The Clinton Independent

The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXXVI.—NO. 28. ST. JOHNS MICH. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1902. WHOLE NO.—1838 MURDER AND SUICIDE THEY WENT ON RECORD WHAT DOES IT MEAN? OVER SUBSCRIPTIONS Aged South Riley Earmer Kills Council Voted Monday Night Jesse Bancroft Dropped From Beet Sugar Manufacturers Assaulted and Knocked Down Injunction Suit Against the His Wife and Commits Not to Confirm Mr. List of Teachers for Appear to Have Been • a Passenger on Michi Great Northern Company Suicide- Washburn Next Year. “Converted ” gan Suburban. Commenced Tuesday. TEMPORARILY DERANGED BY A VERY CLEVER COUF NO REASON ASSIGNED BY THE SUGAR TRUST QUARREL OVER A FARE A QUESTION OF LAW Supposed that Awful Deed was President Bullard Compelled Later He is Asked to Accept Flooding Michigan Delegation Resulted in a Row Which May Trustees of Stock Subscriptions Done While Temporarily Republicans to Vote on a Reappointment to With Appeals to Retain be tried out in the Asked to be Let Alone —Com Insane. Confirmation. 8th Grade. Differential. Courts. pany's Contention. Tuesday evening tills village and Tiie silence that settled upon tiie The fact that a prominent republi There must be some cringing A conductor on tiie Michigan Sub Arguments were heard by Judge the RUirounding country was startled republican members of tiie village can went to Jesse Bancroft and asked citizens engaged in the manufacture urban Railway and a passenger on one Wiest Tuesday forenoon in the matter by the report that John It. Kimball, board of trustees every time President him to accept a reappointment as of beet sugar in tiie state of Michigan. of the south bound trains last Friday of tiie injunction asked for by Jacob who lived in Section 22. Riley, had Bullard made an appointment, which teacher of the 8th grade for next year, According to reports these manufac quarreled over the fare of a small boy. Stahl, F. L. Dodge ami Fred Thoman, killed his aged wife and then com wtis so dense that a snow plow with a after tiie board of trustees hud (Imp turers of beet sugar are sending urgent The passenger, whoso name was trustees, to restrain tiie Lansing. St. mitted suicide. A little grandson of locomotive behind it would have made lied ids name from the list, suggestsa appeals to tiie Michigan senators Brown, visited an attorney ’s office in Johns & St. Louis Electric Railway the murderer and suicide went to the no impression on it, was swept out of number of queries. begging them to see that tiie differen Lansing after read ing there and Company from taking any action at home of his grand-parents about live sight last Monday night. President First, why was lie refused reappoint tial on sugar, tiie trust's protection — stated that he wished to commence a law to secure the money which tiie o'clock Tuesday afternoon and on en Hilliard again presented Mr. Wash ment when, as everybody knows, Ids be kept on relined sugar. Not long damage suit against tiie company for three gentlemen hold as trustees of tering tlie house was horrified at dis burn ’s name to succeed Mr. Spaulding work in the grade for the past three ago some representatives from these injuries he received at tiie hands of the subscribers to stock in tiie rail covering tiie body of his grandmother and himself made the motion to con years has given tiie highest satisfac same manufacturers were haunting its employe. way company. lying on the floor of one of the rooms firm. This was supported by Mr. tion to all concerned —to tiie public tiie halls of congress railing at the Brown stated that between St. Johns Judge Cahill and C. P. Rlack appear in a pool of blood. Not far away was Vauconsant and tiie yeas and nays generally, the superintendent and tiie sugar trust. The Michigan delegation and DcWitt lie had an argument witli ed for the plaintiffs and urged that the body of his grandfather. The called fur. Mr. Vauconsant voted yea board itself? Not a word of complaint in the house worked with and for the conductor regarding tiie boy’s fare, tiie trustees ought not to lie put to boy quickly gave the alarm and a and tiie republican members, seeing has been heard concerning Mr. Ban these very men, and now they appear tiie conductor Insisting that the lad, the risk af an action at law wherein message was horridly sent to Sheri IT no other way out of it. voted nay. .They who was about eight years of age, a judgment might be secured against didn ’t want to vote, but would take croft's work, tiie results or ids meth to have quit like whipped dogs