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Wolverine Whisperings

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Day
2
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Over 300 business men have joined the new board of trade in Grand Kapids. The ütsego folks claim thit the new papor mlll at that villaje 13 tae largest in the state, and that in souie particular it is the best in tue United States. O. Waters, formerly commercial agent of the Michigan Central railway company at Bay City, takes charge of the company's entire business at that point. The famous Crouch tragedy. in Jackson county, by which Jacob D. Crouch, Eunice .White, William Henry White and Moses Polley lost their lives, occurred four years 'ago Nov. 21, and still their blood calis for vengeance. Branch county votes on local option December 14. The Michigan dairy galt company of Kast Saginaw took first premium offered at Chicago fat stock show. Ground has been broken for the new road froin Baldwin to Traverse City. Truman Cook of HarborSprings was instantly killed whüe out hunting the other day. James Slorgan of Berrien Springs has been fined SWU and senteuced to the Detroit house of correctiou for one year for sendiug obscene matter through the mails. Moses Cautein, a barber of Cheboygan, shot and iustantly killed bis brother 13 years old, by the accidental discharge of a pistol. Cautein gave himselt up at once bat has been exonerated from all blame. The selling price of the Port Huron & Kortbwestorn (narrow guage) was $12,000 per mile. Whie Joseph Kennedy of Grand Rapids, was engaged blasting stone near Ada the other afternoon, he was inslantly killed by the unexpected discharge of a blast. He had loaded up with dynamite as usual, and when the charge did not go off as expected, he returned to investígate just in time to be horribly rautilated. John Croft' was instantly killed by a timber wliich feil off the tramway in Hackley A Humes' sawmill ín Muskegon the other day. Elijah Walker of Grand Rapids, gets six months in the house of correction for selling liquor without a license. James Stewart, suspected of killing the unknown man whose remains were found n a burned building in Hudson, will have a new tr.a'. Mark Aimis is boring for gold on a farm near ithaca. Mrs. Williamson would not vacate property wanted by the Toledo & Ann Arbor at Cadillac until she received her payThe company took possession of land and boat house and removed boas and building. Mrs. Williamson now sues for 1,000 damages. A pair of huge antlers baye been ex. humed on August Westphall's farm in Genoa, Livingston county. VViUie Windman sbt a blue heron rneasuring tiy feet from tip to tip, on the river bank at UwOiso. TDreesink holesou the Chicago, Kalamazoo & Hastings road near Hastings will delay regular running of trains souie days. The Hon. O. E. M. Cutcheon s looking over Io8co county relative to the establishment of a schooi for Indian children at Greenbush school district along with regular school. The badl.y deconiposed remains of an unknown man were found on the beaoh at Kt. Joseph the otber day. Workmen on the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinac, on E. L. Clark's farm in Rollin, near Hudson, exhumed an ancient copper kettle, and when the cover was removed an ill-smelling substance like beans was een. Human skull iragments, other bits of bones, pieces of gray and y ello w striped blanket and a few shreds of broadcloth were also found. 'T was Mis-aug-na-pot-a waugh-haw-luru-bic's grave. A firm in (Juebec has purchased 14,000 acres of timber and mineral land in Baraga, Menominee, Delta, Alger and Marquette couuties. The Sixth Michigan cavalry will hold reunión in Ionia December tS, A chtld bom at Eokfol d on Thanksgiviug day has 12 fingers and 12 toes. Frank Lyon, well known to thousands of people who have visited the state capítol at Lansing as the one-armed offlcer who acted as guide and policeman, died at Mason recently, of injuries received by being crushed in the capítol ele vator. During lúe war he was a soldier in the Secoml United States sharpshooters, company B, and lost an arm in battle' The accident by which te lost his life happened last March. and since then his wife has died, being worn out in caring for him. He was a good man, and will be missed by many. Not much more than a year ago Clarence Farleman of Adrián, was the head of a family of live, but now he is alone. In August of '86, a hule duughter died, and since then the feil destróyer has visited his home repeatedly, taking his wife and two remaining daughters, and leu ving him prostrated by his overwhelming bereavement. Beveral Howbll people have located permanent claims ín Houghton couuty. Tlie Smith purifler works of Jackson are offered 10 acres of land and a $40,000 cash bonus to move the works to St, Paul Minnesota. The assembly of the seventh degree, the highest branch of the national range, eleoted the followiiig oüïcers at the convention held receutly in Lansing: High priest, James Draper of Massacuusetts; archon, Put. Darden oL Mississippi; analist, J. Tremble, Washington; treasurer, i . il. McDowell, New York: arehejist, W. M. Sims, Kansas; iuterpreter, J. H. Bngham, ühio; Meropbaut, A. J. Kose, Texas. Prof. Hogan, Jackson balloonist, sues ingham county agricuitural society to recover pay for his ascensión at Mason fair. Calumet c Hecla will pay $10,000 to learñ who set üre to the mine. Seven stamp heads at the milis havrf been stopped and it will be some weeks bet'ore the shafts are opened to ascertain the condition