Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-12-01
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.


citation was organized at Chesaning:
President, DIR. Chas. Andrus, Saginaw.
Hughey Mccormick, of Lake City,
was found dead in woodshed. He
had come home drunk and undoubtedly
froze to death.
The Grand Trunk is said TO be after
the new Alpena & Northwestern road,
which is being built in the direction Of
Cheboygan.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Michigan Building and Loan Associa-
ton league will be held at Port Huron
December l4-l5.
Charles e. BellSnap won't give up
yet. lie has begun the work of talk
ing proofs to see if he can't have Con-
gresham Richardson ousted.
The Pere Marquette club, a swell
affair in Ludington, with n $4,000
building, is likely to disband. There
is a movement on foot 10 use the build
ing as public library.
Six frame buildings, three owned by
Charles w. Watkins and !. G. Smith
and three by +. ID. Waldron, across the
street from the Union depot, Grand
Rapids, burned. Total loss on build.
ings $4,000
Supt. f. p. Church, of the school for
the blind, was for number of years a
school teacher in Hawaii, and remem-
bered among his pupils l.. A. Thurs
ton, the present Hawaiian minister to
this country.
A chattel mortgage for $40, 800 has
been placed on file with the city clerk
against the extensive cooperage works
and stock of c. w. johnson, of Cold
water, and in favor of the Coldwater
National bank.
Kalamazoo is overrun with suspicious
looking strangers and Marshal Hare
has ordered that all persons found out
on the street after midnight who can
not give proper accounts of themselves
shall be locked up.
Farmers in Huron county have be-
come discouraged with the low prices
which prevail for wheat and are SOW
ing about half the amount of that ar
tice they did last year. Glover is be-
ing planted instead.
Jacob Yost, young man from New
port, tried to push loose straw into a
hay press with his foot, instead of with
a fork. The foot was caught by the
plunger and mangled so badly that 1t
had to be amputated. 1t is feared he
cannot live.
james McGinn, a boy of II years,
was in the employ of the Singer Sew
ing Machine company, and of +. ii.
Erazell, the organ dealer at st. Johns,
for some time. The concerns claim to
be out about $500 and detective is
now in Canada looking for the young
man.
Detective Brooks of the Michigan
Central railroad, and Officer Jordan, of
Saginaw, have succeeded in capturing
James Cronover, a 16-year-old lad of
Saginaw, who tried 60 wreck "A passen-
ger train on the Michigan Central near
Cheboygan. He has been lodged in
Jail at Grayling.
The vesselmen of Port Huron repre-.
senting over 81, 500, 900 worth of vessel
property, held a meeting and adopted
strong resolutions requesting congress
not to remove the duty on iron ore.
The resolutions were telegraphed to
Congressman Whiting, and he was re-
quested to use his influence for retain
ing the duty.
Lyman l.. Benson a well-known ven
tilator manufacturer and sanitary eX-
pert of Kalamazoo has been instructed
by Secretary Carlisle to examine the
United States treasury building at
Washington and report such improve
ments in the ventilation and sewage
as may be deemed practicable to rem
edy the existing defects in that struct-
ure.
At the Home for the Friendless at
Saginaw lamp exploded. Miss Emma
Sweet, a nurse, endeavored to extin-
guish the flames. Her clothing caught
fire and she was seriously burned.
She rushed into the Office of the build
ing enveloped in flames, which gen.
tleman present smothered with a
blanket. No damage was done to the
home.
Prosecuting Attorney Hawley, of
Iona county, has Investigated the
cause of the diphtheria outbreak at
Belding and ordered a warrant issued
by Justice Nesbitt against DIR. a. NJ.
Armour, health officer OF Belding,
charging him with criminal negligence.
1t is claimed that Armour failed to
plaeard the houses and notify the
public.
Grand Rapids common council held q
session until after midnight trying Aid.
George III. Jacobs, upon charges of en-
bezzlement, perjury and conduct unbe-
coming a public official. He made out
a bill for S124 to pay bridge cleaners
and paid over but 500 80, keeping the
rest himself. The council found him
guilty, and he will probably be dis
missed.
The happiest farmer in Casco town
ship, st. Clair county, is named Patter-
son. The other night thieves carried
off $40 worth of choice poultry. While
Patterson was cussing and hunting
around the hennery, he found pocket
book containing $50. He thinks he
knows who took the chickens now, but
is willing to call it square on general
principles.
Thirty thousand dollars worth OF
valuable horse flesh, the property of T..
ID. Hodgins, noted live stock
breeder, fell a prey to flames which
daStrovad his rnaInmoth sta hlaS AZ on