Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-01
MICHIGAN sTATEITEMc.

Fire destroyed the barns of Charles
Wells at Franklin. Loss, So, 900.
Benton Harbor has purchased 80
acres of land for a new cemetery.
III. G. Beach. prominent hardware
merchant of Alpena, has assigned.
The county road system was defeated
by 200 votes in Grand Traverse county.
The Second Michigan Infantry will
hold its reunion at Hillsdale on Sept.
IS.
Durand expects to manufacture
wheelbarrows at the rate of 10, 900
year.
The grasshoppers have affected oats
considerably and are eating binding
Irvine.
The Flint River Agricultural Society
has changed the date of its annual fair
to Oct. 2, and 4.
Contrary to resorts, Flint will hold
a fair this year. Races will take
place from Sept 10 to %.
Harry Call, Nged Is, son of Post
master Call, of Mason, was killed in
runaway about three miles north of
there.
Clyde ireland, 15-year-old son of
Charles Ireland, of Benton Harbor, ac-
cidertally shot of one finger while out
hunting.
Michael Poelek and Robert G.. Multi
can, the two prisoners who escaped
from the county Jail at Menominee
have been captured
Lumber stocks in the east have been
so materially reduced that Saginaw
lumbermen look for a speedy revival
of their business.
o. Nj. Chamberlain, of Aurora, H.,
has been appoi--ted professor of me-
chanical engineering at the Michigan
Agricultural college.
William II. Reed, Michigan Central
switchman, was killed at Owosso while
trying to make a coupling. He leaves
wife and two children.
Henry Hart, who lived near st.
Johns, cut his throat with a razor,
leaving a widow and four orphans.
He was temporarily insane.
Nethodists protcstants of western
Michigan are booked for an interest
ing conference at Bradley, beginning
Sept. 10 and continuing one week.
If the wells the Ann Arbor railway
company is driving at Durand prove a
success that town will probably get
the round-house away from Owosso.
The attendance at the Michigan
university this year will be nearly as
large as it was last wear, although the
financial stringency will have its effect.
The Eighteenth Michigan Volunteer
infantry held reunion at Palm;' IRA.
Among the speakers was Gen. boo
Ii. lie, The first colonel of the regiment.
At Metz, Pressure Isle county, two
dead children, victims of di liberia,
were left unburied in granary. The
| disease 4 that locality is spreading
rapidly.
Gov. Rich has appointed George
Perry Brown, of Marquette, circuit
court commissioner of Marquette
county to succeed jams L. Dalliba,
resigned.
A. A. Barnes, aged 20 years, fell
| from hammock at the camp meeting
at Nicksburg striking on his head. He
is completely paralyzed from his head
| downward.
Peter Hill suffered fatal injuries
from being caught in pulley at the
Algonac stave mill. His head was
smashed and arm broken, and he re-
ceived serious internal injuries.
j. B. Stephenson, the Brooklyn
school superintendent whose trip to
South Dakota with Miss Ada Culver
made great sensation, has been de-
prived of his teachers certificate.
August Setting and Fred Yuntuffsky
went hunting near NortIville. Yum
tuffsky's gun caught In some under
brush and was discharged. Setting
was struck in the hip and is dead.
The Grand Trunk road asks Port
Huron for a renewal of its lease on the
river front for 10 years. 1t is claimed
to be scheme of the road to secure
possession and Shut out other rsads.
Three lumber mills at Cadillac Will
soon shut down, throwing 300 or 400
men out of employment The pro-
prietors, however, expect to resume
operations before the season is over.
The Big Rapids district camp meet
ing of the NJ. Il. church, held at Reed
City, was the largest and most success
full in its history. Bishop w. Y. Ninde,
of Detroit, addressed over 5000 people.
Ira Page, for many years a resident
of Acme township, Grand Traverse
county, died Of old, age-aged about so.
He went to sleep in the afternoon but
could not be reused, dying il n few
hours.
At the auction sale of the business,
patents, etc, of the George T. Smith
Middlings Purifier company, at Jack
son, George Il. Smith became the pur-
chaser, his bid of Si5,000 being the
highest.
Marion d. Boutell, of Bay City, was
at work on the raft-towing tug Annie
Molles. One leg slipped into the
crank-pit, the pit revolved and Mr..
Boutell was terribly mangled. lie
livel bat few minutes.
The sheriff of Livingston county
went to Sunday school rally While
he was gone Robert Runyon, alias
Nashville Bob" anG boy named
Frank Van Veist walked out of Jail
and made good their escape.
Beer nearly killed lot of Fairgrove