The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-08-12
NUMBER 171O.
STATE NEWS.

s. j. Spaulding, of glue celebrity, is
at Adrian, his old home.
John w. Cook, Of Tecumseh, has
been arrested for false pretenses.
Joseph Leroy, OF Grand Ledge, ia
in jail awaiting trial on q charge of
adultery.
William Baylus, charged with steal
ing a valuable span Of horses in La
peer county, was captured at Flint.
Alegan INDUCES in the luxury OF a
mounted police force-the marshal on
81 horse.
Herman Wilson, of White Pigeon,
has been bound over TO the circuit
court for perjury.
Alonzo Pennock and Mary Luther,
of Teeumseh, have been arrested for
lewd and lasciyious cohabitation.
Harrison Cook, an aged resident OF
Adrian, died very suddenly yesterday.
He settled in Lenawee county in 1888.
Purdy, of Quincy, and Virgins, I'D
Of Cleveland, contested a wrestling
match at Hudson on the 28th. Purdy
won.
Chas. Sepson, of Keene, Ionia coun-
ty, threshed $50 bushels OF wheat that
grew on II acres of ground-50 bushels
to the acre.
A little 2-year old son of ID. J.
f.N .f a..
was drowned few days since in wa
tering trough.
A rev in Saginaw saloon between
John Tilser and Thomas Gibbons, re-
suited in the shooting of a man named
VIM. Nichols through the wrist.
Among the six graduates recently ex-
PEELED from West Point for hazing we
notice the name of Henry NJ. Sherman
from Michigan, aged 10.
The tramp nuisance In the western
part of the State increases, and the pa
pers in that section are filed with items
narrating their oAtrages, great and
small
Henry Wilson, former resident of
Berrien Springs, died at his home in
Stafford, Kan, n few days ago from be-
ing poisoned with poisonous lance
with which he was pricked in the arm.
Mr.. Ed. Parker, of Hudson, has a
pair OF gloves said 10 have been worn
by Jefferson Davis in his historic act
wherein he took the part of southern
feminine at the time of his capture.
At Quincy Sunday morning, Aug. ID,
two barns were struck, and burned, by
lightning. Also au OK killed belonging
to David Bailey.
st Lexington, w. @. Moore, an at
| torney, was shot in the shoulder by
Mrs. Wren. The shooter used a shot
gun loaded with buckshot, and Moore
Is seriously wounded.
G. VI. Delling, farmer living near
Caro-, Tuscola county, has Just thresh-
ed Is acres Of wheat that averaged over
56 bushels 90 the acre. The farmer
who can beat that will please take the
floor.
The Ionia Standard truthfully says:
Somehow or another Michigan people
who go West are exceedingly tickled
TO get back, and enjoy again the un-
surpassed advantages of the grand old
Peninsular State.
Hine, Of the Lowell Journal, says
that 'as rule, people don. like to be
dunned. As rule without exception)
we don't like TO be obliged TO dun any
body. The best way is to pay prompt
ly and have done with duns.
The report Of the State salt inspec-
tor shows that during tho month of
July 232, COO barrels of salt were in
spected in this State, the largest
amount of any month since its manu-
facture commenced in this State The
product thus far is l, ,l03,064 barrels
since January 1st.
Chas f. Howe. of this place, used
20 own John Bull, the first railroad
locomotive ever run in the United
States. He used it in the numbering
business at Charlottesville, now Bridg-
man, in this county. IL was in the vi
cinity of Bridgman for vears. aa1 may
be there yet. He paid 81, 500 for it,
Berrien Springs Era.
The balance OF cash in the State
treasury July % was Sill ,074 9S; re-
ceipts for the week ending Aug. were
S33. .0S5. 81: payments for the same time
Sii, sos. 81; leaving a balance Aug. 2,
1879, Of 5000, ,354.7l; decrease for the
week sll, ,72O.2i.
A man by the name Of Ira Congdon
was instantly killed yesterday at Nor
ris a Stebbin's steam mill, near Hart.
He had been mending a belt, and il
started 20 run over the cylinder before
he was aware Of it. IL drew him into
the machinery, tearing and mangling
his body terribly. He was a single man
of an industrious aud worthy character.
Three roughs named Smith. Hazen
aud Palmer we're jailed at Adrian for a
murdcrous assault on Mr.. Burnett, a
hotel proprietor at Morenci on Satur-
day. The parties we're captured in the
woods Sunday afternoon aud narrowly
escaped lynching at the hands of the
excited villagers. The difficulty arose
from unpaid board bills. Mr.. Bur-
nett's condition is dangerous, he being
severely cut in the body and wounded
on the head and face by iron knuckles.
A few days since Mr.. F., s. Clark.
our efficient prison clerk, lost his fine
mare Kittie. a valuable horse, and a
pet OF Mr. Clark and his family. Her
ailment appeared 10 be collie, but il re-
fused 10 succumb 10 the usual treat
ment, and DIR. j. III. Rogers expressed
II as his opinion that there was cal
careous deposit corresponding with
gravel in man. aud an autopsy OF the
animal showed that he was perfectly
correct. An almost perfectly spherical
stone. measuring II inches IN circum-
ference aud WEIGHING l pound l2l
ounces, was found in the rectum OF the
beast, aud is now in the possession OF
her owner II Jackson Citizen.