Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-07
MICHIGAN sTATEITeMs.

Clio people have formed stock COM
pauy and will build canning factory.
1t cost Dundee less than $500 to take
care of her temporary poor the past
year.
Grand Rapids bricklayers and ma
sons have struck for an eight-hour day
at rs cents per hour.
Mrs. Rebecca Deal, of Glendale, aged
90 years, has just completed a patch
work quit containing 1900 separate
pieces.
A marriage license was issued in OF
tawa county to John ii. Kinney, aged
"a, and Mary Bouten, aged &c. The
groom was born on the Atlantic ocean.
Negotiations are pending between
the Electric Headlight Co., of New
York, and Dowagiac business men, who
are trying to induce the concern to
locate there.
III. Ii. Nor.hup, well-to-do Castle
ton farmer, 70 years OF age, committed
suicide by shooting himself He is
said to have been mentally unbalanced
Tor some time.
Hartford citizens are agitating the
question of damming the Paw Paw
river at that place for the purpose of
furnishing power of operate a system
of water works.
The striking engineers and fremen
at Owosso have gay times in their club
rooms, dancing and playing cards, but
most of them are getting pretty tired
of their prolonged vacation.
The latest addition to Van Buren,
county journalism is the Christian
Endeavor, a monthly published at
South Haven in the interests of the
society from which it derives it's name.
A heavy northwest wind piled up the
ice and destroyed 500 feeto of the mile of
new dock put in this winter by the S.,
T. & IL. Il. r. at Bay Port. 1t will be
rebuilt as soon as the weather permits.
Chris Shepard, of West Bay City, who
has several times threatened to kill his
wife and once attempted suicide, has
been locked up pending an eX-
animation as TO his sanity. Whisky is
TO blame.
The business men of Bellaire have
decided to keep the boom they see COM
ing and have organized n stock COM
pany for the purpose of building one
of the best grist mills in northern
Michigan.
The experiment of raising onions on
large tract of reclaimed swamp land
at Bangor proved SO successful that
largely increased acreage of the odor-
Gus vegetable will be cultivated the
coming season.
A company has been formed n Iron
Mountain TO build dam at the con-
fiuence of the Menominee and Pine
rivers, three miles distant They will
generate electricity and conduct il to
that city for manufacturing purposes.
Congressman Linton has fixed upon
Friday, April 81. as the date of the ex-
animation of candidates for the West
Point cadetship at his disposal. The
examination will be held in the ajor's
Office in Saginaw at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon.
For the first time since the adoption
of the local option law, not a single
''tonic joint is doing business in
Decatur, and only friendly drug
store can relieve the wants of the
chronic imbibers.
Miss Georgia Pike, of South jackson,
while riding horse back, had a remark
able experience. The horse stumbled,
throwing the girl into the air with
such force that she turned n complete
eomersault She landed on her feet on
the ground uninjured.
Last Thanksgiving Day Nathan Bur-
nette, of West Brookfeld, killed hog.
The animal had at some time swal-
lowed a needle, which stuck in his
throat A short time ago Burnettes in
trying to cut out the hogs tongue, ran
the needle into his thumb. Blood pois-
oning soon set in, and. after suffering
terrible pain for a long time, Brunette
has had the thumb amputated.