Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-18
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

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Frank Bailey, of Galesburg, Is under
arrest for having three wives.
1t is not probable that the Page buggy
works will be removed from Marshal
Van Buren, county's wheat crop aver
ages trifie less than 10 bushels per acre.
The saw mill OF Arouckle Bros, at Lake
| City, which was burned last spring, has
been rebuilt.
Genesees county treasury paid co.
56l.SS out of the poor fund in the past
eight months.
f. A. Osborne of Hamlin, has closed
his evaporators on account OF the low price
for dried fruit
| The trial of Mrs. Reynolds, of Redfleld,
on the charge of numbering her infant, has
been begun at Caro-
Gilbert Bros, of Milwaukee, contem-
plate moving their plating and malleable
iron works to Saginaw.
H. N. Applin has been appointed re-
ceiver OF public moneys at Grayling in the
place of S. p. Young, resigned.
Owosso is about to have new band.
It will be under the dictatorship of Prof.
John L. Decker, of Rochester, N. Y.
Large numbers of hogs are dying in
some parts of Van Buren, and Cass Coun-
ties from disease resembling hog cholera.
Kalamazoo wheelmen have formed an
association and have made application for
membership to the league of American
wheelmen.
| Dan Chaplin, 2S years old. was caught
| between switch engine and passenger
coach at Grand Rapids Monday night and
seriously injured.
Two daughters of Rev. ]. Weist OF Ma
comb, aged IL and Is years respectively,
| died within AS hours Of each other last
week OF diphtheria.
The 16 months old child of George
| Wells was run over by Flint & Pere
| Marquette train at Sand Beach Saturday
and literally cut in two.
Rev. FIR. Otis, formerly pastor of the
I Sacred Heart church, Calumet, is under
arrest at Hancock, charged with the Sc
duction of Minnie Moledon.
Mrs. John d. Persons has been granted
a license to run yacht from Alpena to
| Thunder Bay. She is the first woman 10
secure license on Lake Huron.
The marriage of Nellora, daughter of
DIR. and Mrs. j. Z. Clough, to Prof. Lewis
Edwin Mather, of Ongola college, India,
took place at Kalamazoo Tuesday.
The furniture workers assembly of
knights of labor. Grand Rapids, has
passed resolutions favoring the nominal
ton of Henry f. Mccormack for congress.
The Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern
railroad is building a green house on
their grounds at Hillsdale, in which they
will raise flowers for winter use along the
line.
Decatur's four peppermint oil distilleries
are busily engaged in distilling the large
acreage of peppermint raised on the erst-
while worthless tract of swamp land near
the place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Johnson, of Cros-
well. are aged 81 and 50 years respective
| ly, and as both are hale and hearty, they
are looking forward to 1901 as their dia-
uond wedding.
NJ II. Copper, aged 90 years, q promin-
ent coal dealer of Grand Rapids, was
drowned Saturday afternoon while at
tempting to row from Grand Haven TO
Highland Park.
A strike was declared at the Hastings
wool boot factory the other day, but within
| 36 hours every vacancy was flied. The
trouble was caused by impositions Of fines
for imperfect work.
Sherman Haines, of Ionia, has been
arrested on complaint of his cousin, Ida
Haines, aged Is years, who charges him
with criminal assault The girl herself is
under arrest for truancy.
The saw mill of HOLSTER g. Jewell, at
Garden River. Ont, 10 miles from Saut
Ste. Marie, together with several million
feet of lumber and docks, burned Sunday.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance light.
B. Jones Petoskey, the relative of the
| famous Chief Petoskey, VINO recently re-
ceived 81, 800 from the old chiefs estate.
was arrested at Kalamazoo recently for
small forgeries in that vicinity.
The Goth annual reunion of the
Twentieth Michigan infantry, which was
teid at Lansing the other day, was at
tended by over 100 survivors. The next
meeting will be held at Ann Arbor.
Rev. Washington Gardner, who quit
preaching 10 run for secretary of state,
and Quit running for secretary of state
when the ballots were in and showed that
Dan L. Soper had more votes, will return
TO the pulpit.
At the state competitive military drill at
jackson last week, the Jackson guards
carried off the championship banner and
$3.50, Devlin's cadets took second place and
$3.50 and the Agricultural college cadets
received third honors and 500.
Prof. w. p. Bowen, who has for the
past six years been assistant in mathe-
matics at the normal school, Ypsilanti,
has been elected director of the gymna-
stun and teacher of physical culture in the
university Of Nebraska at Lincoln.
The memorial services and the ordina-
ton of elders and deacons were held Sun
day morning during the conference ser
vices at Grand Rapids. In the afternoon
Bishop Newman preached the annual con-
ference sermon, which was attended by
5000 people.
Sh eriff Pollock arrested Joseph WATSON
aud David Chollenbeck on their release
from the Ionia prison last week, and took
them to the Eaton county Jail They are
charged burning store In Hoytville in
1889. They pleaded not guilty, waived