Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-26
WOLVERINES ITEMS.

Mrs. Katherine Clement died In 6lrard,
Branch county, few days ago, aged 80.
| She came TO Lenawee county 80 years ago,
and has lived in Girard A. years.
Jesse p. Baker, an old resident of As
syria, 10 miles from Battle Greek, was
found dead in bed the other morning.
The President has appointed Frederick
G. Warren postmaster of Charlotte.
The Michigan brewers association held
its fourth annual convention in Detroit on
the 18th inst. the following officers were
elected President, f. W. Voight Dc
troit; first vice president, G. J. Farrell,
| Detroit; second vice president, j. Knob
blaugh, West Bay City; treasurer, II. w.
Tickel, Detroit; secretary, +. w. Brede,
Detroit; trustees, j. Stroh, Detroit; Jacob
Fisher, Adrian, and Z. +. Kusterer,
| Grand Rapids.
st. Mary's hospital association Of East
! Saginaw will erect a new hospital build
ing TO cost Sl0O,C00
The McGraw tract of pine land on Dead
river eight miles from lshpeming, will be
cut by the Michigan lumber company, who
are now erecting ware houses and ohces
at Ishpeming Tho mill they expect to erect
| at Dead river will have AN annual capacl-
! ty OF 20, 100000 feet.
Thos. Faulkner, one OF the Oldest engi-
neers in the employ Of the Michigan Cen
trial, died in Marshall few days ago.
Michigan farms exceed $50 900, 900 in
value; live stock, 5000, 900; annual farm
productions, $50, 000, 900; farm implements,
SO ,0OO, 900. The slate has 100000 farms, IS
per cent Of them cultivated by the owners,
who pay annually for farm labor Sl4,OoO'-
900.
Wisconsin authorities have notified Gov.
Luce Of the existence OF ''den' ia Re-
public, and ask him To look after the mat
ter.
August Hatzel, resident OF Aun Arbor
for65 years, is dead.
Archibald McWilliams, farmer living
near Decatur, was fatally injured by fall
ing from y tree the other day.
Snow fell at Iron Mountain on the 18th
inst.
William Parker, a brakeman, in attempt
Ing TO couple an engine TO log car, near
Alpena, was pinioned between the car and
engine and so badly injured that he died
an hour later.
The attendance at Hope college, Holland,
is the largest this fall it has over been.
A valuable horse and buggy, owned by
| Charles Parker Of HIGHLAND, were stolen
| from the street in Kalamazoo the other
evening.
Andrew Mccain has been sentenced to
| 20 days in Jail at lshpeming, for shooting
a passenger car full of holes in his efforts
TO murder a conductor on the Duluth,
South Shore y Atlantic road.
John Link and Fred Lawler Of Wright,
Ottawa county, have been arrested for
sticking IA pitchfork into John Wander
veer.
Prof. Kedzie, the chemist of the agricul-
| tural college, says the western Reserve
Fertilizer is powdered furnace cinders
mixed with little common salt, and as q
fertilizer worth about - cents ton.
Ar explosion Of gas which had accumu-
lated under the boilers in the Jackson
electric light works, badly wrecked the
building and cracked the 81 foot smoke
stack from top to bottom.
The Olin family OF Michigan, New York
and Ohio held q reunion at Galesburg the
other day.
In the Calhoun circuit one Miller sued
the Grand Trunk railway company
for damages sustained by reason OF de-
fective step on an engine. He got $1,000
damages, but on a new trial Judge Hooker
rendered decision of no cause Tor action,
as negligence had not been proved.
Gov. Luce is going to make tour of the
upper peninsula in October. Before he
goes he hopes to secure from the general
government the data on which to complete
the surrender of all claim To the forfeited
railroad grants on the part of Michigan TO
the general government
The annual meeting Of the Michigan
pharmaceutical association WAS held in De-
officers were elected for the ensuing year
President, Frank Inglis Detroit; vice
presidents, +. NJ. AlsdOrf of Lansing,
Henry Kephart of Berrien Springs, and
James Vernon OF Detroit; secretary, II. j.
Brown Of Ann Arbor e-elccted) treasur-
err, VIM. Dupont of Detroit.
John A. Kalumback of Ann Arbor has
filed bill OF complaint through Sawyer *
Knowlton, his attorneys, against the Mich
igan Central railroad demanding $4,000
tor injuries received at Chelsea in October,
| 1856.
William Love of Texas township, Kala-
county, arrested for criminal assault on a
young girl, was discharged ut the conclu-
sion OF his examination.
Judge James Brown, an early pioneer of
Niles, IS dead.
Charles ID. Cowles of Lansing has been
elected recording secretary, for life of'the
Seventeenth Michigan Infantry He says
he shall never rest content until he has &C
counted for the last one of the 1,019 men
found on the muster roll of the old Stone
wall regiment. Two hundred and eighty
three OF them sleep in lonely graves on the
hillsides aud in the valleys from the stone
walls of South Mountain TO the trenches of
Petersburg; 420 are accounted for on the
roster, leaving 376 whose names and ad-
dresses, or whose final descriptive lists are
needed To complete the record. Just now
he calls for the addresses OF Sergt. w.
Grace, Co. H Martin Thorn, Co. f.; Fran
els w. Wright; Isaac Baird, Co. Al Chas.
W. Corwin, Co. ID; VIM. Merritt, Co. X :;
Theo. A Hutchinson, Co c.; VIM. M. Cole
man, Co. d; Caleb Williams, Co. =;
Myrou w. Bassett Co. ID.
A meeting of the regents of the univer-
sity will be held Oct. -. to decide upon a
site for the new university hospital.
A. II. Petrie, well known lumberman
of Muskegon, began a suit in chancery
against John Torrent 10 recover 500, 900.
The case grows out of the purchase of the
Hannah, Lay s. Co. pine lands and mills by
Torrent, in which Petrie asserts his right
to one-third interest in the net profits de-
rived from the purchase and sale of the
property mentioned.
The school board of Portage Lake refused
to allow young lady to teach in the
schools in that place because she was O
Catholic.
Rumored that the Center, the prohibition
organ, is TO be moved from Lansing to De
troit.
Work on the water power canal at Sault
, Ste Marie is almost at a stand still.
Hon. Abijah Weston of Painted Post, N
Y, who owns Manistique and the greater
part OF Schoolcraft county, has been spend