Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-16
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMo.

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Edward Woodward, of Alpena, aged
90, was drowned in the bay while
bathing.
John Fitch was run over by a train
at Ionia and killed. Both legs and
one arm were cut off.
The Branch County Soldiers and
Sailors Association held its annual
reunion at Coldwater.
The Dye school in Flint township,
near the city of Flint, has been closed
on account of diphtheria.
After several weeks vacation on
account of diphtheria, the schools of
Coldwater have resumed work.
The track of the Kalamazoo & South
Haven Railway is being extended to
the harbor entrance at South Haven.
d. C. Simons has been elected
president of the Farmers Mutual Life
Insurance company of Calhoun county.
Homer viii invest in a fire engine TO
increase the effectiveness of her depart
ment.
Bloomingdale Maccabees will dedi-
cate one of the finest halls in the state
about July !.
Secretary of State Jochim has sent
out the legislative manual for 1884.
1t is well arranged and complete as
usual.
Sixty-three members of the Kalama-
zoo pioneer society died during the
year just past. The average age was
81 years.
Niles wants a new system of water
works and the council has appointed a
committee to devise some scheme to
secure it.
Four men in the Blue mine at Ne
gaunee fell 400 feet in a cage. They
were rendered unconscious, bat will
all recover
Williams Bros heading mill, of
Tekonsha, will remove from the place
during the summer. Scarcity of timber
is the cause.
The school board of Dundee has en-
gagged o. II. McLachlan, of the state
normal, as superintendent for the
coming year
Joseph Stull, of Deerfield, has been
arrested on charge of perjury in a
trespass case tried at Adrian over
three years ago.
Beverly, the man who shot his wife
in Dundee, and is now in Jail at Mon
roe, has learned To read and write
since his incarceration.
The state board of health will hold
sanitary convention at Hillsdale July
and and tell the people how to re-
strict the cholera and typhoid fever.
n. b. Hayes, of Muir, has been ap-
pointed a member of the Ionia House
of Correction board of inspectors by
Gov. Rich, vice A. j. Kelsey, declined.
Monroe is cleaning up. The health
officers made tour of the town and
left wide trail of lime behind.
Cholera must come in clean or stay
out.
Dibby, alias w. r. Harris, escaped
from Jail at Centrevile by digging
under the wall with piece of pail.
lie was awaiting trial on. a charge of
criminal assault.
Charles Lowden died from the effects
of injuries received in a row in Adkins
saloon at Flint Now Lowden's mother
has commenced suit for 81, 900 damages
against Adkins bondsmenI
The 23d annual meeting of the Van
Buren, County Pioneer association at
Lawton was the most successful gath
erIngs in the history of the association.
Gov. Rich made the principal address.
Albert Reynolds, who, killed his
wife's lover at Allegan and was ac-
quilted, has gone back to his farm at
oil 1 &c g.. 20 3
Allegan. Reynolds says he's done
with her.
The Northern Berrien County Agri-
cultural society, at one time one of the
most prominent fair associations in
southwestern Michigan, has decided TO,
close up business and will surrender
its charter.
The Dunn mine, one of the Schles-
singer syndicate's properties, at Iron
Mountain, with an annual capacity of
100, 600 tons, has shut down on account
of the dullness of the iron market
About 200 men are thrown out OF en-
ployment.
Miss Kate NJ. Alling has resigned as
principal of the Michigan female sem
mary at Kalamazoo, and will wed d
Colorado banker. Miss. Louisa p.
Sampson, of Brooklyn, n. Y, has been
selected as her successor. Miss Alling
is the second principal to- wed in one
year.
The New York Iron company has for
feited its lease to the Harlow estate
aud is shipping the $4,000 tons of ore
in stock at Ishpeming. This. is the
mine that yielded Samuel j. Tilden
several million dollars in profits some
20 years ago. 1t has not been a pay
! ing property of late.
VIM. Bennett, a Chippewa Indian
who resided near Mic, went fishing on
| Durkee Lake with two compa mons,
and when they returned Bennett was
not with them and they said he had
fallen from the boat and drowned.
The body has since been recovered,
and wound found on his head. The
coroner's jury found that the drown
ing was accidental.
Prof. Augustus w. Taylor died at his
home in Crockery, Ottawa county. He
was the most promint educator in the
county, having been identified with
the public schools constantly since