The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-04-08
NUMBER 1892
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Three OF the saloon keepers at Three
Rivers have been fined S25 and costs
each for keeping open on Sunday.
Burglars entered the house OF An
drew Talberg OF Ann Arbor, March "a.
and carried away q boz OF iewelry
valued at $500.
George Beam, the Ionia prison con-
Wet who escaped last September from
the gravel train near Palmer, has Just
been gobbled up at Dundee. N. Y.
An infant son OF 8. @. Darrow, OF
Bingham, Leelanaw county, 20 months
old, fell into pail Of hot water on the
18th, and was so severely scalded that
he died the next day.
The sheriff OF Allegan county took
two Smiths 10 State prison Tuesday.
one for forgery and the other for horse
stealing, 3 years each.
The house Of John Bang, OF Sebewa-
ing, Huron county, was burned during
the temporary absence Of the parents
on the 18th, and two children, aged
and 3, perished in the flames.
They have a real simon pure home
made rapping and talking ghost in
Bloomer township. IL locates the
whereabouts OF the body Of certain
man thought to have been murdered,
and paralyzes any one who calls il
liar.
VIM. Dunhau, Of Royal Oak, who
died on the 9th, aged 50, came to his
death by using salve on his leg that
had been put in q cup containing paris
green. IL had previously been stated,
mistakingly. that he washed his feet in
the dish.
An item is going the rounds OF the
county papers TO the effect that there
are Gfty-fve widows in this village. A
party who ought to know says he can't
count but fifty-three, but says few
might have been abducted. Berrien
Springs Journal.
The balance OF cash in the State
treasury March % was S672, ,937. 80; re-
ceipts for the week ending March 20
we're S20,094.79; payments for same
time $50, 703. 10; leaving a balance
March 30, 1879, Of $685., 1928. AZ; decrease
for the week SIC, sos. 80.
A Grass Lake farmer, William II.
Simpson, has been arrested on charge
Of obtaining q threshing-machine OF a
firm il Racine, Wisconsin, under false
pretences. He represented himself as
being the owner Of 160 acres OF land
which belonged to others.
Miss Melissa A. Parker, who lived
with the family OF Jacob Thomas, in
Algansee, Branch county. was found
dead in her chair upon the return of
the family from an evenings entertain
ment at the school house near by, on
the 18th. Apoplexy was decided to be
the cause.
The Pontiac Commercial says that
one Geo. Wright, of Four Towns Oak
land county, when dying. left several
hundred dollars in notes 10 his aft.
anced. She attended him in his last
moments, paid his funeral expenses,
and then-found out that the notes
were forgeries!
Benjamin A. Harlan, of Grand Rap
ids, late Judge Of probate, is charged
by the county superintendent OF the
poor with sending an insane women to
the Michigan retreat at Detroit, where
she has been supported for 10 years at
the expense OF the county while her
friends paid Harlan for her support.
Richard Trombley, a noted criminal,
who is said TO have jumped more
bounties than any other rogue in the
State, died few days ago. His home
Was Mt. Clemens. After the war he
was convicted of robbery and ssntenc-
ed to u long term of years in State
prison, but escaped; and, although
thorough search has been made, the
officers were unable to find him.