Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-12-30
MICHIGAN STATEITEMs.

L. M. Hall, pensioner, committed
suicide at Newaygo.
The next legislature will be asked to
redistrict West Bay City.
Stock breeders about White Pigeon
have to import hay as well as corn.
A New York concern wants an cleo
trio street railroad franchise from Kali
amaZoo.
Mrs. Il. j. Pierson, of Kalamazoo, the
other evening found three-foot black
snake under her kitchen stove.
Rev. w. II. Davis, of Charleston, H.,
has accepted call TO the Congrega-
tional church in Benton Harbor.
Three bell boys and the night porter
at the Downey house at Lansing have
been arrested for petty thievery.
Samuel Coils, laborer of Chippewa
Lake, fell from load of wood and was
instantly killed. He leaves a widow.
Andrew Hubbard, aged &c, was found
dead in barn near Fenton. He is
thought TO have died from natural
causes.
An 1s.months-old daughter of Nicho-
las Ronopolia, of Negaunee, was IA
tally scalded by the upsetting of tub
of boiling water.
A taxpayers association has been
organized at Benton Harbor to adjust
the differences between the taxpayers
and the city administration.
While skating with larger boy the
six-year-old son of Thomas Shaw, a
well-to-do citizen of Ypsilanti, broke
through the ice and was drowned.
Lydia Patterson has lived with her
husband at jackson 40 years. She now
asks divorce and share of Almon's
$4,000. She alleges extreme cruelty.
Isaac NJ. Chase, the station agent at
Devils Lake who pocketed his COM
pany's receipts as though they were his
own, has been sentenced for the whole
of 80 days in Jail.
A bill will be presented in the next
legislature for the appointment of n
cedar cutler. The object is to prevent
Chicago monopolists from cheating
cedar producers by an unfair system of
culling.
Harvey Hutchinson, n Grand Rapids
shoemaker, aged IS, suicided by taking
morphine. lie had n wife and five
I children. 1t is thought that dissapa-
ton led to melancholy and prompted
the deed.
Martin Gehringer was instantly
! killed few miles south of Fowlerville.
A wagon loaded with boiler and en-
CINE tipped over and fell upon him as
he was walking along beside the vehi-
Gle driving the team.
A movement is on foot to organize a
new judicial circuit, to be made up of
Gladwin, Arenac, Roscommon, Craw-
ford and Otsegc counties, and a bill is
drawn already that will be offered on
the assembling of the legislature.
Bert Goodson, of Brown City, is said
TO have become so enraged at finding
Henry Clymer calling upon the girl
with whom both were in love that he
threw at her watch he had intended
TO give her as a present. Her skull
was fractured.
Otto Theimer, who was tramping
through the country, stayed at j.
Loranger's in Carleton over night. He
took money from Loranger's pocket
book and went on. Loranger followed
cauRnb nun, SeCuTcu Lne money, anu
Justice sentenced him to four years in
the reform school.
The anti-local optionists in Allegar
county have organized TO resist the
movement, have employed legal
counsel, and announce that they will
fight the matter to IA finish. One OF
the first results has been TO discover
that many of the afiidavits to the petit
tions are insufficient TO comply will
the law, the correction of which may
delay the election for some weeks.
John Trunnell, of Auburn, started
TO drive home from West Bay City ant
when seven miles out his horses rar
away, throwing him into ditch anC
breaking his arm. He lay there nearly
two hours with the thermometer al
most down to zero, and when found
was nearly frozen TO death.
The twelfth annual meeting of tn,
Michigan Merino Sheep Breeders as
ISOLATION was held in the Senate cham
Der, Lansing. Owing TO illness Gov.
elect Rich, president of the association
was unable to be present and delive
his annual address. Papers were rea'
by several members Of tho association