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Day
28
Month
October
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The national convention of Agricultural colloges, which niet the past week in Washington, obtained some decisions froin the secretary and controller oL the treasury in reference to theHatch billthat will prove of great iuiportance to the Michigan agricultural college and all others a.'Sected bv it. Tho llatch Experiment Station bill provides that congress shall annually appropriate $15,000 to each state, under certain conditions, to carry on exporiments in agricultaral science. Congiess failed to make the provisión last year, and some question had arisen as to whether it would be neces8ary to go through with much of the labor ot securing it passage again. But when it was brought boforo the secretary oí the treasury ami the coniptroüer they decided that the act is in torce and tliat the amount shall be put in th uext book of estimates. This would not make the approt riation available until October 1, 1838, tliu-i losing the benefit of experimenta duriug the f.rdater part of the yoar. But in addition they decided that the intention of congress was that the nioney shouM Le of use the p:isent year, begii;nin with üctobor. it is iherefore expected that the secretary will present this amount to the next congress as a deficiency, or rccomuiend its allowance in a special niessaye. If this is lione it will enable all such stations to perform a line of experimenta during the coming yeir. Michigan college will hold itself in readiness to push tne line of experimente as soou es congress passes the aijpropriation. The decisión of the secretary is an important oue to the agricultural dlstricts oí the country, and the credit of procuring it is largely due to l'rasident Willits. WOLYERINÈ WHISPERINGS. Six inche; of snow at L'Anse Oct. 25. Snow wns eight inchesdeep at Gaylord October '5. Pine is being stolen from pine lands in the upper península. The roller skating craze is being revi ved throughout tho stateA business men's association has leen organize in !-'angatuck. The man murderedat Hudson some time ago bas not been identified. Mrs. P. W. Conely, who settled in Eaton I'apids over 'tí years ago, is dead. An'erew Barber a Bay City barber, is under arrest on a charge of forgery. Detroit capitalists are building a cheese factory and creamery near Newport. Edward t'edford died of iniuries received wbile feiling trees near Clarksville. Gold and silver iindi are reported from the vicinity of Wakeiield, Gogebiccounty. Dr. John H. Montgomery, for over 5 i years ajpracticing phyaiciari of Marshall, Is dead. Grading on the Detroit, Charlevoix & Escanaba road will be commenced in No. vember. ome one ttole papers worth $10,000 and $40 in cash from Patrick Gallagher of Corunna. Genesee county settled with Mrs. May, of jail lock fair.e, fcr $:i;0. Saginaw eounty paid her i 1 ! 52. The SpiritualUt association of southwestern Michigan willxonvene at Benton Harbor, November 5. Kdwin C. Nichols of Battle Creek has been fined for hunting deer with dogs in Menominee county. E. C. Preston, a well known insurance man of Detroit, cliod in the car while enroute to Suginaw City. liarry MeKiustry wasblinded in one eye at Ypsilanti by ammonia poured in fun on lus head by playmates. Ludington's grist mili is to be mado into a roller process mili, $10,000 having been subscribed for that purpose. Many papers in the state are booming Gen. Algez' for iirst p'.ac on t!io republi eau ticl.e: in the next campaign. The river at Cheboygan ia to be dredged to a uniform depth of Ui fect, so that tho largest vessels can pass insafety. Sault Hte. Marie has granted a natura; gas company a thirty years' franchise to Dore and pipe the town as it sees fit. Case of Bush and others agaiust Brook8 and others, whieh resulted in $20,480 23 judment against Grand Trunk, appealed irom Jackson circuit to supreme court. Daniel McCoy of Grand Eapids has purchased of the G. R. & I. railroad company about 50,000,000 f eet of pine in Lako county Chauncey D. Bickford, íormerly a promising young attorney of Hart, died at Somerset, Hillsdale county, a few days ago. Lansing hustlerg hive formad a com. muy with $20,0JÜ paid np capital to pus.i the manufacture L t'.ie Anderson road cart. Napoleon Germán, an aged farmer living near Bulleville, was thrown from a load of wood the other