Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-12-02
State News Condensed.

Ihe Jury at Mount PleaSant brought In
a verdict of 50 500 in favor of plaintiff, in
the case of Harriet E. Perry VS.. James
Tubbs et al. The defendants sold liquor to
plaintiffs husband when he was intoxi-
Gated, and he was run over and killed by
the cars on the +. a. z. NJ, between Loom
is and Coleman. The case will probably
go to the supreme court.
The case of arson against Mrs. Annie
Cowan, charged with burning Cornelius
Waldron's barn in lonia township, lonia
county, last July, has been dismissed on
technicality, but she has been re-arrested
and bailed in $1,000, to appear at Ionia,
Dec g.
Perry Manning, of Portland town
ship, and well known throughout Ionia
county, dropped dead recently of heart
disease.
While the wife of Charles Smith Of
Charlotte, was alone and going about her
household work the other morning, in
some mysterious way her clothing took
fire, and when her husband returned he
found her on the floor dead.
G.. p. Richardson of Cincinnati, O., an
experienced silk man, is about to pur-
chase the silk plant at Belding. The brick
work is completed and the factory will be
running in six weeks.
Louisa Hall is in Jail at Gladwin, charged
with stealing horse from George Brown.
Louisa lived with Brown, the couple pass
ing as husband and wife, and she merely
took the horse to prove her claim TO wife
hood.
Proceedings have been commenced in the
supreme court by the townships of Essex,
Clinton county, and Fulton, Elba and
Washington townships, Gratiot county, to
test the constitutionality of the Maple riv-
er improvement act. The residents of that
section have been living in frog swamp
for years, and the last legislature sought
TO relieve them by the passage of an act to
dredge the river, but the kickers prevail,
owing to the trifiing tax to be impo sed.
W. w. Cook, formerly of the Leslie Lo-
cal, is spoken OF as the probable private
secretary to governor-elect Luce.
w. B. Watson of Delhi was driving to
Lansing the other day, when his horse be-
came unmanageable, throwing Mr.. Wat
son to the ground, breaking three ribs and
his collar bone.
The board of prison inspectors has dis
missed DR.. Palmer, the bribe-taking physi-
clan of Jackson prison.
The Pembroke knitting mills is one of
Battle Creeks newest and best industries.
AT the mills 300 girls and young ladies are
employed, and besides these 100 persons
are given work at their homes, finishing,
etc. The capacity of the mills is 100 dozen
caps and $50 dozen stockings daily. Be-
tween $500 and $1,000 are paid out weekly
TO these employees.
The proposed furniture factory at East
Saginaw seems TO be certainty. A COM
pany has been organized, composed of
Ernst Feige, Henry c. Sillsbee, Henry
Feige, K. Il. Judd, and Frank II. Judd.
Ihey are looking around for a site.
The Smith purifier company Of jackson
have received letter from Buenos Ayres
inviting proposition for the construction
or mill at Jackson complete for shipment
to South America.
The Marshall paper mill has shut down
for good. 1t belongs to the Perrin estate
and Is all out of repair, and as the estate
Is in litigation no repairs can be made ex-
cept by the lessees at their own expense.
Harvey Rowley, employed in the Owes
so casket company, was found dead in a
buggy with bullet through his head and
revolver by him. Many think he was
murdered, causing a great deal Of excite
n:ent. He had spent the evening in Cor
unna. He was % years of age and unnar-
ried. sH
Mrs. Mary Dubois of Ann Arbor has
been adjudged insane from the use of mar
cotics.
There will be reunion of the surviving
members OF battery Ii, first Michigan light
artillery, at Holly, Dec. 2.
A young man named William Hollis has
been arrested in Chesterfield, Macomb
county, for horse stealing.
Inc officials OF the Institution at Boston,
who brought a car load of orphan children
to Mt. Pleasant last summer, have, on ac-
count OF some difficulty with the chidren's
parents, visited Mt. Pleasant again and
taken the children back.
The Kalamazoo Cart company has re-
cetved recently orders for their carts from
Mexico and Italy They have within
short time shipped carts to seven or eight
foreign countries.
George Burtch was killed in logging
camp near Lakeview, the other dav by
falling tree.
Francis Palms, the Detroit millionaire,
= dead.
r. X. Stevens has been arrested by Dep
-ty United States Marshal Whitebeck
for embezzlement Of funds while cashier
OF the First national bank at Paw Paw
nearly year ago. He lost his position
and during the intervening time the bank
has endeavored to reimburse itself, but 10
still nearly 5000 behind.