The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1898-12-13

from revolver. The shot entered
above the heart and doctors say her
recovery is doubtful.
The hearing of young Mrs. Rudol-
phus Sanderson, of Battle Creek, on a
charge of killing her aged and wealthy
husband by putting powdered glass in
his food, has come to standstill ow-
ing to the sudden illness of Justice
Lewis.
There are many reports of violations
of the law limiting to five the number
Of deer to be killed by any one hunter.
One sportsman at Alpena is said to
have boasted of the fact that he bag
ged ~ deer, and another claims to have
shot 20.
Last spring Joseph and Barnard
Blust, of Tawas township, Iosco
county, planted six ceres to sugar
beets as an experiment. They har-
vested 10 tons, which analyzed 1871
per cent and yielded $522, or an aver
age pf Ss7 per acre.
Thomas Curtis, convict at Jackson
prison, was severely scalded while
cleaning boiler in the wagon shops,
and died of his injuries. He was SO
years of age and came to Detroit last
April on two years sentence for
stealing a contribution box from
church.
John Marble, aged So, an eccentric
81 Of
county, committed suicide by taking
morphine. In his younger days he
was Methodist minister, but he de-
serted his church and became a most
confirmed infidel. Some years ago he
lost his sight
Editor Dingley, of Kalamazoo, was
elected a representative, but held a
$4,000 clerkship on his fathers COM
mittee at Washington. The law says
that if candidate for the legislature
is federal officeholder, all votes cast
for him are void. Frederick Cellem
will contest his election.
4Peter Doan, of ShepardvilIe, cores
ponded with Miss Della Montgomery,
of Marysville, o., for some time and
they finally became engaged. They
were to have been married at Detroit,
but Doan backed out. The lady sued
for breach of promise and has been
awarded a verdict of 5000.
The D., q. II. & M. railway has dis
continued its suit against Railroad
Commissioner Wesselius and has paid
disputed taxes into the state treasury.
The company was assessed under the
Merriman law, and the company
claimed that it's charter provided for
lump sum of SIS, 900. The Merriman
law soaked it for SO, 721 more.
VIM. Arts, foreman of the Gogebic
Powder Co., prevented an explosion
which would have caused several deaths
and would have shaken up the entire
city of Bessemer. In so doing he was
terribly burned on the face, hands and
arms, but he will probably recover.
Andrew J. Smith. of the Nineteenth
U. s. Infant try, who is home az Lam
sing on furlough, reports the death
of two Michigan boys at Ponce, Porto
Rico VIM. Walters, Of Mullets and
Ed Talmadge, of Bath, of the 10th.
Neither of these men have heretofore
been reported among the dead. Both
succumbed to typhoid fever.
The first claim for bounty under the
beet sugar law of 1897 comes from the
Michigan Sugar Co., OF Bay CITY, Be-
tween Oct. 20 and Dec. /, the company
manufactured 143, 35o, 100 pounds of
sugar, the bounty on which, at one
cent per pound, is Sl4,325.9l. The
company expects n ma fracture
1000, 900 pounds before the close of the
season.
VIM. A. Pack, of Centerville, was re-
Gently elected to the state legislature
and was the only Democrat in the
county to escape defeat. He was a
member of Co. X. 33d Michigan, and
was wounded in the back at Santiago,
but never told his wife or friends of
his injury until few days ago when
he became i'll from the wound.
People in the Saginaw valley accuse
the railroads of discrimination against
coal operators there, and say that
freight rates are so high that products
Of the coal mines cannot be shipped
100 miles from Saginaw and compete
with coal from Ohio and West Virginia
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