Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-28
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Gated new cnurcn. III coSJ So,ooU'
Jacob Schenck and wife, of Cass City,
celebrated their golden wedding last
week.
Will Sellars, son of a carpenter living
at Dundee. was fatally shot while out
hunting.
A Jack the Eeeper has been making
life burden for lonely Adrain house
keepers.
The huclSleberry crop of Cheboygan
county this season brought $4,000 to
the piclkers.
A three-mile relay run was made by
four Adrian bicyclists in six minutes
and 25 seconds.
Eugene Taylor, of Sanford, fell
through the floor of barn and was
fatally injured.
Warden Davis, of Jackson prison,
will present Albion with two carved
granite fountains.
The epidemic of diphtheria, which
of late has ragged at East Tawas has
somewhat abated
Iron Mountain schools have been
closed for some time on account of the
prevalence of diphtheria.
Mrs. r. S. Brown. Hazleton, Genesee
county, who cut her throat with a
butcher knife has since died.
Eddie Breezy, 3years old, was killed
at Smyrna at pole raising by falling
off the timber used in the raising.
The Episcopal convention at Balti-
more voted to make the upper PENN
sula of Michigan separate diocese.
A revolver that wasn't loaded sent a
ball into the head of daughter of
Clum Stebbin's, a farmer near Dundee.
Robert Hellocl1, farmer near Mt.
| Pleasant has harvested a crop of hay
from land planted with wheat last
spring.
Dead dogs of all ages, sizes and
description are found each morning on
the streets of Muskegon. They are
| poisoned.
While experimenting before a class
in natural philosophy Prof. ID. Il.
Hogan, of the Colon schools, lost the
sight of his left eye.
Cobb & Mitchell, of Cadillac, will
double the capacity of their No, 2 mill.
They have timber enough to keep it
busy for seven years.
Robert Tucker, of Bareda, will prob
ably die from the results of an
accidental shot in the abdomen re-
ceived while hunting.
Two-year-old Willis Parsons, of De-
catur, ate up package of paris green,
but by prompt medical attendance the
child's life was saved.
Robert Nichols and Cassius NJ. Blood,
of Cadillac, were arrested on a charge
of stealing 1,5O9 pounds of brass trim
mings from the q. L. & l. road.
Richard Dryden, said to hail from
Adrian, is under arrest at Sturgis,
charged with brutal assault on two
young women of the latter place.
G. j. lie Roy, of Saginaw, has been
elected president of the Ann Arbor
university freshman class. The class
will choose its orator by competition.
new brick engine house is being
constructed at Decatur which, when
completed, will be one of the finest edi-
fees of it's kind in southwestern Mich.
igan.
Paris green sprinlled with salt and
scattered by the hand of some heart
less poisoner has carried off eight valu
able horses near Colon within the past
two weeks.
Joseph Benton, an eight-year-ol6
Muskegon lad, was caught between
two trains and cut completely in two
dying instantly. A coroner's jury sale
accidental death"
A two-year-old daughter of Mrs
Herbert Gates, of Edmore, was burned
by her gown catching fire. A name
sake of the little one was burned Il
death about year ago.
A warrant has been issued for tn,
arrest of e. 5. Throop, one of the mos
prominent business men in Quincy wht
is charged with enticing young girl
into his rooms for immoral purposes.
A farmer near Mt. Pleasant sent
consignment of eggs to a friend. TIL,
friend had told him to send them G. O
d., and the farmer did SO, but he mad
"a slight mistake. He sent them to Mr.
Cod.
The barrel factory buildings of Fitz
gibbons & Company, at Ionia, hav
burned The fire is thought to hav,
been incendiary. The factory will b
rebuilt Immediately on the sam
ground. Loss 81 900, insurance $4,000
Thomas Costello, aged II, of Gran,
/, Rapids, fell from n Grand Rapids
} Indiana freight car at the station a
: Vicxsburg. Both legs were mangle
so that amputation was necessary. III
will probably die. He was beating hi
| way home.
Decatur is well pleased because tn
report of the grain auditor of tn
Michigan Central shows that NOR
grain is shipped each season from tina
place than from any other point on tn
inc of the road.
Madge Chapman, of Whitehall, lef
4 at the top of hill baby carriage i
$ which her brother was asleep
2 some way the carriage was set i
g motion and dashed down the hill. TIL
: boy fell out and fractured his skull
dying shortly after.
There are six distilleries in activ
operation at Decatur, in local optic
i Van Buren, county. They are pepper
mint distilleries, however, and are Ell
: gagged in extracting the oil from til
: large amount of that odOrOus plau