Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-03

bama, paying SIPS per acre.
A broom factory is a new industry at
Manton.
John Mapes, convicted at Grand Rapids
of counterfeitng. has been sent to Ionia
for three years.
Recreation park association at Chelsea
set out upon their grounds Arbor day 175
trees, naming finest of them Roscoe
Conkling, second best Russell A. Alger,
and third Gov. Luce. Several other trees,
set by private parties, were named after
these distinguished gentlemen,
Russell +. Tinkham of Grand Ledge, has
been arrested on charge of perjury pre-
ferred by George n. Berry and Willard
Babcock, his sureties as administrator of
Caleb Hunters estate. They say they
have had to make good some $4,000
alleged to have been embezzled from
estate by Tinkham.
The weather crop bulletin of the Michi-
gan weather service for April 81 says:
The general effect of the temperature for
the past week is reported as unfavorable
to wheat and clover The effect of the
rainfall has been favorable. The reports
from the southern half of the state con.
firm the reports of the injurious effect of
the past winter on wheat and clover and
it is seriously affected but it cannot be
determined as yet TO what extent. Plow-
ing is progressing rapidly. Oats are being
sown in most sections. The wheat and
grass are in good condition in the north
ern half of the state.
Martin Davis fell into boiling brine vat
at Pack, Woods a. Co.'s Osceola salt block,
and died from his awful scalding.
c. L. Foresman fined $3.50 at Kalamazoo
after pleading guilty to charge Of unlaw-
| fully soliciting insurance on live stock.
Pennsylvania company that employs him
paid fine.
DIR. George NJ. Bell of Benton Harbor
has been appointed member of board of
pension examiners for Cass, Berrien and
| Van Buren, counties,
Game Warden Smith has appointed the
following deputies: a. n. Mcintyre at
St Louis, Charles C, Butler at Hamburg
John Prenart at Mt. Clemens, Matthew
Grenet at Fremont and Thomas Ham
mont at Spring Lake.
Frank Voll1 is under arrest at Bay City,
| for stealing $40 from Villalre's meat
market.
{. =. Gillott assistant in entomology at
the agricultural college, has been elected
entomologist of the state experimental
station of Iowa, with a salary of 81, 200.
! Mr.. Gillett graduated in 1854, and for most
| of the time since has been assistant to the
professor of entomology.
Hon. Arthur T. Chase, representative in
| the legislature from the Benzie 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
! 1900
w. X. Allen had his right arm crushed
TO pulp while coupling cars at Marshall
the other day.
The governor has ordered the prosecut-
ing attorney of Alpena county to investi-
gate the charges against Prosecuting
Attorney John +. Ellis of Montmorency
county.
1t is stated that in the past two years
the students of the agricultural college
have not done So worth OF intentional
damage to the state property.
The new street railway in Sault ste.
Marie is to be operated by electricity.
Mayville offers liberal inducements to
any one will start a first-class grist mill
there.
Several Gratiot county people who have
invested in Wisconsin lands have been
wofully swindled.
Mobile land improvement company,
with headquarters at Mobile, Ala, has
$4,000 capital that is largely owned by
Flint capitalists.
Volume 81, Michigan Reports, will be
ready for delivery May /. New feature is
devotion of several pages to abridged
opinions on each case reported.
Michael English, who formerly lived in
Marshall, was stabbed by Peter Ryan in a
fight at South Bend, Ind, the other day.
Ryan has been arrested.
An unknown Findlander was cut in two
by a passenger train near Negaunee the
other day.
+. j. T. Omeads, one OF the most promi
nent citizens of Mason, died n few days
ago of loclljaw, caused by running rusty
nail into his foot.
Under a bill likely TO become a law the
Michigan Military Academy will have II
regular army officers upon sts list of in
| structors.
The state board of pharmacy is taking
steps to see that the law regarding the sale
of drugs by unregistered druggists is en-
forced.
Hacknell's saw mill and lumber yard al
Juniata was destroyed by fire few day.
ago. Loss, $1,000.
Gov. Luce gave each of the veterans Of
the soldiers home new felt hat when he
was there the other day.
Gladwin is negotiating for stave and
heading factory that will give employ
ment to 20 men.
A state convention of colored republi
cans was held at Jackson April -, al
which time the michigan Protective
League" was organized. The convention
endorsed Gen. Ayers candidacy anG
elected w. G.. Atwood of East Saginaw a,
delegate to the Chicago convention. ON
GERS of the league were elected as follows
President, VIC. Atwood of East Saginaw
vice-presidents, A. r.. Bird of Cass county
j. !. Evans of Calhoun, Isaac Jackson o
Eaton, b. Tyrrell of Hillsdale, r. c. Jack
son of Ingham, f. NJ. Thurman of jackson
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