Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-21
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.


The 7-year-old son OF Lars Olson, of
Ishpeming, was drowned in Lake Can
croft.
An unknown young man, aged 10,
was drowned at Frankenmuth. 1t was
a case of cramps.
John S. Blanchard, of Ionia has been
appointed a special pension agent at a
yearly salary of $1,000.
Farmers in Manistee county COM
plain of a scarcity of laborers with a
large hay crop in sight.
All the handsome colored windows
in ST. Marks church Paw Paw, have
been destroyed by vandals.
Obed Niver, AZ years of age and I'M
married, was killed by a falling limb
while Telling trees near Ravenna.
The barn belonging to Charles Har-
ris. near Willis, was struck by light
ming and burned. Two horses were
killed.
The farmers of Washtenaw, Oakland,
Wayne and Livingston counties hold
their annual picnic at Whitmore Lake,
August II.
Rev. Il. +. Baker, of Constantine, has
received call from the city of st.
Thomas on the island of that name in
the West Indies.
One of the victims of the cold stor-
age building fire in Chicago, it has just
been learned, was son OF w. j. Temp
kins, of Battle Creek.
John A. Murdoch, Dexter merchant,
haI -, Il f..
he was helping to move broke loose
jamming him against wall.
Leon 5. Smith, the Grand Rapids for
ger, waived examination and at his
trial pleaded guilty and threw himself
upon the mercy of the court.
Hudson has raised a fund of 500 to
entertain the Michigan and Ohio Band
association at their ninth annual re-
union in that city, August Il.
Bishop Richter laid the cornerstone
of the new French Catholic church at
Saginaw. He was assisted by all tSe
priests in Saginaw and Bay City.
Bertha Minister, Is years old, of Bliss
field, took dose of laudanum, with
suicidal intent while respondent.
Friends discovered her in time to call
her back to life.
VIM. II. Hames, a sailor belonging
TO the schooner Samuel Bolton, of De-
troit, while in bathing at Cheboygan
was drowned. He is supposed to be-
long to Strathroy, Ont.
Orrin Belts, a Wheatland farmer,
Respondent over farm work and inabil-
ity TO get help, hanged himself in his
barn: lie leaves young wife and two
small children.
Elks and G.. a. Il. posts at Washing
ton will unite in IA benefit for w. ID.
Mack, of Kalamazoo, the clerk who
lost both legs by being run over by
train at Gettysburg.
William Chitterenden, farmer in
ColfaX township, Wexford county, fell
from a load of hay. His neck was
broken by the fall. Mr.. Chitterenden
was poineer and soldier.
A number of residents of Iron
Mountain will drive the $50 miles to
Chicago in "bus" hauled by four
horses. They leave Aug. Is and will
advertise their town all along the line.
A. Parker, farmer of Johnstown,
the streets at Hastings and seizing his
four-year-old child jumped into buggy
and was driven from town. His wife
claims he drove her from home.
Patrolman w. A. Bierbower, one of
Detroits most popular and efficient
police officers committed suicide at his
home in bed. Infatution with a mem
Der the demi-monde was the cause.
He left widow and two children.
The death of Eliza Baker, which &C.
Cured at Kalamazoo, has caused some
thing of sensation. 1t has been
learned that a criminal operation was
performed three weeks ago, and Kal.
amazoo physician is said to be impli-
| Gated.
Fred Kingston, who was arrested in
Grand Rapids on an Odd charge of bur
glary, is now at Ionia. He jumped his
bail four years ago and has since been
! living with the Esquimaux in Alaska.
He brought a large collection OF curl
osities back with him
Warden Parsell still refuses TO give
up his job at the House of Correction
at Ionia until the time has expired.
| His successor, Otis Fuller, has not yet
decided just what steps he will take to
GUST him, or if he will do anything ex-
cept wait for the prison board to act.
For some time the "hobo" gang has
terrorized people in Grand Rapids, and
the police haven't always been able to
cope with them. Patrolman Brown
| tried to arrest some of them for
/ blocxading q sidewalk. James Powers
resisted and may die of conclusion of
the brain. The policeman used his
club vigorously.
The Calumet & Hecla Mining com
pany has, during the past year, dis
charged a number of Hungarian miners
and replaced them with Englishmen,
Germans and Swedes. The latter, it is
thought, are less liable to bring about
labor trouble. The company is said
to have decided upon wholesale
charges of the same kind in the future.
Miss Carrie Plant, of Nuncia, and her
sister, Miss Pearl Plant, of Chicago,
started from Muske9on for the World S
Fair. The entire distance of 194 miles
will be made on foot. They have made
wager not to accept any assistance