The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-11-06
STATE NEWS.
Nickodemus is now running lager
hear saloon in Fast Saoin0w

0reehVlllo lOr steanng cattlc.
Reed City is going to have a bank
with $4,000 capital.
The total amount of logs sawed on
the Menominee river this season Is es.
timated at nearly $50, 900, 900 feet.
The editor OF the Marquette Mining
Journal owns O quarry OF novaculite.
oilstone, worth 81 per pound.
A farmer in Richland, Kalamazoo
county, has lost eight hogs from chol-
era. and has 20 others sick with il.
The White Pigeon Argus was not
dead, but only taking n vacation. II
has returned with renewed brightness.
Byersou, Hills & Co. OF Muskegon
have purchased 5000 000 feet OF stand
ing pine in Newaygo county for sl6,-
500.
Worthwhile is going 10 have an opera
house costing $4,000, 81 zoo of which
has already been subscribed by the
citizens.
VIM. Clothier of Marletto. Sanilac
county. raised a potato on his farm
this season weighing two pounds six
ounces.
Who's lost tooth? Chester Dia-
mond, of Vassar, has Just found nice
one seven inches long and weighing
five pounds lacking two ounces.
At the late term Of the Allegan coun-
ty court, Sudge Arnold sent nine men
TO state prison, two 20 Ionia, and one
to the house of correction at Detroit.
At the last meeting of the East
Tawas reb-ribbon club 1888 were con-
tributed towards a building fund. The
club is going TO have hall OF its Own.
George Francis, living on Front
street, Ionia, shot himself through the
head at 12 o'clock last Friday night
and died instantly. He used Der
ringer.
Cedar, the county-seat Of Gladwin
county, has six buildings; n court
house costing $50 three dwellings,
a barn, aud a store. The nearest rail
road station is Is miles away.
DIR. ID. w. Lamar. Of New York SAYS
he will take the land granted for build
ing n railroad from Marquette 10 Mack
inaw, and build the road. The grant
amounts 30 500. 900 acres OF pine and
hard-wood-timber land.
Wild violsts blooming in the open
air, October 2Qth, aud "just as nice as
they have in New York statel" Who
ever says this region Is sn approxima-
tion TO Greenland, bounce thcra on the
spot. Farwell Register.
East Saginaw parties claim that red
tape killed a man up there recently.
Ia other words. it took the authorities
a week to get ready to help q sick man
who had no home or money, and dur
ing the time the nan died.
A boy Of eighteen, named Peter Hal-
Ter, employed at Kandt's grocery, at
Mt. Clemens, whilo nutting Sunday
played Mazeppa on two-year-old colt
in a field. The result was a broken
thigh and a severely bruised body.
John d. Baker, Of Dover, who vas
arrested on complaint of brutal treat
ment of his daughter by beating her.
has been found guilty, fined 500, and
sentenced 20 the Detroit House OF Cor
rectioD. The charge was preferred by
he daughter herself
The Grand Traverse Herald saws
that Hannah, Lay & Co, have cut dur
ing the past season l5,OO0,00O feet Of
pine and 1000, 900 feet of maple Their
planning mill has made q run OF $780,
600 feet and Is still turning out 100, 900
feet daily.
The Jaw of n masto1on has been
found in n swamp in Lagrange, Cass
county. II weighs 60 pounds, and Is
p inches wide, measured horizontally
across the teeth. It has only two
teeth, one on each side, weighing near
ly seven younds apiece.
Geo. a. Clark has been arrested in
Detroit for acting as an agent in snug
Cling imported English shoe findings.
The firm for which the business was
conducted Is in Boston, their low prices
in imported goods having aroused the
of L. $. officials and led to
search with the above result.
The bridge over Grand River on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail
road, two miles west OF Grand Rapids,
took fire from tIie Bparks OF a locomo-
tive Thursday morning and was dam
aged 90 the amount Of 81, 900. Trains
are temporarily presented from cross
ing. Sixty feet Of trestle work was
burned
The residence Of Rev. Frank Rus
sell, on Kalamazoo avenue, kalamazoo
was totally destroyed by fire Sunday
The loss is estimated NJ S5,-
600. with q, 200 insurance on building
and contents. Mr.. Russells splendid
library OF 1,l00 volumes was a total
loss. lhe fire originated from the fur
mace.
A terrible stabbinR affray took place
at Grand Rapids last Friday. Thomas
Eder was stabbed ten times 10y Mary
Wandall. The woman was also severe
ly cut by Eder. The parties are at the
police headquarters in a dying condi-
ton. After the wounds were dressed
they tore of the bandages. The orr
gin Of the fight not known.
disappointment in love and a bad
horse trade so unsettled a bachelor
named Springer, in Cheshire, Alegan
county, that he placed the muzzle Of a
gun under his jaws, intending to blow
his head of, but only succeeded in
smashing a Jaw and cheek bone, his
nose, one eve, and about a quarter Of
his tongue. He was 81 tisfod, however,
and the doctors are trying to save his
life.
The Michigan Air Line Railroad has
been purchased by the Grand Trunk
Railway Company OF Canada, and
measures viii at once be taken 10 pro-
ceed with the opening Of the road from
Romeo westward. " is the intention
10 open IL 10 Washington this fall. TO
Rochester next spring. aud 20 Pontiac
durig the summer. Nj. =. Hadley, Of
Romeo. present superintendent OF tho
Air Line, has been appointed general
manager
The Tccumseh Herald publishes q
letter from Lieut. Henry Eomeyn,
formerly Of that place, aud who was
seriously wounded IN the fight with The
Nez Perces Indians, September 30. He
is now on his way east, aud expects 30
spend the winter In Florida In the
letter written three DAYS after the fight
he ssys. II am struck through the
body, the bal going through the right
lung and out near the spine. carrying
away n rih, bui am doing finely. and II