Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-02
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

A hive of Lady Maccabees has been
instituted at Allen.
Hillsdales new electric plant is to
cost not to exceed $4,000.
Hon. w. s. Wilcox is president of the
new savings bank at Adrian.
Martin Bousch, aged so years, fell
dead at his home in Coldwater.
Hudson wants local building and
loan association to help boom the
town.
Thomas NJ. Croker has been APP.
pointed collector of customs at Port
Huron.
Diphtheria is raging at Hastings
again, several fatal cases being
reported.
Chesaning has new pickle factory,
and $50 acres of ground have been
planted to cucumbers.
The nineteenth annual convention of
the diocese of western Michigan will
meet at Muskegon, June 6 and 7.
Planto Flo, so years of age. is in jail
at Grand Rapids charged with assault
ing his l5-year-old daughter Minnie.
The Woman's Relief Corps, of Jones,
has raised sufficient money for the
erection of fine soldiers monument.
Flushing is the latest place where
coal has been found. At depth of Al
feet vein feet thick was unearthed.
The new Adrian state savings bank
has organized by electng w. 5. Wilcox
YNraciHant ChanninO Nhifnau
cashier.
Hudson is making big prepare
ton for the Michigan and Ohio band
tournament that will be held there
August II.
Miss Clara Graecen, of Kalamazoo,
has been selected as one of the official
stenographers of the patent office at
Washington.
The Hardscrabble saw mill in White
water township, Grand Traverse
county, was burned by forest fire;
loss about $4,000.
The Congregational society will sell
their church at Ithaca and disba nd.
They can't csngregate in sufficient
numbers to pay expenses.
Traverse City servant girls have
formed union and propose to strike
for higher wages just before the sum-
mer boarder season opens.
Miss c. r. A. Nelson, of Michigan,
has been promoted from a S720 to
5000 clerkship in the Office of the first
assistant postmaster-general.
Mrs. Gustaf Helm, of Muskegon, has
become a raving maniac. The other
day she tried to kill her husband,
and frightfully tore his face.
The West Bay City council has
granted telephone franchise to w. Il.
Martin and others, who propose to
fight the Bell telephone people.
Carter, the religious crank of Water
vliet, is in Jail. Edward Mckee
charges Carter with taking improper
liberties with his 16-year-old sister.
Firebugs are again at work in Brock
way. This time it is the large Touring
mill of William Haskill, which burned.
Loss about Sl2, 900; insurance $1,000.
II. S. Carhart of the University has
been appointed one of the United
States delegates TO the electrical con-
gress TO be held at the Worlds Fair
Aug. 81.
A five-year-old-son of E. P. Mari, of
Cass City, fell into a post hole head
first. The earth caved in aud the boy
nearly smothered before he was dis
covered.
The Calumet & Hecla mining COM
pany will pay the widows of the victims
of the late mine disaster 81, 900 each,
orphans $500 each and relatives of the
single men $1,000.
Lillian Leathead has begun suits
farth at Jackson for SIS, 900 in each case
for selling liquor to her husband, who
is now serving a sentence for simple
larceny.
Secretary of State Jochim has asked
E. j. Wright, of Ionia, to prepare chap
tiers on state taxes and state laws for
the new edition of michigan and It's
Resources" to be distributed at the
Worlds Fair.
Six horses belonging to A. H. Cham
berlain, farmer residing near Lees
burg, were struck and killed by
Grand Trunk train. The animals were
all thoroughbred and Chamberlain's
loss is heavy.
II the prospects for crop Of apples
are as poor in other parts of the state
as in Lenawee county, where not more
than one in so trees has blossomed
Michigan people will be obliged to go
elsewhere for apples.
George Warwick and Michael Sulli-
van used profane and indecent lam
guage at a dauce at Ada. They pleaded
guilty to the offense in the justice
court at Grand Rapids and Warwick
was fined $25, and Sullivan was sent up
for thirty days in addition to a S25
fine.
Snow fell on the cath at Ishpeming.
Two hundred miles east and west of
Ishpeming it was several inches deep.
At Red Jacket last winters snow is
not entirely gone and lumbermep are
complaining bitterly of the deep snow
and high water. The season is simply
unprecedented.
Mrs. Van Den Berg, of Kalamazoo, a
grass widow, aged SIS, whose husband
is in the poor house, sold her property
for about $500 and gave the cash to a
painter half her age, intending to
elope. He left her in the depot all
night, waiting, and eloped alone. She