and Schavev and Prosecutor Smith, who ods. On tiie contrary, he lias been lied from the lieid. It is supposed to should pay a fare. After some words, them for the face value of tiie subscrip repared at once to the scene of. the no chances. Several motions to ad be because these men have sold out Brown declared that tie offered the tions. the tragedy. They were' accom journ were made while the vote was given unstinted praise by those most to the trust, but there arc still some conductor a iiatf dollar in payment The claim was made that tiie trus panied by Dr. Gillum, who, on exam pending, but they were clearly out of competent to judge in such matters, men in Michigan interested in tiie for the lad ’s ride, but the conductor tees were entitled to tiie protection of ining tlie bodies, stated that both order and were so declared by the and there was not tiie slightest hint manufacture of beet sugar who have was unable to make change and con an injunction and to have a court of must have been dead for several hours. president. of dissatisfaction until the time came not sold out to flic trust. These are tinued to abuse Brown. At DcWitt. equity instruct them as to tiie dispos A jury composed of Robert Landers, There was “confusion worse con to choose tiie teachers for tiie coming the beet farmers, and for their protec Brown states, lie left tiie train, and al of their trust, and decide whether Arthur Shultz. James L. Ilamer, Wm. founded, ” however, when the presi year; and even then there was nothing tion tiie Michigan delegation,senators declares that tiie conductor, aft *r Call the stock was being diverted from the A. Westmorland. Hansom W. Park- dent's communication declaring the said he was simply dropped from tiie and representatives alike, will stand. ing him names and commenting sar purpose for which it was originally in house and Martin A. Neill, was hasti offices of village attorney and village list. The substance of tiie letters urging castically on ills attitude regarding tended. ly impanelled, who, after viewing the health officer vacant was read. Mr. In the second place, if tiie board tiie senators not to vote to abolish the tiie boy’s fare, assaulted him with a h_i{ C. Ostrander, cn behalf of tiie remains and taking all tlie known Bronson asserted that inasmuch as no considered Mr. Bancroft untit for the differential as tiie house delegation ticket punch, cutting a gash in his company, contended that if tiie de facts into consideration, gave it as ordinance creating tiie office of village position of teacher of the 8th grade, did is that it’s very dangerous to start face ami knocking him Into a ditch. murrer of tiie trustees to tiie bill filed Their verdict that Mrs. Kimball came attorney had ever been passed by the why was lie offered reappointment an agitation fer lower duties on At tiie close of hostilities, Brown by the company was true, then the to her death by a blow from an ax in board it was impossible to dismiss after his name had been dropped? It refined sugar, the only kind Michigan says lie and the lad again entered trustees Had an adequate remedy and the hands of her husband, John R. him from office. If such is the case, is not to be supposet that lie is any factories produce, for that means a the train and went to Lansing. Tiie protection at law, and that there was Kimball, and that tlie murderer then then Hie president did exactly right better fitted now than fie was when political issue, and consequently tiie boy corroborated Brown ’s story. no need of interfering by chancery. committed suicide by cutting his in declaring the office vacant. Hut the board made its choice of teachers loss of the merits of the controversy. ri be story of the conductor is The court took the matter under throat with a jack knif'd. The follow Mr. Hruuson lias been crawing a for the coming year. If it is necessary to pass some bill to radically different from Brown's advisement. Both sides submitted ing witnesses were sworn: Valentine salary t f $300 a year for several years Had politics anything to do with satisfy the administration or appease version of the affair. The conductor briefs. Kimball, Caroline 0. Smith. Mervilie as village attorney. If he was aware the matter? It is well known that tiie popular clamor for relief to Cuba, states that Brown had only sufficient I). Smith. Frank Robson. Dr. S. E. of that fact when lie was appointed lie M r. Bancroft is a republican, but lie tiie duty on raw sugar might be money to pay his fare from St. Johns Gillani.

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