of things below. December 14 is the date lixed for the reunión of the Third Michigan infantry at Muskegon. Ed. Bradford of Muskegon killed 14 deer on his recent hunt in the upper península. A Polish military company has Leen organized in (rand Rapiiis. ïhe wife of John A. paulding, ex-county treasurer of Eaton county, died in Bellevue on Thanksgiving day. Mrg. bpauldine was the tírst teníale child bom in Eaton county. When Theodure Wyod, cashier of tha bank at Chelsou, returnud home from church Tuanksgiving day, he found bis wife dead on the Hoor. J. C. Murch, one of the earliest settlers in Hillsdale county, died in Jonesville a few days ago. Richard Welch perished in a snow storm while hunting ducks on Grass lake uear Waukegou. body fouud frozen stifï in bottom of b.iat. Utto Fow:e of Ionia was coasting Thanksgiving day. His sled ran with tremendous foreeiutoatelepüonepost, injuring Otto so serio usly that he died the uext moroing. Daughter of John liarker, residing three miles southwest of Uakiey, committed suicide Thanksgiving eve by taking uiorphine. Before taking the fatal dose she arrayed herself in le.it clothes and lay down in her room. Ko motive for her deed except that friends teased her. The mixed wre.tling match between Harvey Parker, thelight-weight Champion of Pennsylvania, and Kobert Reakes of Kast Saginaw, champion middle-weight of Michigan, took place at Erie, Pa., the other night in the presence of 500 people, and resulted in the défeat of Keakes. Cider and fruit men of Michigan wiU hold a convention some time inJanuary. Two sections of a froight train collided atGrosveupr, eight miles east of Adrián, on the L. ÍS. & M. S. road, at 1 o'clock the other morning, wrecking 25 cars and an engine and badly in] uring five firemen. It is not kuown who was to blame for the accident. The main line track was blocked for scveral hours. Mrs. A. L. Hiñes has begun suit against Charlotte for :i,uco damages to her building, furuiture stock and household efïects, caused by a üre in October, 1&S0. The claim is based on the fact tbat the Rug. gles building, where the hre started, had been erected contrary to the amended ordinance of 1663 prescribiug the city tire limits, the building beinir a frame structure. It" is thought other property own' ers who sutfered loss at the same time are backing Mrs. Iliues. J. H. Gibbs of Kdruore, owner of the mili in which the boiler exploded, somo time ago, has been sued íor $25,000 by an employé who was injured at the time of the explosión. The estáte of W. S. Gill deeeased, killed by falling down a steep embankment on the highway in Walker towuship. Kent couuty, some nionths ago, have com menced suit for $5,000, alieging the road way was in bad condition for travel. Mrs. Jane Gallock of Grand Rapids, has commouced a suit to recover $500 from William Widdicomb, cashier of the Grand Rapids National bank, alieging that she deposited the same with the bank and was not given proper credit. Widdicomb claims that the money was never paid. The difiiculty with the minera in the Winthrop mine at Ishpeming have boen settled, and the men have returned to work. The next annual communication of the Grand Lodge of the F. and A. Masons will be held in East Saginaw on the fourth Tuesday in January next, providing satisfactory arrangements can be made there with hotels and for hall. A Mendon man put away half a busbel of walnuts this fal), and the other day when he went to get tliem he found that the mice had take every one of them. Gold bas been discovered on the farm of E. B. Tuttle, near Grattan. Tho shaft is down fifty feet. It was thought at first that the gold was copper. Agricuitural college has issuod bulletin N'o. 30, which treats of the feeding of steers of different broeds. The rieht of way for the D., C. & E. R. R. is nearly all secured from Kalkaska, via Cbarievoix, to Michigan. DETKO1T MARKETS. Wbeat, White 81 @ 81% Red 78 C? 7X Corx, perbu 45 (g 46 Oats, " 89 @ 80 Barlet 1 48 é 1 59 Malt bO (g 90 Timotiiy Sekd 2 05 (cL 2 25 Cloveb Beed, per bag 3 b5 (5 4 10 Feed, per cwt 13 50 u13 75 Bcckwhkat Fi.oi'K 2 50 M 2 75 Flouiï- Michigan patent... 4 00 @ 4 25 Michigan roller 3 75 (! i 00 Minnesota patent.. 4 75 (! 5 00 Minnesota bakers'. 4 01) (g 4 25 Michigan rye 3 00 $ 3 25 Apples, new, per bbl 1 75 (? 2 5 Cranbkkiiies, per bu ) 75 @ 2 00 QuiNCES.perbbl 00 a 4 50 Beaxs, picked : 25 (t$ 2 30 " unpicked 140 (g 1 60 BeeswaÍ 25 (o! 30 Bdtteh 16 1 Uhisesk, per Ib Vi OS 12M Dkied Applss, per lb 4 (tL 5 Eaos, perdoz 19 (B HoNEY.porlb 18 ê Hops.... 32 g 80 Hay, pertou, clover 6 00 (g 7 00 " " timothy 10 00 11 00 Malt, per bu Ï0 75 ünions, per Dbl 2 40 @ 2 50 Potatoes, per bu ti5 (4 70 Poultrt- Chickens,per lb.. 7 (a! 9 Ueese 6 CèS 7 Turkey S @ 9 Ducks per lb 6 (# 7 Puovisioxs- Mess Pork 13 75 ai 00 Family 14 25 14 50 Extra mess beef 7 00 (4 7 25 Lard 7 @ Tft Dressad hogs.. 5 00 (u. 5 50 ' Beef 2;i@ 4 " Calves... 7 W! S ' Lambs... iWs& 84 Hams 10 (ui 11 Bhoulders 7 (ü 7% bacon 11 & 11 Tallo w, per lb.. 'ó}WS 4 Hioes- Green City psrlb... 6 (tg 6}$ Country 6i(L5 7 Cured 7S(cJ 8 Baltod 9 tSheej) skins, rooi.. 50 @ 1 25 LIVE STOCK. Cattle- Market strouger; shipping 1 steers, $.v-'; stockers and feeders tí ölg $3 10; cows, bulls and mixed, tl 25$2 85; Texas steer, il .OuCïi 80; Western cattle, 2 4U3 80. Hoos- Market steady ; mixed, $4 40@4 70; heavy, 4 55.34 UU; light, 4 35(ifi4 70; ikips; fáii 35. BiiEBP- Market strong for good ; natives, f2 504 ; western, 33 05 ; Texans, (2 50a 8 40; lambs, $3 76@5.

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