Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-30
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

The school seat factory at Marcellus
has shut down until fall.
The Barry County Telegraph associa-
ton is constructing line through the
county.
Alpena county people on July 81
vote on the county road supervision
system.
Diphtheria is raging at Roscommon.
There are said to be five cases in one
family.
Hon. T. w. Palmer has subscribed
$40, 900 toward a lectureship at Albion
,Epllege.
~ A summer normal school is being
held at Carsonville with large at
irndance.
: A Marlette school teacher had one of
her eyes closed by a blow from an un-
ruly pupil
Emil Pirttimaa, of Hancock, aged IS,
was drowned while bathing in the
Portage river.
A new triple telegraphic cable has
been laid between st. Ignace and
Macliinaw City,
William Waugh was severely Injured
by being thrown from "a sullSy at the
Marcellus races.
The s-year-old child of George Uns-
worth, of Houghton, was struck and
killed by train.
All the wheelmen of the upper pen
insula will participate in a big tourna-
ment at Menominee on July 4.
Tramps will do well to keep out of
Benton Harbor. The officials make
'em do street work there now.
The Adrian w. C. T. U. has placed a
penny-in-the-slot ice-water machine at
the principal corner of the city.
Mayor Howard, of Pontiac, has is
sued an edict to the effect that there will
be no more open saloons on Sundays.
The Convoy Coal company, of Sagi-
nav, has struck fine vein of coal at
Elk. 1t is covered by 10-foot coat of
slate.
1t has been definitely decided by the
business committee of the State Agri-
cultural society not to hold a state fair
this year.
Belleville has let contracts for the
building of two iron bridges, to cost
S1,237. They will be completed Sep
TENDER /.
Paw Paws new fire engine was all
that saved the village from total de-
struction. Two houses, several barns,
four horses and two cows were burned
At the rhetorical contest of Olivet
college Owen w. Moore, of Battle
Creek, was awarded first prize and Ar
thur C. Cole, of Memphis, honorable
mention.
Bliss & Vanaul;en, of Saginaw, have
purchased GO,OO0,0O0 feet of standing
timber and S. G. Nj. Gates, of Bay City,
100000 feet both in the Georgian
Bay country.
Miss Jennie Doughty, a popular
jackson school teacher, was badly in.
jured in runaway. Her escort, Ed
ward Wolcott, was also injured, though
not SO severely.
The business of the Michigan Mutual
Benefit association of Hillsdale has
been closed up by order of the Hillsdale
circuit court. Claims amounting to
$40, 900 remain unpaid.
Pumps are now working full force
ut the MISREPRESENTATION mines at
Iron Mountain, unwatering the mines.
About 100000 gallons of water are
pumped out every "a hours.
Two Flint boys, Edison Helmer and
Newark jack" about IS years old,
have been arrested at Kalamazoo,
charged with stealing 40 pairs of pants
from the Flint wooden mills.
Burglars drilled the postoffice safe at
Holland but did not get it open. They
secured S25 worth of stamps, however,
and also ritled Vanderveen's hardware
store and Smeenge's grocery.
The barns and their contents, in
Guiding three horses, farming imple-
ments and vehicles belonging to Chas.
Newingtop, of near Romulus, were
struck by lightning and burned.
Mrs. Fred Lewis, who is dangerously
i'll at Big Rapids, desires to know the
| whereabouts of her two brothers,
Michael and Peter Clarity They were
last heard from in the upper PENN
sula.
"The City Council the Servant of Sa-
! looms" was the subject of Rev. Camden
| Cobern's sermon in the Ann Arbor
| Methodist church and he said so many
scorching things that the whole town
is aroused.
During a ball game at Harvard,
Floyd Haynes struck James O'Hern
with a club, and ran for the woods.
| O'Hern's skull is fractured and he will
probably die. Officers and citizens are
searching for Haynes.
1t has been found necessary to bore
holes in the jaw of Wiley Putnam, OF
Coldwater, and pass wires through to
keep the jaw together. Putnam was
kicked in the face several days ago and
is in dangerous condition.
Mary A. Davis, an Eaton girl, has
shown signs of insanity since hel
father died in short time ago. The
other night she walked to his grave, a
distance of mile, in night robe.
She was found their and now danger
ously sick.
The large barn of Ed Martin, who
lives east of Corunna, was destroyed
by fire with all contents; loss, about
$4,000. Kerosene had been poured on
the side of the kitchen, and it is also
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