The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-08-08
NUMBER 1882.
MIsCEELANROUS.
General Hancock. although still a
handsome man, has grown quite gray.

handsome man, has grown quite gray.
Five hundred titles have TINS far
, registered at the Clifton House, Niaga.
ra Falls.
The Bank of Spain has been instruct
, ed to issue 1900. 900 reals in mortgage
bonds.
Ii IL stated that the Turkish govern
ment has decided 10 issue paper cur.
rency to the amount of ga, ,0O0, 900.
The Hon. John J. Baker has accent.
J cd the prohibition nomination !or gov.
: ernor OF Massachusetts,.
Few OF the Atlantic steamship linea
have done more than pay expenses
during the last ak or eight months.
Notices have been posted in all the
mills at Fall River, announcing re.
duction in wages Of about 10 per cent.
Since April llth, 26s, ,2fl barrels OF
petroleum have been DESTROYED by
lightning IN the Pennyslvania oil re.
gion.
10 Charleston, Miss. ;. reside two la
dies 50 years old. They are twins, aud
each has lad two husbands and seven
children.
Lanbain's woolen-mill and adjoining
dwelling-honses were burned Saturday
at Millbury. Mass, Loss, sl60. 900; in.
surance, $4,000.
Colonel Sturgis begins to regret that
he ever attempted TO tackle the ms mo-
ry of Custer The Seventh Cavalry
has cussod him pretty considerably.
Garibaldi is regarded with something
like idolatry by the workingmen OF
Italy. He makes himself one of them,
and is never ashamed TO own that he
himself was once q workingman.
An explosion in the Black Diamond
coal mine, Mt. Diablo, Nevada, last
week killed ak miners aud five were
badly injured. The explosion was
caused by blast igniting accumulated
coal dust.
Mcssrs. Jay Cooke & Co., were last
week discharged from bankruptcy by
the United States district court, in
Philadelphia, no objection having been
made TO a petition fled some time ago.
Ipae a~-~aca ~ the cotton crnp hx
the late food in the upper Red river is
estimated at 10000 bales. There is no
material damage TO crops along the old
river, but from the raft to Fulton the
destruction is very great.
The great yacht race from Sandy
Hook 10 Newport and return, for the
I Ianr.a .la l1.as, h.y
Idler, WandeTer coming in second and
Countess Of Duiferin third. The lat
ter is crack Candian yacht.
Senator Allen r. Caperton. Of West
Virginia, died suddenly at six o'clock
Wednesday evening in Washington of
angina pecturis. He had been sick
since Friday last though his physicians
did not regard his symptoms as dam
gerous.
Mr.. McDougall having declined the
position Of commissioner of internal
revenue, the president rendered IL to
Gen. Greene. b. Raum, of Ill, who
accepted it-whereupon his nomination
was ssnt To the senate. Gen. Raum Is
n lawyer by profession, and is about 80
years OF age.
The graphic has capital picture OF
a young officer grabbing by the throat
post-trader who has just been selling
n rife to an Iudian. The officer sea-
sons his action with the remark: "You
rascal, how am 1 to keep order on the
frontier with you selling rum and rifles
to the Indians? III / can once get rid
Of you, the Sioux will be quiet enongh.'
Col. Valentine Baker, late of the
British army, just released from prison
where he has served a sentence for q
felenous assault upon a young woman
ia a railway car. has accepted COM
mission in the Turkish army aud leaves
Immediately for his post. He ought
to feel at home with the hbidinous
Turks.
Official returns made 10 the bureau
of statistics show that during the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1926, there ar
rived in the United States p, ,572 Chin
ese immigrants, Of whom only 257 were
females. Dnring the corresponding
period OF 1875 the total immigration to
/ the United States from China was 16,-
437, of whom ~ were females.
The new and extensive steel works,
which have been in process Of erection
by the Vulcan Iron Works company
some time past at South st. Lonis,
were completed last week, and made
! their first blow. These works are for
! the exclusive manufacture OF BesSsmer
steel rails, are the largest in the coun-
try costing over $500, 900, and have
large orders to fill.
A blockade OF the ports Of Dahomey
( was declared by Great Britain on the
I lst of July. The vessels now in the
/ blockaded ports will be allowed thirty
days to load and depart. II is not in
tended TO attack Dahomey from the
sea. An available force will go on ths
mail boat to Port Soya aud thence 10
the capital. Bot who knows what this
nov is all about?
A water~spont burst on Diamond
, RabRc mountains, near Eureka, CAL,
Sunday, resulting in the death OF thir-
teen Chinese wood-choppers and prob
ably large number Of Italians camp
ed in the canyon getting out timber.
Without a moments warning a column
Of water ten feet high rushed upon
] ah bhN Oht
! The Italians were camped short dis
tsnce above. and as no trace can be
found it is feared all perished.
Smuggler. tho new famous trottins
stallion, ia owned by Col. II. 8. Rus
sell, of II 9me farm, Milton, Mass. He
stands 1873. weighs 1915 pounds, and
Is OF a rich maho gany bay color, with
blaze in the face. He was sired by
"Blanco" and mis- dam by Tuckho. He
was foaled near Columbus, Ohio, in
April, 1896; taken to kansns Gt two
years old and there kept for saddle aud
farm work tall 1872, whom he was first
handled as trotter. In his FIRST race
ho made trotting record faster than
that Of oil other stations, aud six weeks
after won the champion purse in still
faster time, making the third heat in
2:20. With bis present record he stands
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