Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-20
State Crops.
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.


This years yield of peaches will be the
largest ever known in Michigan.
Rev. II. E. Manning, pastor of the North
Baptist church, Detroit, has received a call
from the English-speaking Baptist church
at Rangoon, Burmah. He has the matter
under consideration.
Casnovia will have roller process mill
in operation in few weeks.
A live rattlesnake five feet long and two
inches thick has been presented to the uni
versity museum.
A fire alarm telegraph system is being
put in in Saginaw.
The ST. Joseph knitting factory has shut
down for an indefinite period.
The weather crop bulletin Of the Michi-
gan weather service for September says:
The weather conditions of the past
week have been injurious TO corn,
potatoes and buckwheat The corn
is ripenipg prematurely and potatoes
have not had sufficient rainfall to bring
them TO fullness and buckwheat was badly
touched by frost on the 5th inst Corn was
badly frosted on the low lands by this frost,
but the crop on high dry lands has not been
damaged 10 any extent as yet. Corn cut
ting is in progress In the central and south
ern sections of the state but rather TO keep
the crop from drying up than because it is
fully matured. The crop will be nearly
fair average, although in some cases the
kernel will be shrunken. The crop will be
secure from the effect of frost by the 18th,
and for causes noted above will be nearly
all cut. Flowing is progressing slowly,
and wheat seeding is begun in some por-
tions Of the central sections. Potatoes have
been most effected by the continued drought
which is seriously felt in the southwestern
part Of the southern section.
Lewis Whitaker was struck by an east
bound freight near Bancroft the other
afternoon and was seriously injured His
skull was fractured and his left arm was
| amputated at the shoulder.
A sanitary convention is to be held in
Hastings December and 4.
Clarence Shepard, of Bangor, raised
suntlower this season measuring 20 inches
across the blossom head, and with leaves
22 inches long.
Jerry Boynton's Central Michigan rail
| road company, which has a hand in the
| project for building railroad cater corner
| ed across this state has been mortgaged to
the Central Trust company of New York
| for 81 100000.
Rt Rev. Bishop-elect Foley will be in
stalled as bishop of Detroit, November %.
| The conservation services occur in Balti-
| more November |, the fifty-ffth anniver-
sary of his birth.
Rev. w. Hanson of Traverse City, has
| been expelled from the ministry and church
| membership by the Methodist conference in
session at st. Joseph, for immortality, lying
and disobedience to the order and rules of
the church.
Gov. Luce has issued requisition for
Allen G. Little, who is serving term in
the Indiana state prison, but is wanted in
this state for the murder of Patrollman
George G. Kimball, committed in Detroit
in October, 1888
| Blaine begins his tour of Michigan Oct.
1 6, when he speaks in Detroit. Gen.
Adam E. King of Maryland, who is now on
| the stump in Maine, will accompany Mr..
Blaine on his tour through Michigan ad-
dressing the meetings. Gen. Alger, Walker
| Blaine and Robert Frazer will also be in
the party. Mr.. Blaine goes to New York
| Sept 80, as now planned, making several
| speeches there before going west.
Gen. John G. Barkhurst of Coldwater,
| is spoken of as a candidate for American
minister TO Belgium.
A peculiarly horrible accident occurred
| a few days ago in VIM. Smiths mill at
! Eaton Rapids. VIM. Gilmore, black
| smith aged 40 years, who was employed in
the mill, had gone into the basement and
| stretched himself upon the great belt for a
| nap, when the owner and some friends
| came in TO look things over and see how
| the machinery worked. In showing the
property Mr.. Smith threw open the flood
| gates to start the water wheel, not know
| ing Of GAmore's presence in the building,
| and that unfortunate individual was car
| ried to the big pulley, and there his head
| and the upper portion of his body were
crushed TO jelly. Death was instantaneous.
He leaves large family in straitened
circumstances.
Mrs. Peter II. Morey died at her resi-
| dence at Round Lake, near Adrian, a few
| day ago. She was the relict Of Michigan's
| first attorney general, filling prominent
social position in Detroit 40 years ago.
Ex-mayor George II. White of Grand
Rapids, one of the pioneers of Kent county,
| is dead.
Mary Cotton Boise, wife Of Hon. j. X.
Boise of Hudson, died on the 10th inst.
In addition to voting for presidential
| electors, state officers, congressman and
local officers this fall, the voters in Michi-
gan have two other questions. One Is an
amendment to the constitution relative TO
circuit courts. IL provides for the election
of more than one circuit Judge in the De-
troit and Saginaw circuits, and authorizes
boards of supervisors in Saginaw, Wayne
and the upper peninsula counties TO pay
| the judges such salary in addition 10 that
| fixed by the constitution as may be deter
| mined upon by such boards. The new gen.
| eral banking law TO be submitted TO the
| people Is act No. POS of the laws of 1887,
| beginning on page 2i2. Under our consti-
tuition no general change in the Michigan
banking laws can be made except by con-
sent Of the people of the polls.
The Michigan weather service monthly
report shows the mean temperature for