Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-28
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

The Hancock y. NJ. G. a. will build
a ZOO home.
United States dredges at the Sault
has begun work.
Caro- Methodists will build new
house of warship this summer.
The ground is red with wintergreen
berries in the pine woods in Allegan
county.
Alfred Il. Docl1e, of Belding, will ac
company Judge Morse. of Glasgow as
private secretary.
The 19.year-old son of Charles Wink
Ter, of Mt. Clemens, fell in fit and
was drowned in pool.
The Maxom manufacturing company,
of Union City, puts out $500 finished
barrel hoops per week.
+. Milton Comstock, an aged man,
was killed at Whitaker by freight
train on the Wabash railroad.
Reed City schools have been closed
on account of the diphtheria scare.
There are three cases in one family.
Rev. Thomas Barr, of st. Thomas
church at Battle Creek, has received
call from st. Lukc's church at Tacoma,
Wash.
Lake City will have a $50, 900 glass
factory provided bonus of SIS, 900 is
raised. The sand is of a very fine
quality.
Rev. L. X. Gault, of the Muir Disciple
church, has resigned his charge, hav-
ing accepted a professorship in Ten
nessee college.
Benton Harbor people have decided
to grant VIM. Dallin a 100000 bonus
for new railroad and some manufact-
uring enterprise.
Frank Connorton, a five-year convict
from Detroit, died at Jackson prison.
The body was sent to the parents of
deceased at Detroit.
Mr.. Pierce, of Bradley, was run over
by his wagon while drawing stone, and
killed. He had been a resident of the
village for many years.
Isaac Barnhart, "A molder 30 years
old, committed suicide at Dowagiac by
shooting himself through the heart.
Cause, domestic troubles.
George Minera, a trimmer in the
Copper Falls mine at Houghton was
fatally injured while riding upon the
skip, which is strictly forbidden.
Fred Darcy, a Michigan Cen trial
brakeman, missed his footing at Jack
son and fell, the locomotive passing
over the right ankle, completely sever
ing it.
Lew Matthews, who has been a surf
e
for the past II years, has been APP
pointed captain of the crew at Grand
Haven.
A 6-year-old son of Charles Pipglan,
of Arbela township, Tuscola county,
stands feet and inches He weighs
eco pounds, while his father is 90
pounds lighter.
The three-year-old daughter of Mar
tin Zezgckowika, of Grand Rapids,
playing beside bonfire, was caught
in the flames, and before assistance ar
rived had been burned to death.
A receiver has been asked for by the
stockholders of the Mutual Reverse
Live Stock Insurance company, which
has headquarters at Marshall. They
object to the numerous assessments.
The sixteenth annual session of the
grand council, Royal Arcanum, was
held at Muskegon with 80 delegates in
attendance. The grand lodge degree
was conferred upon over 100 candidates.
The Michigan conference of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
elected officers at Ionia as follows:
Mrs. Moors, of Greenville, president;
Mrs. j. ii. Pitcher, of Jackson, secre-
tary; Mrs. Moore, representative to
state convention in September.
Muskegon's council has voted 500, 900
TO buy the McGraft park. The bonds
are for 81, 900 each, bearing per cent
interest and are payable in 1926.
The spring meeting of the Marcellus
Driving Park association will be held
June IA and Is. Several hundred dol
lars were subscribed by the citizens as
an addition to the purses to be hung
up by the association.
Tie barber shops of Port Huron were
all closed on Sunday pursuant to an
order issued by Mayor Merriam that
proceedings would be begun under the
city ordinance against all whose places
were found open on Sunday hereafter.