Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-21
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

A three-mile relay run was made by
four Adrian bicyclists in six minutes
and 25 seconds.
Mrs. Clarence Beverly, recently shot
by her heusband at Dundee, has died.
is in jail at Monroe.
Wright e. Ketcham, of Saginaw,
have 231 square miles of big spruce
timber on the ST. Lawrence river.
The A. w. Wright Lumber company
will cut and haul 30,000,000 feet of logs
on its railroad in Clare and Roscom-
mon counties this winter.
Henry p. Baldouf, jr., young
farmer % years of age, fell from a tree
while gathering grapes on his fathers
farm near Saginaw, and broke his
neck.
The standpipes of Tecumseh's water
works are to be 100 feet high, and will
be erected in one of the public parks.
Eight miles of pipe are being laid as
fast as possible.
Two miners at the fated Norrie mine
at Ironwood were instantly killed by a
giant powder explosion. A spark of
fire from their pipes is supposed to
have ignited the powder.
1t cost Ingham county $50 last year
TO saw As cords of wood. This season
they bought the same amount of wood
and ordered the sheriff to set all
tramps at work on the pile.
Charles Baer, of Port Huron, has
rendered two lots, 50Xl00 in size, to
the officers of the Hospital and Home
of that place providing that all relig-
ions be admitted on al equal footing.
The bankrupt state fair has decided
TO at once pay 80 per cent of the
premiums awarded, using up all the
cash available. 1t is hoped to raise
the remaining 20 per cent in short
time.
John Roup, formerly assessor of &C.
dar Springs, was convicted for altering
the amounts of taxes due. During his
incarceration the fact preyed on his
mind until he has become a ravine
maniac. He has been sent to kalamazoo
Irving Randall, fireman who was
| injured in railway accident, died al
West Bay City. Deceased was very
well known as the son of lumbermar
| III. y
old, and had been married a little Owe
a year.
Deputy Sheriff Shelley, of Saginaw
county, went to Bridgeport to arres
Joseph Heath, George White and Pete
Haymen the other day, and they tool
the warrant from him and tore 1T up
They have since been arrested ant
have another charge added to the orig
inal complaint.
Sheriff Baker, of Genesee county, ha
sent a communication to the super
visors in which he states that he doe
not believe himself entitled to pay TO
the locking in or out of prisoners he'll
for trial. After asking them +
deduct the matter from his bill h
rendered them S1G0 which he receives
for such services last year.
West Bay City's young people hav
gone away from home for an educatio
TO such an extent that, coupled wit
the big attendance at the Frenc
Catholic school, there are at presen
but 300 enrolled in the public schools
This is q loss of 300 compared with
year ago.
Miss Leota L. Becker, great lad
commander of the l.. o. Il. NJ, has al
pointed the following deputies to pus
the work OF the order: Lille V. Parke
Muskegon; Caddie ii. Perkins and Mil
ME Morse, Port Huron; Emma BENZ
min and Susan Shepherd, Saginaw
Ellen Roberts, Alpena, and Annie
johnson, Oscoda.
Last year the United States sci
| NJ -. ~ 70, fAt hn
sugar. Bay county farmers are i
: vestigating the beet sugar question, i
l GLIDING the adaptability of their sc
for sugar beet culture, and If result
: prove satisfactory will put in b
a crop next year and see to it that ia
: tory is erected at Bay City.
II. w. Rice, of Stanton, has ju
$ harvested 621 bushels of merchantah
4 potatoes from two acres of ground.
n farmer living near Bedding claims
have taken 257 bushels from one al
one-half acres. Daniel Stokes, livil
I three miles south of Greenville, dr
. SIS bushels from one and seven-eight
acres, while Joe Cornelius, who liv
l. in Pine township, Montcalm count
G exhibits SO good-sized tubers which
$ found in one hill. These are not Fl
4 stories, either. Greenville buye
t have paid so to SIS cents per bushel
potatoes during the past week.
d The board of supervisors of Ii
), county are in quandary, as the rep
q sentative districts are illegally app
toned, in that the townships are I
= contiguous. A committee was
y pointed who will report on plan
- straighten out the matter.
e Saginaw Valley firms are putting
= camps in the Georgian Bay district a
n l-afe s5ctively cutting logs. Hurst
kN7isfer will cut 50,000,000 feet;
n Saginaw Timber & Salt compal
e, 10000, 900; Alger, Bliss e. Co., nea
Y. 20, 00o, 900; j. w. Howry & Sons,
G. 900, 900; the Emery Lumber compal
10 30, 900, 900; VIM. Peter, about 90, 000,o
Sibley & Bsrringer, eo,eoo,ooo.