Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-28
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

to ship 10000 baskets of grapes this
season.
Mrs. Pierce, of Prichardville, has
woven over 400, yards of carpet since
January. She is 81 years old.
The last of the four children of
August Brecker, living near West
Olive, has died of black diphtheria.
Grand Haven shipyards closed for
two weeks to give the employees an OPP
portunity to visit the Worlds FAIR.
Ida Meyers, while standing by pen
of wild bears, at Linwood, had one of
her eyes torn out by one of the brutes.
The semi-annual Sunday school con-
vention of the state was held at Bay
View, with many enthusiastic workers
present.
Bernard Hag, young sailor of Cleve-
land, of the steamer Swain, fell
through a hatchway at Escanaba and
was killed.
The Ninth Michigan Veteran Volun-
teer Infantry association will hold its
annual reunion in representative hdl IL,
Lansing, August To-
Seventeen bands have already an
nounced that they will participate in
the Michigan and Ohio band tourney
at Hudson, August II.
William Price, n colored barber at
Benton Harbor, was severely burned by
carelessly filling and lighting a gaso-
line stove by lamp light
Many of the upper peninsula Italians.
are leaving for the old country. They
say their chance of getting work there
is as good as in America.
Fire at Midland destroyed several
frame buildings with portion of their
contents. Loss about SIS, 900; about
half that amount of insurance.
n. Il. Glasier, aged 81, of Grand Ha-
ven, disappeared and his whereabouts
are not yet known. lie is thought TO
have purchased a ticket to New York
City.
The Ottawa County Building & Loan
association has undivided profits of
Si2, 900. The amount placed in mort
cages is $4,000. This showing is
splendid.
George Marsh. of Homer, has pair
of French calf boots that he has worn
for 40 years. He recently had them re-
paired, and hopes TO make them hold
out 10 years longer.
An average of Is tons of plate glass
direct from Belgium and Holland, is
received weekly at the American mir
ror and plate glass beveling company's
plant in Grand Haven.
The partition and crate factory of
Bay City has been induced to locate at
Reed City. The factory will cost S1O,-
600 and 100 men will be given steady
employment the first year.
The people of West Bay City are
kicking over the meager police pro-
lection being furnished them. The
business portion of the city has but
one officer on duty at night.
Herbert Bergen, Princeton univer-
sity student visiting at Harbor Springs,
was drowned there while bathing. lie
could not swim, and stepped into
deep hole while wading about.
The Port Huron Engine & Thresher
works have laid off some men in their
boiler and wood working shops. This
firm employees nearly 225 men, and
will still keep $50 of them at work.
w illldlh hdlcS, VI odIIlld, mas Deeu
missing since July 5. He was on the
river rowing from Port Huron to
Sarina on that day and is believed to
have been run down by a passing YES
sci and drowned.
Lottie Woods, wanted as a witness
in Il land case, has been abducted at
Sand Beach By the captain of the
Lucinda, it is said to prevent her Civ
ing evidence The authorities are
looking for both.
Edward Pagelson, Grand Haven
surveyor, will go to South American
next spring in the employ of an Eng
lish syndicate, which proposes to
develop great sugarcane tract III the
| Andes mountains.
The cherry crop about Whitehall is
very abundant this season. Currants
are scarce and apples nearly failure.
Raspberrics and bacltberries promise
well, while peaches will not be nearly
up to the average.
Extensive dairy barns, three miles
! southwest of Coldwater belonging to
| Cole 81 Angevine, were destroyed by
Ore. Loss, 81 800 to e, 900. 1t is sup
posed the fire caught from burning old
ties near the railroad.
The body of an unknown man was
found by berry picl<ers near Carp
| River, three miles north of Negau-
nee. An unmailed letter in his
pocket was signed William Niece. He
is supposed 90 have been in the river
since last November.
Victor Thomas, well-to-do bachelor
farmer drove his team 10 Benton Har-
Dor and then wandered away, leaving
the team on the streets. lie has not
been heard from since and fears are
entertained that he became intoxicated,
fell into the canal and was drowned.
C. w. Crawford, an insurance agent
at Port Huron was arrested by Chief
Stoddard, charged with forging $40
worth of notes on ira 7. Sayre. of
| Flushing, Mich. Crawford deposited
the notes and narrowed $40 on them.
Genesee county officials went after
him.
Robert Jackson, about 81 years old,
who lived in Bedford and Ida, Monroe
county, was found unconscious in the
yard of ALT Wright, two miles west of
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