The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-10-19
srArE NEWS.

n. J. Rodier, Of Detroit, has lilac
bush in full bloom.
The number of school children in
Grand Rapids is s, 400.
The Flint Daily Globe expired on
Saturday aged ose month.
This state has three Central Michi-
gan agricultural societies.
The Lansing high school Just COM
pleted was dedicated on Monday.
Zig Rapids has organized gas CON-
pany with j. p. Hudnutt rs president.
Coldwater has kerosene at 16 cents
per gallon. Let us have cheap light.
There ia an old lady in Frankfort
who has read the bible through twenty
two times.
II is said that the coal bonanza near
Holland developes well. The vein is
{, feet thick.
The smelling works at Wyandotte
received th:riy-two barrels Of silver ore
Oct. 2.
A shoemaker of Kalamazoo processes 8
to have slipper sold by Joseph Cam
pau of Detroit in ITO.
Fourteen cand dates for admission
to the medical department of the uni
versity were rejected.
Rich mineral paint beds have been
discovered in Kalaska county on lands
owned by Grand Rapid parties.
The kalamazoo Gazette says that a
potato weighing six pounds was shown
on the streets of that city recently.
An unknown man had n leg cut off at
Monroe on Monday while trying to
cross the track in front of the engine.
Two Adrian men have gone into the
temperance insurance business. The
one that gets drunk first is to pay the
other Sl0
At st. Joseph on the 1lth there was
fall of snow that morning. 1t was
not very heavy, but being the 6rst it
was felt very much.
Thos. O. Ward, former editor OF the
Paw Paw True Northerner, aud in
ventor of the Ward mir brake, died Mt
Kalamazoo, Oct. Sth.
While playing in the woods near
Newago with his gun on Sunday a
young man named Porter had his left
hand blown TO pieces.
At meeting of the Detroit Light
Guards on Monday evening Chas. A.
DUPONT was elected Captain vice X. A.
Liggett, resigned.
Wayland, Allegan county. has an In
dian Episcopal mission Of less than 40
persons, cared for by Rev. James Sell
krig, aged SO. who has been there since
| 1889.
Three men have been arrested on
suspicion of being engaged in the rob-
berry Of the national bank and express
Office at Albion last summer.
VIM. No-ihrup was driving load of
wood into a barn in Jackson, and struck
against the top Of the door, breaking
his back. He cannot live.
The barn o; John s. Major, near
Centerville, was struck by lightning
Oct. 8, and burned with all its con-
tents except one mule.
Isaac Graham, -es.ding near York
vile, was shot and insanity killed
while hunting, by the accidental dis
charge Of his gun as he was climbing
over fence.
| A Traverse City dispatch says Thos.
T. Bates. u. s. Land Agent and Secre-
tary Of the City Railroad Company has
failed. His liabilities are estimated II
$50, 900, assests Go, 900.
The Coidwater Republican has rus.
set apple pickeda year ago, and except
that il is little withered, has retained
all its original freshness. No pains
taken to keep il, it having lain on Q
shelf in the cellar since last fall.
A man ut Hastings by the name oi
Smith, in Jail awaiting his trial fol
shooting q man, q short time since,
broke Jail Saturday night, and has moi
been heard from.
At Holland on Tuesday, one John
4 NflHptit bttthPttu W Cut Ms tnfOat.
He had tried TO shoot himself first, bu
both attempts are likely TO provo fail
ures, and he will probably live to re
pent OF IL. Cause, a fit Of rage brough
on by family difficulties.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Forrest, of Bay City
awoke on the night of Oct 7th, with
burning sensation on the face and neck
A physician was called, who said sh,
had been burned by having acid poured
over her. Her recovery is doubtful
The officers are working up the case.
On Saturday last Charles Ruggle'
exhumed five skeletons from mount
on the premises Of Levi Calhoon. TIVE
miles south of Bronson. Judging from
J the position of the bones, they were
buried face downward. in a sitting po
sition with hands crossed on the breasl
One Of the thigh bones was preserved
entire, and was found 10 measure sir
inches longer than the thigh Of th'
tallest man ia Bronson. From All ap'
pearances the persons must have been
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