The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-07-09
NUMBER 1894.
STATE NEWS.

The iron on the new railroad from
Caro- to Vassar is all laid.
The village Of st. Louis Is going 10
have Holly water-works.
A convict escaped from the asylum
Of the State prison at Jackson June
27. His sentence was for six years and
would have expired in August.
Mrs. l.. A. Smith, lady Of wealth
and position. it is reported. was arrest
ed in Niles, June 28. and taken TO
Grand Rapids, charged with perjury.
The liquor sellers Of Greenvills have
formed an association to fight the vii
lage liquor tax ordinance.
II is said that purse OF $500 col
lected in Detroit, Monroe, and Toledo,
will be sent to the Shoe-wae- -cae- -mettes.
The $50, 900 libel case brought by d.
j. McCarty against the Grand Rapids
Post has been withdrawn, the CO.
plaiuant paying costs.
The balance Of cash In the State
treasury June 10. 1873, was S573, ,Q70.-
36; receipts during the week eadipg
June 22 we're S2l ,704 02; payments dur
ing the same time were SO, 758.05; bal
ance in treasury june %, 1878. S5SS,-
906. 80; increase for the week S11 ,94ae1.
Daniel and Dougall Smith, well-to-
do farmers of Kent county, Ontano,
found their brother Peter sick in the
Saginaw poor house last week. He
had left home "a years before, and they
had heard only at intervals of ysara
concerning him. He had wandered
around the country not little, fought
through the war in Mulligan's brigade,
aud is now q broken down man OF 81
The Corunna American publishes .
long account to the effect that DR.. John
ID. Kergan, OF that city, hitherto re-
spected citizen, and the present Mayor
Of that town, has been guilty OF thp
seduction OF poor girl and subss-
quent abortion TO conceal his ffst
crime. The matter is now in the hanA
of the authorities, and Kergan 10 =
legged to have fed.
Frederick Benfsr, who died q few
Rivers, aged 81, was the father Of II
children and a grandfather to l07:
great-grand-father to 153; great-grsat-
grandfather TO 2. He was one OF the
earliest settlers in Michigan, having
twice walked from Snyder county.
Pennsylvania to this State, in an early
day when coaching and steam cas1
we're unknown.
Hon. J. W. Pursel, President Of
9th, in the cellar of his residsnse.
He used a razor, cutting his throat.
The cause is not known, but it wAs
probably from the loss Of his fourisa
mill recently by FIRE. The entire coK.-
munity is in mourning. He had been
a prominent business man here for the
last 80 years. So far as is known, he
was laboring under no financial sRs-
barrassment, and was reputed wealthy.
The Democracy OF Clinton county
held q convention in st. Johns on Sat-
urday, the Goth, and appointed dele
gates to their State Convention
Among the resolutions adopted by the
convention was one in favor OF honest
money, and taking a bold stand against
stock gamblers and a redundant and
deprecated government currency, as
proposed by the irredeemables and
communists who call themselves Ma
tionals.
Ralph waldby, father OF ex-Mayor
W. II. Waldby and i. /. Wsldby,
banker, Adrian, died Tuesday after
ternoon, aged IS. He commenced the
art of printing with Webster & Skin
ner, in Albany, y. Y, in 1916, and
knew Horace Greeley and Thurlow
Weed as fellow craftsmen. He found
ed the Rome, n. Y, Sentinel aud re-
corded the passage of the first locomo-
tive and train on the New York Central
Road from Utica to Syracuse. He set
tied in Adrian in 1854, where he has
since resided, respected and esteens5
by all.
A few weeks ago we published short
sketch concerning an old gentleman by
the name OF Hewes, living in Spring
port, Jackson county. We now have
to chronicle his death. which occurred
on the 10th, at the age of 81. He was
born at Attlebury, Mass, near Boston,
May %, 1871. His fathers name was
Geo. r. T., the Il meaning Twelvss,
that being his mothers family name
The subject OF thisisketch has another
initial added to his name, which is T,
standing for fifteenth, as he was the
youngest OF - children. His father
lived to be l09 years old, served in the
Revolutionary army seven years and
months. and was one of the Boston
Tea Party" His mothers maiden mans
was Sumner, and she was aunt TO the
great Massachusetts, Senator, Charles
Sumner. The Joseph Hewes who sign-
ed the Declaration of Independepe,
was a grand uncle of the deceased.