Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-31
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

man to take dental course at the U.
of Nj.
Miners planing mill at Big Rapids
was burned. 1t had been idle three
months.
Abe Kendall, until last fall resident
of Morenci, hanged himself at At
lanta, Ga.
Charles Weatherwax killed the first
wild goose at White Pigeon the first of
the week.
o. A. Bush, of Freeland, got his legs
crushed in frightful manner while
loading logs.
The creamery at Chesaning, owned
by stock comany of farmers, will
start up April l.
An open switch caused wreck on
the Ann Arbor line near Mt. Pleasa mt.
Ten cars were smashed.
The Goth annual meeting of the Van
Buren, county Sunday school association
at Paw Paw, March rs and 20.
Rev. j. f. Arney, who has pen
chant for fine trotting horses, has ac-
cepted call from Vaudeville.
A movement is on foot in Berrien
county looking to submission of the
local option question to the voters.
+. w. King, formerly proprietor of
Commercial hotel at Saranac, will build
u SO, 900 brick hotel there this spring.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Van Buren, county Sunday School as
ISOLATION at Paw Paw, March % and 30.
VIII j. Sproat until recently con-
nected with the Press, of Grand Rap
ids, will start morning daily there.
George w. Griffin and Mrs Georg-
lana Dawson, of Dundee, slipped off to
Toledo and came back husband and
wife.
Baroda, the new Berrien county viii
lage, wants some enterprising mer-
chant TO open u boot and shoe store at
place.
Mrs. Gertrude Fox, of Dundee, 20
years of age, has been toothless for
several years. She is now cutting u
new set of teeth.
James Smith, brakeman on the Flint
& Pere Marquette Local freight, while
coupling cars at Starns' siding fell
cut OF. He may recover.
Bruce, a 1O-year-old son of Sam
Walker, living at Wilmot, was kicked
in the head by colt. The doctors re-
moved a piece of skull by = inches
in diameter. He may recover.
Thirty Hudson business men went
security for the payment of set of
band instruments. The band busted, &"
and they had $500 to pay. Just $40
apiece charged up to experience.
A large number of mining officials
from the upper peninsula and northern
Wisconsin met at Iron Mountain in at
tendance on a three days convention.
The organization of an association was
perfected.
An unknown man, evidently insane,
died in Jail at East Tawas. He had a
heavy red full beard, brown hair, hazel
eyes, no marks nor letters, black SLOUGH
hat, black coat and brown vest. There
was S4.70 in his pockets.
From December, 1892. TO March !.
1898, the five boats of the +. 81 +. NJ.
transferred 1000 cars between Luding-
ton, Milwaukee and Manitowoc. In
the company's freight sheds at Luding-
ton 800 men are employed during the
winter.
o. +. Keimmer, special agent of
the Cooper Insurance company, of
Dayton, Ohio, was killed by the cars at
Grand Rapids. lie was driving with a
companion upon Waterloo street, and
attempted to cross the tracks of the
Grand Rapids e Indiana.
Dayton Pierceton, of Lawrence town
ship, Van Buren, county, was sliding
a heavy stick of timber on the ice by
carrying one end on his shoulder
Pierceton stumbled and fell in such "a
way that the piece of timber crushed
his skull, killing him instantly.
Edward Miller and wife, of Saginaw.
have been married nine years, but
cannot understand each others lam
guage, he being a German and she
| Scotch. This difference caused mis-
understanding. Miller thumped his
| wife, and then was arrested and fined.
A unique marriage took place at
| Chesaning. Chas. Hart had been COR
responding with women in Indiana,
whom he had never seen. He met her
at the train and Rev. Mr.. Bachelor
tied the knot. They then took we'd
ding tour to his home few miles out
| in a lumber wagon.
William Hawley. escaped from Ionia
nine years ago, after serving "a few
months of a nine-year larceny sentence
| from Ottawa county. He has returned
and asked to be locked up. He had
been all through the west, but constant
| fear of detection was worse than im-
prisonment.
Mrs. Gerrit Kalkman, young bride,
met with an accident at Grand Rapids,
which will probably result fatally.
She was carrying a boiler full of hot
water when she slipped and fell, and
the water spilled all over her, scalding
her badly about the body. The gray
est fears are entertained for her recov-
cry.
There is a storm brewing at Lansing
and ere this legislature adjourns the
cloud will probably burst. 1t appears
that there is n large sum of money voted
by the state to be spent in improving
the state property in that city, and
much of it is now unaccounted for and
that names on payrolls alleged to have
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