The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-08-20

mr. III. III. henDedy OF Covert. Van
Buren county, has been arrested on q
complaint for horse appropriation.
The Rev. @. Simpson, of Davis, Ma
comb county was kicked in one eye by
a horse last week, and will probably
lose its sight.
Mrs. Bishop T.. Andrews, OF Three
Rivers, was admitted To the bar by the
st. Joseph Circuit last week, after due
examination.
The new insane asylum at Pontiac
already has DOB patients, of whom 1l2
males aud l03 females were transferred
from Kalamazoo.
Mrs. JAS. Hoag of Sodus, Berrien
county. was found dead in her bed on
thu 4th. She had retired the night be-
fore in her usual health.
S. f. Turner, formerly of Paw Paw.
but who went To California in 1852.
was recently killed by the caving in OF
a bank in Nevada mine.
Richard Farmer, aged l6, Of Pipe
stone, Berrien county, was kicked by a
horse, on the 7th, and so badly injur-
ed that he died the next day.
Chas. Mack, of Ganges, Allegan
county, has cowardly left his wife and
i've children, going To parts unknown.
They are entirely destitute.
There is to be Red Ribbon county
convention for st. Joseph county, at
Three Rivers. on the Goth, each club
TO send two delegates.
Mrs. David Brooks, OF New Haven.
Gratiot county, was thrown from a wa
gon few days since, and had several
ribs broken.
o. d. Parueley, United States As
sistant Engineer at Port Eads. La.
died there Sunday, of yellow fever.
He was formerly of Port Huron.
Frank Temar, of Springville, Lena
wee county, aged 10, was drowned on
the llth, while bathing in Clark's Lake
about five miles west of Brooklyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel johnson. of
Grand Prarie. Kalamazoo county, cele-
brated their silver wedding on the 7th
With any quantity OF friends to help do
the thing up brown.
Isaac Halstead's house at Groyelapd.
Oakland county, was burned on the
9TH with all Its contents. The house
vas large new one, and insured in
the Monitor for 81. 800.
The house of Dan Adams near Fenton
was struck by lightning Aug. 4, prostrat-
OF nj Il. Al. 4
badly. No one seriously injured.
Aug. 8, Frank Hodge of New Hudson.
while threshing, fell from q stack and
died almost instantly. Supposed to have
been sunstroke.
Gen. Shields visited Grand Rapids
last week. He was entertained by the
citizens at Sweets Hotel Wednesday ey-
ening.
A French woman in Okemos, Ineham
County, worked IL days inthe recent
harvest, doing a mans work in the field
and receiving 81 per day,
Sheriff Culp of Branch county. after
a long chase, has succeeded in capturing
Samuel Wood, pal" of Spooner, Har-
rot and Wood, now in jail at Coldwater
for burglary, and ringleader in that no.
torious gang.
G.. w. Harding. OF Glare. recently
accused OF immoral and cruel conduct
with a small IL year old girl whom he
had taken fro IN her home in Flint, de-
MES the charge as base fabrication
and his wife says the same.
Miss Ida A. Freeman, of Otsego.
who has successful lly filled an import
ant position in the Grand Haven
schools for four ye lrs, has been ap-
pointed to give lessons in practical
teaching at the Michigan State Normal
at a salary Of $3.50
Lewis Miller, near Three Rivers.
known as akron" Miller, died July 81.
aged 76 year. He cast the only aboli-
ton vote in st. Joseph county in 1874
for James G. Birney. He died sudden
ly while putting his horse in the stable.
In Manlius, Allegan county, Aug. 4.
several children were playing under an
apple tree when the report of a gun was
heard, and little girl of John Huffer's
fell, pierced by a full charge of buck
shot, and soon after died.
The Nicolls' House at Clare, the Of
flee of the Clare county Press, and four
or five other buildings were destroyed
by fire Wednesday morning. Loss
about 81 000 There was no insurance
on the hotel. The material in the print
ing Office was mostly saved. 1t is suq-
posed the fire originated in an ash bar
rel.
Shiawassee county boasts a model
poorhouse, not only yself-supporting, but
a source Of profit TO the country. II
this is done by good management and
not 10y starving the inmates on miserable
food and wretched care, that county
should put the institution on exhibition
and charge an admission fee. 1t might
be visited from all parts of the country
and a handsome revenue derived from
the unparalleled show.