Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-02-20

the lHSHdill circuit OOuTt, WhiNh
venes in Lansing March 3, contains the
case of james II. Brown, charged with
fraud as n member of the state i've
stock sanitary commission.
The will of Alfred Solway, just pro-
bated In Menomlnee, simply reads: !
give everything | own to my wife" III
was duly witnessed and Is valid legai
document, minus the legal verDlage
usual in such Instruments.
Elmer Qulmby the Ithaca man sent
to Jackson Dec. . last for life for com
plicity in the poisoning OF his children
is dead. lie was fellow-sufferer Win
r. Irving Latimer and Homer Bliss
lifers, from typhoid fever.
A portion of the residents in the
eastern part of Muskegon are up
against the fact that they have never
received good warranty deeds FOR the
property they bought years ago, ana
have built nice houses upon.
Within a fortnight a second student
of the University of Michigan has com
mltted suicide. Albert o. Klein, Jun
ior in the department of pharmacy
| took his life Sunday by administering
TO himself n dose of prussic acld.
James Watts was drawing logs to
| Concord Saturday afternoon. Wheh
within couple of miles of that village
| his slelghs tipped over. The logs roileu
over him, killing him instantly. lie
| leaves n widow and five CHILDREN.
The report of Oil Inspector Judson
for the last quarter of 1901 shows that
| Sl3,641.36 was received IN fees. After
paying the salaries and expenses or
deputies and himself the inspector
| turned S4,371. 30 into the state treasury
Edward Newman. Of Calumet, for
several years employed at the Calumet
4 Hecla, has been sent to the insane
asylum mt Newberry Newman has
rich parents in Cornwall, England
who will be notified of his condition.
Nellie Mccartney. at Ortonville, tell
on the Ice, striking ut the base OF the
brain, causing concussion and lnJuring
her spine. She is a stranger having
come from London, ont, and mad
stated that her only living relative was
a brother
The report that eX-GOv. Luce is serl,
ously i'll is exaggerated. Mr.. Luce mao
an attack of nose bleeding which last
: ed for some time, but he Is now rs
well ms ever. In fact the bleeding
: seems to have helped rather than nm
! dered him.
On account Of hard study the mine
= of George Il. Turner, an lS-year-olt
school boy, has given way, and at tllhe'
: he is raving maniac. He Will be sen
), to Pontiac. He is son of the Wen
u known attorney, jerome F.. Turner
| Muskegon.
!, The board OF state auditors has Ill
lowed the claim of Fred l.. Walt o
Leslie, for 81, 600 for injuries received
at Camp Eaton in 1898, while mem
4 Der of the national guard. The allow
; ance was authorized by the legislator
# by joint resolution.
e Robert Morris. of Carleton, was maj
.e ried about three years ago. Last sprln
$ his child was scalded TO death, thre
lie weeks later hfs tife died, and the 70
: lowing week his mother was borne
s. the grave. Saturday Morris married
4 sister of his dead wife.
t The potato house and store of Robel
Il | Whteside. at divers. four miles We'
of Reed City, on the pere Marquet
road. burned Friday night with COZ
tents. probably 1000 bushels of pot
toes and some merchandise and hous
re hold goods, partially insured.
The Grand Trunk Western Railwf
Il Co. has reconsidered its determinati(
ne to reduce the passenger fare on u
Detroit, Grand Haven x Milwaukee
e. two and one-half cents per mile, al
IN, has advised Commissioner Osborn tn
Dit ii will not make the reduction.
According to a statement just
On. sued the expenses of the state dai
he and food department for the
re- months ending December 81 were 81
135.9O The expenses Of Commission
)ut Snow for the period were S363.41 a
re- those of Deputy Bussey S4S3.4l.
Ied A drain to cost $1,000, that W
. carry of all the surface water fr'
e%- 300 acres of land in Oronoko a
zee Royalton townships. is to be eXcava'
49, i'm the spring. The drain Will be
MS miles long, eight feet deep, and %
wide. emptying into Yellow creek.
ned John II. Smith, for many years
an chemist of the Quincy Smelling wor
oil Calumet. has Just disposed of his c
ior per interests i'm Alaska to the Tia
meyer syndicate for 100000 in c
in cash. The claims were located
hat Smith. and are said to be very ricl
has Mary ]. Maynard, an aged wild
)on- Who hos lfved for many years i'm
Arbor. and who has become noted
coal 'the woman with rhe diary" Is dc
pile She carefully recorded each happen
arly of the day, and her diary has .
and used as evidence in more than one
suit. as stating weather and other I
Ed ditions with faithful accuracy.
out Mrs. Sadie Krumling, wife of
icci- Fred G. Krumling, prominent phi
arge clan of BlissGeld, shot and killed
self Monday morning during a ii
the temporary insanity caused by
On death of her three months old b
con- The baby was killed BY falling fro
lent, chair and striking its head on
stove. Mrs. Krumlng was 20 y
by old
was Four new cases of smallpox
alton broken out i'm Birch Run. and
, as board Of health Is doing all in its
n. or to check spread of the dis
I'M I'm plymouth village, four miles '
rsitv Tho schools have been closed OF