Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-23
STATE NEWS,

Il buOubhuQ sACae nave
been planted in Clinton river.
Livingston county farmers complain
of the scarcity of feed for stock.
The Scandinavians at Frankfort are
building a church and pastors study.
III. Grennell of Grand Rapids, is one
Of the heirs to a 100000. 900 estate in
England.
A citizens meeting at Bay City de-
clared in favor of building $4,000
opera house.
The LOOMS battery will hold their
annual reunion in Coldwater, Wednes-
day, May 20.
Luke H. Whitcomb, aged II, for so
years resident of Cold
" alter, is dead.
The report that tho iron on the road
between Edmore and Lakeview is to be
taken up. is denied.
Dewey & Sons factory in Kalama-
ZOO was damaged by fire on 10th inst,
to the amount of S25, GOO.
G. B. Hunt, treasurer of plymouth
township, near East Saginaw, is under
arrest on charge of forgery.
John A. Palmer, first lieutenant OF
cavalry during the war and one OF Jeff.
Davis captors, lives at Chelsea.
Talk of an iron bridge at Belle river,
St. Clair county. to replace a wooden
one swept away by high water.
The iron output of the Lake Superior
mines for 1884 amounts to 2,455, 924
tons, at a value of $12,718,4 53.
George Conklin of New Haven Town
ship, Shiawassee county, fell off a load.
ed stone boat and broke his leg.
Fred Lommer5, IL years old, was
killed is Tustin's saw mill near Muske-
gon by being caught in tho betting.
Charlevoix wants a Touring mill, and
afterward anything in the shape of
manufactures that will benefit the town.
Bert Blanchard, an employee in the
st. Johns manufacturing company, fed
his right hand to buzz saw the other
day.
A windmill will be erected at Rogers
City for the purpose of grinding oat
meal and buckwheat grist and ground
feed.
Henry Coykend all of Boyne City
charged with counterfeitiDg, has been
released on bail. He will be tried in
June.
From six pals of water recently
pumped from a well in Roscommon q
Leaspoonful of pure gold dust was
gathered.
John Monahan was run over by q
train of cars at Trenton, Wayne county,
and sustained injuries from which he
died the next night.
Henry Bottsford of Pennington has
been sentenced to the reform school un.
til 10 years old, for assault and battery
on his grandmother.
Ansley DeHaven, formerly of Ban.
gor, was killed in Dakota mill recent
ly, splinter from circular saw sew
ering the iugdlar vein.
Grand Rapids has organized cable
street railway company with capital
of $1,000 and set of officers. Work
is to be commenced at once.
Frank Brazan, a river man. broke
two ribs and badly injured himself in.
ternallv, by falling into jam of logs
at Gowen. He will recover.
Clinton Doan. an apiarist of Otisville
who had fifty and sixty hives of bees
last fall, reports nearly all of them
frozen by the severe winter.
The Centerville creamery has begnr
operations. When running their full
capacity they turn off from 1000 to 1,
200 pounds OF butter per day.
frankie Bergen of Vergennes, Kent
county was badly gored by vicious
bull a few days since, his face being
torn and his body bruised and lacerated
T. j. Boughner of Dandy, Ionis
county, is the possessor of one-half the
tent occupied by ex-President Davis, o.
the ex.confederacy, at the time of hil
capture.
The state public school at Coldwatel
received 253 children last year, and ha,
placed 80 in homes. Since the school
opened in 1874 there have been /, 76t
received.
Charles Olmstead of Three Rivers
burned the feet of his little baby to 9
blister to make the little one confess 9
fault. Judge Lynch should handle
Olmstead.
A plan to escape from the jackson pri
son was discovered the other day. The
convicts had tunnel from the Goa
mines dug to distance within FIVE fee
of the surface.
The 15-year-old son of Richard Lee
lone of Newport, was seriously injured
by the accidental discharge of his CUR
while hunting recently. The boy will
lose his right arm.
John Pemberton, living seven miles
south of Clare, accidentally shot and
killed his daughter-in-law, on the 11th
inst. Mr.. Pemberton is nearly distract
ed over the tragedy.
Lyman Luther was found dead in the
streets Of Leslie the other morning. He
was drinking man. A verdict of death
by congestion induced by exposure was
rendered. He leaves wife.
j. H. Cuddy, whose two children
we're drowned at the time of the col :
lision of the Mamie and Garland on the
Detroit river some years ago, has
obtained verdict of $4,000.
The large general store of A. G. West
brook of Marine City, together with its
contents, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. The loss is about $4,000. The
fire was doubtless incendiary.
Bishop Richter denies the report cir
culated that he goes to Rome on a Sc
cret mission. He merely makes the
visit to the pope required from bishops
each decade, by catholic church regula-
tons.