Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-18
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

The Michigan Salt & Lumber CO., of
Saginaw, lost 10000 barrels of salt by
fire at Milwaukee.
Spiritualists of southwestern Michi-
gan held a well-attended camp meet
ing at Lake Cora, near Decatur.
Lloyd Harrington, of Falkland, has
been arrested on a charge of assaulting
Cora IL. Kinser, l3-year-Old girl.
A. b. Dougherty, of Elk Rapids, has
been admitted to practice before the
interior department at Washington.
Ole Anderson, aged 20 years, son of
John Anderson, of Ishpeming, was
drowned while bathing in Deer Lake.
Tournament of the State Trapshoot-
ers' league at Jackson under the aus
pices of the jackson Gun Club August
90 and %.
Grasshoppers are doing great dam
age to crops in the vicinity of Orion
and Oxford, destroying in some cases
whole crops.
David Laraway, of Grand Rapids,
aged 81. was thrown from buggy in
runaway. lie fractured his skull,
broke two ribs and will die.
The dead body of an Italian miner
was found at Carney. When found he
was on his face, his hands in his pock-
cts and Il bullet hole in his forehead.
Frank Greenbaum, for eight months
in the general merchandise business at
Alma, made an assignment to Il ID.
Lemen for the benefit of his creditors.
Dick Wilkulls was injured fatally at
Kalamazoo by being thrown from
buggy in which he was riding with
two Others by collision with an cleo
trio car.
Charles and Edward Hemp, two
Woodworking and deserving farmers
near Manchester have received SIS, 900
each by the death of a distant relative
in England.
Berkay 81 Bay, OF Grand Rapids, one
of the largest furniture factories in the
country, shut down for an indefinite
period. Several hundred men are
thrown out of work.
Amanda Chapault. of Negaunce, age
92 years and slightly demented, while
alone set her clothing on fire and
burned her limbs, trunk and tongue SO
horribly that she died.
A. Woodward, who keeps a general
store at Manton, was flimtiammed out
of 5000 while getting ideas on how to
detect counterfeit money from a
stranger at Big Rapids.
Lumbermen of the Menominee river
held a meeting aud decided TO pay
their employees in GO-day drafts or time
checks and to continue operations
right along at full blast.
The eight-year-old son of Chas.
Hastrom, Saginaw, was drowned while
playing near the wharf. lie is sup
posed to have struck log in falling
which rendered him insensible.
The county seat books, furniture
and officers of Montmorency county
have all been removed from Hillman
TO Atlanta, and the fight about the re-
moval now seems to be at an end.
John Richmond, aged 20 years. of
Whitehall, complains that Mrs Sands
had given him a beating because he
had demonstrated with her children
for quarreling with his grandchildren.
The dry and hot weather caused sew
eral thousand baskets of peaches TO
soften, dry up and drop from the trees
about Benton Ilarbor. The black
berry crop was also ruined for the
want of moisture.
The Pennsylvania Iron company of
Norway will reduce its working force,
laying off 800 men. The Aragou mine
has just started operations with one
half its force and reduction in wages
averaging 30 per cent.
Two children of William Caldwell,
at Ellington, got into yellow Jackets
nest and were so badly stung that,
when found, they could neither see
nor make noise. Their heads had to
be encased in blue clay.
w. II. Huston, of Lowell township,
Kent county, was boring a well and
gold quartz. lie believes he has n
valuable mine, and the people are
considerably excited by it.
The Menominee River Boom COM
pany, in order TO continue the main
drive, cut the wages of the men from
S2.5 to 81 per day. About so of the
best employees left, but their places
were quickly taken by others.
The barns and contents and all ad-
joining buildings on the farm of Joseph
Wagner of Hillsdalc county, were de-
stroyed by fire. Sixty tons of hay and
80 acres of wheat in the stack were
also burned. Loss, 1000; insured
Somebody spread the report that in
the basement of the Catholic church
ut Cadillac there were a number of
stacks of firearms. Some one quietly
went to the church, but found that
the building didn't have basement.
The splendid barns on John McKer-
lies farm near Sturgis, were burned
with all their contents. The fire was
incendiary, as four of the five horses
in the barn had been tied to fence
near the building. The loss is about
81, 900.
A small-sized cyclone struck Dag
gett, little town about 30 miles north
of Menominee. The Westmore Lum-
Der Co.'S mill was totally wrecked.
The mill was just about to begin oper-
ations. A number of other buildings
were badly damaged.
Saginaw Valley employees of the
Flint & Pere Marquette railroad en-
ioyed an outing at Bayport. The +. &,
II Nj Upnarnnslv n ffnr1inu than, fbic