The late William Merrick, who died in Springfield suddenly Monday, has left $160,000 in public bequests and $75,00 to friends and relatives. The Spring-field Hospital is residuary legatee and will receive $75,000, and the local public library will have $30,000 on the death of Mr. Merrick's aunt, Mrs, A. D, Briggs, who is to have the income of that sum during her life. Thirty thousand dollars in real estate is given outright to the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children, and $15,000 more on the death of another beneficiary. Five thousand dollars goes to Harvard College to be used in assisting worthy students, descendants of the class of 1870, to which the testator belonged, being preferred.