Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-25
STATE NEWS CONDENSED.
Alpeua has daily newspaper.

| elecJriCally Illuminated Juls soason'
Peter Fox OF West Marlette, is the father
of boy weighing one and one half pounds.
Some one shot rife into passenger
train on the Grand Trunk near Capac the
other day.
A contract has been let to Saginaw part
les to put up number of new brick stores
in Marlette.
The Patrons of Industry of Ionia county
will meet in convention in the Ionia opera
house May 1.
George Wallis, chief of the Saginaw fire
department, was thrown from wagon and
badly hurt Tuesday.
| A Swedish girl at Escanaba was drugged
at dance Saturday night and she has be-
come raving maniac.
Manistee recently received two car loads
of diseased horses, and there is considera-
BILE Indignation on account OF 1t.
| The department of agriculture reports
that Michigan's crop outlook has improved
considerably within two weeks.
II is reported that the suspended students
| at Kalamazoo are even asked to remain
away from college prayermeetings.
Mrs. Nathan Priest, farmers wife
j seven miles southwest of Homer, hung her
self Tuesday, She was 20 years old.
The Calumet News says there has been
continuous sleigning in that city from the
4th OF last November to the 9Th of April,
Capt.;H J. Nowlan and assistants. are
making an extended tour through the state
| in search or recruits for the regular army.
A roller mill which will grind 100 barrels
of Hour day Is TO be built at the natural
gas town OF killmaster, in Altoona county.
Farmers who are raising woodchuck for
the market will find Bronson good place
to sell, as the price has been doomed TO ID
cents.
Andrew Anderson and Arthur Harris of
Gowan plead guilty to stealing communion
wine and they must go to the circuit court
for trial.
Jackson business men have organized q
stock company with $4,000 capital TO man
ufacture canned goods
Three million whitefish from the United
| States hatcher at Alpena were deposited
in the bay at East Tawas Saturday.
A year from this time the state agricul-
tural society will break ground for mag
nihcent $50, 900 exposition building on their
grounds ut Lansing.
| The manager of Madame Naoma, the
Michigan beauty, who weighs $50 pounds,
| offers S5 TO the young man who will kiss
!
Samuel r. Wiley of Mottville is the only
living representative of the family of Robt.
| Wiley, an orderly sergeant of revolution
airy fame. He is "a years old
The new steel steamer, City Of Chicago,
| which will run between Chicago and st.
Joseph, is to be fitted with Pullman palace
car oerths instead OF staterooms.
Hebard & Sons new saw mill In Pc
| Ouaminp RaraQa county burnad ThuradaV
| night, throwing 200 men out of work, and
losing the firm 1000 on the mill.
Silas Osborne is in Jail at Muskegon on
suspicion OF having killed his wife, but the
! post mortem appears to show that the
woman died from natural causes.
| The superintendent OF Port Huron GENE
| teries says that, in spite of the bad weather
| the past winter, fewer deaths occurred
than in any winter during the past 80
| years.
Harmony is al unknown quantity at
present among the members of the First
Baptist church at Joliet, Til. Charges
against the pastor, DIR. Whitman are the
| cause.
| A Clayton man got mad because his
wife had cooked a cabbage dinner, and
| after rubbing the mashed cabbage over
her face he poured boiling water upon her
| hands and arms.
The assistant secretary of war has mott
fed the senate that it will cose $500, 900 to
| dredge the Grand river between Grand
Haven and Grand Rapids. He suggests a
series of locks as feasible.
Coldwater seems to have been off the
| matter of elections this spring. The town
meeting, which voted SO 900 for school
purposes, was illegally called, and a new
election will be called May 5.
Mrs. John Lyons OF Big Rapids, lost
babe last Monday. Thursday daughter,
awaiting burial, Mrs. Lyons received word
that her sister had died suddenly at Nor
| ley.
A member of the Uncle Toms Cabin
troupe that assaulted the st. Ignace crew
| recently, got on the warpath at Reed City
| IA night or two since, and he was run into
the cooler. Upon payment of $40 the fell
low was released.
AT their meeting Friday night the faculty
of the agricultural college granted the stu
dents June 5, d and for attending the field
day at Albion They also voted TO ask Ex-
President X. b. Hayes to deliver an Grafton
at commencement time.
Irving Latimer is beginning TO realize
what life Imprisonment means. His face
is pinched, his eyes leaden and lustreless
and he moves like machine To an old
acquaintance Sunday, he said It's a slow,
lingering death; it's hell upon EARTH"
The Lyons Herald announced that the
Office would be open Sunday, after
church, " for the accommodation of the local
politicians who.were too late to have election
printing done Saturday. Lots of printers
do it but they don't care to publicly an
nounCe it.
Morris Sylvester and John Armbrecht
were putting an elevator in the Battle
Creek Review and Herald Office Tuesday
when the scaffolding broke, throwing the
men from the third story to the basement
Sylvester will die and the chances are
against Armbrecht.
A long-teIm convict, at Jackson prison,
whose name is withheld by the prison
officials, escaped the other afternoon from
the ''bull pen,' where he was undergoing
punishment He got club, took stand
and defied the whole prison force. After a
desperate fight he was overcome.
Judge Burton of Big Prairie, Newaygo
county, had been supervisor of his town
ship for 80 consecutive years until the
election Last week. Then his democratic
opponent got Just many votes as he did.
and when they drew cuts for it the demo
crate won.
"Ples geve pa 100,n written upon the
back of an envelope was a check presented