Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-10-04

health and spirits that he earned 1922
the first ten days of September. by build
ing forces, thrashing, etc. He issix feet
two, straight as pole, lively as a crick'
ct, honest as dollar, and Democratic
every day of the week.
George Bracket. the Charlotte livery
man, whose horse was stolen a few DAYS
ago. has recovered the property mt Ma
pie Rapids, and the thief was arrested
at st. Johns. His name Is Clarence
Gould, who, it is alleged, is wanted in
Clare county IN charge of having
murdered his father few months ago.
For some months prior TO last June,
Mr.. w. IL. Roper was employed by
Merely Bros. of Ease Saginaw as travel
ng salesman in the western part of this
state. Some time in June he skipped
out with $3.50 of the firms money. He
has Just been nabbed at Sioux City, Ia. /,
and a requistion has been sent for
him.
A sad accident occurred i'm the town.
ship of Koylton, Tuscola county. John
| Watson, while engaged at work in a
well at depth of 25 feet. the well cav
ed in upon him, burying him alive. Men
worked from 9 o'clock until four in the
afternoon. When e was reached he
was quite dead. He leaves wife and
four children.
Hon. Z. G. Carleton of Port Huron is
sanguine that the next President Will be
Democrat and that Republican votes
will greatly aid in his election. Mr..
Carleton also thinks it probable that
the tariff question will enter into the
Democratic campaign, but cannot say
what course that party will take with
reference TO it.
| Don Nj. Dickinson, of Detroit has a
$40 900 suit in the superior court of that
city against the Bru h electric light
company for maintaining their plant so
close TO his residence as to be n NUS
ance. He alleges that the vibration OF
the machinery causes continual Jar
ring of his house from 3 p. m. daily
until next morning, and that the smoke
and SCOT from the chimney get into the
house and make his life there almost
mbearable.
Two Holland straw peddlers, brothers,
named Nicholas and John Stahl, were
run over by the Indiana train train go
| ing north, at Prescott street crossing,
Grand Rapids. and instantly killed,
Nicholas being frightfully mangled. A
son of Nicholas, age Is, had leg brok-
en-, and was otherwise injured. A train
was going south on the Michigan Cen.
val Railroad track at the same time
this was going north, and the men did
not notice the Indiana train coming
and drove across just in time to be
caught.
Jacob Jonsen, freight conductor on
the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad
was shot through the neck and MORALLY
Saginaw, by John +. Sweeney, former.
ly of Detroit, and for year past pro.
prietor of the St Julien restaurant
Jon sen and an engineer of the same
road took supper ut the Elk and wen,
into the sample room, where Sweeney
was standing at the bar. He asked
them to drink with him. and as they
were about to 90 out pushed them apart
with the remark: You have been
around me long enough" then drew a
revolver. Jonsen' $ companion ran out,
and was followed by Sweeney, who
fired at him, and returning pistol in
hand stepped into the room and DELHI
erately fired ut Jonsen, the bullet strik-
ing him in the neck under the right ear.
Sweeney was soon after arrested and
lodged in Jail. He is regarded as
dangerous when under the influence of
liquor, but quiet and gentlemanly when
sober. JOnsen was quiet and harmless
person. He has wife at Ludington,
| his relatives residing in Sweden.