and had 5000 in
money and postage stamps stolen; al
from which 20 yards of silk and silk
hankkerchiefs were taken. The jobs
were skillfully done by experienced
safe-crackers.
ThefM b. Church Bedette compauy's
patent of Grand Rapids has been sold
to the Racine Hardware manufacture
ing company of Racine, Wis, the fac.
tory 70 be removed there. The consider
alton is ten cents on each bed on q
make of 100,C0 annually for lag years,
amounting to Sl45,000.
At Luther, in Lake county, Christine
Swartz Barghoorn has begun the pub
LEGATION of the Alpha, and in doing so
she modestly observes that she hopes
TO "sound tocsin that will marshal to-
getheE a host of brave defenders of
equal rights, equal powers and equal
privileges for woman with her brother
man."
There ere reasonable grounds for
the belief that the log crop of Mich.
gan will be reduced at least 40 per
cent as compared wi Tn that of last
year. The superabundance of men for
the woods and the reduction in the
scale Of lumber supplies by all the es-
Establishments in the valley engaged in
that business is sufficient 7idence that
punishment by the operators this sea-
son is not all mere pretense, as il
has usually been heretofore Lumber
mans Gazette.
John Babcock of Grand Ledge, who
was az work in the woods few days
ago, was INSTANTLY killed by falling
limb, striking him on the head, crush
Ing his skull and breaking his neck
Babcock and other parties were cutting
wood. Babcock and j. A. Dewitt were
saving down dead tree which they
intended to fall to the east, but it fell
TO the south across the stump and strik-
ing some other trees breaking off large
limb. Babcock leaves wife and five
small children, the Oldest being but 10.