Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-02
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGS.


Eastern Michigan poultry breeders as
ISOLATION holds its annual exhibition a t
Ypsilanti, Feb. oil.
Union veterans union of Michigan is
growing so rapidly that it will soon be
organized rs permanent department.
Uriah Ryan of Hanover, was frozen to
death in Dakota during the fearful storm.
The remains were brought to Hanover for
interment.
The Hancock sandstone land company
has been organized at Hancock with CAPT
tai stock at S5O0000. The company owns
some 600 acres on sandstone belt on the
north side of Portage entry. This stone
is fast becoming known and appears to be
deposited in belt named In almost mex
haustible quantities.
Congressman Allen says Michigan In
dians are to all Intents and purposes on
par with the whites. The tribal relations
have been abolished and there is no rea-
son why an Indian agent should be main
tanned in Michigan. Two years at the ut
most is long enough to close up all the
business for which an agent is kept
there. After that time the payment of
the annuities and the apportionment Of
without a regular agent.
The secretary of the treasury has affirm
ed the decision of the collector of customs
at Detroit in assessing duty at the rate of
10 cents per pound on Sumatra leaf
tobacco imported by Rothschild a Bro.
They claimed the tobacco was dutiable at
the rate of 30 cents per pound and that
no portion of it was of the class dutiable
at IS cents per pound.
Frank Merritt, lad II years DID, had
his neck broken while riding down a to-
boggan slide in Charlotte On the lowor
end of the slide is a natural hill and one
Of the lads who had just gone down start
ed to come back on the same track, and
the two met with the above result. They
had been repeatedly warned to keep Off
the slide on their return.
The coolest day in the Upper Peninsula
the thermometer was 40 at Lake Linden.
Marquette with IS below was the warmest
ont he peninsula. No fatalities or suffering
are reported.
The jury in the Clay-Putnam damage
case at Grand Rapids were out 80 hours,
and then were unable to agree upon
verdict. The twelve good men and true'
peace of the Clay household had been dis
turbed by Putnam's interference or Clay's
devilish temper.
Another cavern occurred at the Cal
met Il Hecla mine Jan. 81.
John A. Bailey, for thirty years engin-
eer of the United States in charge of pub
lie works died in Marquette January %.
He entered the government service in
1866 through the advice and influence of
the late Peter Cooper. Under his charge
lighthouses were built all along the Allan
tic coast. Minot Ledge Light, at Boston,
being the principal work. He superintend-
ed laying cable from Florida TO Cuba,
and in 1871 built Spectacle Reef light,
Lake Huron, that and Stannard Rock
light in Lake Superior, his last and crown.
ing work, being the greatest lights on the
chain of lakes. Stannard Rock light is
forty miles out in the lake, built up from
submerged reef and the unusual compli-
ment was paid of accepting all his draw
ings and designs without the slightest
change. He superintendent its construc-
ton, and upon its completion resigned
from i'll health. For several years he
resided in Detroit He has recently been
in charge of the construction of the
Michigan branch prison near Marquette.
Hattie Olney, the young woman who
dropped her baby from train near La.
peer, was arraigned the other day, and
entered plea of mot guilty"
l.. c. Hurd of Jackson lost his $50 watch
Ave years ago. Recently he saw it in
Fred Pratt's jewelry store and asked how
it came there. Mr.. Pratt said Jim Doan,
who at time of theft was Mr. Hurd's con-
fdential clerk at the Hurd house, had
traded 1t for diamond ring long time ago.
Doan was arrested and confessed in part.
In defaults of $500 bail he was lncarcerated
to await trial on charge of grand larceny.
Tho common council of Allegan has
given the Allegan mining company OK.