Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
WOLVERINE ITEMS.

George Davis, the noted youthful horse
thief wanted BY the officers of Genesee
and Ingham counties for three cases of
stealing horses inside OF week, was cap
tured the other night near his father 5
home, in Clio township, by Marshal Muir
ray, of Flint. Davis was asleep in hav
stack and did not awaken until after the
handouts were placed on him. He is the
young man whom Governor Luce par
doned out of the state prison last winter.
james Kolb, 19.year old boy of Battle
Creek, has been arrested for robbing Bur
rats hardware store.
The Tttabawassee boom company has
RATED and delivered this season 3U1, 500 so
feet of pine logs, and the president of the
boom company estimates that only $4,000,
900 feet are yet 10 come out. Last year
the total output was 456,OOO,O 900 feet.
The coroner's jury has returned a YER
dict censurlng the engineer of the Chicago
Il Northwestern train that killed John ely
mo near Republic The verdict will be
used as a basis for legal proceedings by
the dead man family.
Elwood II. Hance has been appointed
postmaster at Detroit.
jackson will soon have buggy spring
factory which will employ $50 men.
The loss by fire at jackson prison is SIS,
000
Ezra Leonard OF Freeport will represent
Michigan at the farmers congress in Mont
gomery, Ala.
The board of directors of the Michigan
engineering society met in Lansing Oct. 10
and canvassed the vote, sent by m iii from
members for officers. Prof. X. &. Carpen-
ter OF Lansing was elected president; j. IL.
Forster, Williamson, vice president; +.
Hodgeman, Climax, secretary and treasur-
er; directors, George T.. Steele of Trav-
NJ r. (tOOlay onH -
Green of Ann Arbor. The next conven-
tion will be held in Detroit January 81,
1890.
The United States express company Of
fers s, 900 reward for the arrest of the
thief or thieves who robbed the bank at
Hurry, Wis, of So, TO-
National headquarters of the G. A. r.
have been established in Detroit.
Port Huron claims that the consolidated
| city of Port Huron and Fort Gratiot will
| have population OF 10000, July !, 1891,
| and will then be increasing at the rate OF
1000 year, and that the close of the pres
ent century will find population there OF
not less than 10000, and probably OF
! $4,000.
! Daniel ]. McCarty, who was debarred
from practice by the Michigan supreme
court ten years ago is once more located in
Grand Rapids. The supreme court was
petitioned to re instate him, but instead
gave him permission to apply to the Kent
circuit court for re admission.
The question of calling a special session
| of the legislature TO remedy the legislative
| blunders in the new liquor law, is still be
| ing agltated.
A movement is on foot to make Lansing
the selling center of the thoroughbred
! stock in terests of the state, by inaugural
| ing permanent monthly sale there.
Amiel Gosch. charged with the murder
of Daniel Sinclair at Harris Creek, Kent
county, has been found guilty Of man
slaughter.
l.. w. Wright, of Albion, was brought
| back from outside the state the other night
! by Sherin Henderson on requisiton papers
! issued by the governor. 1t is alleged that
| he obtained 500 on false pretense from NJ
f.. Dayton, Of Jackson, and is under 81 ,O0C
| bail
The northwestern branch of the Women's
! Foreign Missionary society of the M. h
church, desiring TO honor the memory Of
! Mrs b. A. Is. Hoag, recently deceased, ha.
decided to establish missionary scholar
ship in each Methodist college within It's
Jurisdiction to be called the elizabeth
Hoag Missionary Scholarship" The
scholarship will be at once established IL
Albion college,
N. H. Stewart OF Kalamazoo, who ha,
Just returned from Montana, is showing hii
friends sample ticket that was used at tn,
at the Montana election according to The
Australian system. IL is over yard Ions
| and Is inches wide The method Of votinI
candidates were on one ticket and tn,
voter designated whom he voted for by {
mark at the side OF the name.