Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-12-10
STATE SIFTINGS.

Detroit was the scene of another terrible
murder on the night Of December B. Bertha
Duckwitz, aged ~ years, was found in the
garden near her home with her throat cut
Puddles of boOd were on the walk and in the
garden. She was tn have tecn married the
Saturday following, and VIM. S.eavans heI
betroth, strange to sa-, Is suspected of being
her murderer He was with her late the night
the horrible deed was committed, and then
went 10 his own home and washed his hands,
and Immediately disapT cared. The police have
In their possession the towel on which he wiped
his hands. which is covered with blood. The
police at once inst tutel The most thorough
search throughout the city and along the river
Ii was learned. however, that the murderer had
left the " and gone north on the Bay City
road. Such proved 10 he the fact, and about
eight O'Clock the following morning he was
trudgng YEARLY along the trac near the vi
lage of Orion. Descriptions Of the man had
been telegraphed in ali Grec ions, So that City
Marshall Graves OF Orion bad no difficulty II
recognizing him. He was arrested and locked
up IN Orion 10 await TIE arrival of o Ulcers
from Detroit who arrived on III
afternoon train ard returned TO Detroit u,
same evening" with thr'r pru oner. Steayens
admits the crime bat tells so many con- | u q
storie tnat no one OF them can be relief upon
as furnis hing any clue to TIE motive of the
terrible deed tu his person were found the
engagement rim Z, which hai been worn by the
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chlo:o orm. His clothing was also blood
stained
4In Nav. 1854, one Paddock, saloonkeeper
of Union city deposited with the county
treasurer 20 . t. pay his liquor tax for the en-
suing year, and presente bonds. The council
refused to accept the bonds. The money re-
manned with the cCulty treasurer The sup
RENE court has decided that, inasmuch as the
council had not approved the liquor bond, the
vii liar ie IN lp
The state association Of Holsten-Friesiau
cattle BREEDERS has elected the following oil
GERS for the IN suing year: President, NJ. L.
Sweet. Grand Rapids: vice -prcsident, &. H.
Stuns. Hastings; secretary, w. X. SaXton
Howell: directors WA. ROwley, Mt. Clemens
and E.G. Sw iet. Mason. The u, X meeting OF
the society will b, leld In LaLs4ng the first
Tuesday in December, 1856.
NJ. Lalley OF Detroit Las been awarded the
contract OF building the extension of the Sagi
nav, Tuscola X Huron railroad to Bad Axe
and the work has commenced. The
route he, Deen surveyed and s.aked, the n
tract for the ties, rails and spikes have beer
awarded and 1t is expected 10 have the trains
running from Fast Saginaw 10 Bad Axe by tho
fourth Of July next.
In shanty built OF slabs in swamp near AL
mont, United States officers Flummerfelt AND
Graves seized a private still. They found d
brick furnace, "A oilirg vat of a hundred gal
Ions capacity. u few barrels some hops and
the necessary worm. The captured goods were
taken to INLAY City. Apparently the distiller1
had been in operation only few weeks. TIL,
operators escaped.
A short time ago the United trethern so
ciety 1t Portland disposed of a silk quilt b,
LOTTERY. \ lady, who is not a member of thu
congr CATION. presented the lucky ticket, but
the society refused To surrender the quilt
claiming the check to have been forg d. AND
now the lady threatens suit against tn, so
ciety To recover the quilt
Mr.. Major d. Lockwood, for about flfteer
wears past a hardware dealer at Holly, has as
signed to George Lewis of IIighland,a brother
in-law Of Nr. Lockwood. His liabilities ar,
about $4,000 and his assets probably mucl
less in the bands of an assignee The threat
of some OF his creditors TO attach precipitate6
the assignment.
Col. Hogle, chief of the enver, Col, polio,
force, has given the Belkna wagon company
of Grand Rapids an order or thu finest patro
wagon in the United States It, cost will b,
500, and ii will Ike trebl. plated with silver
This will he for public exhibition. Common
DRINKS will have to be contented with three
$500 wagon
b. J. Flummcritit, d pity collector o, IN
ternal revenue. ard Leputy Marshal Grave
discovered an .'licit III near Almont, on thu
farm of Milo flaincS The fixtures were com
plete, including furnace. ling vat and worm
quantity of whisky was found on the prefns
es, and more was hidden in the adjacent woods
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Heath have the homo
of being the youngest married couple In Crane
Rapids Each claims 10 be N, but some o
their friends say they a:e hut 10, and as severa
persons I'm q e city r'.used To tie the knot OF
account of their Juvenile appearance they ha,
10 90 to Hastings last week o get married.
The firm OF ID. Tn nnpson u Co, manufac
turers OF scythe swaths, grain cradles ant
rakes at Owosso Ia been, by mutual consent
dissolved AN. Ben. e.. "a naming as the SOL
proprietor. The nam of the works Will b
changed to the Owe, 80 Tool Company and 1t
reputation fully maintained.
Charles Rspp an Frank Palmer, the Stur
gis toughs who slugged Wes Anthony II
Kalamazoo the other night, have been boun
over for trial In the sum of $1,000. Rapp de
mics that he lived at Siurgis. Tie officers sa
he Is wanted In California for numbering hi
wife's father.
Capt jaime Davidson oil West Bay City vii
soon begin work at his shpvard on a tow
barge which will have the following dlmen
sions: Keel, 30 feet; beam, 80 feet; holi, i
feet II is for the Emery lumber company
and will have capacity of 100000 feet
lumber.
body, supposed 10 be that Of Patric
O'Rellly, victim OF the tug Moffatexplost =
was found IN the wreck opposite Marine Cit,
The limbs were broken and the body otherwis
badly mutilated. Wreckers are engaged rails
Ing the engine aud blasting the hull
Elijah Bulhand o. Bloomingdale, In a fit 9
insanity attempted 10 cut the throats OF HI
wife and daugh er Saturday night Nov. ~
Their recovery Is doubtful. -Four weeks befor
he tried the same thing. lie has been take
TO Kalamazoo asylum.
The mammoth establishment Of the Barnur
srou and wfro "A or,xe In do trOit were destrOyC
by fire on the 81 inst causing loss OF owe
tc0000O, with bat partifl insurance. IT, dc
struction OF the works throws nearly 700 me
out of employment