day and instantly killed. The Hosmer farm of lüJ acres east of Kast Saginaw has been purebased by a syndicate for $40,000. The farm is to be platted. Mrs. Grosabock, wife of DennisOn E. Grosebeck, formeily enrolling clerk in the state senate, died in Kalamazoo a few days ago. Snarpers are circulating pledgos among the farmars not to kill song birds. When nextseen nam are signaturas to promissory notes. John Gezon a pioneer of Grand Rapids, was injured teveral days ago while stepping from a street car. He has since died of injuries received. Except the Palmer house in Chicago every hotel where President Cleveland stopped on his recont trip is supplied with Grand Kapids furniture. President Willets of the Michigan agricultural collego has beenelected chairman of the executive committee of the national congress of agricultural colleges. An apple barrel must be accordiüg to law (ïiec. 15.8, Howell's compiied statuto-, the tizo of au ordinary flour barre' or 27 inch staves, and 16x2 hoadings. Berrien Kprings will pay required $25,000 and is making what extra surveying is necessary to have railroad projected from Buchanau to Kt. Joseph pass througn its limita. Gov. Luce has appointed Rodney Sestions of Grand Rapids, delégate to repr" sent the state at the nationul farmers congress, which meets at Chicago November 10, 11 and 12. Peter Le Brick of Saginaw, tried to kill his wifp, and she hud him arrested. When tho trial was called, the wife rcfused to say a word against Peter, but took him back- to pound her some more. A conference of tho prohibitionists of Jackson county will be held in Jackson Saturday November 5, for the purpose of iilling the committee, electing a secretary and considerihg plans for future work. The new school house at the Btats house of correotlon will seat 210 pupils. The recitation i ooms are larg'. and airy andaré well supplied with necessary accessorioi for work. Capt. S. P. Curtis is principal. The sohool system of Buenos Ayres, which is highly successful, is modeled after that of Michigan. President Sarmiento has studied the school systems of the United States and tbought that of Michigan the best. Mrs. Don Kei ton of Romulus was so ened by a charivari party passiug her house that sho gothe;' piitol to protect i her home. TLe weapon was digcharged, I the balhentering ber abdomen. Sha will probably die. I'our South HaTin young men have started in a yawl 22 feet long for Chicago iiii'l thenc through th ■ canal and :own the Mississippi rirer tosom?, yet undacided, point, thoir inteation l.eing to seo!; their fortune in the open and to them uuknown world. B. II. Lano, who founded the vül age of Hudson in 1S34, nnd was for many years prominently identified with the place, is dead at the advanced age of ST. The town was once calied Luio.svillo and Mr. Lane was tlio first postmaster in tho new settlement on the Bean. Mrs. C. H. Talmadge of Marshall was terribly injura 1 by the overflow of gasoline while she was lighting it. Slio was burned from her face to her knees, so that the skin has nearly a!l eeled oñ" from the front of her body, trms nnd limbs. Her recovery is doubtful. Burglars b'.ew open the safes in J. W. Feighner's drug store and Peter Seilsman's dry goods store at North Muskegon and secured $r.i ) in cash and a!so some cigars, a watch, dry goods and valuable papers belonging to North Muakegon village, of which Feighner is clerk. Act 33 of the laws of 18S7 provides that aboird of supervisors may purchase one or more lots in any cemetery or burial place, to be devoted to the purpose of burying deceased veterans of the war for the union. Sevoral boards are to be asked to do as the law says thoy may. Col. Fred. E. Farnsworthof Detroit, the new member of the state military board was not in a Michigan regiment during the war, for he was not old enouh. He has, however, been connected with the stat troops for eight or ten years, and is perfectly familiar with their want. ïhere have been nnmerous civil cases against Bohemian oats operators, and now the Genesee county court ís to try a case in which a criminal charge forms the basis of action. The defendants are A. W. Hammer of Ypsilanti, and Morris A. Sherwood of Holly, and they must answer to a charge of falso pretensas. Charles H. Plummer, a lumberman of East Saginaw, offers to give each of the families of the pólice ofllcers murdered at the Haymarket square in Chicago 