Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-10-07

On being released from Jackson prison
the other morning after having served
three years time for passing counterfeit
money Adolph Gordon, who was sent from
Marquette, was re-arrested and taken be-
fore Justice Hunt where he plead not
guilty to charge of making and having
Counterfeit money. It is said he had
plaster paris molds and made money
which he managed in some way to con-
yey TO Russell Paschall, who Is awaiting
trial on the charge of passing 1T. Gordon
was held for trial.
James Looney, recently convicted in the
Montcalm circuit and sentenced to five
years in Ionia prison for manslaughter,
escaped about l0minutes before the officers
were to start with him to Ionia, and has
thus far eluded the officers.
James Randall, charged with burglary,
who recently escaped from sheriff Mcker
nan or lngham county, by jumping from
closet window of a moving train, be-
tween Lansing and Mason, land who fought
desperately when recaptured, was in the
same sell with George w. Bostwick, an
alleged forgerer in Mason jail, but the two
effected their escape the other afternoon
while Lansing plumbers were dong some
repairs in their quarters.
Adolph Gordon, sent to Jackson prison
from Marquette on three years sentence
other day, his sentence having. expired.
He was Immediately re-arrested charged
counterfeiting while in prison. In his
cell was found all the moulds and dies,
and considerable coin.
Samuel Hayes, a brakeman on the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railroad, was run over
the other morning about six miles from
Muskegon by an engine. His left leg was
crushed and amputation was found
necessary. He could not rally from the
shock and died the same evening.
Henry Gamble of Saginaw has filed .
bill in the Ogemaw circuit court and Judge
Tuttle granted an injunction restraining
the treasurer of Ogemaw county and the
Auditor-General of the state from selling
q large tract of land in Ogemaw county
for delinquent taxes the sale being adver-
tised to take place October 8. The grounds
assessed, and the law under which the tax
was levied was unconstitutional. The tax
amounts to $4,000.
Snow at Ishpeming and Marquette on
the 30th ult.
Three miners named Morris Schalmas,
Paul BraZza and Peter Papace were in
stantly killed in the Winthrop mine in
Ishpeming the other morning. They were
working in drift with high walls, called
slope, when the timber gave away aud
the unfortunate men were covered with a
mass Va Sio weighing many pohS'
L. Thomas a farmer Of Metamora, was
confidenced out of $3.50 by the three card
Monte game. Edward Williams and Geo.
W. Watson have been arrested on suspi-
cion.
James Clark, alias Skaggins, has been
sentenced to two years in state prison at
jackson, at hard labor. The crime Of
which Clark was convicted was robbing
the passengers on Michigan Central
train at Jackson in May, 1888 While in
tail awaiting trial he escaped, but was
brought back from Wisconsin by Officer
Winney two months ago.
While a 4. A. A. & N. NJ. gravel train
was passing through the tunnel in Howell
the other day Frank Kosker, a construc-
ton hand, was sitting on n brake. He
was struck by pile and thrown under the
cars. Both legs and one of his arms were
severed by the wheels of the car, and he
was horribly mutilated. He lived only Is
minutes.