The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-04-01
NUMBER 1891
STATE NEWS.


be able to pack 90, 900 per day.
The snow has nearly all disappeared
from Alpens and pansies are in bios
som there.
The Little Traverse people want the
name Of their place changed TO Harbor
City. A decided improvement.
Large quantities Of maple sugar will
be made this spring in the region
above kawkawlin.
Mt. Pleasant, Isabella county, er-
poets TO have an elegant town hall this
summer
The Battle Checkers have riassd So.
500 for the driving park association at
that place.
A hen % years old is ith ward Gu
riosity. Never used tobacco or liquor
in any form. - Flint Journal.
Two Bay City Young men have
caught the pedestrian fever, and will
soon start 10 walk 10 Grand Rapids, on
a wager, TO complete il in 60 hours.
The Gray shingle mill, miles north
of Midland. and 100000 shingles
were burned ON the 10th. The property
Of Larkin q Patrick. Loss "a 900.
Edward Casey, a young man OF
Greenyille, died on the Sth from an
overdose Of morphine, taken to relieve
the quinsey
A little child of Elias Randall, of
Hamilton, sat down IN kettle OF hot
soap on the 9th, and was so terribly
burned that it lived but three hours.
Prof. Steere, OF the State University,
intends to go to the Amazon river in
company with lot Of students the
coming spring.
The Austin, Tomlirson & Webster
Wagon Manufacturing Company, OF
Jackson, now employs lis convicts on
their contracts and turn out 40 wagons
per day.
Lansing has been getting out OF the
woods until now the buys her maple
sugar Of a Vermont house. Blythe
way, where is this backwoods place
called Vermont?
Moses Barlow, the Clinton county
lawyer, sentenced TO State Prison for
defrauding the Government with q
bogus pension claim, has been pardoned
by the President.
A domestic at Jackson took an over
dose OF morphine and died Tuesday
morning. She did not mediate sui
eide, but took the drug for the pur-
pose simply Of inducing sleep.
Mr.. LaDuke, an old gentleman who
resides in Royal Oak. aud who is so
years old, walked 20 Detroit one day
last week and back the next day, dis
tGnce OF l3 miles each way.
ID. Gum, painter at Hesperia. Oce-
ana county, died last week. A post
mortem brought to light the fact that
be had inhaled the lead, ETC., from
paints sufficient to cause death.
Wm. Steel, of Albion, has been ar
imprisonment. The case arose ont OF
the arrest of lG college students last
winter for expelliug his son from one
OF the college societies.
Wm. Saneleon and Nelson Barry got
into a quarrel at Grand Rapids on the
l9th, during which the former stabbed
the latter, it may be fatally. lie is
under arrest.
Peter Donnelly, Of Ionia, has been
convicted in the United States court at
Grand Rapids, for stealing the con.
tents from letters illegally taken from
the post office at Ionia
The democratic council OF Manistee,
having becu voted ont of power at the
recent election, at their last meeting
cOolly voted themselves 500 each. al
though there Is no provision in the
charter allowing them pay for their
services.
Mrs. Joseph Rowland, ~ oaaar
Lake, Gratiot county, was frightful
burned while boiling pitch upon
stove on the 9th, her clothes taking
fire. There are small hopes Of her re-
covery.
Benzonia justice recently married
two couples when both ladies bad un-
dlNOICeu huhphuus ANlDRs 1neg shlls-
fed him by promising TO secure di-
vorcos from their first owners as soon
as they could.
Chester kile. employed As team
ster at Grand Rapids, ran away with q
girl Of II on the 18th He was over
hauled at White Pigeon and taken
back The girl went on 10 his parents
home in Ohio, where they expected TO
be married.
John Shields, of Kent county, has
been acquitted 10 tue United States
court at Grand Rapids. on charge OF
passing counterfeit money. The mon.
ey was bogus, but John stoutly asser'
ed that some greenback leaders paid =.
TO him last fall.
John w. Goodenough. for stealing
tan bark from government timber in
Oceana county, has been sentenced by
the United States court at Grand Rap
ids 10 pay fine OF $50 and be inn
prisoned "a hours Being very poor
he cannot pay the fine and must lie in
all for while.