Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-04-26

of lack of snow.
The decision OF the judges on the ora
torial contest Of last week as agricultural
college, has been made public and the
medals presented to the winners of first
and second places. IL. b. Canon of Wash
ington, Macomb county, was awarded the
first prize, and n s. Mayo of Battle Creek,
and w. A. Taylor of Douglas, Allegau
county, tied for the second. ID. +. Ander
son of Berlamont, Van Buren, county,
took third and /. c. Colburn of Lawrence,
fourth.
Rev. j. II. Weber, the evangelist, has
just closed five weeks revival at Cold
water. over 800 conversions are reported.
Reunion OF the Third Regiment Michi-
gan Cavalry and Third Battery "C' V. '.
association at Qwosso April %.
Mosher a. Fisher of West Bay City have
a stock of l0)O, 900 feet of lum o. on hand
Patrick Wade who shot Mrs. Burke of
Norway because she refused to marry
him, has been convicted Of murder in the
first degree.
Ann Arbor had a 5000 fire on the 18th
inst.
Convict Burton escaped from asylum
for insane at lonia and was overhau'ei
by Keeper Jay o. Post, who pursued him
on horseback. a terrible hand to hand
conflict ensued in which the crazy man
was overcome. He has five years yet to
serve.
\ passenger train went through the
bridge near Luther the other morning
The train was completely wrecked, but no
lives were lost The engineer and fireman
were seriously injured.
Clarence Ferguson was struck by "A
bursting wheel in F,rgu'on ~ Moore's
machine shop in Or lenville, and instantly
killed.
The Traversa City asylum is caring for
534 patients.
The crop bulletin oftho ilicii yan wstth
er service for the week ending April II
says: The temperature, rainfall and sun
shine have boon slightly above the normal
yet the beneficial effect of these favorable
conditions on wheat and clover seed have
been more than Offset by severe freezing
J on the Sth, 9th, / 9TH and 18th. Wheat and
clover just begin to show life and are be
| lieved to be severely winter-killed. Pow
ing is under way in the southern sections
of the state, though probably only on the
dryer soils. Oats are being sown in some
sections. Reports from the northern sec
ton state that "the snow has melted con-
siderably, but still covers the ground"
Mrs George G.. Van Astine, wife of the
| private secretary to Auditor-General APP
J lin, died in Lansing on the l4th inst. Her
! husband departed for Mexico on the 1st
inst. to look after mining interests there.
leaving his wife and four children in ordi-
nary good health. He had been gone but
two days when his only son was taken i'll
with scarlet fever and on the 9th inst died.
The mother, worn out with watching and
borne down by grief at the loss of her son,
fell ILL., Her ailment developed into pneu-
monte, which in "A few days complicated
with rheumatism of the heart. She grad
ually grew worse until the end came. Mr..
| Van Alstine is now somewhere in the in
terror of Mexico, beyond the reach of mail
and telegraph, aud does not know of his
affection.
Admiral Worden of Monitor fame, who
| is visiting friends in Grand Rapids, was
given dinner by the Penins ular club the
other night.
The survey for the street railway from
Lansing TO the agricultural college has
| been completed.
An organized band OF burglars in Battle
Creek has been broken mp by the arrest OF
the leaders, who are boys, whose ages
range from ~ to Is years. All are the
sons of respectable people.
Frank Glover of Bay City, has been
sentenced to Is years in state prison for n
criminal assault upon an 11-year-old girl.
George Dewight and Charles Stanley.
the tramps who knocked German down
and robbed him in st. Johns, have been
sentenced by Judge Smith to the state
house of correction, Dewight for ten
years and Stanley for eight
George Morse, a son of NJ. NJ Morse o r
the firm of Morse q Co., large general
store of Grand Rapids, has been arrested
charged with committing an assault and
battery on his mother, who sues him for
$4,000 damages. He gave bail in $1,000,
with his father aud brother as securities.
Morse denies the charge.
Mrs. Mary De We're died at the residence
of her only daughter, Mrs. James Beatty
in Bloomfield recently. She was So years
old and had been resident of Oakland
county fifty-fve years.
y. L. bllloJJ, dSSlSbAnb IN entomology nj
the agricultural college, has been plecte 1
entomologist of the state experimental
station of Iowa, with a salary % 81. 0C0.
Mr.. Gillett graduated in 1854, and for mos,
of the time since has been assistant to the
professor of entomology.
Hon. Arthur T. Chase, repre- .entative in
the legislature from the Beneis and Leela
nav districts, died in Traverse City few
days ago.
The dam at Liberty Mills, Jackson
county, was washed out the other morn
ing, doing damage to the amount OF
$1,000.
W. X. Allen had his right arm crushed
TO pulp while coupling cars at Marshall
the other day.
The president has approved the act.
pensioning Capt. j. Miller Raub and Mary
Morford of Michigan.
Charles Peters fell on a buzz saw n
Weston the other morning and was cut il
two.
Maud Bagley, the Coldwater girl who
escaped from the industrial home a
Adrian some time AGO was canturad /,