Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-04
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

81, 900 church last week.
NJ. II. Crimmins So, 900 single mill
at Copemish was burned.
The big new tannery plant at
Cheboygan is nearing completion and
will soon be turning out 1000 hides
per day.
Near Benton Harbor trains were
blocked for six hours by Lake Mich
igan sand blown on the traC!S during
the storm.
c. Il. Gcddes, of Adrian, will, soon
commence training horses for Nancy
driving-four-in-h hand, tantem, etc.
for the Worlds Fair.
Fred Johnson, confined in the Mar
quette jail as an insane person, com
mitted suicide by humping his head
against the stone wall.
/ William Warwick, of Marysville,
wheelsman on the propeller Thomas
| Il. Scott, was washed overheard and
drowned at Sand Beach.
Mrs. Florence Hickman took an
ounce of chloroform at Charlotte with
the intention of departing from this
vale of tears. She Is still with us.
The question of WHISKY or no whisky
| is creating more excitement in the
minds of voters of Vaudeville than is
that of protection or free trade.
Manton & Kobe's planning mill at
Manistee was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$1,000. There is no insurance except
small amount to protect mortgage.
Mrs. Peter Minch, of Ogden, has just
| 20 oh a ha
had but one husband, and is 40 years
old. But 10 children are now living.
The supreme court has decided that
the injunction restraining the Ann
Arbor company from building over
head electric wire system of street rail-
ways cannot stick.
Haskell & Barnett have closed down
their fruit basket factory at Ludington.
| They manufactured 400, 900 baskets
during the season, and found a ready
market for them all.
After April next ex-Mayor Percy's
new salt block at Ludington will turn
out 500 barrels of salt daily, and have
a pay roll of $4,000 per month. Two
new wells will be sunk.
Township and city clerks in Calhoun
county are to receive 25 cents per 100
for cremating sparrow's heads and Civ
ing receipts for the same. Last year
the work cost the county 500.
Nicholas Vanderboer, aged 10,
jumped on to a rapidly moving electric
car at Grand Rapids lie was struck
by the wheels and received injuries
which will probably result fatally.
1t cost Van Buren, county SG23. 10 the
past fiscal year to pay the two-cent
bounty on English sparrows bagged by
its youthful nimrods, and the estimated
amount required for the ensuing year
is placed at $500.
The German emperor, because he
was angry at some sentinels stationed
at the new palace, who failed TO recog-
nize the empress, has ordered that her
portrait be hung in every barrack
room in Germany.
The Bay City commission having in
charge 81, 500 of fire relief funds are in
quandary as TO its disposition. Many
want it to be given in aid of rebuilding
the saw mill burned during the big fire
on July 25, while others do not.
John Atkison, of Alpena county, has
a young plum orchard of 1000 trees,
and 500 pear and cherry trees, set out
in 1890 and 1891. He has a soil COM
posed partly of shake limestone, and
the young trees do remarkably well on
it.
While looking over the effects of the
late Alonzo Belts, of Reading, his Sis
ter found in a memorandum book di-
rections to look into an old shoe. She
| a Il .f IL.
she discovered 81, 200 in money, checks
and notes.
Hillsdalc county is all stirred up
over the arrests, prospective and
accomplished, of % alleged violators of
the local option law. A law and order
league composed of prominent citizens,
with the aid of detectives, is response
bic for the warrants.
| Mrs. Bertha Titus, widow of James
Titus, committed suicide at Kalamazoo,
by shooting herself in the head with a
revolver. She died instantly. She had
been Respondent since the death of her
husband a year ago. She leaves two
children at st. Joseph.
Three weeks ago John Mclean left
his home in Chase and went to Deer
Lake to draw SIS from the Grand
Rapids &c Indiana pay car. He got his
money and has not since been seen.
lie has a wife and three children, and
no cause for his disappearance is adj
vanced except foul play.
Kent county will commence suit
against the bondsmen of the Western
construction company, of Detroit, to
collect S10,9O0 the difference between
the contract price of her court house
and the amount paid out by the county
when she finished the building. The
company threw up the job.
While out hunting Frank Debo, OF
, Cheboygan, slipped on log. His gun
was discharged, the bullet going into
the jaw and coming out near the top OF
his head. exposing the brain. Debc
! walked two miles and went 30 more by
| rail before the wound was dressed. II
is expected that he will die.
Hon. c. McElroy, of st. Clair has had
placed in his hands for sale an immense
tract of land consisting of 334, 900 acres
located in the county of Halliburton
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