Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-10-23

Daniel Kahlor. OF Cheshire township.
convicted last week OF criminal assault
upon his l5-year-old daughter. was
sentenced by Judge Padgham Monday
To 20 years In Jackson prison.
"EilF' Judson. of Ann Arbor, says:
II viii buy $4,000 or $4,000 worth
OF wood. deliver it here, and sell il to
the poor and improvldent at actual
cost, and | will give bonds, IL asked
for. to the extent Of 100000 that this
Will be done"
Capt A. T.. McCabe, formerly a
prominent young lawyer of Petoskey,
and of the firm of Pailthorpe a. Me.
+ Cabe. has resigned his position ms as
/ sistant chief of the forestry bureau in
j the Philippines and will engage in the
practice of law in Manila.
heavy frost Sunday night badly
4 damaged the fourth and last celery
\ crop Of the season. Twenty per cent.
I II is estimated. will be lost, ms the
! frost will prevent the crop selling at
| the usual prices because of blighted
! tops; $4,000 is the financial damage.
The jury in the case of II. Boxer Of
| Concord, who WAS killed by steam
shovel last week. rendered verdict
/ that death was caused by the shovel
aud that the company was at fault
/ In sending men into dangerous po-
/ sltlons while working on the machine
I The jury in the ease Of Ethel Me
/ Nean vs.. The Detroit United Railway,
after three hours deliberation. at Pom
tiac. awarded Miss McNean $1,000
damages. Miss McNean was injured
a year ago by United car. The case
| viii probably be appealed TO the SUI
I premc Court.
/ Gov 4. T. Bliss and two other can
! didatcs Were initiated by the Ellls ut
Saginaw Although it was not an
nounced. the intention was TO initiate
l.. 7. Durand candidate for governor
on the Democratic ticket. but the state
central committee had him scheduled
to speak at Pontiac.
! The state tax commission. i'm review
ing the assessment rolls ut Holland
have caused the assessment of the
I Grand Rapids. Holland & Lake Michi-
gan Electric railroad 90 be raised from
$4,000 last year to S6i00o. This is at
the rate OF 5000 per mile. single
track. or $4,000 double track
Curtis Fonger the smallest man in
Renton Harbor, died Friday the result
of fall ten days ago, causing concus-
sion Of the brain, aged II. He was
only -four feet five inches tall. while
his wife was one inch shorter. The
marriage OF the two midgcts occurred
over one year ago, and they were re-
ported To be the smallest couple in
Michigan.
In the hope Of terminating all her
troubles. pretty Title Hopkins. OF
Grand Rapids. who has been bride
less than a week. seized n two-Ounce
bottle Of laudanum Wednesday morn
ing and drank the contents i'm the pres
encc Of her sister The rash act fol-
lowed Il bitter family quarrel I'm which
the girl, who is only Is years Old and
her mother were involved.
4 cruiser who recently returned
from the Fetch mountain country.
north of Iron Mountain. reports that
the game laws are being violated i'm
those parts. Hunters are killing deer
and hcadlighting them. Last week
they shot several horses in that vi
entity. mistaking them for deer Deer
are very plentiful in the woods this
year.
The county clerks numerous assist
ants are thoroughly alarmed over the
rapid manner ia which the marriage
industry is dying off for the year at
ST. Joseph For the past month it has
I dwiHdled away. Last week there
were only IL licenses issued This
week UP to Thursday night only had
been issued where there should have
/ been over 30.
Nature performed n peculiar and
pitiful freak last week when little
! Indian girl whose parents, Mr. and
| Mrs Charles PoBagon, reside near Sis
ter Lakes Dowagiac was born with
! strange defects of phySiognomy The
poor infant came into the world with
only one eye and without n nose or
any nasal opening After a weeks ex-
istence the child died.
Miss Maggie Tyrrell. an Owosso tele-
phone girl narrowly escaped suffoca
ton from a gas stove Sunday. She
awol,c to find her room full of gas ana
( staggered 10 the telephone. Send
4 help" was the message she gave.
( The girl at central called up doc
! tor AMI sent him 20 the house. Miss
! Tyrrcll'S door was broken i'm, and she
was revived with difficulty.
b. L. Russell who conducted n
I branch store at Holland for the North
/ western Speciality Co., has disappeared
with over $500 Of his employers
/ money The books showed that he had
( drawn commissions on sales charged
I TO fake buyers. and that lie had sold
, lot Of goods which had not been en-
! tered lie left note stating that he
/ had gone away, hoping that God would
! forgive him
NEWS ~ brief.