Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-22
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Coldwater is also hustling to get the
asylum for the feeble minded.
An unknown man was found dead in
lumber pile at Grand Rapids.
Ogemaw county lost promising
plum crop through the drought.
The grand encampment, ]. o. o. f.
will meet at Pontiac, Oct. 10 and II.
The Branch county annual fair will
occupy September 25, 26, q, 20 and 30.
Over $4,000 worth of property was
destroyed by fire at Alpena; business
houses.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Moore died on
the same day at Athens, and were bur
led together.
John Wilson, of Saugatuck, Mexi-
can war pensioner, was drowned off
Mackinac Island.
Beans are only half crop, but the
increase in acreage brings the yield up
to fully 90 per cent
Four children in the family of Joseph
Yokosh at East Tawas were taken
down with dipEtheria.
The Ames iron mine near Ishpeming
has reopened owing to the receipt of
several large ore orders.
The annual reunion of the Second
Michigan Infantry will be held at
Hillsdale, September 2S.
Thompsonville will issue So, 500
worth of water works bonds and then
sink three flowing wells.
C. & NJ. w. officials will interview
Cheboygan business men with a view
of extending the road to that city.
The sixth year of the Normal Acad-
envy at Petoskey will begin October ..
Prof. M. o. Graves is the principal.
Michigan's Free Win Baptist State
association will hold a convention at
Reading, November : to 10, inclusive.
The opening of the Bangor schools
was delayed for an indefinite period on
account of diphthcria in the com
munity.
Pennington will drive the doctors
and undertaken out of town. Not
death or case of sickness in town for
months.
Fred f. McNair, of Aspen, Col, is
visiting in Benton Harbor. He made
the whole 1,4OO miles in "a days on a
bicycle.
One-half of the criminal cases before
the circuit court at Pontiac are for
criminal assault, betrayal and similar
offenses.
Mrs. l.. ID. Redding was shot in the
leg by an unknown person while
standing in the rear of her home at
Muskegon.
Daniel j. Ross, n builder, OF Ann
Arbor, fell from a scatfold striking
upon his head on a stone pavement.
Injuries may be fatal.
Fishermen near Manistiquc complain
that the refuse from lumber mills has
driven the fish away for miles and
ruined their business.
Frank Baxter, aged 20, tried to make
way with himself with knife at
Adrian, but was foiled. 1t was his
third attempt at self-destruction.
Henry Spaulding, a farmer near
Tekonsha was advised TO use Spanish
fly and alcohol for the cure of asthma.
He did so and died from the effects.
Several Oscoda and Ausable mills
which have been closed down for five
weeks started again and all the mills
in the two cities will soon be running.
The unbroken drought of 10 weeks
has come to an end throughout the
state, bat the heavy rains came too
late to save the corn and potato crops.
Mrs. NJ. j. Gross, of near Pine Lake,
was killed by Chicago & Grand Trunk
train near Lansing while driving across
the track. The horse was also killed.
Mrs. Alice Randall, wife of Hon. c.
ID. Randall, of Coldwater, for 33 years
organist of st. Marks church, has an
nounced her resignation from that
Office.
The late Mrs. Fitch Phelps, of Big
Rapids, left two-thirds of her fortune,
estimated at from $50, 900 to $50, 900, TO
the city of Big Rapids for a free Ii
brary.
Ex-Banler o. F. Bills, who left Te-
cunseh after getting into serious finan-
cial troubles, has been returned from
New Mexico by officers and will be
tried for embezzlement.
A lO-year-old son of Rev. Joseph
Holt, living about IL miles south of
Sault Ste. Marie, while out hunting
tried to climb over fence with a gun
in his hand The charge entered his
brain, and he lived but a short time
after.
Kliue's industrial works, Stoddard' S
livery stable, Parks plumbing estab-
lishment and the G.. A. r.. hall burned
at Alpena. The industrial works loses
patterns valued at $1,000 and insured
for S., 900. Stoddard loses Is cutters
and 10 tons of hay. The total loss is
about $4,000.
The Methodist Episcopal conference
at Grand Rapids was as interesting 4
meeting of the kind as has been held
in Michigan. One of the features was
the dedication of new Sl2, 900 home
of the order of Deaconesses, which was
originated by Rev. w. j. Aldrich, and
the installation of his widow into the
order.
Charles Justice, alias Martin, who
escaped from the "bull pen" in Jack
son prison August and was caught
the next day has hanged himself in his
cell. Justice was 90 years old, serving
nine years for burglary from Berrien
county. He was sent to Ionia ASYLUM