Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-03-25
STATE sIFTINGs,

Warrants have been ISSUED Tor the arrest OF
scyCIaI menuCrs OF tie GIauMIn county,
boara Of supervisors charged with taking ca
cessNc lees.
Ex-senator jerome 3. ChafTee was buried in
Adrian on the 18th inst.
The strike of Detroit ship-buildcrs has been
declared oil, ~ conn Promise nav.ng been e1iected.
Some one stole the ostensorium and chalice
goliien vesscis on the ST. AnuIew's Catholic
church alter III Grand kapiLs. TLey are
yalucu AT $3.50 The IN eff apparently attend-
e,l service the night before ana renamed con-
cealed after the leopie ieIt. No arrests.
The case against Maggie Wilson o. big Rap
ids, Tor POISONING hugh Mclean resulted IN
her acquttal. Alter remaining out lou,
hours The Jury returned a verdict OF not
guilty. Maggie was convicted once, but Sc
cured new lrlal, and nus Eer treeGom.
Adrian is. trying to. secure. a public library.
l.. ". Craniicld's saw mill burned at White
vile, Isabella county, recently. Loss S-,oOO.
No insurance. 1he mil will NC rebulit.
Geo. ". Gill lost three fingers of his right
hand while adjusting double sur.ace planer
Al GRANTS laclury, lypsilant, recently.
Abraham Lehman, VINO fought at Waterloo,
and lost three SOUS IN tue union army during
the rebellion, died in the Saginaw county poor
LVuSe Tie Utner day, aged %.
Marquette citizens arc in Washington trying
10 argue the representatives oil the people InIo
glvln,s good round sum Tor the extension oil
the Marquette breakwater.
J. II. Tatem OF Grand Rapids, Mich, has
been IieLtcu president OF the royal templars Oh
temperance. ut Buffalo.
3 A Manistee. organization has sent long
memorial pray Ing Tor certain legislation and
gaming on MIR. Ciecheon 10 WORK anu vote lor
the Tree importation OF lumber.
Manistec Knights o. Labor have petitioned
congress Tor an ell Int nour law TO be especially
applicable 10 persons under "a years OIL age.
congressman MAY bury, Tarsney and earle
ton were initiated INTO tho 1anmany organ
iLatlon on tho 10th inst.
Patsy Martin of Fenwick, a married man
about 20 years OF. age, was run over by a
freight train us IL was ulling QUO Tor lo1ia,
and instantly Killed. lie unuertook TO jump
Oh freight car to ride to his home at Fen
wick, bIiL slippel anu fell under the TRAN.
Thirteen lUade't freight cars passed over him,
scscIIng his Dody above the hips.
Mrs. Patrick Dining was run over by a
Chicago * " est Michigan train at TurnDulPs
siding. lour miles from big Rapids. Her skull
was fractured and one leg Gu, OIL. she wa
taken. 10 the hospital in Big Rapids where she
died the next day.
Only one accident khas occurred on the Sag
NAV, Huron " Tuscola railroad in the four
years Of It's existence.
Tic Flint union blues will increase their
membership to seventy, thus making room Tor
twenty new recruits.
The construction gang OF the Michigan
postal telegraph company are stringIng wires
between Jackson ana Lansing.
The managers of the soldiers homo have
abandondeu the Jacobs home (colored) and
removed Its two inmates to other quarters.
A reward o: 5000 is offered Tor the convic-
ton OF the persons who set fire TO the school
house burned at Fargrovc, Tuscola county,
Feb. /.
The people of Vaudeville, Barry county,
propose TO make concentrated ehort u bring
several new Industries to their town tins
spring.
The. Michigan nut and bolt company of De-
troit has increased tho wages of It's employees
10 per cent. The act was voluntary.
Members of the grand army of the repub-
lie In Calhoun county are circulating petition
In favor of establishing pension board Tor
that county, with Headquarters at Marshall.
Eastern capitalists have lately purchased
large tracts of land situated In the Chippewa
district, which Is timbered with back-Drch,
which they propose to use In the manufacture
of finc furniture and the inside finishing of
buildings
Timothy Il. Sanford, brother OF Postmaster
George Sanford &C Grand Haven, died at the
foldicr's home Of consumption the other
morning, aged 81 years. He was buried at
Grand Haven.
Gilbert Perry, an employe OF Hubbell 81
Ilies' mill near Coleman, was run over and
killed By The cars near LOOMS the other night.
G.. ". Wsrle, of sanford, Midland county,
was 10 West Ray City recently, where he dis
posed ~ a yoke of oxen. Next morning he
welt 70 East saginaw to collect about 3, loo
On logging contract. He intended to return