The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1899-01-10
STATE GOSSIP.
Kent county is free from debt.

Menu county Is lree 1rOm 'ueDC.
The state treasury showed a balance
of S247, ,634. 09 at the close of 1898.
The dry kiln of the Bay City Mfg. Co.
was destroyed by fire. Loss S2,5Oo
Pingree is the title of a new post
Office in Livingston county. James M.
Smith is the first postmaster.
Royal Oaks first manufactory will
turn out rugs, mats, window shades,
ETC., and will employ 25 men.
Whooping cough is epidemic in SAM
lilac county, many cases proving fatal.
Deckerville schools are closed.
Fred Walters, watchman on the
steamer May Graham, is missing and
it is believed he is drowned in st. Joe
river.
A falling limb struck and killed
John Richmond, aged 81, of Garland.
near Elsie. He leaves widowed
mother.
Maj. o. p. Barber, surgeon 35th
Michigan, has rendered his resignation
to take effect Immediately. Urgent
personal business matters.
Pop" Goodell, of Wayne, says
farmer legislators will have club, as
in 1897, when it was a power in de-
termining the fate of bills.
While attempting TO cross the track
ahead of the train, Miss Agnes G. Nc
Comb was struck by the Wabash ex-
press at Milan and fatally injured.
An explosion at the Michigan Port
land cement factory, Coldwater, seri
ously injured Electrician Crittenden
and Assistant Preston. Loss $4,000.
Maj. Walter Crane, aged II, who for
many years figured prominently in De-
troit business life, died at his home on
the Island of Elba, near Crosse Isle,
Detroit river.
Officers of the 33d and Saith Michigan
regiments will probably send someone
to Santiago to locate the graves of
Michigan boys who died there and to
identify their remains.
Loud and long is the wall from
southern Michigan because of the dis
elimination of the new Lake Shore
railroad time table against Detroit and
favoring Toledo and Chicago.
Edward O'Brien, one of the Kalama-
zoo college students who went south
with Co. c, 32d Michigan volunteers,
died at Fort Mcpherson, Atlanta, Ga.
He had been i'll since August.
DIR. Bell, superindent of the northern
Michigan asylum for the insane at
Newberry, has rendered his resignation
and it has been accepted. He will be
succeeded by DR.. Chamberlain.
Frank E. Ball, Benton Harbor bar
Der, struck the fancy of Miss Mildred
Vaughan, Kentucky heiress who is
being treated at the Benton Harbor
sanitarium, and they were married.
The Wheeler shipyards at West Bay
City will be reopened soon, Mr..
Wheeler having been able to shape his
affairs favorable to resuming opera
tions. Only steel boats will be con-
structed at these yards in the future.
First Lieut.. Burt, Co. L, 35th Michi-
gan, has rendered his resignation 10
Col Irish because of the pressure of
personal business. Lieut.. Burt is the
son of w. r. Burt, of Saginaw, and is
graduate of Orchard Lake.
The Soldiers home board will not
erect any more buildings, but will limit
the admission to the home TO veterans
who get less than S12 month pension,
and hope thus to keep the number of
inmates within the facilities.
Ionia capitalists are pushing
scheme to extend the Lowell &c Hast
ings railroad from Lowell to Ionia and
connect with the D., G. r. &c W., Civ.
ing much better connections with De.
troit, Saginaw and the north.
The members of the 33d and 34th
Michigan regiments, upon the recon-
mendation of Gen. Shafter, have been
given the privilege of wearing the
badge of the Fifth army corps, tho
only corps which saw active service in
Cuba.
Prof. Z. NJ. Cooley, formerly of the
u. of NJ, has been released from the
necessity of going to Gaum island with
the cruiser Yosemite for an indefinite
period. His new orders make him one
of the chief engineers at the League
Island navy yard.
Joseph Babillon, the Detroit convict
who escaped from the insane ward of
Ionia prison Oct. 20, has been captured
in New York. He was sent up for 10
years by Judge Chaplin and at the time
he threatened to shoot the judge at
the first opportunity.
NJ. ]. Wood, of Athens. a famous
hunter and an extensive purchaser of
furs. declares that wolves arc becom-
ing so plentiful in the north woods
that they threaten 10 exterminate the
deer. He strongly advocates a good
bounty for wolf scalps.
Oct vOur chickens and furkevs hams