Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-12
STATE NEWS CONDENSED.

Branch county dominates a complete
temperance ticket
Cass county has organized farmers
union telegraph company.
The bean crop throughout the state is
very much below the average.
Covert has little district school with
]3 pupils, eight of whom are twins.
David J. Webb of near st. Charles. lost
aS2 900 barn Monday, for which he will
get $500 insurance.
A dozen hickory nuts were found buried
-four feet in solid blue clay at the Mar
cellus brick yard and were just as good as
new.
The long illness of Judge Sumner How
ard came to its end Saturday afternoon by
the death of the sufferer at his home near
Flint.
The Tobacco lumber and silt company is
calculating on putting 1000. 900 feet of
logs into the Tobacco river the coming
winter.
All Lansing is torn up over the finding
of healthy two-months-old babe on the
steps OF the residence of a prominent
farmer
SNOSSO DuSlutSS Lltu INlStu ONCT SOUU 10
be given as special premiums at the Shia-
wassee county fair, to be held September
.16 TO 10.
MIR. Gates whose mill was burned out
at Bay City last week estimates his loss at
$50, 900 and says that he will rebuild.
Hiram Johnson of Niles, with bullet
hole in his head, was found Sunday by his
wife upon her return from church Suicide
financial trouble.
Wesley Heminway, fireman on the De-
trit, Lansing & Northern railway is miss
ing. and no one knows where he is. His
wife is nearly crazed.
Joseph MORGAN, brakeman on the Flint
e. Pere Marquette railroad, had a leg
broken by some logs falling on him while
9oading cars Monday.
Prof. Stackhouse, who fell from his bal
loon at Charlotte Saturday, is doing well
and will be able to resume his perilous
amusement in about two weeks.
Adam Doits and Chris Stein of Bay City
were fooling with air guns Wednesday
Deitz will not lose the sight of his eye
but he had a mighty close shave
John De Mann has been bound over to
the circuit court on the charge of murder
in the second degree for the killing of
Chris Rickling at Grand Rapids.
The Pontiac school board has forbidden
Hogging in the school on the part of the
teachers, and has made the superintendent
the sole executor of corporal punishment.
The franchise for the Chippewa valley
railroad in Big Rapids expired Monday and
the promoters got the thing extended 80
dave a nrOp1iCa RI HARM Inv Kant
IS.
A poor, unknown umbrella member was
chopped to pieces by an express train at
Battle Greek. He wanted to die, as he re-
fused to step from the track when whistled
for.
IL is so cold at Mackinac Island that the
people go about mulied up in ovcrcoats and
thrashing their hands against their sides
to keep their fingers from getting frostbit-
ten.
Capt Simmons of the Bay City police
force is after tho gambling places, and re-
Gently raided the whole crowd of them,
and captured a lot of chips, faro layout
etc.
The plans for the entertainment of the
pharmaceutical association are very elabOr-
ate, and the delegates to the eighth annual
meeting at Saginaw win have grand
time.
VIM. Richter of Saginaw has sued Har-
per, Heisner 81 Co. OF Bay City for goods
destroyed by fire which is supposed TO have
originated from bonfire started by the
defendants.
Gen. Algcr discloses, in the suit of the
bank of Commerce of Buffalo against the
Sarnia oil company. in which he was gar
nished, that he has nothing belonging to
The company.
About 100 members of the famous Mer-
eii horse held their reunion at Battle
Creek Monday. IL was decided to hold the
pext reunion at Detroit during the week of
The annual encampment
Gen. Franklin. treasurer of the national
soldiers home, has sent Gov. Luce IS, 900
of the amount due from the general gov
.epment, and says he cannot pay the other
$4,000 because of shortage of funds in
abe treasury.