Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-08-04
AROUND THE STATE.

John Roach, chopper, committed
suicide at Manistee by jumping into
the river.
A fire of unknown origin destroyed
the ice houses of Thomas Doyle, Flint.
Loss, $4,000
The Free Methodists of southwestern
Michigan held their annual camp meet
ing at Berrien Springs.
The section of Decatur's main street
DESTROYED by the recent fire is to be re-
built with brick buildings.
Drs. Cogshall and Buckham, of Flint,
have been appointed upon the pension
examining board of their county.
Supreme Justice Frank A. Hooker
and wife were given pleasant farwell
at Charlotte before their removal to
Lansing.
The Agricultural college cadets will
encamp ON the Midway Plaisance,
Worlds Fair, for 10 days beginning
August Is.
st. Clair county is agtating the
question of a court house as the county
quarters in the city hall at Port Huron
are very cramped.
w. C. T. U. ladies at Belding are
after the city council to buy cuspidors
to place along the sidewalks for the
use of tobacco chewers.
Harry Wood, Jonesville lad 10
years of age, while trying to catch on
the cars that were passing was thrown
under the wheels and lost a foot.
A young Polander at Jackson is n
victim of misplaced confidence. lie
gave his best girl "a ring and 500 in
money, and now she refuses to marry
him.
Baroda, the hustling Berrien county
town, the site of which n few months
ago was covered with primeval forest,
will erect Il $4,000 Congregational
church.
A tramp was arrested at Cadillac
who has been identified as the muir
dcrer of Conductor Chas. Foster on the
Michigan Central railroad at Dowagiac
June -.
The retorts and chemical works at
Luther belonging to the Gaylord Iron
company, of Detroit, were destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000. The FIRE was of
incendiary origin.
Over 1000 claims have been fled
against the defunct Central Michigan
Savings bank, of Lansing. The first
dividend of Is per cent-S75, O0O-win
be disbursed September l.
Richard Melbourne, an Adrian con-
fectiOner, had some words with Mrs.
Merritt and threw bottle of ink into
her face and over her dress. lie skipped
when he heard an officer was after
him.
James Robinson, aged 7s years,
farmer near Grand Rapids, was pros
trated by the intense heat and died
within an hour. The day was one of
the hottest of the season, the mercury
marking 30 deg in the shade.
The wheat harvest is completed in
Van Buren, county, and tbreshing has
already commenced. The new wheat
coming into the market is of excellent
quality, and threshers report that the
yield will be from II to 20 bushels per
acre.
The NJ. L. camp meeting for the
Battle Creek district will be held at
Albion, commencing August s, and
continuing with three daily sessions
until August Ii. All services will be
under the direction of President Elder
Graham.
William Badgley, the soldier at Fort
Mackinac who is charged with felon.
iously assaulting Annie Saulter. who
subsequently committed suicide be-
cause of her shame, is TO be tried Au-
gust Is. He says he can prove his in
nocence.
General Manager Cole, of the Buffalo
Mining company, went to Wakefield,
where he paid overdue wages to the
employees of the Sunday Lake mine.
Mr.. Cole stated before starting that the
Buffalo Mining company will pay all
its employees.
A little daughter of Jonas Storker, a
Berrien county farmer, was run over
by heavy wagon and had her hip
broken. The child was treated by the
so-called Christian science" method,
and as a result the little one will go
through life a cripple.
The National Savings Investment
company, of Tekonsha, recently barred
from using the mails by the postal de-
partment at Washiugto n, will reor-
ganize under a new plan and open bus
mess at Saginaw in August All bonds
of the old company will be transferred.
A $4,000 glass factory will probably
be built IN Lake City because of the
quality of sand there. Reliable parties
have agreed to put in a plant of the
above value, providing the citizens will
raise a bonus of $4,000, and the citi-
zens there seem very much taken up
with the proposition.
The Industrial Works, of Bay City,
manufacturers of railroad cranes, exca-
vators wrecking apparatus, etc, has
shut down for an indefinite period.
The establishment was one of the lead
ing industries of the city and had
manufactured most of the travelling
and twisting cranes used at the Worlds
Fair.
President Clute, who recently re-
signed from the Michigan Agricultural
college has accepted the presidency of
the Florida Agricultural college, and
tho diroctOrshin of the pxpnrimput sta