40 acres of as good beech and niaple land as thero 's in Michigan, conditional only on their occupying the same. He will also give I each family enough lumber to build a house. llobert Campbell of East Saginaw, offers a challenge of from $1,000 to $5,C00, of which one-half the wager, $500 or (2,800. s to be deposite! in the East Sagina ■ Savings banu, that ha can beat any plas terer in the United States for space cover ing, quaüty of the wnrk done and time o: : doing tho same. Mr. Campbell to furnisL tliu building in which the work is to be done. Fred Brown, a boy 18 years of age, was killed on the Michigan Central railroad in Ypsilanti the otber morniug wbile stealing a ride on a freight train. The wheels of a flat car passed over his body, cutting it into two pieces. He had only been gone from his home fifteen minutes when the news of his death was taken to bis mother. j Several boys have been crippled there in tho sanio way. Joel Dietz, an advertising agent stopping temporarily in Bay City, acto(! strangely for e.everal days, and tlnally a doctor wns callcd to tee him. When the doctor entered Uietz's room, that indi vidual fired teveral shots at the doctor, j The doctor retreated and oflicers were summoned. Dietz kept the doctor and officers at bay for soma time, and flually shot himself, dying altnost instantly. The department of justio at Ottawa Ont., has mole formal npplication to th American M vernuient on behalf oí the Ontario goveinmei;t fir the extraditio:i j of J. K. Herres, who was arrested a few j days ago in Saginaw City. ' erre3 is wanted at Galt tor forging a proinissory note last June for $i00, purporting to havi been made by P. L. Jiltwiler in favor o'. Herres, and of nfterwai ds uttoring it. The Iron Chief, Sunday Lake, Phoenix, George Washington, West Presque Isle and Florence mining proporties in the upper península, have been attachel by minors on account of wages. The claims against the two first cnmpanies are sai-: to amount to $10,00. There is consider able suffering among the miners as it iseveral months s-ince they have received any money and merchants ref use to give them credit without good security. Mrs. J. Kreutzman, t'ne Saginaw woman who imagincd that her stornach wai inhabited by asnake, died the othar evenin;; af ter most excruciatin; torture. At the autopsy held the same ovening by Dr. S. C. J. Ostrom and otbcr physicians, tho mystery was oleare. 1 a way, and the idea that a snake, lizard or any other like rep tilo existe J in the woman' i stomach was proved to have been without foundation The cause of death wasenlargement of the heart and ehionic inllammation of the stomach. To Ihe Intter mav bO ascribed Mrs. Krcutzmftn's halluci nation that hor stomach contained sonie soit of reptile. DETROIT MARKETS. Wheat, White $ T5 @ 75% Red 75 d$ 75K Corn, per bu 44 ft? 45 Oats, " '9 @ 30 Baki.ey 12S @130 Timothy 8ked 2 05 ra 2 10 Clovek Seed, per bag 4 00 @ 4 10 Feed, per cwt 13 25 ($13 50 Flocr- Michigan patent... 4 2") (8) 4 50 Michigan roiler 3 í5 (g) 4 00 Jlinnesota patent.. 4 5) (c? 4 75 Minnesota bakers'. 4 00 & 4 25 Michigan rye per bu 47 @ 48 Apples, new, per bbl 1 50 (a1 2 00 Cranbekhik:-, per bu 2 00 (o? 25 QcixcKs.perbbl 4 00 @ i 5) Pears, per bu 3 50 (g 4 50 Bkans, picked 2 00 (i 30 " unpicked 110 to 1 20 Beeswax 25 (L 30 Butter 17 (g 21 Cheese, per 1b 13 12i '■ Drihd Ai-ï-i.Es, por lb ilA% 5 Eoas, per doz 17 (g 18 HoNEï.perlb 16 @ 17 Hors 32 @ 30 Hat, per ton, clovr 7 00 (a 8 00 " " timothy 10 50 (gil 00 Malt, per bu 'iü (Á 75 Oxioss, per bbl 2 50 (g 2 75 Potatoes, per bu 65 (g 70 Poültrt- Chickns,per Ib.. C 7 Oeese 8 9 Turkeys 8 9 Ducks perlb 6 3 7 PrOTUions- Me Pork 14 00 C 14 75 Family lö 00 16 75 Extra mesi beef 7 30 ra 7 75 Lard 6 m 7 Drasscd hoes. . G 50 M 6 75 Haou 12 (d Viy, Bhouldera 8 8 Bacon 12 A 12J Tllow, perlb.. 3i 4 Hides- Green City perlb... 6 6% Country 6X@ 7 Cured 7U 8 Saltad 9 Sneep skins, wool.. 50 (it 1 00 LIVl STOCK. Cattle- Markvt gtrong; shipping sters, $2 90(g5 25; stockara and faaders, %Xi'i: cows, bulls and mixad, $1 45j; Texai cattle, $1 75$:i 90: western rangars, 2 50 4 25. Hoos- Market teady; rough, $4 25@ 4 0; heayy, $4 40@4 70; light, 4 2,(34 65; skips, $3 10@i 10. Shkei - Markat stady, muttons$334 25; westarn, $3 10$J 80; Texans, $2 50(33 50; lamba, 4@4 2 The Sultan of Morocco is not dsad, i.u was reported.

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