Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-15
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Edward Water, of Saginaw, was
killed by train at Hamilton, Ont.
The shops of the Gale Manufacturing
company, at Albion, have started up.
Michigan's Free viii Baptist State
association convention, Nov. ITO at
Reading.
Henry Shetterly, of Utica, was dan
gerously wounded while fooling with
an old gun.
A chemical works for the manufac-
ture of wood alcohol will be started at
Mancelona.
Marquette has started on an elegant
city hall. 1t will be three stories high
and 92X72 feet in size.
st. Johns Lutheran school at Adrian
closed on account of scarlet fever.
Ten cases in one week.
William Koran, prominent Tekon-
sha farmer, dropped dead while doing
chores. Heart disease.
Fifteenth Michigan infantry reunion;
Monroe; October 4. First Michigan
cavalry; Romeo; October 10.
A large tract of land has been pur-
chased by the Orchard Lake military
academy for parade ground.
Traverse City's flowing well, with a
capacity of 1000 barrels day, has in
creased its flow TO 5000 barrels a day.
Ed Culver, Pittsford farmer, fell
astride hay sieve and received pain
full injuries that may result in his
death.
Most all the lumber in Oscoda county
has been destroyed by the recent for
est fires. Gen. Alger has lost II ,0OO,-
900 feet.
National bank of Sturgis which sus-
pended August z, has received per mis-
sion from the comptroller of cure ncy
TO resume business.
Fire at Flat Rock destroyed Charles
Sherbean's blacksmith and wagon
shop with their contents. Loss, $1,000,
with no insurance.
Fred Russell, judge-elect of the
Fourteenth district wants a convention
of judges of the state TO be held at
Lansing. Good idea.
William Stapleford was arrested at
Bayport for shooting Henry Stabus
during a charivari at that place.
Stabus is in a critical condition.
State convention of the Y. NJ. c A.
at Battle Creek from Oct. II to Oct 10.
Gen. X. A. Alger and Rev. DR.. ID. ID.
MacLaurin, of Detroit, are among the
speakers.
Congress has awarded a silver life
saving medal to George Il. Dean for
saving the life of Ralph Caldwell, of
Cincinnati, at Gratiot Beach, Lake
Huron, on July II last.
The tri-county fair 1t Petoskey under
the auspices of the Petoskey Driving
Park association, Sept. 10, 20 and 2l.
Premiums offered exceed $4,000,
largely for speed contests.
mob at Hickory Corners came near
treating a local minister to a coat of
tar and feathers for marrying Mabel
Scudder and the Negro Mahoney, who
cloped from Calhoun county.
The new mill of Ross, Bradley &
Company, West Bay City, is running
with so men. Ultimately 200 men will
be employed The mill will have a
capacity of 40, OOO,O 900 feet per year.
c. II. Welton, agent of the New York
Life Insurance company was arrested
at Grand Rapids for embezzling sells
from A. S. Davis. The money was
paid to Welton as a premium on a
policy.
Four suits were commenced at Grand
Rapids against Nelson Matter & Com
pany, who filed mortgages amounting
to SPA, 1000. The compaL, made an
assignment to the Michigan Trust
company.
A barn bur ned in Jonesville and in
view of the fact that Jonesville is a
local option town, the discovery of so
many bottles of beer in the barn made
sensation. The quenchers of the fire
put the hellish stuff out of the way in
hurry.
Fire destroyed two barns, tools,
hogs, poultry, 500 bushels of wheat,
300 bushels of oats, product of 8 acres
of beans and so bushels of rye, the
property of Frank Nc Donough and
brother near Howell. No insurance;
cause unknown.
John O'Gara's attempted suicide at
Saginaw was the result of cigarette
smoking instead of love-sicllness as at
first reported. He has been taken to
his home at Nashville, Tenn, by his
mother. His mind is unbalanced by
excessive cigarette smoking.
Thos. Stoltz, Jr., and his father were
shooting black birds on Saginaw river
when the younger Stoltz received a
charge of shot in the neck from the
gun of stranger who carelessly shot
at flock of birds between the two boats
The stranger escaped without being
identified.
The new Sl2, 900 Deaconess home at
Grand Rapids was dedicated by the
Methodists. 1t is named in honor of
Rev. w. j. Aldrich, who originated the
idea, and is the only building of the
kind in Michigan. Mr.. Aldrich's
widow and eight other women have
devoted themselves to the work.
A collision on the race track at a
matinee at Tekonsha between two
competitive horsemen resulted in the
death of Arba Wilkinson, a farmer of
Clarendon. A wheel to his sullsy was
torn off, throwing him TO the ground
and against a post, crushing his skull.
He left widow and seven children in