Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-04-08
STATE sIFTINGs.

Branch, hlllsuale, Jackson, Nashtenaw, Len
awee and Monroe.
STATE SETTINGS.
Twenty-six law students were admitted to
the " ashtenaw bar few days ago.
George Fry Of Stark's Corners, Cass county,
fell in u iainting III. Mrs. Try was at his SIDE
when Mr. Try lost consciousness; when he
rallied lie discovered that his wie was dead,
she having been stricken with heart disease.
The handsome residence of Russell Cook,
treasurer of of Pokagon township, six miles
west OF Dowagiac, burned to the ground.
The family were absent and everything is lost
Edward Cliff OF Onondaga was injured by
the cars near jackson the o her day, and died
the next morning.
The Michigan state trap shooters associa-
alton will hold It's first meeting of the season
OF the state viii be given an opportunity TO
yoin.
The cedar business is brisk In schoolcraft
county.
Everything in Ludington indicate, busy
sci son. Many new stores will be erected and
vacant ones hlled.
1t is iaid the state board Of health.will ask
Michigalders 10 boycott Valencia iaisins, for
fear OF cholera germs.
PA company has leen formed at Coldwater,
to be kLown as the Coldwater manufacturing
company; capital stock, $4,000, paid up. The
company Will manu- qcture chairs, etc.
Tie sale OF FLOODED cattle at the aSricultur-
al college few DAYS ago brought out iarge
nuHlor OF purchasers, and twenty head u
stock were sod, all ut low figures, the highest
price pud being s235 Tor College Allen, three
years old.
Mrs. Rachael Barnard Of Constantine took a
dose OF chloral to relieve pain. The dose was
cutie eiectual, and the funeral well attended
L. friends and neighLors OF the deceased.
heavy snow Storm accompanied by thun-
der and lightning was one OF the attractions"
IN Iron Mountain lew days ago.
The reunion Of The Twenty-sixth Michigan
iniantry viii be cid al Lansing, April 8. Re
turn tickets will lie issued BY all railroads at
one-third the usul rates.
Prosecuting attorney Blair, gays that he will
be unable 10 get tie case Of Jud Crouch In
shape Ter the April tenn OF court Without
doubt II VII lie put on the September term, as
everything will then lie ready for The trial.
The pensions committee of the House has
reported favorably bill 10 give a pension OF
$40 per month TO Miss Parmelia Smith OF
Monroe, daughter Of the late Brig. len. Jo'
seph r. SmiJu.
The stockholders OF the Ropes gold and
silver mining company at Ispheming, IL is
said, are grunbling because Of the recent as
sessment OF 10 per cent. being made prior 10 an
explanation being made OF the dispo-
ment.
w. II. Leroy OF Avon, who was union
soldier during the late war, has had his claim
for back PENSION allowed Of 50 per month,
dating from his discharge, about iwenty-one
years, together with continued pension Of
the same amount. He will get about sl,oUO.
MIR. O.,S. Richmond, who has been manu-
featuring pumps for years near Richmond,
has received patent on spring-toC III, level.
| ing and puveriZing harrow, and Las offers
| from Port Huron and -. Clair capt. ais S
looking toward its manufacture on an
| extensive scale.
Grants birthday, April 81, is to be celebrated
| by number of schools in Michigan.
| An attempt was made the other evening TO
| destroy the salvation army barracks In Char
| lotte BY the use of dynamite. The explosion
was Lcard at about twenty minutes alter the
close OF the meeting. The floor was complete
| ly tom up and much damage was done TO the
| interior of the building There is no clue
whatever to the perpetrators.
Col. Robert Sinclair, an old resident Of Grand
| Rapids Cied the other morning while dressing.
| MIR. Sinclair had been a resident OF Grt nd
| Rapids since lS4S. He organized the Four
teenth Michigan volunteers and served In the
war three years. He then resigned on account
of i'll health. He was widely known in Grand
Rapids, and was appointed revenue collector
| by President Johnson, hut not confirmed. He
also held several local offices.
| Grace Whitcomb, the missing Jackson lady
| has returned to her home. She was found In
| New York, Tut can give no account OF her
| journey east.
Marshal Tonlin of Rcd Jacket. who-is some
| 81, GEO behind in his accounts with the village,
| has had his salary reduced TO 81 per month,
| because as be is elected by the people no can
| not be discharged.
The Michigan trap shooting association will
be held at East Saginaw May 5, 6 and z.
A. G. North of Pontiac is president
The Ann Arbor council has ratified the s., COO
bonus for the Michigan Central, and the $780,
| 600 depot improvements will begin Mt
| once. State and Page streets are to be closed
and new street opened from Detroit to the
! depot grounds
An entire train load OF pine logs, numbering
| twenty-five cars, passed through the city over
| the Michigan Central last week on the way Ia
jackson. A few carloads of legs at time
| have occasionally been shipped in the past,
but this is believed TO be the first time In the
history OF the road that an entire train load Of
| the raw material has becn sent from the north
woods.-Lansing Republican.
Surveyors are now running n line for the
| Toledo, Ann Arbor d Northern Michigan
railroad from Eurand to Owosso. Tie route
passes through Corunna, near the Detroit
| Grand Haven Il Milwaukee track, which road
| Is followed nearly on parallel the entire dis
lance Corunna people feel well pleased over
| these assurances that the road will 90 through
| there.
The family of Thomas Rollson, farmer on
| the Iittabawassee river, IL miles from Eas
Saginaw, ate wild Tarsnips. Two Of the child
rem aged five and two years resi- ectlyelv died
| from the effects of the poison, and the mother
is not expected to recover.
W. A. Leroy Of Avon, has received 81, COZ
back pension.
W. L. Feet OF Maple Rapids, has invented
ticket Lolder for.use on passenger trains
John, Brooks of Waldron, who served
through the war Of 1912, will be 100 ,ears ole
June IS. The local q. A. r. will tender the
tentenarian grant ovation on that day.
A stock company with a proposed capital oil
| $4,000 Is being org anizcd TO manufacture til,
Keller sewing machine In Grand Rapids
Among the interested capitalists are A. ID
Rathbone, L. II. Whitley, Julius Houseman, A
| j. Bovine. James M. Barnett, Prof. G. G.
Swepsburg, Willard Barnhart William Sears
and T. ID. Gilbert.
II. e. Bristol, displayman at Iosco has re
ceived intelligence from the signal Office
Washington, that the United States sigma
service has ordered that weather and tempera
lure flags shall be displayed from that port dur
ing the coming season.
Joseph 0'Neil a farmer living in Greenvill'
dropped dead while at the supper table tn,
other night Heart disease.
Peter Wright, In jail in Howell, waiting tria
forsrobbery, has escaped. 1t is supposed tina
be had an ,ccomplice, and that horse wa
In readiness to help him of. The sheriff
has offered reward Of $50 for his capture
Wright is 80 years old, sandy complexion
blue eyes, and weighs about $50 pounds. Par
Of his right ear has teen bitten off, and b,
has mark on his right arm made with indel
ible ink.
Bills introduced In the House the other day
In behalf OF NJ chigan people provide for REIN
hufs.ng Postmaster II. 3. Rowland of Rcpub