Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-21
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.


sewers this summer.
Jerome Spencer, well-known Owen |
dale lumberman, is reported missing.
The Sturgis fair association has
nearly 600 entries for the August trot-
ting meeting.
A meeting of the state military board
adopted a new guard manual for the
use of the state troops.
A family named Roberts left Owen
dale for Virginia. They will make the
whole journey by wagon.
The Michigan State Medical society
will hold its 2sth annual meeting ut
Muskegon, May IL and II.
Lowell thinks of having a water
works system and has closed a con-
tract for putting down test wells.
An insane tramp is abroad in Hough-
ton county, setting buildings on fire.
Several families have had narrow es-
capes.
George Lee, aged 65, Saginaw
bridgetender, has been convicted of
criminally assaulting 14-year-old Mary
Slime.
Lightning struck the residence of +.
Walters, near Leesburg. Mrs. Walters
foot was split open from the toes to the
ankle.
jackson convicts are feeling the cur
tailment of their privileges, and are
cursing Latimer as the cause of their
misfortunes.
Two hundred acres of cucumbers is
the space TO be required by the farmers
at Dundee in order to secure a pickle
factory there.
In spelling contest at Corunna be-
tween Owosso and Corunna, Owosso
won. Mrs. Frank Clapp was the last
one spelled down.
Grand Haven schools are among the
few in Michigan which will send a
special exhibit to the worlds fair.
Special attention will be paid to kind
ergarten work.
The Molitor murder case at Alpena
adjourned to May ?, Acknowledgement
Ellis, who assists the prosecution, be-
ing engaged in cases before the SUI
preme court.
Before Latimer's escape few people
in Michigan knew that there was "A
town by the name of Jerome. The
average man there now feels that his
town is bigger than Chicago.
Josiah Smith, of st. Clair, sued Rich
ard Wells, charging that the latter APP
piled various vile epithets to him dur
ing the recent campaign, thereby de-
feating HIM for justice of the peace; no
cause for action was the verdict.
Adjt. Gen Eaton has received from
Edwin Hill, of New York, the flag car
ried through many battles by the Six
teenth Michigan infantry volunteers. II
will be placed in the state museum
with the other mementos of Michigan S
warlike days.
Mortimer Bonner, young boy, went
hunting with several companions a
Wolverine. His gun was accidently
discharged, and the entire top of hi:
head was blown off. One of the boys
young McPhee, who accompanied him
is page at Washington.
Bert Spafford, of Cadillac, formerly
deputy sheriff in Wexford county
has been appointed hall master at tn,
jackson prison to succeed Eugen
Mosher, who goes to. Marquette a
deputy warden. This is the first i'm
portant appointment under WardeI
Chamberlain.
Samuel d. Gage, of Saginaw. ha
been appointed chief train dispatche
of the Flint e. Pere Marquette as sue
cessor TO G. S. Cheney, resigned. MI
: Gage was one of the best known an
} most popular passenger conductors Of
: the road and his appointment will Civ
general satisfaction.
Charles Devoe, Detroit, Lansing
Northern brakeman, lost his RICH
foot at Lyons. He attempted to TAX
a five-gallon can of oil from the trai
as it passed the station and fell bC
tween the platform and car. His lie
! was amputated below the knee. III
wife and two children live in Gran
Rapids.
/ The body Of a man was found
Emery's boom at East Tawas. 1t ha
on pair of heavy shoes, fastened wit
overshoe buckles, two-bladed jacl
knife, and an empty tobacco poucl
II is supposed that he is one of the tv
lost off the j. NJ. Spalding Nov. II, b'
d, he may be a man lost off a steam bare
there last fall.
S Owosso was very much wrought L
c over the mysterious death of an infan
n A little body was found in the rive
S and no one could tell where it can
s from or to whom it belonged. 1t wi
S nice-looking child, weighing abo1
t So pounds. The physicians, upon e
# amining it, came to the conclusion tn
IS it was alive when thrown into Il
/, water.
A fine mare belonging TO PatriC
u O'Toole, of Merrill, was killed in
o singular manner. The animal stepp
q on the end of piece of board. WIFI
n few up and struck her just inside Il
g stifie Joint. So violent was the bic
!, that the sharp part of the board w
II forced clear through the mares bod
protruding at least six inches. Il
animal bled to death in few minute
Four of the oldest employees of Z
e. water board, of Detroit, have Been d
a covered to be short in their accoun
is between 81, 200 and 81 500, and have !
he signed at the request of the boar