Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-12-23
State News Condensed. Y

cortege which followed the remains 10
lakewood cemetery, where they We're
prary and active, were Hons. w. A. VIII
cox, w. ii. Waldby,- N. Geddes, G. I.
Mitchell, Edward y. Lacey, Thomas M:
Cooley, J. h. Boies, X Is. Robbins. Abel
Whitney and Frank W. Clay. Rev. w. X.
Spencer of the first Presbyterian church
conducted the obsequies Rev. X. i. Coop
or, rector of Christ church, read the lesson,
and brief eulogies on the character OF the
distinguished dead were pronounced by
Hon. Norman Geddes and Hon. Thos. M.
Cooley.
f. X. Axtei, justice OF the peace at
Frankfort arrested on charge OF robbing
the bodies of the dead sailors OF the barge
Menekaunee, has been discharged, as it
was found to be a malicious prosecution:
Mr.. Axtel will commence SUIT Tor npei
against the Detroit EDening Mems and Man.
istee Advocate, who charged him with the
inhuman crime.
Mrs. C. c. Beahan of Sioux City, Iowa.
formerly Miss Darling of Petoskey, died
of diphtheria, followed within few hours
by one of her children. Mrs. Beahan's
sister was with her at the time or her
death, and after the funeral started Tor
home, accompanied 10y Mr.. Beahan ana MS
only remaining child. While en- route
Miss Darling was stricken with diphtheria
and died shortly after reaching Petoskey.
The Grand Rapids law library has been
organized with a capital OF $2O,ON.
The November salt inspection was: Bay,
o. 1856 barrels; Manistee, 1854; Saginaw,
s5172; st. Clair. 3S,4l4; Iosco, 24,9lO; HUI
ron, 23,954; Mason, 1890; Gratiot, 800;
total, 372, ia barrels.
Judge Gresham of the United States
courts has appointed Judge I. M. Cooley
receiver of the Wabash railroad, and he Is
requested to take the property and do the
best he can with IL.
Gov. Alger will give each of 800 news
| bows in Detroit a complete suit OF clothes
for a Christmas present
The st. Johns manufacturing company
are now filing an order from England for
| $50 of their ash wash stands.
John Lett, charged with setting fire to
buildings in Concord jackson county, in
March, 1884, has just been tried in the
jackson circuit and triumphantly acquit
| ted. Asa SeaveT, who accused him, is also
| to be tried on the same charge.
James Carriveau has been arrested al
| Oscoda for embeZzling seven silver anc
nine gold watches and S505 from X. Il
Emmons, jeweler, of that place. CARR
veau was an agent of Emmons for selling
watches and jewelry in the lumber camps
Mrs. Isacc Suydam of Cadillac, was
washing the other day, and had boiler Of
clothes on the stove, when she stepped
out for minute, leaving their twoyeal
| old boy running about. just then a leg OF
the stove fell out, and the boiler of scald
ing water and clothes tipped over on thu
child. frightfully and possibly fatally
scalding him.
Tracy Wattles, son of Division Superin
tendent NJ. +. Wattles of Kalamazoo, fel
through the ice on the Mississippi river a.
Savannah Ill, and was drowned. He left
Kalamazoo "A month before TO take posi-
ton in the Office Of the &. Il. a. e., road a
Savannah. He was 20 years old.
The wooden mills in Clinton, Lenawe,
county. were destroyed by ire on the llti
inst. The loss Is about $4,000. 1t has no
been decided whether the mills Will be re
built.
While walking on the Chicago & Yves
Michigan railroad track near Riverside
VIM. Rouse was struck by the train ant
had both legs badly mangled and on
hand had to be amputated today. lie wa
% years of age. He cannot recover.
Burt Foster Of Midland, aged IS, Will
hunting the other day, was fatally injured
by both barrels of his gun being discharge
and the contents tearing his bowel
out.
T.. II. Marvin, who runs dairy farr
just outside of Reed City lost three valu
able horses in four days Dr: Rose, vetei
mary surgeon OF Grand Rapids, says tn
horses were poisoned. None OF the horse
lived over three hours after taking sicl
A post mortem examination on the frs
two horses failed to show evidence @
poisoning. The only trouble found wa
in the throat and lungs, and while som
think il is pleuro-pneumonia others b'
lieve it is some new and dread disease, an
the farmers are much worried
1t is about year since the norther
ASYLUM for the insane, at Traverse Cit,
was opened for the reception OF patients
During this time there have been $50 p'
tients received and 20 discharged, leavin
454 still in charge of the attendants. III
building is intended to accommodate 30
so that the limit is almost reached. Thel
are 10 officers, attendants and employ
of the institution, making population {
564 The years experience has been vi
, usually satisfactory. One point dete
mined about the lighting Is OF interes
The Edison system is used througho,
, the building. and the management tr
that their light is furnished at rate equ
: to gas at 75 cents per 1000 feet.
Harrison sportsmen will organize a
oath-bound society, the main object
which will be to kill every dog found rul
: ming deer out Of season.
: Good John, a Mason county Indian, VIII
{; 30 years ago was a cher OF MS trlpe'
: now an inmate of the poorhouse.
. The Toledo, Ann Arbor q Norther
y Michigan railway company have just n
Q gotiated with Leaton ~ Upton for seve
Q teen acres of river flats adjoining the bus
!. ness portion OF the town. Rumor says
0 is to be used for the location OF manufa
) turing establishments.
;. Amos Lindsey, employed by the sta
for over thirty years successfully as Jan
= tor of the various departments in the stat
a capitol, died recently, after lingering II
= ness aged about rs years. Throughol
: his long service he was distinguished Il
. the faithful and conscientious dischare
of his duties.
> Mr.. A. I. Prouty of Kalamazoo, SIS yea
J. old and reads without spectacles, hi
9 eighty-four volumes of scrap books viii,
: he has made from newspapers, ETC.. /
:. has contributed several volumes contai
7. ing local matters to the public library.
Criminal proceedings will be institut,
against DIR. Palmer of the state prison.
The friends Of Dwight z. Sibley asset
N bled at his residence, in the Township
o. Manistee few evenings since, to wttnt
n the marriage of his daughter to Charl
}. Brown, a young man about 20 years d
le people engaged in dancing, and while t
a. bridegroom was dancing he fell to the flo
N dead. He was an exemplary young m
81 of good health, and during the past SUI
III mer has been discharging the arduo
w duties of brakeman on logging railroa
T. 1t is supposed he died of heart disease.
10 Public opinion in the upper peninsula
p In favor OF the action of congress in Il
in feiting the immense land grant OF
k Ontonagon u Brule railroad compan
ne The company made an attempt to hold
,r land by building twenty-five miles OF 70
n, over snow banks and ice in the whit,
y The land grants of the Marquette, Hong
u ton IL Ontonagon railroad company a
i'd of the Lake Superior ship canal & railro
%, company will be examined into by &C
ne gress this winter.
g. Henry Taylor, a colored man, who liv
n alnua in n hOuse on DR. (talbraithis far