Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-03
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

The Catholics of Dowagiac dedicated
splendid church edifice costing $l0,-
900.
The Fitch mine, at Ishpeming will
resume operations after a long shut
down.
Kent county wishes to follow
Wayne's example and care for her own
insane.
Owing to the prevalence of scarlet
fever, Manchester's schools have been
closed.
A young married woman in Adrian
is having her third tussle with the
measles.
Owosso will have n charity ball to
help out the many destitute families in
that city.
A paper mill now located in Apple
ton, Wis, promises to local at Saulte
Ste. Marie.
Col. w. S. Green, of Detroit, has been
elected president of the new state mill
tary board.
The molders in the Malleable iron
works at Albion went out on strike for
higher wages.
The site of the postoffice at Riley,
Clinton county, has been moved 10
miles southeast.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
retail lumber dealers association was
held at Grand Rapids.
The Detroit, Lansing e. Northern
railway is cutting 400 carloads of ice
a week at the Colby lakes.
The straw wrapping paper trust has
absorbed the plant of the Central City
Paper company at Jackson.
William Roman, Of Monroe, is sued
by Mrs. Mary +. Beaubien to recover
$50, 200 for breach of promise.
A recruiting Office has been opened
in Adrian, and is under the charge of
Capt. Eckerson, of the 10th infantry.
The Odd Fellows mutual benefit as
ISOLATION of Michigan has 800 members
enrolled since April, who are carrying
nearly 100000 insurance.
Adelaro Graveline has been returned
to Gladwin from Massachusetts to
answer to the charge of attempting
to murder Orren Ferguson.
An owl tried to break through a
window in the home of G.. N. Lawrence,
of Lapeer, to make a meal on a cage of
song birds temptingly displayed inside.
George James sent bullet into his
brain in Grand Rapids saloon. He
once owned a money-making hardware
business in Midland. Whisky ruined
him.
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at Wise, Isabella county; Clowry, Mar
county, and Saint Tacunes, Delta
county.
The widow of j. Brouszek, of Mus
kegon, was seized with commissions
when she beheld her husband hanging
in the woodshed recently. Now she is
a raving maniac.
Nine head of cattle, % sheep and
horses in barn belonging to John
Gall, North Akron, were burned. A
son of Gall was tramped upon by the
frightened animals and badly hurt.
Reports from various sources indicate
that the peach buds about Benton Har-
Dor have not been injured by the late
heavy frosts, and fruit growers anti
cipate large yield from their orchards
this year.
Prisoners set fire to the Saginaw
county Jail at night in the expectation
of effecting their escape. For time
considerable excitement prevailed, but
the DANES were extinguished with only
$50 damage.
Rev. Ellen Cross Copp, wife of Prof.
J. S. Copp, of Hillsdale college, who
has been supplying the pulpit of the
Park Baptist church at Lansing for the
past five months, has resigned owing
to i'll health.
ID. A. Briant, of Stanton, has COM
menced a suit against the Detroit,
Lansing 81 Northern railway to recover
SIS, 900 damages for the loss of his
planning mill, which was destroyed by
J fire last summer.
u. N. Hubbard, OF the Detroit, Lam
sing & Northern, has collected fares 3s
| years and travelled over 1,5O0, 900 miles,
and never had a passenger injured nor
wheel off the track. He uses neither
tobacco nor liquor.
The walls of a. burned building at
Hastings fell outward smashing in the
building occupied on the west by
| uoOuyedr drug store ana Inat on the
east by Byron Dickinson as saloon.
The total loss is between $1,000 and
1900.
1t is announced that a new copper
wire will be strung from Detroit to
Grand Rapids early in the summer TO
connect in Detroit with the long dis
lance telephone to New York. The
telephone company will make many
extensions in the state, including a line
to Saginaw and from Big Rapids north
ward to Petosley.
A mixed train on the Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee road was wrecked
at Sessions siding, three and half
miles southeast of Ionia. A broken
| rail threw 20 freight cars and a day
coach and smoker off the track into a
heap. The sleeper kept the track.
The train was going 25 miles an hour
i and the cars were badly wrecked,
No one seriously hurt. f'
Bay City and West Bay City are likely
to be consolidated after all. Hon. $.
o. Fisher, who owns large amount of
! property in both towns, having headed