Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-03-27

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Congressional district have called dis
trict convention to send delegates to
Chicago. 1t meets April 22.
William Riley of Grand Rapids shot
at his wife recently because shs would
be baptized and wouldn't follow him
when he ordered her away from the
place.
X. G.. Peters, an extensive lumber
dealer and merchant of Man.
istee, is implicated in the bribery cases
now being investigated by the Ontario
legislature.
Perry Fsrr, mechanic of Chester.
Eaton county, fell the other morning
with chisei. which stuck in his throat,
severing the carotid artery and causi ng
death Immediately.
John Morris of Roscommon found one
James Ogden in company with Mrs.
Morris under disgraceful circumstances,
whsreat Morris stabbed Ogden to death.
Morris is now in jail.
Nathan Fl. Biteley, prominent fruit
grower, died at Lawton. Van Buren,
county, on the 18th. He was State
Senator in 1867-1869 and 1870, though
he did not take his seat in the session of
| 1869.
The first man to go insane over the
Crouch case is L. ID. Bean, of Spring
| Arbor, jackson county. He is par
ticular frien d of the Crouch family, and
has been untiring in his attendance up
on the examination.
At meeting of the Democratic state
convention held in Lansing on the 20tb
inst, Detroit was chosen as the place,
and June Is as the date of the Demo-
cratic state convention for the selection
of delegates to the Democratic national
convention.
Judge Gage, of East Saginaw, SEN
fenced John Sweeney to 10 years at
Jackson for assault with intent to do
great bodily harm to Conductor Jacob
Jonsen. Sweeney had been keeping a
saloon IN East Saginaw. but was for
merly of Detroit.
The state superintendent of schools
lays down this rule concerning the auth
GRITTY of school directors and moderatOrs
at becomes the right of a school direct
or or moderator to refuse the bonds Of
schoo, officers, no matter how good
when he sees fit.
Samuel Shirts, man sc years old,
was burned TO death in Shelby few
days ago. He lived alone in small
house, and it is supposed the stove fell
while he was building a fire therein
He was burned beyond recognition, and
his faithful dog shared his fate.
Mrs. Stecher, of near Traverse City
wishing to throw away some poison
first attempted to thaw it out by plac
ing it in an oven. The mixture had
been prepared for troublesome animals
. and when thawed it looked like soup
and being discovered was eaten by two
children, one of whom died.
An old man named Cornelius Drum
mond was found dead in a house on the
, POTOMAC" in Detroit few mornings
since. The old man had served in the
, Mexican and civil war. and was +,
, pensioner. He had just drawn his pen
, sion money, and from the fact that none
was found upon him, it is believed tina
} he was murdered and robbed.
At the examination of Margare
Smith In Pontiac for the murder of he
/ husband,a brother of the dead man
F.; said the deceased told him that hi
/ wife had poisoned the wine in the ju,
7 and that she said. II guess you hav,
r got something you don't want any NOR
I Of" Also that the couple had quarrel
ed two days before deceased was takoI
: sick
} The bill granting pension 10 Mrs
/ Sarah +. Seely has been reported favor
, ably. She enlisted in a Michigan regi
meDt at Flint, and served as boy, few
} if any of her comrades ever suspectln,
her SEX. After the war she married an,
{ settled in q far western state. As "Franl
! Thompson" she was well known in he
. regiment, and her identity is uRques
} toned.
: A sad and fatal accident occurre'
near Parshallville, Livingston county
J causing the death of Miss Sarah Bristol
daughter of John Bristol, farmer. Mr.
Bristol and his family were returning
from party, and the night being darl
the horses left the road and the bugg,
: was overturned. Miss Bristol was tax
en- out of the wreck with her neck brok
en-. The unfortunate girl was about II
: years old.
In the celebrated case of the North
, ern Transit company of Michigan
> against the Grand Trunk railway o
! Canada the jury rendered verdict Il
favor of the plaintiff of S92 600. TIL,
, demand was tor S240, 900 on account o
! delayed cars causing heavy loss t,
the transit company. The railwa,
company made counter claim of $50,
600 alleging delayed boats on the tran
sit company's part.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says tina
!, President Brooks of, Kalamazoo College
! has been in Boston during the stead,
: cold weather, which agrees with MIN
and has very perceptibly improve,
during his rest. He left on the 12tl
inst. for Mentone,a well known Frencl
. health resort on the gulf of Genoa. HI
will remain abroad until the. season i
well settled. but is expected hom
in Michigan before the summer is over
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says tina
ut o'clock Saturday morning the 15tl
; inst, remarkable explosion took plac,
in d-neaven, above that village, which
: awoke the sleepers and startled peopl,
|, who were awake. The light was mo
mentary yet binding, though the moor
was shining with brilliancy at the time
Looking upward, observers saw appar
emily under the moon. which at tina
time was in the south, a great meteor
which exploded into innumerable spark
and went out in darkness in a second.
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