Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-24
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

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icated at Sebawaing.
Coleman people are planning tele-
phone line TO Mt. Pleasant, 10 miles
away.
Mrs. Oscar Kirby, of Pctoskey, has
died from the effects of fall on the
sidewalk
The Altruists, soon to settle at Wing
vile, will establish broom and basket
factory as a starter.
1t is said that the investigation of
Sheriff Jacobs at Owosso will cost
Shiawassee county $4,000.
Walter A. Dahl has pleaded guilty to
the charge of burglarizing his employ
er's store at Lansing, stealing $40.
Regular passenger trains are now
running on the new Alpena & North
western between Alpena and Posen.
Amelia Deview, of Baldwin, got a
divorce from her husband and IS min
utes later was the wife of another man.
William j. Just, of Greenville, Mich,
has been admitted to practice before
the interior department at Washing.
ton.
The Lake Superior Iron company at
Ishpeming will resume operations at
its section Is mine December /, en-
ploying about $50 men.
While Rev. w. w. Devine, of Mar
SHALL was on the way to the insurance
office to have his house insured the
building burned TO the ground.
All the Grand Army posts in Grand
Rapids are soon to unite and give
grand camp fire. Addresses will be
delivered by prominent men from afari
Frank A. Dean, of Charlotte, United
States consul to Naples, will sail for
his post on the 3Oth inst. from New
York. He goes by the Mediterranean
Line.
II is believed that the state board of
health, which recently placed consump-
ton in the list of communicable dis
eases, will now place cancer in the
same list
Dundee will put down another well
for gas or oil. So it was decided at a
largely attended meeting of citizens.
Contractors are on the field making al
rangements.
George II. Jacobs, Grand Rapids
dlNl laAesls - ny -htyOl obudiJ
of embezzlement from the city by in
creasing laborers, payrolls and pocket
ing the surplus.
Footpads held up Baggageman John
Clark at Cedar Springs, before it was
hardly dark. They threw coal dust
into his eyes, and by threats of death
if he resisted, obtained S25.
A committee was appointed by Bay
City's council to investigate the alleged
misuse of county funds by the board
of supervisors in fees for services
claimed to have been rendered.
Fred Prindle, a wealthy Gerrzan
Oakland county farmer, while Ss.aling
load Of straw, was thrown from his
load at Pontiac with such violence that
his injuries may cause his death.
Railroad Commissioner Billings has
completed his fall inspections of the
railroads operating in Michigan and
says they are in better condition than
when he inspected them last spring.
l.. D. Calf, of West Bay City, was
caught by the revolving shaft in A.
Wheeler's shiugle mill and dragged to
the floor. Every stitch of clothing
was torn off but he wasn't badly hurt.
In the spring of 1876 DIR. II. S. Cox
planted black walnut which had just
sprouted. This was his centennial
tree. He has gathered this fall from
this tree two and one-half bus hels
shucked nuts.
Joseph c. Bailey, one---of the. early
settlers of Nelson township. Kent
county, fell off ladder and died from
the effects of his injuries. lie leaves a
wife and four children and was about
65 years of age.
The Excelsior furnace at Ishpeming,
owned by Marquette parties, will go
into blast as soon as the plant can be
put into repair. 1t will be operated
by Fon Du Lac, Wis, capitalists.
About rs men will be employed.
The s12, 900 electric light bonds of
Holland have been taken by outside
capitalists, and now the Detroit Flee
trio Light company will commence i'm
mediately to put in the city plant, both
for street and commercial lighting.
A man giving his name as A. Z.
Peverett, Port Hope, Ont, was given
medical attendance at Battle Creek.
He had dangerous wound in his left
leg under the knee, and will not give n
straight story as to how he received
the shot.
Claude Metcalf, collector for R. G.
Dun & Co., was held up at Saginaw by
two men, but fortunately all of his COZ
lectons were in checks. The men
secured only $3.50 of Metcalfs own
money. He was assailed from behind
but suffered no injury.
millionaire Mark Hopkins, of st.
Clair, has S25, 900 damage suit on his
hands by Mrs. Stephen Hart, who
while working in the laundry at the
Sommerville hotel had both arms ter
rfbly and permanently injured by be-
ing crushed in mangle.
William c. Shepard, of Mikado town
ship, Altoona county, went into the
stall with his famous stallion to feed
him, when the animal grabbed his
master by the wrist and so ground the
arm in his teeth that amputation near
the elbow was necessary.
Ten Benton Harbor grocery firms en-
gagged in a war on prices for provisions