Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-18
WOLVERINE WIIISPERINGS.

WOLVERINE WllISPERINGS.
The new apartment house at the agricul.
tural college has been named Howard Ter
race, in honor of Sanford Howard. who was
secretary of the board from 1854 TO 1871.
Jonesville's big cider mill and fruit evap-
orator has commenced operations Its
graters parcrs, cOrers and slicers are run
by steam, and its cider presses have a ca
pacity of 1000 bushels per day.
Prof j. A. Cook of the Michigan agricul-
tural college saws that the Eastwood tree is
the most beautiful for street establishment.
Me homesteaders OF the upper peninsula
are about TO have justice done them. Com
missioner Stockslager of the general land
Office recently returned TO the receiver and
register of the land Office at Marquette the
applications of l5S settlers on the indemnity
lands of the Marquette, HOughton * On
tonagon railroad for allowance by the local
officials.
The house has passed the bill increasing
the pension of William Il. Springst6in of
Detroit, from $50 TO $50 amonth He was a
private in Co. G.. Fourteenth Michigan
volunteers.
A Tuscola county farmer states that he
knows of a number OF farmers in that
County who have in their graneries the
Yield from their wheat fields for the past
FIVE years, some having as much as 5000
Bushels. Another farmer said that there
were plenty of wheat growers In Franken-
muth who have done the same thing
The fourth annual convention of the Y.
w. G.. A, will be held in Plymouth Oct. 10,
20, 81.
There are $50 students enrolled at the
state normal.
l.. II. Dorr and Robert Reed have pur-
chased 100 acres of land in western part Of
Alcoma county and will devote it chiefly to
sheep raising.
Michigan's university il enjoying de
cided boom this year From present il Ii
cations the total number Of students in all
departments cannot fall short of 200, and
may reach 900.
James Duggan's saloon in Cheboygan,
was broken into the other night and $500
taken.
Il. B. Horton, member OF the state board
of agriculture, has rendered his resigna-
tipu.
Two barns in Constantine, with consider
able grain, werc burned the other night
There is a suspicion that they were fired by
atramp who persisted in the flames.
NJ. II. Shermaus large general store in
Okemos was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the Sth at "a loss of 5 ZOO.
A case involving the titles TO 62 separate
parcels of land, comprising $500 acres of
farming and wild lands with mills, mill sites
and privileges and town and store proper
tics, valued at Sl5O,00O, is on trial in the
United States court in Detroit. Horace j.
Perrin died intestate at Marengo, near Mar
shall, January IL, 1880, owning, as the plain
tifis claim, all the property in litigation,
leaving them and one Anna II. Tuttle as the
only heirs. The defendants were relatives,
bat not heirs of Horace j. Perrin, and he,
for some unaccoun able reason, decided to
them before his death the property in dis
pute. The plaintiffs claim that the transfers
made hpcanSn n nnHnn intlnnnrn
the part of the defendants, and weakness
of mind on the part of the deceased hence
tho suit. 1t has dragged along in the state
courts for several years, and has finally
reached the United States court.
Samuel Thomas, whose home was near
New Hudson, was kicked in the groin by q
horse he was leading and instantly killed.
MQskegon ladies propose TO build sol
dierS monument.
A number of Michigan saw mills have
shut down for the season.
w. j. Reed of Champion, recent gradu-
ate of the Michigan mining school, who has
been working in the Champion iron mine,
has mysteriously disappeared.
John Bachelor Of Blackman, Jackson
county, was i02 years old last July.
In the past two years the inhabitants of
HEAVIER Island have had only two law suits
g0to Judgment, and tho aggregate verdicts
were loss than s..
One shipment of Michigan fruit over tho
Chicago g. West Michigan railway one day
last week consisted of ~ carloads OF
pea hes and one Of apples. At Fcnnville
there were 275 fruit laden wagons at the
depot to be unloaded at one time.
Will Sherwood of KalkaslEn. was killed
by a railroad train near Curtis, the other
day.
Tho work of grading on the extension OF
the Toledo, Ann Arbor g. North Michigan
railroad from Cadillac and Manistee is pro
Guessing finely.
Pearson & Sons drill house in East Sag
inaw was destroyed by fire on the 8th inst
An epidemic of scarlet fever is raging
in Charleston, Oakland county.
Peter Osterberg, rich farmer of ncai
Jackson, became crazy and attempted 10
murder his family, who fed for salty. He
was overpowered by neighbors after q
fierce struggle, bound and brought 10 Jack
son Jail, and will be taken 20 the Kalama
zoo asylum.
a new Methodist church was dedicated
at the Hancock mine on the 9TH inst Owes
5000 was taken at the collection.
An epidemic,of typhoid fever and dyson
terry IL raging in Jackson. Tho filth il
qrand river is probably to blame for tn,
ttouble.
The contract TO build the water works IN
Wsissar has been lot TO the Michigan pip,
company of Bay City, the consideration be
ing $4,000.
One Of the items In the will of the Lat,
Nal. A. II. Watson OF Grand Rapids, Il