Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-27
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.


90 days in Jail for stealing walnuts.
A. M. Clark, Of Lexington, assumes
his new duties as consul OF Sarnia on
the first of November
The Ingham County Saving Bank
has resumed business after having
been closed five months.
A Nestoria man could not wait for
the open season for deer TO arrive, shot
one, and has been fined $50 and costs.
At special election at jackson the
proposition to bond the city for $50, 900
TO further improve the water system
was carried.
Judge Swan appointed Don. NJ. Dick
inson as receiver of the Detroit, Bay
City & Alpena Railroad company, and
fixed his bond at $4,000.
The Fostoria Buggy company, of
Jackson, has placed chattel mort
gage TO secure creditors of the concern
to the amount of 100000
j. Soht, farmer from Bridgeport,
blew out the gas in his room at the
Sherman house, Saginaw, and was
nearly dead when discovered in the
morning.
Albert Sink and John Weigand,
brothers-in-law, quarrelled with IA
pitchforlx and revolver near Dearborn.
As u result Sink has bullet wound in
the thigh.
Mrs. William Smade, of Albion, used
kerosene oil 10 start n FIRE and was
very seriously injured in the explosion
which followed. She was badly burned
about the head and arms.
Miss Edith Oldfeld, of Saginaw,
thought an article in a Detroit sensa-
tional Sunday paper reflected on her
and she took laudanum with suicidal
intent. She will not die.
John Thurmel, aged sixty-three, of
Bay City, cut his throat with razor.
He is still alive, but will die. lie is
sorry he did the deed, and says he must
have been out of his mind.
NJ. II. Myers. of Bear Lake, became
angry at charivari that was given
him after his marriage and shot into
the crowd, seriously injuring Edgar
kingscott, reputable young farmer.
The Exchange Bank at Climax has
decided TO go out of business, and
posted notice to depositors TO call
and take away their cash. The bank
is perfectly solvent, and every body
will be paid in full.
VIM. A. Bassett, prominent bust
ness man of Plymouth, viii e at work
trimming peach trees in his garden,
suddenly dropped dead from sup
posed stroke OF apopieXy. Mr.. Bassett
was GS years of age.
The sale of Adrian's electric belt
railroad TO 5. d. Nesmith, as agent of
the ThompSon-llouston syndicate. has
been perfected and the cash turned
over. The electric line is sure go to
Tecumseh and Gpsianti.
Z. Carl Bank, formerly assistant
superintendent of the Industrial Home
for Boys at Lansing has gone to Cali.
fornia, where he will be superintendent
of a similar institution which is about
to be established in that state.
Harry o Wills, the adopted son of
Evangelist Wills, has been arrested at
Holly on a charge OF stealing 1925 from
George Johnson, farmer living near
there. Wills is said 10 have confessed
and given up $3.50 of the money.
1t was foggy and neither was run
ming very rapidly, but there was a
head-end collision ut Clare that demon
allied two locomotives of the Flint &
Pere Marquette Supt. Potter was on
one of them, but was not injured.
A disastrous fire broke out in the
business portion of Morenci and before
it could be got under control four
stores and one dwelling were destroyed.
The loss will probably amount TO
$1,000; insured for So, 500. lncendiary.
Miss Cora Williams committed suicide
at Kalamazoo by taking morphine.
She had cared for her brothers boy for
nearly 10 years The boys father took
him away few weeks ago. This made
her respondent and caused her to take
her life.
A man giving his name as Nugent
was arrested while burglarizing the
Bad Axe station for robbing the rail-
road stations at Apologize, Downing
and Minden. Articles taken from the
stations were found on his person. He
is GO years of age.
Phineas Stewart, a Livingston county
centenarian, has returned from his an
nual outing of camping and fishing.
He was 100 years old on the sth in
slant, has followed five wives and all
his children to their graves. His camp
ing companions were his grandchil-
dren.
Railroad Commissioner Billings, Milo
ID. Campbell, of Coldwater, and Robert
Gibbons, of Detroit, constituting the
road and street crossing board created
by the last legislature, met at Lansing
and organized by electing Commissioner
Billings chairman and Major Campbell
secretary.
The upper peninsula will soon have
stone quarries as rich as her copper
and iron mines. Gray granite has been
uncovered at Breen. and marble in in
exhaustible deposits has just been
found near the headwaters of the Me-
nominee river. A company for the
development of each has been formed.
A well-llnown numbering iobber OF
Gladwin county, Walter +. Hymen,
went to Saginaw and put up at the
Sherman house. lie had with him
three teams, quantity of camp equi-
page and $3.50 in cash. He is now miss