Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-17
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

dedicated at Battle Creek.
Brother Wills, the noted Detroit
evangelist, is working in Pontiac.
The review of the charges against
Rev. c. M. Arthur, of Leslie, resulted in
his complete vindIcation.
The idea of an Epworth League
trainin & school at Ludington is being
work ed for all there is in it.
Mrs. Alzina Blood, of Tecumseh, is
dead. She was one of the towns pio-
neers and only one of them survives
her.
Frank Greenfield and Byron Sones
! were arrested near Tecumseh for steal
ing hive of bees and IT'S pounds of
honey.
Seymour Howell, major of the First
Battalion, First Infantry, of Adrian,
was presented with an elegant saber
by the officers.
The presiding elders of the Michigan
M. Il. conference will meet at Grand
Rapids on the 22d instant to apportion
the benevolent collections.
Wallace A. Gage, retired hardware
merchant and Menominee pioneer,
dropped dead from heart disease. The
deceased was go years of age.
w. A. Blye, Coldwater painter, fell
twenty feet. His head was cut open
across the forehead, two ribs broken,
and right arm partially paralyzed.
Ernest Marsh, of Battle Creek, got
mad at his wife and threw a butcher
knife, which struck her in the face,
cutting off nearly the entire cheek.
Fred Smith, Jerry and Gilbert Tay-
lor, were arrested at Brown City and
jailed at Port Huron, charged with be-
ing the men who assaulted l.. w. STRAIT
ton, the f. & p. NJ. depot employe at
Yale.
Black diphtheria is reported as pre-
vailing to an alarming extent in the
western portion of Tuscola county. AT
Quannicassee four deaths occurred in
| two days. Reese has about IA dozen
cases, and there is great excitement.
Gehas Hewitt, of Marshall, was ar
rested on a charge of receiving premi-
ums on a Manitoba insurance company
that wasn't incorporated in Michigan
and has no right To do business here.
Insurance Commissioner Giddings or
dered the arrest.
Fire broke out in the business part
of Howell and spread with such rapid
ity that there was for a time danger of
| the whole town being destroyed. Lam
sing was telegraphed for help, but two
buildings only were burned. The loss
is about 81, ZOO, with no insurance on
buildings or stock.
T,,dca So,.orans ~ +b. ITn;tod St,tas
court at Grand Rapids, ruled that the
Goshen Sweeper Compauy's patents do
not infringe upon the Bissell patents
and the petition for an injunction was
denied. The case will be appealed to
the supreme court.
The examination of Nelson Bradley,
/ ex-cashier of tue Central Michigan
Savings bank, of Lansing, on charge
of swearing to false report of the
condition of the bank the day before
its doors were closed last April, was
postponed until Nov. 81.
When Hon. Levi T. Griffin, success
| full candidate for congress from the
First district, went to Ann Arbor TO
attend to his duties as professor of the
| law department the University stu
dents drew him from the depot to the
law building in hack. Then speeches
and congratulations followed.
Albion District Epworth League con-
vention was held at Battle Creek.
officers elected: President, Rev. ID. ID.
King, Olivet; first vice president, j.
| Mealley, Albion; second vice-president,
o. II. Lovejoy, Albion; secretary, Miss
| Nellie Wickman, Battle Creek; treas
urer, Miss Dora Wayne, Albion.
The executive board of the State
Patrons of Industry association held
their regular quarterly session at Lam
sing. The secretary of the association
SAYS only routine work was transacted
and that nothing of special Importance
was discussed. He reports the associa-
ton as holding its own in the state.
The Haskell Home for Orphans at
Battle Creek is rapidly nearing com.
pletion. 1t will be dedicated on
Thanksgiving Day. The building cost
nearly $50, 900 and the greater part OF
the funds were supplied by Mrs. Caro-.
line L. HASKELL of Chicago. The
asylum will accommodate $50 orphans.
A Ludington man has invented and
applied for patent on what he calls a
spark extinguisher. He claims that
with this appliance attached to chin
neys and stacks no sparks can escape,
and the draught is not injured in the
least. If this be true his fortune is
assured. The business world has been
waiting for this invention since manu-
featuring began.
c. Chambers, engineer at the jackson
pulp mill, while walking on the track
of the Michigan Central was struck by
switch engine, sustaining painful in
juries. Mr.. Chambers heard the en-
CINE approaching and stepped from
one track to the one upon which the
locomotive was running. He was
knocked down, his legs lacerated
badly, and sustained internal injuries.
Thomas Percy, the owner of the
large salt blocks at Ludington, has
just leased the salt block of Thomas r..
Lyon for one year, with the privilege
of FIVE, and will put in many new inn
provements and run it for all it is
worth during the winter. This last
move, il is said, makes Mr.. Percy the
| 1aroac colt ,,rodrca,. In ba xyOrII