Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-14
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

name to st. Joseph Heights.
The Manistee, Filler City & East Lake
electric railway has began running.
Miller & Haggelaus' heading and
saw mill at Garfield was destroyed by
fire.
Cholera is prevalent among the hogs
about Homer, one man losing sixteen
in a week.
The list of applicants for positions
in jackson prison almost outnumber
the roll of convicts.
The East Tawas life saving crew
commence service April Is, under COM
mand of Capt. ocha.
II. Robbins, of Jonesville, is 81 years
old, and frequently walks to Hillsdale
and back-eight miles.
Isaac Walker, of Constantine, has
sow that bore Is good healthy pigs.
One of them had six legs.
As the result of mad dog scare at
Hillsdale all unmuzzled CANNES run
ming at large are being shot.
The night watchman at n Benton
mill has Bumped his yob," because he
thinks the building is haunted.
The Baptist Young Peoples union of
Branch and Hillsdale counties will
meet in convention at Hillsdale.
Fourteen year old Theodore Feelock
fell into the river at Saginaw while
gathering driftwood and was drowned.
Branches of the Battle Creek sani-
tarium are to be started at Milton, Ore
gon, and at Chicago during the Worlds
Fair.
Salt has dropped in price five cents
per barrel up in the salt country. The
cause of it is stated TO be the few hogs
that are being packed.
The little son of Thomas Dunford liv-
ing near Marlette was drowned in
mortar box. He was three years old
and one of pair of twins.
A young man named BlacBmer, of
Pewamo, accidentally discharged his
gun. One shot entered one of his eyes,
lodging in the brain. He will die.
The T. & A. A. railroad passenger
station burned at Mt. Pleasant. A lot
of baggage, tickets and other valuables
burned also. Lightning did the work.
The Michigan Schoolmaster's club
met at Ann Arbor with many promi-
nent educators present. Several inter
sting and instructive papers were
read.
The authorities at Yale shipped TO
Port Huron a woman who came there
rom Canada about a year ago, and has
been pretty much of a nuisance ever
since.
Hartford citizens are agitating the
question of damming the Paw Paw
river at that place for the purpose of
Claiming water power for system of
water works.
The Business Mems association of
Dwosso has reported favorably on a
bonus to be given for a new furniture
factory, and the council will probably
grant it.
Henry Saul has been supervisor of
Grand Haven township, Ottawa county,
for "a years. Now he's going out of
The business to give the rising genera
Jion a chance.
Some parties from Chicago have re-
emily purchased 1900 acres of land
around Three Oaks for gardening pur-
poses at $50 an acre. The result is a
boom in real estate.
Robert Melton, while fishing below
| Vassar fell into the river and was
drowned. He was subject to fits, and
1t is supposed that while in that con-
lition he fell into the river.
Ruel Turney, Somerset Center boy,
| was caught with his clothing on
shaft in mill. He broke one leg
| twice, besides breaking an arm, sew
raj ribs and being badly cut about
| the head.
The city of Muskegon will accept
| he offer of Newcombe McGraft, and
will issue 100000 for a public park,
he money to be returned to the city
| oy McGraft and to be used in subsidiz-
ing factories.
Captain of the Guard Gill, of Jackson
prison, charged with criminal careless
| less in the Latimer escape, waived eX~
animation and was bound over to the
| May term of court. He is out on $500
| pail, his bondsman being r. ID. Hobart.
Capt. Il. f. Graves, the newly elected
| .ommandant of the Soldiers Home at
irand Rapids, will retain Major Long
rs adjutant, and has appointed Colonel
| Chester Hinsdell quartermaster. Mr..
Graves assumes the duties of the Office
May 1.
| A tract of land, 175 acres, with a
| nance for stone quarry, was sold by
| T.. G. Ranch, of Raisinville, TO Detroit
capitalists, among whom Eugene Rob-
nson is prominent. A railroad will be
built from Maybee to Raisinville in the
| future.
Monterey boasts of having the oldest
inhabitant in the county. Mrs. Sophia
! boucher has seen 1913 summers. She
attributes her longevity to hard work
out of doors. She has plowed, logged,
moved, IN fact, done all the farm work
usually performed by men.
In house near the plaster mills at
irand Rapids terrible state of affairs
vas discovered. Three children were
waiting burial, having died of diph-
iberia, and the father is sick with the
same malady. Not one of them had re-
:eived medical attendance.
The officers of the First regiment.