Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-10
MICHIGAN STATE ITEMS.

ter, fell from n scaffold in Sturgis and
was instantly killed.
George Dodd, aged 20, was found
dead at Ludington. 1t is supposed the
old man committed suicide with laud-
anum.
A large yellow catamount, measur-
ing four feet long, was killed with
club by +. V. Waffle near Ottawa
station.
Rev. L. Spaulding, Baptist clergy
man 60 years old, of Greenville, fell
striking his head on the tongue of the
wagon. Death resulted instantly.
A boy by the name of Chilson was
accidentally shot in the shoulder, near
Hastings, while out hunting. The
wound is serious, but perhaps not
fatal.
People in Houghton and vicinity are
mad because the new insane asylum is
to be located at Newberry. They say
it is too far away from the populous
districts.
Charlie Reed, aged is, of Flint, went
cunning. He had his hand over the
muzzle of the gun when it was acct
dentally discharged, tearing his hand
terribly.
The students of Albion college have
formed cooperative association for
the purchase of books at wholesale
prices. There are already over 200
members.
Secretary Morton has removed DIR.
Hawkins, live stock inspector at Detroit,
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of Dexter, to the Office, which pays
81, 400 year.
Willis Link, of Williamson, went to
the barn, when his lantern eXploded,
sc cling fire to the barn. One horse
only was saved. The loss is about 5000,
with no insurance.
Isaac Addison, aged 60, of Detroit,
put up at the Hammer house, Toledo.
His room was opened next morning
and Addison found asphyXiated. 1t is
thought he blew out the gas.
A. Brinkerhoff, a travelling man
about thirty years of age, was found
dead in his room at the Hotel Vincent,
at Saginaw. The verdict of the jury
was death from heart failure.
The seniors in the Hillsdale high
school, like all seniors, thought they
knew more than their perintendent,
got into the biggest kind of row, and
all but four have been expelled,
The 2-year-old son of II. w. Samm,
of Hillsdale, died from strangulation.
"A bean had become lodged in the little
one throat and the child choked to
death before relief could be given.
William Webb, a Ludington livery
stable proprietor, was found dead on
the floor of his barn. Mr.. West was
well known throughout that part of
the state as very efficient deputy
United States marshal.
A false report of the death of Rev.
Henry Kay, of st. Joseph. Frustrated
his aged parents and fatal results are
feared Their son proved to be robust
and in gSsd spirits when the under
taker went for the remains.
Alpheas Porter, aged Is, was hunt
ing rabbits near Charlotte. He at
tempted to don his coat while holding
the butt end of his gun on log. The
gun was discharged, shooting away the
flesh and badly decorating his arm.
A man who shot himself near De-
catur and refused to give his name,
saying he wanted TO die and didn' t
want his relatives to know anything
about il, has been identified as Marvin
j. Burnett, who used to live in School
craft.
William White was found dead in a
hotel at Grand Rapids with a paper
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gone to the room without notifying
the clerk, and was a stranger to the
place. He was about so years old.
The coroner pronounced it suicide.
A warrant was sworn out at Sagi-
nav for the arrest of Harry Mitchell, a
16-year-old colored boy, for the crime
of rape on the 4-year-old daughter of
Patrick Mcclure, near Milwaukee.
Mitchell can give no account of his
whereabouts. Indignation runs high
over the affair.
A team belonging to George H.
Rogers, near Battle Creek, driven by
| his 15-year-old son Lemuel, ran away.
| The lad was thrown out and his hiu
broken, and Mrs. H. Smith received
serious internal injuries. The neck
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of one of the animals.
Surgeon. General Wyman, of the
| United States Marine hospital service,
has notified Secretary Baker, of the
state board of health, that the sanitary
inspection of immigrants by the Marine
Hospital service along the Canadian
frontier of the United States has been
discontinued save that the inspector al
| Quebec will be retained.
A highly respected Ludington man
James Clark, is subject to occasional
Authorizations, and the other day he
astonished his friends by going out or
the streets and arresting people, under
the superstition that they were drunk
He actually marched one man to the
lookup, and was going out after more
captures when the police caught hin
and placed him in Jail over night.
They were jurors-12 of them-ant
they were sitting on an important cas-,
in Grand Rapids. 1t SO happened thai
they slept together in one large room
and they are now singing loud hozan
mas because they are still alive. L
seems that rural juror, blew out tn,
gas when they retired, and all IL woulC
have been asphyxiated had not another
juror, who is gifted with a delicat,
sense of smell, got up and turned tn,