Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-02-11

| little medicine Is used, and that only In ex-
| IRENE cases. The capacity OF the institution
Is about 800
jackson prison report for January: Number
OF prisoners Jan. |, 1853; number received on
| sentences, 81, giving total of 795; were
discharged on expiration of sentence, l for a
new trial, pardoned, and transferred To the
lonia asylum for insane convicts giving the
| total number of discharges IL, and leaving In
the prison Feb. 7s3 prisoners.
The state veterinary medical society held its
annual meeting at Ann Arbor on the Sd, nearly
all the members being present. Papers were
read by DIR. Al. Chandler Of Detroit and DR..
w. W. Jopling of Owosso, The following
officers were e.ected: j. A. Dell, Ann Arbor,
president; Il. W. Bartram, Paw Paw, ii. IL.
Huron, vice-presidents w. w. Jopling,
treasurer; Is. q. Macbeth, Battle Creek, Sec
| rotary.
Presque Isle county paid $500 to acquit
Alonzo Stone of murder. AlonZo killed a
county officer who was trying TO arrest him.
state farmers institute will be held In
Quincy February IL and Is under the direc-
ton OF the members OF the agricultural college
| faculty.
a claim to the village council asking $4,000 for
injuries received by fall on defective side
walk.s
Fire was discovered In a saloon on Main
street in Charlotte about 10 O'clock other
evening, and before the fire was unuer control
$4,000 worth oil property had been destroyed.
1t seems now well established fact THAT
Aaron Palmer, the Tecumseh shooter, has been
| captured at Crete, Neb, and Under Sheriff
Bowen, armed with the necessary papers, has
gone to secure the ruffan.
James HAYNES, mayor of Cadillac, and
treasurer of Wexford county, died at Eureka
Springs, Ark, Oh the Sd inst. OF fatty degen-
Grafton of the heart, aged 81. He was a
pioneer of Cadillac and one OF her most highly
esteemed citizens during his long residence at
that place. Failing health compelled him
TO seek more IA ubrious climate, and since
early in the fall he has resided at the Arkansas
hot springs.
G. r. Marine of Howard City attempted to
cross the Grand Rapids IL Indiana railroad
track in front of the south-bound passenger
train the other morning. The wagon was
struck by the locomotive and demolished, and
Marine was killed. The horses escaped I'M
hurt.
Marshal Bennett of Sturgis found German
named Frank Elchen in front of the rink the
other night neariy frozen. He was a
stranger, out OF work, out OF money, was
respondent and wanted TO commit suicide by
freezing. He had been in America nine
months and had $40 when be came.
The supreme court sustains the act organic
Ing the county o. Iron, and the power of the
governor tip appoint the county officers pro-
visionally in the two cases OF the attorney
genera, eI re j. NJ. Longyear, vs. Welmer d a.,
supervisors, etc, and the same VS.. HOLSTER,
county clerk.
Under Sheriff Bowen of Lenawee county,
has gone t. Cree, NIB, after the man arrest
Ell there Aaron Palmer, the Tecumssh
shootst
The Algomah is doing good work on the
straits this winter, making the crossing daily
fhP. stsrlNN fl.ses In
Grand Rapids heirs to the Lawrence Town
ley fortune will build amagnilcent brick block
in that city.
Muskegon wants another railroad, and the
Grand Rapids X Indiana officials are looking
over the grouud TO see If a line to that city
will pay.
Holly's new union depot Is completed, and
the citizens of that burg point to IL with pride
as the handsomest building in the state.
The warehouse of Aulsbrook 81 Sturges,
furniture manufacturers in Sturgls, was burn
ed the other morning. Loss, from 5000 10
$4,000. The fire was caused by the explosion
OF "A bottle OF alcohol and In a badly damaged
condition. Insurance, $1,000
Gov Alger says that the work of changing
the Detroit, Bay City u Alpena railroad from
narrow to standard gauge will be commenced
early in the spring.
The report o. the state inspector shows the
sdU ms tcIlOn III TIE StaJt curing Tue lIlOuln
of January as follows Saginaw county, 43, 542
barrels; Bay county, 46, 1853 barrels; Midland
county, D, 135 barreis; st. Clair county, 1913
oarrels Mason county, 1862 barrels; Huron
county, l,277 barrels; total, l32, 565 barrels
A daughter of conrad Wiseman, of Hills
dale was shot in the back of the head with "A
revolver in the hands of her brother. The
doctors say the wound is not a serious one,
although they have been unable 10 find the
ball. Tue brother says the shooting was purely
accidental.
Nashville is all torn up over the arrest Of
JAS. l.. Gregory, prominent merchant,
charged with adultery with Mrs. Jerry
.Iadlson. lie has gwen 500 bonds Tor his ap.
pearance on the Stn instant. About the time
ne was are ted Madison at.emp, q to suicide
with II co b. lne nut was cut down. The
details OF the AHA are not very ciean, which
makes the local excitement all the more
intense
President Willis of the agricultural college
is coniident that the experimental station bill
will becom. law.
A tobogganing accident ut Kalamazoo came
near enuIns fatally for Mss Laura Pratt. The
young lazy VIII Ue Ialu up Tor some time, while
serious scap wounds heal
Henr, Eaar, leading druggist at Grand
Haven has Deen united III marriage with
Belle johnson, IavOritc society belize. The
aIsair is "a great surprise 10 Grand Hayenites.
At the Sol.ctItion OF the South Carolina Dar
association, Julie Thomas VI. Cooley OF Ann
Arbor. mas consented To deliver the annual adj
uress before them AT Columbia, 5. Z.
The CHAMBERS are MAKING sad havoc with
horses in jackson county.
The meat contract for Jackson prison for
the coming year was let on the 9TH inst, 10
4. NJ. Evans, Tor cents pound. The meat
IS to be o. the best quality.
The Rock school of practical education at
Lansing was closed on he 9TH inst, for want
OF funds.
Stevans. the murderer of Bertha Duckwitz in
Detroit, who has been in solitary confinement
ever since he was taken TO prison was brought
before the prison inspectors ON the 9TH inst.
He has been set TO work on the Fargo boot