The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1875-11-23
NUMBER 1915
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
A Saginaw school teacher whipped
pupil, the pupils father whipped the
teacher, and all are happy.
The Choctaw nation is to have pa
per printed in that language. Blind
printers are wanted TO set the typo.
Good cows can be had in Barry
county for from $40 to $50 each. The
dry summer there caused scarcity Of
fodder.
The Herald, published for nearly two
years past at Chase, Lake county, has
inst been discontinued for want OF ade-
qnate support.
The Ithaca Journal is informed by
by Capt. Craw that he has negotiated
loan OF $3.50, 900 for the Chicago, Sag
inaw and Canada Railroad.
Two surgeons weighing in the ag-
gregate ITO pounds and captured in
the River Raisin, near Monroe, were
offered for sale in Detroit Thursday.
A Ypsilanti correspondent of an east
ern paper gives currency to a rumor
that the Ann Arbor Argus and Dexter
Leader are soon to be consolidated.
The expenses OF the water board Of
East Saginaw have been shrunk 80, 500
by dispensing with the Office of super
intendent, and curtailing other expen-
ses.
The editor OF the Holly Register
don't weaken. He says his subscrip-
ton list is increasing about one hun
dred week, and that his opponents
won't start another paper.
About seven years ago the ladies Of
Paw Paw made flag and appointed
one of their number to take charge of
it. She has done il SO well that law
suit has grown out OF it.
The Grand Rapids Eagle learns that
Jefferson ID. Howell, captain of the
lost steamer Pacific, was one of the
persons captured with JEFF Davis by the
the Tenth Michigan Cavalry, and that
he was very young TO hold SO RESPONSE
BILE position as he did at the time Of
his death.
At Mason, Thursday evening, the
members of the Ingham county bar
presented Judge A. ID. Crane, OF that
circuit with beautiful tea service of
silver, accompanied by many express
icns of their regard for him personally
and officially. 1t is said he is soon to
retire from the bench and resume his
practice at Dexter.
Mr.. Charles Rathbun, who died in
Grand Rapids Saturday, was nearly 80
fage. He settled in Grand Rapids in
| 1914, and two years afterward built the
! fine hotel which still bears his name.
For many years it was the only hotelof
any consequence in that part of the
State.
The Pentwater News says Mr.. Samu-
ell Graham and his family have started
from that place for the Gulf, where
they expect to made their future home.
They go in q boat SO feet long, IL feet
beam, and 81 feet hold, and expect to
pass through the canal from Chicago
to the Illinois River, and thence down
the Mississippi just fast. enough to- keep
ahead OF the cold weather.
Considerable indignation is felt at
Big Rapids In consequence OF the prin-
cipal of the Union school of tnat city
turning out the son OF worthy widow
for the reason that the boy did not
bring q new copy book to school. The
lad gave as his reason that his mother
did not have the money to buy one
with.
The Adrian Times says: Jacob Mil
ler, proprietor Of the Eagle brewery,
and late Democratic candidate for city
treasurer, is under financial cloud
BY virtue Of n chattel mortgage, held
by Leonard Nufer, Under Sheriff
Teachout proposes to close out the
stock, fixtures and traps Of the brewery
at auction, on Nov. 10.
The receiver OF the Detroit and Mil
waukee railroad has applied to the
court for authority to contract for new
cars to supply heplaces of the old aud
worn out ones. The company has been
ordered to show cause why the appli-
cation should not be granted.
Mr.. Graham, OF Ludington, started
Friday for Arkansas. He proposes to
go all the way by water, his route be-
ing from Ludington to Chicago, up the
Chicago river, and across via the Mich
igan 4 Illinois canal to the Mississippi,
thence down that river and up the Ar
kansas as far as the stream can be nav
igated.
Christopher Peterson, while engaged
few days since in digginga grave at
Port Crescent for the interment of his
brother, lay down in it for the purpose
OF determining its length, when a mass
| OF earth caved in upon him, covering
him quite completely SO that he had to
be released by q companion, whose
presence and help alone, in all proba-
bility, saved him from being buried
alive in his brothers grave.
During the late fair a stranger be-
came acquainted with a woman in
Dutchtown on Friday, and married her
on Saturday. Sunday they went out
riding. Monday the husband gave his
'tother half q sound thrashipg. Tues
day the scamp opened her trunk, took
out 500, and left these parts for his
eountry's good, This being the wo-
mans fourth husband, a son by for
mer husband came and drove her out
of the house, marrying having annulled
the will by which she occupied it.
There is a great deal of Republican
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