Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-04-15
MICHIGAN, STATE ITEMS.

at Hudson have been Quilted by fire. Loss,
So, 600.
Saginaw's council has been petitioned to
put safety gates on all bridges spanning
the river
The Potter house ut Lexington, Mont
aim county, burned. Loss, $4,000; in
urance. 1000.
Carl Carlson has been declared guilty of
the murder of Hustled at Petoskey. The
jury was out Ia hours.
An Eau Claire man has a profane hen
that doesn't believe in Sabbath observance.
On Sunday she always lays an extra large
egg.
Some one broke into the brass bands
headquarters at Stockbridge and smashed
the bass drum. A purse will be raised for
him.
Last fall mail pouch was stolen from a
carrier near st. Clair The other day it
was found in "A corn field, cut open on one
SIDE
Unadilia no longer has dam by a mill
site, but has mill by dam site. The
barrier that was washed away will be re-
paired.
Tom Sherman, of Grand Traverse. has
severed his connection with the pension
bureau at Washington, and will return TO
his home.
There are %, 90, 900 feet of lumber on
the docks at Cheboygan, 5000, 900 less
than last year. The stock of logs exceeds
~, 600, 900 feet.
Albion college is getting in line with
strong foot ball and base ball teams. The
foot ballers will play the M. A. A. team in
Detroit, April %.
The dancing zephyrs at Saginaw that
cantered around chimney and smoke stacks
at a 64mile-an-hour clip, did from SIP, 900
to Sl5, 600 damage.
Peter Thomas, colored. who fatally
stabbed James Johnson at the Michigan
soldiers home, has been sentenced to Jack
son for three years. ee.
Two deaf mutes engaged in prize fight
at Charlotte. but the referee doesn't ex-
plain how the badly-punished man an
nounced he had enough.
j. G. Brown, of Saginaw, has broken
up his 10 camps, and will drive 20, 900, 900
feet of logs banked on the Iron river, and
43, 600, 900 feet on other streams.
Charles Doud, an Allegan county man.
will spend IL months in Jail for driving a
spike into log just to get even with a
man against whom he had a grudge.
The Agricultural college is ''hoodooed"
or ''ionahed" in someway. Before the
diphtheria outbreak is hardly checked
three cases Of measles have developed.
A man went TO Morenci with five
children, their mother being dead. Several
days later he left town and did not return.
The children will be sent to the Cold
water school.
J. w. Matthews, of Hersey, has pre-
scented the Evart Baptist church with the
opera house and several town lots at the
latter place. The opera house will be torn
down and church built.
Midland has had another experience with
poor oil. A lamp exploded and set fire to
the house Of Mr. Whitman who, with his
wife and two children escaped, saving only
HOUSEHOLD goods. The new house was a
total loss.
The trolley wire of the electric street
railway at Battle Creek, fell across the
telephone wires, causing the burning out
of the switchboards in the telephone Office
and severely shocking and burning the
operators in charge.
The 2-year- old daughter Of VIM. Cosper,
of Grand Rapids, while playing with a
collar button swallowed it, Her mother
did not notice il until the child began to
choke. The child died before assistance
could be summoned.
The venerable Susan b. Anthony will
visit Michigan to deliver an address dur
ing the convention of the Michigan equal
suffrage association at Battle Creek, May
and 3. The delegates will be welcomed
to the city by Marion Wood Upton.
The project of building a road from Bay
City to the Tuscola and Huron county coal
mines is once more revived Carl Wulff,
the Ohio promoter. has again been heard
from, and II. G. Coziens. OF Defiance, o.,
asks for u $50, 900 bonus to build the line
"Uucle Jake" Walker has served % con-
secutiye years as supervisor OF Vergennes
township Kent county, Yand was town
clerk for five aears,' treasurer one year,
assessor~six-years, and has never missed
voting in his town since he attained his
majority.
The state beard of health has received
notice from New York that eight immi-
grants upon the diphtheria infected steamer
Scandal are destined for Detroit, four for
Hastings and II to points in the upper
peninsula. Measures are being taken to
protect Michigan citizens.
Officers raided gambling room run by
Byron Dickinson at Hastings, and secured
u hatful of.poker chips, about $40 in money
and other paraphernalia belonging to the
room. The gamblers lit out but were
found later huddled together in little room
below and were all taken III. Public
opinion is with the officers.
Sheriff O'Connor, of Menominee county,
found dead man in the toilet room Of a
passenger car on the Menominee Branch
railroad between Norway and Powers.
The deceased was E'renchman named
Perrault just from the woods. and had
boarded the train at Iron Mountain. The
| cause Of death is unknown.
Mrs A. A. Smith, of Northport. aged
| 81, is writing series of articles for the
Grand Traverse Herald, depicting the
hardships of pioneer missionary's life.
Her husband, the late Rev. George N.
| Smith, was the first ordained Congrcga-