The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-12-17


sible in sentencing Chas. $. Marr. the
lawyer who has pleaded guilty OF for
gerry.
The claim is now set fourth that the
Ionia house Of correction prisoners who
have so numerously and so easily es-
capped has been recaptured--all but Van
Wagner
Mr.. Arnold, Of the famous old Hull
* Arnold's quadrille band, was recent.
ly thrown from a wagon near Constan-
tine. and received serious il not fatal
Injuries.
Mr.. Lawson, proprietor of the
Owosso cheese factory, is making ar
rangements to establish a similar insti-
tuition at Ovid. II is currently report
ed that he knows his business.
Miss Doane, of Jackson, yesterday
made her second attempt to kill her
self. She is still in the land of the liy-
ing.
Ludington people, with all Lake
Michigan before them, will skate in a
rink this winter and let the lake severe.
ly alone.
The wife OF Rev. Mr.. Edmeson, OF
Oxford, fell while coming out OF church
Sunday evening, and broke her left
hip bone.
The marshal OF Lawton deals with
tramps in such a manner as to make
L.. f. aanhnuy uAnnnH visit IN
the place.
The Greenback Mayor Of Jackson is
now under investigation on the charge
of having sold police appointments.
A move is on foot to make a new
county 20 be called Custer COUP
ty, ont OF towns taken from st. Clair,
Sanilac and Lapeer counties.
Hon. II. NAPLES, leading Republi-
can politician in Louisiana during Lin
coln's administration, has moved from
New Orlerns TO Ann Arbor to educate
his family.
When Mr.. Reynolds, OF Eaton coun-
w, paid the $500 exacted from him
as a penalty for whipping his wife, he
replied that taking the ugliness out OF
woman Is an expensive luxury.
DIR. Edmund A. Egery, OF Three Riv-
ers, died yesterday morning of gan
green erysipelas. He was an old man
OF folly 10 years, and had practiced his
profession successfully at Three Rivers
since 1897.
Hon. James NJ. Neasmith, State land
commissioner elect, is an enthusiastic
sheep raiser, keeps his farm stocked
with the very finest sheep, and is doing
great deal 10 improve the breeds 10
this State.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph asserts
that the Michigan Central railroad
freight rates discriminate against the
Big Valley, and intimates that the cor
poration has massed it's powerful intel
lect to crush out the grain shipping in
terests Of the B. V.
Hon. James O'Connor, the Ohio leg
islator recently convicted OF perjury.
once resided at East Saginaw, and
moved from there to the State prison
at Jackson. When he got cut of prison
he went 10 Ohio 10 be an Ohio Demo
cratic statesman.
Mrs. Cowan, living with her daugh-
ter near Pontiac, Wednesday night
stole ont OF the house, went to Straits
lake near by, lay down on the bank
and was found dead the next morning
from exposure. She was a little be.
side herself.
On Monday, at Marshall, the case
against the ex-students OF the Battle
Creek Advent College, Arnold. Hughes,
and Aoyt, accused 81 burglary, etc,
come up. Arnold pleaded guilty and
goes TO Jackson for three years.
Hughes and Hoyt pleaded not guilty Of
receiving stolen goods.
The Detroit Evening News has an.
other libel suit brought by Wilkinson
OF Ypsilanti for the alleged publication
Of an item November 1st TO the effect
that Wilkinson had locked his aged
mother out of doors al night and that
she was compelled 10 sleep on the
woodshed floor
A. +. Flint and Delbert Potter, OF
Newport, Monroe county, will contest
a collar -and-elbow wrestling match at
Monroe, on Friday evening, December
20. The stakes are S25 side. Flint
is 81 years old, and weighs l79 pounds.
Potter is two years younger, and
weighs the same. A close match is ex-
pected.
A boy named Reuben Hale, OF Ing
ham county, was sent 10 the Detroit
House OF Correction, some three years
ago. for stealing s35 Of a man living
near by. The boy having served out
his time Zone year., and been at liber-
ty two years, that man has just found
the SIS in the lining of his vest. where
il got through hole in his vest pock-
et.
The Prohibitionists last week at their
meeting in Detroit voted TO present
petition 10 the Legislature this session
asking them TO submit n proposition
to the people 20 so amend the State
CoIrtttuttoh - w RAc1Aeat ~ AtNSa
traffic and make il impossible for the
Legislature 10 legslize the business;
also 10 enact law completely prohib-
iting the manufacture and sale Of liq-
uors for drinking purposes, with ade-
aua.e provisions for it's enforcement
and penalty for its vlolatiou.
The arrest OF IL students Of Albion
College on a capias issued by a fellow
student named Wm. Steele has pro-
duced intense excitement in that place.
The story in brief. IL that Mr.. Steele
was denied the admission into the Fro
sophian society because he was report.
cd 10 have been expelled from the Ec-
lectic society. Thereupon he caused
the arrest Of the whole society for dam
ages 10 his character aud chances of
advancement, by a conspiracy to keep
him out OF the societies, 10 the extent
OF $1,000. The arrested students refus-
ed 10 give bail and we're taken TO the
Marshall Jail, being escorted 10 the de-