Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-07
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

ateS Will DE nelu AT pSlIanU tuesday,
July IL.
Justice Montgomery, of the supreme
court, has let contracts for residence
in Lansing.
Fifteen sheep out of flock of twenty
five, belonging TO Jessie Bail, of Eaton,
We're killed by dogs.
VIII Riley, foreman In Grand
Rapids furniture factory, went to the
Worlds Fair on wheel.
Michigan will receive $4,000 from
the government for the expenses of her
militia during the next fiscal year.
At a meeting of council of Hope col
lege, Prof. G.. j. Kollen, of Holland,
was elected president of the institu-
ton.
Fred Kimball, an Albion boy, cap
tured first prize for excellence of first
years work in the art school at Phil
adelphia.
Miss Sophie jefferson, of Williams
ton, member of the high school grad
uating class was awarded scholarship
at Adrian college.
Alex Anderson, the Marine City ship
builder, was attacked by u mad dog
and escaped injury only after a hard
fight. The dog was killed.
The Detroit & Cleveland Steam
Navigation Co. S splendid new steamer,
City of Aipena made her first trip TO
to Cleveland from Detroit.
Ross, Bradley & Company new mill,
now building at West Bay City, will be
completed in two months and is eX-
pected to employ 1000 men.
Miss Jones, an Owosso girl, was
held up at Durand as she was about to
take a train for Chicago. She was
robbed of $50 in cash and a railway
ticket.
George Lamoreaux, well-known
farmer living in Plaintield township,
Kent county, fell from a load of hay
and broke his neck. He left large
family.
Earl Rogers left Hillsdale on the Goth
of last November To go to Adrian.
Nothing has been heard of him since.
Mrs. Flatt, of IIillsdale, desires infor-
nation.
Bogus dollars are being circulated in
st. Louis, and the supply seems to be
on the increase. 1t is coujectured that
they are being manufactured very near
that village.
Thomas Carroll, aged 90, was in
stantly killed at the Quincy mine, near
Houghton, by a premature exposition.
John Powers left eye was blown out
and he will die.
Marshall has a water works contract
which will cost SS5, 900 during the 20
years of its life. Marshall now wants
to repudiate it, and may appeal to the
supreme court,
Henry Haley, of Dandy, recently
sent as present to his little grand
daughter a patchwork quilt which he
made last winter which is said to have
excited the envy of all the women and
girls who have seen it.
The patents, patterns, plant, good
will and stock of the George T. Smith
Middlings Purifier company, of Jack
son, were offered at auction by the re-
ceiver. Only 81, 500 was bid, and the
receiver refused TO sell.
Henry Hall, of Three Rivers, an ex-
tensive grower of mint on a big marsh
at Florence, has placed 100 young tur-
keys on his mint land to gather up the
grasshoppers that are working mis-
chief with the aromatic plants.
The Norton house, at Muskegon
Heights, was destroyed by fire and
none of the furniture or fixtures were
saved. The house was of brick, was
erected two years ago, and the loss is
estimated at SIS, 600; insurance, So, 900.
The boilers to be used in the Thomas
Cranage, now building at West Bay
City, will be the largest ever used on a
lake vessel, and will be made of steel,
a inches thick. The Detroit Dry
dock company has the contract for the
job.
A city election on the issuing of adj
ditional water works bonds to the
amount of $50, 600 is to be held July 10
at Owosso and the attorneys are puz-
zling their heads over the question of
whether the women shall be allowed
to vote.
Willie Stehling and three other Lake
Linden boys were sent by their parents
to work in potato field. The boys
thought there would be more fun in
taking sail on the lake, so they chose
the latter. The boat capsized and
Willie was drowned.
A little 3-year old daughter of Job
Van Zandt, of Deerfield, picked up
bottle in the yard and drank of the
contents. 1t proved TO be a poisonous
acid, carelessly thrown there by a
former tenant. The little girl lived
all day suffering fearful agony.
While II. Williams, an Industrious,
Woodworking farmer of Windsor town
ship, Eaton county, was doing in a
chair on the sidewalk at Diamondale,
someone placed a dynamite cartridge
under the chair. An explosion fol-
lowed and Williams hand was torn to
pieces.
Gus Mackey, a full-blooded Pottawa-
tonne Indian of Athens, has returned
from Lawrence, Kan, where he has
been attending school. He is great
ball player and is said to have refused
500 per month to pitch for a Memphis,
Tenn, team in order to play with the
Battle Creek team.
The Hartway family, of Ray town
ship, Macomb county, have been sorely
afflicted. Six childrep and the mother
were attacked by dfphtheria at the
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