The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-27
STATE NEWS.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Russell's golden
wedding day fell on the l4ih, Middle
vile, Barry county.

MT. ana MIS-. ~. IL. husrtil ROluen
wedding day fell on the l4;h, Middle
vile. Barry county.
There are now a few more than 500
patients, male aud female, in the in
sane asylum at Kalamazoo.
Mr.. Dick. of North Lansing, shot
himself in the head fatally on the 18th
while temporarily insane.
DIR. Gee. w. Fish. of Flint, has left
10 enter upon the duties of his Office as
United States Consul at Uunis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wm. Binder, OF Sagi-
nav City, celebrated their silver we'd
ding with a good deal Of outside help
on the 10th.
M. II. Burnham, of Holly, declines
TO accept the nomination Of Circuit
Court Commissioner on the Oakland
County Republican ticket.
James NJ. Sullivan, and old resident
and prominent lawyer Of Dowagiac.
died suddenly Monday morning of
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. r. Barber, Of Lex
ington celebrated their golden wedding
on the 18th, great nvmber OF the
friends being present
A barn belonging TO III. Van Atten,
OF Buel, Sanilae county, was struck by
lightning, Sunday, and entirely de-
stroyed. Loss $500.
Mr.. Corbin, of Ionia, from Is acres
Of wheat in Lyons township threshed
III bushels, averaging 43 and three
tifths bushels per acre.
A man named Fields, hailiug from
Canada. was stabbed by one Haggerty
in New Haven. Macomb county, on the
18th, and lies in a critical condition.
The residence of Philander Batlett,
near Schoolcraft, was set on fire by an
incen diary on the 10th. Ii was put
out after a damage Of perhaps 500.
Eugene Hutchinson, OF Genesee,
slipped from threshing machine, and
hls right foot and leg so badly mangled
that amputation was necessary.
Henry Wilk. who deserted his wife at
East Saginaw last March, and cleared
out, lately returned To his old haunts
and has been gobbled by the officers.
1t is shust the same everywhere.
Says the Mining Journal: 1t is an ON
inous sign for the greenback party when
il draws to its tent all the windy politi-
cal hacks in the land.
Hattie Grace, who has tried TO kill
herself several times at jackson, has
accomplished her long threatened de-
sign at Toledo on Monday by taking
morphine.
Stephen Rochwells barn in Trow-
bridge, in Allegan county. vas struck
by lightning on the 18th; also the
dwelling of Mrs. Van Vleet in the
same vicinity.
Mr.. VIM. Bowden, or Benton Har-
Dor, was knocked down by a runaway
horse on the 10th and severely injured.
He had a narrow escape from instant
death.
Thomas Burns, laborer in the
camps, died on the 10th at the Sher-
man House, of CONGESTION OF the brain,
induced by an overdose of alcoholic
poison. l. Ludington Record.
Baird, Farnham. Moore Co.'S
steam lumber and shIngle mill at Pine
Lake, Kent county, was burned on the
10Th. Loss about Sl3, 900; insurance,
81, 900.
The Nationals" OF the third district
Of Lenawee county have nominated
Chas. II. Dewey, OF Cambridge, a life
long Democrat, as their candidate for
Representative.
Hon. c. G. Comstock, of Grand
Rapids, National candidate for Con-
gress from that district, fell in fit Of
some kind on the 10th, and has since
beeu seriously i'll.
Sherman, Wexford county, has a new
Touring mill, just completed, TO take
the place Of one burned last December
1t is 40x50, four stories high, and con-
tains all the latest machinery.
Frank Thomas, Of Charlotte, paid
s75 fine for picking up little boy,
Clark kirkpatrick, and dashiDg him
savagely to the ground. The boy was
not seriously hurt-for a wonder.
A little boy Of J. p. Dewey. OF Ban
croft, Shiawassee county, aged four
years. was drawn into a wheat elevator
and finally rescued in an unconscious
state from which he has recovered.
Mr.. II. p. Shoemaker, living near
South Haven, took by mistake 80 drops
of belldonna last week, just after eat
ing a hearty dinner. He discovered
his mistake at once, and prompt medi-
cal assistance saved his life.
Mrs. Sidney L. Morse. OF Smiths
Corners, Oceana county. has wandered
away from home insane, and her pres
ent whereabouts Is a matter Of anxious
inquiry. She leaves six little children
and a sick husband.
Mrs. McCarty, OF Troy, Oakland
county, visited Mt. Clemens one day
last week, and having no other means
Of getting there, walked the entire dis
tance and wheeled her baby in a bady
cart. Good grit.
young man Of 10, named J. h. Um-
phrey, disappeared from a farm in
Freesoil, M lson county, on the 81,
aud had not been heard from since. II
is feared he wondered of while tempo
rarily insane.
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