Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-27
WOLVERINE ITEMS.

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The directors of the Chicago & West
Michigan railway company wish to extend
their road north from Baldwin to Traverse
City, a distance OF 10 miles, and for this
purpose have decided TO call meeting Of
the stockholders at Muskegon, July |.
Jay Corwin left his home at Grand Rap
ids, Saturday, June 10, and Sheriff LOOMS
X Bishop of Kent county offers S25 reward
for information as TO his whereabouts dead
or alive. He is described as follows:
Twenty seven years old, looks younger,
about five feet seven inches high, dark
complexion, dark hair, thin brown mus
tache, brown eyes, corner off upper front
tooth. chicken.poX mark on left SIDE OF nose
close TO face.
Prof. Wesley Sears, superintendent of
the state public school at Coldwater has
resigned, 10 take effect on or before July /.
No successor has yet been appointed, but
one viii be soon. Mr.. Sears gives as his
reason for resigning that he likes school
WORK better and will go back to that,
Lewis Westgate, farmer living four
miles south OF South Haven, was fatally
injured the other day while pulling stumps,
by the breaking OF cable
Two men named ROisomend and Warra
charged with killing John Wahtola, in * e.
weenaw county, were convicted of assault
and battery only.
The annual reunion of the Fourth Michi-
gan infantry was nclu III Adrian june ~
The following ohicers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, a. V. Cole; sec.
rotary and treasurer, Lieut.. Kinney; first
vice president, l.. ii. Salisbury; second vice
pres. deDt, II. w. Seage; third vice presi-
dent, A. II. Boies.
Kalamazoo college reioices because it is
! out of debt
! Capt Edwin c. Gaskll, United States
| army, retired, and president of the village
Ii a MaHkinac Island
on the l9th inst. with full military honors.
! The United States military OF Fort Mac-
| nae ana the president and common council
| of the village attended the funeral in
! body. The Grand Army and many promi-
nent men of the county were present
Martin Schram of Grand Rapids, who
! has been connected with the government
printing Office since lSS3, has resigned.
Bishop Foley of Detroit has given tho
! German Catholics of Port Huron permits
sion to build IA church.
| Senator Mcmillan has bestowed another
! valuable gift upon the Agricultur-
al college. THIS time it is the
beetles, from Boston. 1t is tAe collection
used by both Austin ana Henshaw, in ar
| ranging Their catalogue. This collection is
| many times larger than the one sent by
| Senator Mcmillan last winter, and the col
J lege can now be said TO possess one of the
/
west.
The Eighth Michigan Infantry held its
annual reunion in Lansing on the 18th inst.
! The following officers were elected; Pres
! ident, John 5. jackson of jackson; vice
| president, John Buchanan, Grand Rapids;
| secretary and treasurer, John MalOney,
| jackson. 1t was decided to hold the next
reunion in jackson on the 10th of next
! June.
Frank Lotus of Detroit tried 10 commit
! suiciCe by jumping or the Bridge street
bridge in Grand Rapids. He was rescued
about half a mile from where he jumped in
Rev Washington Gardner late of Mich
| gan, has for the third time been elected
! grand chaplain of the supreme council of
the Royal Arcaum.
The "Order OF Dolphians," a secret socie-
! ty composed entirely of schCol teachers, is
| getting strong foot hold in this state.
| The headquarters are at Lincoln, Neb.
The eastern Michigan association of
| Christian churches and ministers, in session
| at Ray, Macomb county, elected the follow
ing officers: Rev. =. snyder, Oxford, pres
| ident; secretary, II. S. Haywood, Lexing-
ton; treasurer, ID. b. Skinner, Dawson.
! The business transacted was purely OF a
! local character
During the session of the present leyisla
ture the presiding officer of the senate has
! died, one member of the floor has also died :,
At the Wexford county fair this fall a
prize of So will be given to the best
speller
James Milleu, a Michigan Central brake
man, had his head cut of by the cars at
Milwaukee the other day.
sc. & E. Teneycl1, East Saginaw shingle
manufacturers, are so badly embarrassed
! that they have made a trust deed of their
! property to secure their creditors.
| nfpa hy foil Of
| ground at the Cleveland iron mine in Ish-
peming the other day.
DIR. Hurd, for many years connected
with the Pontiac asylum, has been APP
pointed medical director of the Johns Hop
kins' university hospital at Baltimore.
Orrin Clark an II year.od boy of Hol-
land was killed on the bridge over Black
river by passenger train on the Chicago
~ West Michigan road, few days ago.
One hundred and seventy-two students
of the agricultur ii college have signed a
petition 10 the state board of agric allure
asking that Prof Johnson OF the chair of
agriculture be removed.
Ed Lemey was arrested in Ypsilanti
the other day for rObbing Gus German of
$500 in February last.
Kerwin r. bbitt Of Plymouth, who
recently graduated from the Columbia law
school, has been admitted TO practice be
fore the district court of Columbia.
Mrs. Jennie Waters Of Ithaca has brought
suit against Swartzmiller Il Mover, sa-
loonkeepers, for damages to her husband
and family. She states that before her
husband took TO drink he was kind and in
dustrious, and possessed of considerable
property, but that now he IS poor and
neglects his family. Sho thinks the men
VINO made her husband drunkard should
pay fer che work.
Bolton's mill i'm Troy township. Neway.
go county, burned the other night, and
Alonzo De Lacey and Ole MeLcmy perish
ed in the flames.
The commissioner OF pensions has rear
ranged the pension examining boards of the
eighth district In accordance with the cou
grcssman,s recon mendatiOns The SaQi