The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-01-29
STATE NEWS.

The annual fair OF the Northern
Michigan Poultry Association began al
Flint, Jan. 10. Over 800 entries were
made.
The Chicago and Lake Huron rail
road has stopped running passenger
trains into Chicago, aud through pas
sengers now have TO change cars at
Valparaiso.-I Detroit Telegraph.
The bakery in Fort Mackinac was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Ii is SAID
that the buildings in the Fort are in
constant danger from fire by reason of
the inadequate water supply.
William w. Filio, OF Charlotte, has
been convicted Of bigamy. He had
commenced proceedings for divorce
from his first wife, but before they
were completed married Sarah j. Hay.
The law students Of Michigan Uni
versity have appointed a committee to
confer with Judge Cooley upon the ad-
visibility Of contesting the advance. re-
Gently made in the fees Of law students.
Geo. p. Brown, class of 81, as ora
tor, and Miss Elma Mason, class Of 80,
as essayist, will try to carry off the
prizes for Albion College, in the inter
college contest at Kalamazoo. on the
25th inst.
The Hon. William Hamilton has do
mated two acres Of land TO the Genessee
County Agricultural Society, aud re-
duced a mortgage for Sll 900 bearing
10 per cent interest, to $1,000 at Z per
cent interest.
Friday evening, Jan. IL, Geo. Smith,
living about four miles northwest OF
Byron, had his barn consumed by fire
together with all it's contents excepting
his horses. The fire caught from a
lantern.
Mr.. S. Pratt, of Adrian, has four rus
sett apples which were gathered in the
fall of 1876, apparently as sound as
whom picked, and which he preserved
by packing them in layers of dry plas-
ter OF Paris.
The jury that investigated the Ne
gaunee explosion has called the atten-
ton of the county officers to the pres
ent dangerous mode OF Transporting nj
tro-glyceiine, and recommend legisla-
ton on the subject.
State Oil Inspector Averill has Just
completed his report for 1877. There
were 66, 900 barrels Of oil inspected, OF
which 99l barrels were rejected This
shows that light oil men have learned
that Michigan's law is being enforced.
The following new Michigan postof-
fees have lately been established:
Fredericksville, Crawford county, and
Campbell's Corners, Ogemaw county;
aud the name of the Bear Lake Mills,
in Van Buren, county, has been chang
cd 10 Belmont.
DR.. Thomas Armstrong, who was
trial in the Circuit Court at Charlotte,
for grave robbery, and Arthur Martin,
one of the peoples witnesses, quarrel
ed in McDonald's drug store this
morning, the fight resulting in Martins
discharging revolver at Armstrong,
but without effect, owing to the timely
interference Of the bystanders.
Morgan Rounds, the desperate who
recently made n criminal assault upon
Josephine Grandy, in Medina, got five
years in the State Prison by Judge
Pratt, at Adrian last week. Rounds
was employed on the farm where the
complainant lived, and attempted the
family's absence.
Tuesday afternoon Prison-Asylum
Keeper Humphrey ordered crazy con-
vict, named John Hanley, alias JEFF
Davis, to do something. Hanley WAS
sullen, and struck at him with a knife.
Frank Parrish, another convict, tried
to take the knife from Hanley and re-
ceiyed a CHASTITY wound In the head.
Mrs. Patrick Jennings died in Grand
Rapids on Tuesday, from the effects
Of an abortion procured December %,
rs appears from the testimony given at
the coroner's inquest. The fetus,
which was found in vault, bears
marks which indicate that violence was
used, which tends 10 criminate others
besides the deceased.
The Board of Supervisors OF Mecosta
county have adopted preamble and
alton Of the Reform Club IN Big Rap
ids, the number of convicts for crime
have deceased one-half, and large ex-
pense has consequently been saved the
county; thanking the club for what it
has accomplished, and appropriating
to it the sum Of 500 from the county
treasury.
Alexander b. Howard, q school teach
or at Fremont Center, Newaygo coun-
ty, became suddenly insane on Thurs
day. and commenced an indiscriminate
attack on his pupils, throwing them
out of the windows, injuring several Sc
verely. He was arrested and taken to
Newaygo, where he now is q raving
maniac. Howard has friends in Mil
waukee.
Prof. j. G. Wheeler, principal OF the
Clayton union school, requested the
school board to cxpel Adelbert Spen-
Ger, a youth Of 10. for using obscene
language and drawing pictures on the
black board. The board found the
charges true, but concluded to let
Spencer remain, whereupou Prof.
Wheeler resigned. He had been prin-
cipal Of the school for seven years.
The Grand Haven Herald states that
the Reformed Church at Holland is H.
nancially in a healthy condition, and
that the church has decided that the
pew occupied by DIR. VanRaalte's fam
ily ever since the erection OF the build
ing shall be called the Van Raalte pew,
aud that the same shall be occupied 10y
the children Of the honored founder
and first pastor as long as any shall
worship therein. 1t is further propos-
cd to raise n marble slab in the build
ing suitably inscribed in memory Of
Rev DIR, A. @. Van Raalte. for twenty
i've years pastor Of the First Reformed
| Church.
The coroner's jury at the Negaunee
explosion add the following 10 their
verdict. "Said explosion was caused
by the careless and negligent handling
II said glycerine by the employees OF
the said glycerine company. Further,
the jury find that in their judgment
the explosive. nitro-glycerine, cannot
be too carefully handled, aud the au-
/ thorities cannot throw too many safe