Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
WOLVERINE ITEMS.

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for 81 900.
The Union National bank, with 100000
capital, has been started in Muskegon.
Seventeen buildings in Dansyille, Ing
han county, were burned August 20 at a
loss OF about $4,000. There is little insur-
ance on the property destroyed, which in
cludes about half OF the business portion
| OF the village.
Prof Wesley Sears, recently superinten-
dent of the public school at Coldwater, has
been appointed superintendent OF tho Hills
dale schools
! Tho Fifth Michigan volunteer infantry,
generally known as the Fighting Fifth"
| held their twentieth annual reunion in
East Saginaw Aug. IS. Grand Rapids
Was cho sen as the nest place of meeting in
| $50, and the following officers elected;
| President, Peter Lehman first vice presi-
dent. Hiram Madden Of Grand Rapids:
| second vice president, j. w. Van Dine:
third vice president e. a. Billiard of
| Nassar; secretary and treasurer, w. "A.
Rowley of Mt. Clements.
Fred Herring of Hilsdale, about 10 years
of age, boarded IA freight train the other
night for the purpose OF stealing ride.
| When four miles from Jonesville he fell
| from the train aud rolled under the wheels
Both legs were ground TO pulp below the
knee, and he died the next day.
The examination of Gosch and Brearley
lOr Iue muIueT VI Ddnlel oIHCldII
| by the defense waving further eXamina-
ton, and they have been held TO the Kent
| Circuit Court.
Harry Gill the Lansing boy who was
! stabbed while on a lark at PetOskey, died
Aug 20. Robert Matthews, whom the boys
were teasing, has been arrested, charged
with stabbing Gill.
The annual reunion of the Second Mich
| igan Infantry was held in Last Saginaw
Aug. 20. 1t was decided to hold the next
reunion ut Adrian, the date TO be fixed by
the officers. The following officers were
| elected Tor the ensuing year: President,
Gen. William Humphrey OF Adrian, Sc re-
tary, Harmon CamOurn Of Adrian; treasur-
er, william l.. Mapes OF ransom; vice
presidents, Joseph Burger of Detroit,
Alfred Thurloy of Marquette, &. William
tlagg of Battle Creek, John Hardy OF
Detroit, Carl Engle of Detroit, Lyman Il.
Stowe of Detroit, John g, Boughton OF
! West Bay City, James III. ROBERTSON of
Pewamo, Daniel Ferguson OF May, John
Callahan of Buffalo.
Alex. Wilson or Oscoda was run over and
killed by tie IN, at Potts, the other day.
Burt Harger was instantly killed in the
wooden mill at ColumbiavIlle the other day.
Alphonso McMaster, an employee Of the
| Lansing lumber compiu died Aug. p,
from the effects of being struck by board
thrown by saw. He was lieutenant in
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war.
Nine store buildings and three barns in
Spring Lake were burnei the other morn
ing, causing loss Of $4,000.
There are 20 prisoners in the new state
prison at Marquette.
| The Washtenaw county pomo ogical so
| ciety meets at the court house in Ann
Arbor September Z, and fruit shippers will
then make transportation arrangements
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| Detroit exposition.
Mrs. Granville Lindsay of Ypsilanti,
jumped from "a moving train the other
! night, and, falling under the wheels, was
instantly killed.
Mrs Wallace Moore of Mayville left the
house u moment TO drive the cows out OF
Il field, and on returning found that her
little eight months-old daughter had fallen
! into pail OF water and was drowned.
A woman named Tillman was arrested
at Grand Rapids on a charge of shopif,ing.
AT her home the officers found her three
| children and about $500 worth OF stolen
goods.
Regents of the university will hold n
special meeting Sept. Il, 10 decide on a
! location for the new hospital.
Prof Tharret, superintendent of schools
at Hilsdale, d cd at Bay View few days
ago. The remains were brought 10 his
Old home in Albion for burial.
A five-years old daughter of James A.
| Carr OF Mayville, was kicked in the he d
| by horse. Both bones OF the skull were
broken,
Rev. DR.. Samuel carp, late rector Of the
| Episcopal church of Ann Arbor, who has
| been under treatment at the bat lie Creek
| sanitarlum for some time, Is improving.
| The chief physician of that institution
while stating that Dr. carp was of sound
mind in the general acceptation OF the
word qualified the same by the statement
that he was suffering from gastric neur-
asthenia, IL nervous affection which takes
form in various erratic conditions of the
mind, such as depression, fear of impend-
ing danger, and other forms almost in
Vulnerable. DR.. carp, though not fully
recovered, is much improved since going
there, and DR.. kellogg believes that with
proper rest he will fully recover his health
within a lew months at the farthest.
There is nothing whatever in DR.. carp 8
manner and conversation that would lead
one to believe that he was not mentally
sound in every respect.
Gov. Luce has completed his examina-
ton of the testimony in the case of Sheriff
Metevier of Mackinac county, and finds
him guilty of official misconduct by reason
of drunkenness. Metevier has been order
ed TO vacate his Office, and the Office is de-
clared vacant.
row occurred in Port Huron saloon
the OJner nlRnJ Wnen one OTllJZ STRUCK
Chris Stein two heavy blows on the head
with a hammer, fracturing the skull Stein
will die, and Giltz has been arrested.
The Van Buren, county battalion will
hold its 18th annual reunion at Hartford
Sept. Il, Ii, and ii.
George wilkins, residing near Okemos,
was injured in IA runaway accident, and
died the next day.
/ John McVey, farmer living near Deca.
4 tur, was fatally kicked by horse the other
day.
4 Mrs. David Cunning of Perry was
thrown out of a carriage in a runaway the
other morning, and very seriously injureC
John Nichol of Battle Creek has given
$4,000 to the I'm on home of that city t.
found charity hospital. The gift is in
honor Of the memory OF his daughter Mrs.
Fanny Abel OF Detroit.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michi
gan railway company has purchased the
Durand branch from the Saginaw con
structi ion company, the road TO be practi
cally transferred when completed u
Oaatka Beach, from which point it will be
extended on to Mackinaw. The distance
from Saginaw to Durand is 40 miles, and
from Saginaw to Oaatka Beach 90, making
60 miles in all.
William Doran, resident of Detroit
III L. l.. IL