Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-29
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Peltier, of Har-
rison, lost their four children from
diphtheria.
Four children in the family of Joseph
Yokosh at East Tawas were taken
down with dipLtheria.
A receiver for Salliott & Chittenden,
of Ashley, has been asked for. The
firm employ about go men.
William Schultz was drowned at
Marine City by falling off a plank
while wheeling coal on n vessel
While duck shooting Henry Hoffin-
becker and John Mcmahon, railroad
men of Marquette, were drowned.
Charles Paul was sentenced to six
years in Jackson prison from Grand
Rapids for assault on Mrs. Clara Shaver.
Jacob Snyder, near Hudson, tried to
smoke pipe with a cartridge in it.
He will recover, but his best hat is in
ruins.
Fred Giddings, proprietor Of the Gid
dings house at Dowagiac, has paid a
fine of Sis for violating the local
option law.
Charges of immortality have been
lodged against Rev. III. d. Webster,
Baptist minister formerly at Hart now.
at Grand junction.
Over GOO tons of grapes, worth SEQ, 900
were shipped from Lawton and vicinity
in one week. One local dealer has
sold 100, 600 baskets.
The Encouragement says parent
residing in one school district and
renting in another must send his
children TO the former.
Warren l.. Potter, of Flat Rock, has
received $4,000 for injuries received
in the recent Lake Shore tunnel col
lision at Toledo. He sued for $50, 900.
The body of David Sullivan, n
stranger, was found in the cellar of
the Hotel Ruhl, of Jackson. He
had fallen down the elevator shaft
while drunk.
Mrs. Keith, aged 16, of Fayette, who
was visiting her daughter, Mrs. David
Clutter, of North Morcnci, was thrown
from II carriage at the latter place and
instantly killed
Leslie had very disastrous fire-the
worst the village ever experienced
Eight or nine business houses were
either burned out or badly damaged,
the total loss being about $40, 900.
Some of the American express officials
now express the belief that Messenger
Hogan is innocent of any criminal con-
nection with the Mineral Range rob
berry. The $4,000 is still missing.
Gen. VIM Hurtsuff, Port Huron; ex-
Speaker Diekema, Holland, and Edwin
+. Conely, Detroit, have been appointed
by Gov. Rich to draft a general law for
the incorporation of municipalities.
Forest fires near Alpena have cleared
away the underbrush so that much
needed roads may be built at 33 per
cent less expense. Farmers are NOV
ing on lands unstable before the fire.
The Michigan Trust Co., assignee
for Nelson, Matter IL Co., of Grand
Rapids, reports assets, S497, O23; liabil-
tiles, sos, S62. In ordinary times the
firm property would be assessed at a
much larger figure.
In st. Joe county, near Dowagiac,
lives man who postponed his wife's
funeral because he hadn't finished
harvesting. People didn't wonder at
it SO much, when before five days had
elapsed he was married again.
Mrs. Ada L. johnson and Miss Leota
Becker, who were one party in the
Saginaw l.. o. r. NJ. fight, and rather
got the worst of it at the great hive,
are going to New York state to take
charge of Maccabee work there.
Jacob forenoon, OF East Saginaw,
was notified that his claim in the
newly opened Cherokee strip would be
protested. Immediately afterwards he
tried to commit suicide by cutting his
throat at Perry, Okla. May recover.
Judge Albert Miller, of Bay City, the
oldest pioneer in the Saginaw valley,
is dead. lie taught the first school or
gani2ed there. He was also the first
probate judge. He got Bay City its
first railroad and built the second saw
mill in the valley.
Henry Edicll suicided by hanging
himself with Il tie strap in his barn
four miles north of Homer. His wife
and step-son were in Chicago at the
time and he sent his young son Of
about ID years off fishing Mr.. Edicli
was well-to-do farmer.
The Algonac Agricultural and Driv-
ing Park association have leased the
Bailey farm for a period of 10 years
and have commenced building "a regu-
lation half-mile racing track. The
site is one of the most beautiful and
picturesque on the st. Clair river.
The docket for the October term of
the state supreme court contains a
total of $50 cases. This is 30 less than
was noticed for trial at the October
term last year. All the justices have
now taken up their residences at Lam
sing and court will practically be In
session the year round.
The Chair company, of otsego, ship
ped some shaper knives before the In
diana train robbery. They have been
notified that the robbers stole them,
the packages resembling those of sill
yer bullion. The knives were found
about 20 miles south of the scene of
the robbery.
Surgeon Best, of the Second Infantry
NJ. N. c., condemns the rife range
practice at Island Lake severely, from
health standard. He saws the men