Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-09
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.


Mrs. Babcock, teacher in the public
schools of Pentwater, was drowned in Au
Sable lake few days ago.
There are about 120 cases of measles in
the state public school at Coldwater.
The board of control of the st. Mary's
ship canal has fixed the rate of log tolls on
the Manistique river at 20 cents per 200
feet. Permission was granted for putting
in panother dam TO be completed August
/, 1889. October was fixed for the hearing
upon petition for changing the original
plan of the Ford river improvement.
Fitz f. Stevens, formerly cashier Of Paw
Paw bank, been sentenced five years at
Detroit for defrauding bank of 5000.
Gagetown people want to bond that viii
lage for 5000 TO build cheese factory,
roller mill and elevator.
j. ID. Masein dropped dead at the depot
in Hillsdale, as lac was getting on train.
Coal has been found at Reese, Tuscola
county.
Larry Pfeifer of East Saginaw has been
adjudged insane and taken TO Pontiac. He
is so years old and served during the war
in the Forty-second infantry. While seal
ing the ramparts at Fort Donaldson he
received saber cut on the head from the
effects of which the brain is affected. He
never made application for pension and
friends will lay his case before the govern
care OF and his family provided for. Pfeifer
was on the road and was stricken down at
Grand Rapids.
Two years ago Alvia Alexander of Big
Rapids claimed to be badly injured by
defective crosswalk. The city declined to
compensate and he brought suit to recover
$4,000. During the trial Judge Fuller took
the case from the jury. Alexander APP
pealed and the supreme court reversed the
ruling The second trial before Judge
Palmer resulted in verdict of no cause of
action.
Charles S. Sheldon of Marlette, was the
winner in the seventh district competitive
examination for West Point.
A new roller mill will be in operation at
Capac about September l.
Monroe Collins of Rives, raised 276 bush
els of rye on nine acres of ground this
season.
An addition TO the city of Ishpeming is
being plated. Lots are in great demand
Prof. George o. Howe well known
musician of Niles, suicided the other morn
ing by drowning Whisky did it.
The 10th annual state fair opens at Jack.
son, September TO-
The military board will determine at an
early date whether Mackinac Island will be
made permanent camping ground for the
state troops. The consent of the United
States government will first have to be oh
tanned.
On Thursday and Friday, August 10 and
II, q tiremen's tournament will be held at
Sarnia, Ont. All Michigan fire companies
who have not received an invitation to at
tend the tournament are requested to send
their names to the secretary, Thomas NJ.
Donnelly, and invitations will be extended.
The "Company's store" q landmark of
Port Austin, was destroyed by fire the 9th
er day.
The weather crop bulletin issued July ~
by the Michigan weather bureau says:
The weather conditions for the past week
have been more favorable to the growing
crops, and the light rains have benefited
the crops very much, but moro rain Is necd
ed for oats, corn and potatoes. The wheat
harvest Is progressing fairly well, being
delayed somewhat by the rains and the cut
is finished in the southern tier Of counties,
and will probably begin in the northern
section next week. Oats harvest began
this week in the southern counties and the
reports state that there will be large
yield. Smut is reported In the oats in St.
Joseph county and some rust in the wheat
in Genesee county.
Flint people want Mrs. Parnell, mother
Of the Irish agitator, to come to that city
and lecture.
Senator Palmer says that he will retire
from political life at the close of his present
term, March 4, 1889. He makes the an
uOunCeuenJ JuaJ Jne leiu may DO open lot
other candidates
The Weston Lumber Company's planning
mill and warehouse at Manistique burned
the other night, entailing loss of about
$4,000. There was no insurance on the
property.
The Ancient Order of United Workmen
celebration at Houghton, July %, brought
out 800 members of that order and several
thousand friends and sight-seers.
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the late Maj KinZie Bates, has been granted
widows pension arrears.
Gen. Alger visited Gen. Harrison at In
dianapolis the other day.
James L. Harry, Grand Rapids mail car
rier, has been sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment in the Detroit house Of correc-
ton for stealing letters.
The supreme court decides that a woman
who signs her husbands notes to raise mon
ey not for her own use is not liable.
Grand Rapids people are interesting
themselves TO secure a new trial for +. f..
Stevens, fraudulent Paw Paw banker, SEN
fenced TO five years Imprisonment, because
he has made good his defalcation.
Allen Cook, a pioneer of Coldwater, is
dead.
Mrs. Lydia Wheelock, a resident of Bat
tie Creek for half a century, is dead.
Eli Hoover of West Bay City, who tasted
for As days, died July 81.
John S. Gage, q resident of Wayne town.
ship, Cass county, since 1910, Is dead.
G. Fl. Hackley of the lumber firm of
Haclxiey a. Hume. who recently gave the
school board of Muskegon 100000 with
which to erecs and maintain public libra