Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-14
THE STATE.
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGs.


aud importers are urged to spec al vigilance.
The specimens so far affected como from
the east.
The governor has pardoned John Farrell,
sent from Lansing in January, 1885, TO the
Ionia reformatory for six years for high
way robbery. Farrell has agreed to
abstain from intoxicants, and his pardon is
so conditioned.
The returns OF rail shipments of iron ore
from the Lake Superior iron mines, direct
10 furnaces, for the year ending December
81, 1888, are all in and they bring the pro-
duction of the lake iron mines for 1888 up TO
5.023 800 gross tons. This is the largest
production in the history of the mines.
Senator Palmer has presented petition
from the w. G. ~. u. of Michigan praying
for prohibition in the District Of Columbia.
The soldiers home Is overcrowded, and
the legislative committee will recommend
additional hospital accommodations, as rec
commended by Gov. Luce in his message.
The ladies of Mecosta county have raised
quite IA sum toward the erection OF sol.
sdiers' monument,
fl. keppel of iceland was called to his
door by tramp, who covered him with
revolver and demanded s., COO This being
refused he beat the old man severely and
escaped.
Adelbert Ryan, au employee of tho state
public school, was leading bull 10 water
when the animal rushed on him and knocked
him down. After trying to toss Bryan on
it's horns the Infatuated animal made a
straight "head' rush ut him, crushing in
his che ;t wall. He was then rescued, but
is fatally injured.
Gov. Luce has signed the bill incOrporat-
ing the village of Ashley in Gratiot county,
and empowering the village to borrow mon
ey for fire protection.
Upper peninsula business men pay 500
year rental for telephones, and they will
petition the legislature to give them lower
rates.
The senate commerce committee
has adopted a resolution requesting the
secretary of war TO appoint board Of
three army engineers to investigate and re.
port upon the practicability and necessity
OF the bridge across the Detroit river.
Frank Young, a ''lifer" in the Detroit
house of correction, has been pardoned by
President Cleveland. Young was received
at the Detroit house of correction under a
life sentence for murder committed in Mon.
tana. The court of the territory had SEN
fenced him to bo hanged, but the sentence
Was committed by President Arthur. Gov.
Merriam of Minnesota and influential citi-
Zens of Montana interceded with the gov
ernOr OF the territory for YOuug's pardon
on the ground that the killing was done in
self-defense. The governor Of Montana
thought he had no jurisdiction, as Young
was sentenced in federal court, and the
case was carried to Washington.
The government will establish an oil
station at St Joseph, from which TO supply
oil to the lighthouses on the lake
The figures are now all in, and show that
the Lake Superior mines last year produc-
ed 5,0.3.329 gross tons of iron ore.
Alexander Tison, graduate of Olivet
college and later of the law department Of
Harvard, has been elected professor of law
in the Imperial university at Toxic, Japan.
George Perkins, aged 20 years, son of
Mr.. ii. Perkins, prominent farmer of
Bedford, Calhoun county, accidently shot
and killed himself while hunting rabbits.
The noted case of Kobogum ct al VS.. the
jackson iron company was heard in the
supreme court on the 2nd inst The plant.
ifs claim 1921 per cent OF the stock and
assets Of the jackson company and an ac-
counting for at least six years. The case
has been in the supreme court twice before,
ard the last decision in the circuit court
was in favor of the cOmplainants. The
amount involved is about 5000.
Patrick ScanlOn of Grand Rapids has
brought suit for $4,000 damages against
Il. j. McKittrick & Bro. for selling liquor
10 his son, John Sclnlon, who, while under
the influence of liquor, killed Henry Pow
ers aud is now serving sentence OF three
years at lonia for manslaughter,
During the past year the mills on the
Mackinac division of the Michigan Central
cut total of 127, 0CO, 900 feet Of lumber.
William Seaton, John WalterhOuse and
Bert Elmorc, three grown up young men of
Dawson township, Genesee county, have
been arrested charged with making 10.
year old boy, named Jesse Eastwood,
drunk on hard cider The examination is
set down for February IL before Justice
Stevenson.
Helen Daley Of Bay City, has commenc
ed suit for $1,000 damages against
Matthew Miller,proprietor of the Farmers
hotel in that city. She charges that Miller
sold her husband liquor, and as "a result hC
engaged in quarrel and had his leg brok-
cn, seriously crippling him.
Michael Develle, for 80 years a resident
of Grass Lake, is dead
II. c. Easterly lives near Albion and
owns q Kansas farm which he made ar
engagements To trade for "A Michigan farm
owned by G. +. Anderson, living near
Litchheld. The papers were made out Il
be exchanged, when Easterly paid bonus
of 5000. Now Anderson says his partner
got him drunk Mt Niles, and exchanged
deeds without paying the bonus. Easterly
is in Jail at Hiilsdale, but says he is limo
cent
Investigation of the Calumet q HeclG
anime has disclosed that the recent fire
burnt down 800 feet below the starting
point The bodies of the eight men who
were caught in the mino were undoubted
~ consumed by the flames.
brakeman on the Northwestern road
named Vasseau, was knocked from the cars
at Negauhe3 the other morning, and fatally
injured.
James WEIGH sat laughing with friends
in the circuit court room in Jackson the
other morning, when he gdsped for breatf
and fell back dead
Cornelius Smell, aged 81, an employee o
the Peninsular car works in Detroit while
crossing the track in the yards of tho com
pany the other afternoon was caught be
tween cars and crushed to death.
Charles Dewitt of Grand Rapids. wa
arreste1 the other day, charged with steal
ng his wife's bible and plwniag It,
The private banking house of j. V
Knapp of Marquette hrs failed. The prin
cipal loss falls on two or three depositors
Hiram Haigh drove to Bedding the othe
day, and became intoxicated Towart
evening he started home, but his team be
came frightened and threw him out about
mile north of town. He was found dead b.
the roadside, with wound on the temple
50 10 is probable that he struck on his head
The body was frozen stiff when found.
A new postof1ice has been established &
Dun oil XasNaa.