Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-06
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

Corunna, October 10.
Michigan's cranberry crop almost a
failure. Dry weather.
Jesse Monroe, of Bronson, has lost a
$4,000 residence 10y fire.
Because he could not get work Colin
w. Campbell suicided at Grand Rapids.
The Oakland County Teachers assoc
citation will meet at Pontiac December
1 and ..
Ypsilanti normal school gymnasium
| to cost $4,000 is to be finished jan
uary 10, 1894.
Sinking ground at Salisbury mine,
Ishpeming, nearly swallowed the main
engine house.
A Dundee man has invented tile
ditch-digging machine that will do the
work of 10 men.
A caving sewer trench caught Louis
Cavanaugh, aged IS years, at Muske-
gon and killed HIM.
A cow dragged Jeremiah Clifford,
| aged So, through the street at Adrian,
inflicting fatal injuries.
Coleman voted down the s., 900 water
works scheme. Not dismayed its advo-
Gates will now try for $4,000.
Chas. Murray, Vassar veteran, has
! gone violently insane. Suspension of
his pension is said to be the principal
| cause.
ID. Donovan received injuries from
runaway horse at Carleton from which
he will die. The horse dragged him
half mile.
Ice has already been seen in MuslIe-
gon harbor, and marine men expect TO
see the harbor closed To navigation by
November l.
O. p. Bills, Tecumseh's eX-banker,
was arraigneI at Adrian on the charge
of enlightenment, and bound over on
$50, 600 bonds.
striking his hand upon rusty spike of a
pierced through.
A new postofiice has been established
at Buel, Sanilac county, and is known
as Hicks postotfice George w. Hicks
is the first postmaster.
November is the day set by Gov
Rich for special election ~ the First
district to chose a successor TO the late
Congressman j. Logan Chapman.
Mrs. Caroline Markham, a Niles
woman who died recently, left over
half her fortune of $1,000 to found
scholarships in the University of Wis
consin.
Rev. George r. Wallace, of a fashion
able Congregational church in Sag
NAV, has made a sensation by inviting
Salvation Army major to speak from
his pulpit.
The Ontouagon Miner intimates that
an animal called deer" is shot in that
portion of the state one month in the
year, and mountain sheep the other
IL months.
While killing trout with dynamite
n criminal otlense-John Fowler, of
Killmaster, blew off his right hand
and was beyond recovery from loss of
blood when found.
Alger. Smith a. Co. must get out
their axes and go TO work. They have
1000, 900 feet of standing pine in Os-
coda county that has been so badly
burned by forest fires that it must be
cut to save it.
In the burning of the bone of j. Q.
Adams, in Alamo township, Kalama-
zoo county. The aged father of Mrs.
Adams-Wm. Mattison, aged rs years
lost his life by being suffocated and
burned to a cinder.
w. 4. Roses little son was run over
by buggy at Kalamazoo, the Wheels
passed across his body. He lies in a
serious condition. The men who drove
over the little fellow did not stop to
see how badly he was injured, and are
not known.
A case of sporadic cholera reported
by DR.. K. A. Fuller at Grand Rapids
turned out to be "a case of grape seeds.
The woman's digestive apparatus had
become clogged with mass of the
seeds, collapse followed and all the
| symptoms of cholera.
An appropriation from the board of
trade, supplemented by an equal sum
raised by private subscription, viii be
utilized to secure the services of
competent and experienced coal driller
TO put down several test holes in the
coal fields near Saginaw
An injustice has been done Engineer
Sawher, of the st. Clair water works, in
the statement that he was removed for
incompetency. His removal is now
said to have been the result of IA local
! political fight and has done great in
! jury to Congressman Whiting.
James A. Ashby, the man who in n
moment of anger dashed his baby's
! brains out near Cadillac has been SEN
! fenced to Jackson for two years. 1t
was pleaded in extenuation of Ashby's
crime that he was insane at times, and
the jury in bringing in their verdict
advised the judge to be merciful.
r. w. Barron, a vessel broker of De-
troit, was found on the rear steps of
his home at an early morning hour in
deep stupor. The combined efforts
of the family and three physicians
failed to arouse him and he soon died.
Suicide because of business troubles.
People thought it was some of their
business when an Iron Mountain
widow buried child, sent her remain
ing children to a foundlings home and
got married, all in one week. They
gave her most violent charivari,
SCATTERING every window in her house.