Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-06
WOLVERINE WHISPERINGs.

Chas. f. Wheeler, the well known sci
enlist of Hubbardston, who accompanied
the college corps in its recent trip through
the pine barren country, has accepted pro
fessorship in the chemistry department of
the agricultural college,
A barn on Col Taylor's farm in Bridge
port, Saginaw county, was set on fire by
sparks from a threshing machine and the
entire seasons crop of wheat, hay and oats,
and threshing machine were burned.
There is a movement on foot by several
men of Bay City and Saginaw for organic
ing stock company for the purpose of re-
claiming about ID, 900 acres of prairie land
that lies on the east side of the Flint and
Pere Marquette railroad from the boom
house south of the creek to near Saginaw.
A little 3-year-old daughter of Frank
Davis, living on the Grandville road, few
miles below Grand Rapids, was killed
while playing in the barn The child climbed
over hay-rack that was in the barn. II
fell over with her. one of the timbers strik-
ing her upon the head crushing her skull
and causing almost instant death.
AT the business meeting of the G. A. II.
association of southwestern Michigan, held
in Allegan August "a, the following officers
were chosen for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, G.. NJ. Buck of Kalamazoo; vice-pres-
ident M. A. Mortified of Union City; sec
rotary, A. A. Brakeman of Otsego; treasur-
or, o. M. Hall of Union City; county vice
presidents, Cass, Il. Aldrich; Berrien, w.
II. Miller; St. Joseph, N. l.. Cooper; Van
Buren,, William Norton, Jr.; Calhoun.
William Christie; Branch, Alfred Milns;
Allegan, II. H. Pope.
Louis Warnecke, aged 81; Henry
Schmidt, aged %, and JEFF Bohoger, aged
20, all unmarried laborers of West Bay City
were drowned the other day by the capsiz-
ing of their skiff.
The carriage and wagon shops Of Wal
q al of lab I'M doc
by fire the other night.
Dexter & Noble, iron smelters, etc, at
Elk Rapids, have received during the past
two weeks applications for prices of pig
iron from Antwerp, Hamburg, Rotterdam
and Hull.
In Saginaw City three fiat cars on the
Michigan Central left the track and rolled
down an embankment They were being
lifted on to the track when the derrick
toppled over, carrying with 1t the car on
which it was standing, and another to
which it was attached. ALI, son of Felix
Collier, and Alexander, son of Lawrence
Collier, were instantly killed, and Lawrence
Collier, William Moore and Fred Black
were terribly crushed and injured.
A silver thimble was found % feet below
the surface by party Of well-diggers in
Flint the other day.
The weather crop bulletin for August %
of the Michigan weather service says: The
cool dry weather of the past week has
checked the growth of vegetation, and the
lack of rain is being seriously felt in the
southwestern part of the state. The reports
that the crops are drying up for lack of rain
-buckwheat is blasted, corn past redeeming
and the pastures are scorched, late potatoes
suffering from lack of rain. Farmers feed
ing fodder, for want of pasture. Threshing
is progressing rapidly and the yield in
nrOmiQinR
frost was generally reported on the 22d and
23d. Farmers from the south part of Isa-
bella and Midland counties and north part
of Gratiot report corn, potatoes, buckwheat
and vines injured on the lowlands by the
frost of the ed. No other damage has been
reported Late potatoes, millet and pastures
are reported as doing well in the northern
section.
G. II. Vennor & Co. of Boston have
bought the new issue of $4,000 Grand
Rapids water bonds, paying premium of
$4,000. The bonds bear per cent interest.
Five acres of land have been leased at
Grand Rapids as the site of an oil reposi-
tory TO be run in opposition to the Standard
oil company.
One hundred and thirty-five pounds of
quartz, worth from $4,000 to $4,000, was
taken from the Michigan gold mine, near
Ishpeming, recently. The gold is very
evenly distributed in fine grains. The rock
was taken from vein about 900 feet east
of the Lake Superior shaft, where the rich
rock was found July 20. The Michigan
'company's stock Is controlled by Col. James
Pickands, Samuel Mather, Selah Chamber
lain and other rich iron mine owners in
Cleveland The title TO the mine is still in
dispute, being claimed by George Gram
NETT of Marquette.
Frank House, charged with the murder
of George Campbell, whose body was found
in well at Convis, has been held for trial.
Grand Rapids new city hall will be dedi-
Gated Sept 10.
A well 256 feet deep has been bored upon
the farm Of George johnson, near Tuscola,
in search of coal, but instead of coal the
hole spouts up 450 barrels OF pure cold water
every day.
AS Henry Jennings, keeper of the Port
age lake lighthouse, was going home from
Hancock in a sail boat. a squall struck
him, capsized the boat and drowned Jen-
nings. He leaves a widow and children at
Ashland, Wis.
James Lowrie, a leading business man OF