The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-01-21
NUMBER 1851
The Grand Rapids savings bank has
declared a dividend OF per cent.


declared dividend Of per cent.
Mrs. Shine, OF Covert, Van Buren
county, has manufactured n sausage 70
feet long. Horrorsl
The general library of the Uniyersi-
ty has just received an invoice Of about
80 books at a cost Of SlS7.
The Calumet and Hecla copper mines
are employing over 1000 men, and
their monthly payroll amounts to s75,-
600.
The sheriff elect OF Barry county,
Mr.. Henry Houghtalin. rs 10 have his
office contested as soon as he is sworn
in.
The Jackson county Jail now has
stone yard attachment fully rigged up,
and the prisoners are employed break
ing stone.
Geo. Moore, who was run over by a
team near Port Huron Dec. 81, died
from his injuries on the Sd.
John Cunningham, a milkman, was
killed by freight train on the Detroit
& Bay City railroad near Detroit, ear
ly Tuesday morning.
Frank Melvin, of Colfax, committed
suicide Monday by hanging himself
He had been sick for long time and
it is thought became discouraged.
Norman Cummings, capitalist and
prominent business man, has been ar
II Il.
OF Charles A. Baker, who charges him
with adultery.
boy named Fred Brock. at Grand
Rapids, was shot in the head during a
drunken fracas Of some Hollanders on
New Years Eve. There are fears he
may not live.
The reform school declines TO father
the boy VIM. Rice, whose arrest at
Hastings for stealing in st. Joseph
county we have already noticed. He
has never been an inmate there.
G.. w. Palmerton, one of leading
merchants of Fowlerville, Livingston
county, and an old settler died from q
congestive chill on the ID. He had a
life insurance policy of $1,000.
Alcona county will put in this winter
40, 600, 600 feet of long timber, Of which
II. A. Alger a Co., will get out three
fourths, $4,000, 900 feet Of logs and l.
000, 900 feet Of square timber.
Justice Woodwin, Of Romeo, is 10 be
examined shortly on a charge by Isaac
y. Owen OF Offering him Owen 81 to
vote for him (Woodwin.) The matter
creates some stir in that usually quiet
town.
According to the report OF the Coun-
ty Treasurer of Washtenaw county,
there are As saloons and breweries ih
the city of Ann Arbor, and during the
past year the tax collected amounted
20 3, 1854.
At Whitehall, December 27, Swede
Damed S. Smithson, while playing with
a jack knife trying to snap it open, let
the blade slip into his thigh, cutting
an artery and bleeding to death in q
few minutes.
The is Albion college boys lately in
carcerated in the Marshall Jail. who
were lately liberated. presented depu-
ty sheriff Waldo's wife a beautiful sill
yer butter dish handsomely engraved,
as a New Years gift
The Jackson Citizen says: The to-
tai liabilities OF the Sutter Bros, the
bankrupt cigar contractors, amounts TO
SlS5, 900. Edward Suffer is still man.
aging the business here for the assign
ees, Messrs. Thompson 4 Brow of De-
troit.
The Detroit News states that firm
Of Grand Rapids stenographers is lob
bying at Lansing TO be appointed stem
ographers for the legislature at s. per
day aud ID cents per folio for writing
out their notes for publication in the
Legislative . ournal.
The Saginaw county board OF super
visors recently adopted a resolution al
lowing Curcuit Judge Tennant OF that
circuit 81 900 in addition TO the salary
fixed by law. They have now founl
ont that il is unconstitutional TO do so
and have reconsidered their action.
Chris Linden, an employee in Blod-
gett's lumber camp in Wexford county,
got into a drunken fight with some
comrades n week ago and was pounded
almost 30 Jelly. OF course the taxpay-
ers will have 10 support him and pay
the expenses of mending him up.
The jury in the case of Ermina
| Young vs.. Richard Smith at Charlotte,
have returned a verdict for SIP and
costs in favor Of the fair Ermina She
sued him for kissing her, and asked
| 81 800 damages. He has on-e before
paid Judgment of $50 in this matter.
On New Years day, Edward Thokin,
employed at the Osceola mine, Kewee-
nav county, in attempting TO draw a
pail Of water from a we'll, lost his bal
ance and fell headlong in, and before
he was discovered life was extinct.
lie leaves a large family wholly desti-
tute.
The Ann Arbor common counsel has
adopted a resolution instructing the
senator and the representatives in the
state Legislature from that district to
use their influence 20 procure an
amendment 10 act No. 1877, making the
saloon license $50 TO all who engage
in the business.