Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-13
STATE NEWS CONDENSED.

JouH ID. DUCK HIS DVtu Nohoe"p'@ "
Silver Creek township, Cass County
for 20 consecutive years, 1t is said.
With his body cut in two and one leg
severed, John Kennedy, aged Il, was
found near Larocque Tuesday night.
On April the people of Dickinson
county Will have another chance 10
vote on the adoption of the county
road system.
A pack of ours got into sheep pen
at the home of Thomas Moran, near
Niles. Saturday night, and tore Is OF
the sheep to pieces.
Grand Haven is full of excitement
because the council refuses to allow the
intcrurban electric road from Grand
Rapids to enter the city.
iceland has cinched n canning rae
tory by subscribing the $4,000 requlr-
ed to build the plant. and securing the
contracts for the necessary acreage
An ordinance adopted by the council
will compel the Citizens and Bell Tele-
phone Companies, of Muskegon, TO
place part of their wires underground.
The I.udington city council has
granted a franchise to J. $. Stearns TO
construct and operate an electric raj
way through the streets OF LudlhS-
ton.
Joseph Howard, of Vernon, was
found guilty of grand larceny. lie put
several cars out of commission by
stealing brass journals at Durand, last
summer.
The work of building n new electric
! light plant at Brooklyn TO replace the
one destroyed by a boiler explosion
some three months ago, will be COM
menced at once.
Voters will be asked at special
election in Otsego to bond for Slo,ooo
| to add to $14, 900 insurance money with
which to rebuild the school house re-
Gently burned.
Prof. Bradley NJ. Thompson. of the
law faculty of the University OF Mlchl-
gan, is in Washington, seeking an ap-
pointment as United States district
judge of Alaska.
Thomas Il. McGarry. n respondent IN
the Grand Rapids water scandal case,
who was expected to be the next tried,
is now broken down physically and
has gone to Florida
The body Of Ferdinand Derouin. a
patient who disappeared from the
northern Michigan asylum for the In
sane on Nov. ), was found Monday In
the asylum reservoir.
For 90 years Allegan people have
tried to get railroad and depot IN
the business and manufacturing dis
trict They now have it and the Pere
Marquette is the road.
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State Game Warden Grant NJ. Morse,
disappeared from the Agricultural col
lege on the 9th ult.. and no trace OF
him has since been found.
Considerable excitement has been
aroused by the arrest Of Marion Pal
mer. of Colon, charged with criminal
intimacy with his own daughter. lie
waEsaSIR.Iaced under $4,000 bonds.
Nr~s :chalk. of Muskegon
tDlosiohs She never reaaT.-,su
Reonsci7.sr,. -fter morphine was ad
ministered to relieve her suffering.
The charred skeleton Of n man was
found i'm the ruins of the Battle Greek
sanitarium Wednesday. 1t is believed
to be that of Abner Case, of Bath
New York, known to have been lost.
George Sargent who wandered
away from the Ann ArbOr hospital IN
fit Of insanity during the last cold
SPELL is dead from the effects Of his
exposure, at his home in Birch Run
Rev. X. Van Schock. of Coldwater
presiding elder of the Niles district
was badly hurt yesterday in run.
away near Centerville. His arm was
broken and lie was otherwise injured
Ralph Swartout, a Union City farm
er. claims to have the most remark
able flock of ewes in Southern Mich.
gan. There are thirty-five in the flock
and they already have fifty-five lambs
Gus and George Lafrance. Joe King
and John Carlton were sentenced to
90 days each i'm the Detroit house of
correction for stealing goods at the fire
in Standish. They are old offenders.
Mrs. Adam +. Cron. of Monroe, has
begun suit for $4,000 damages for the
death of her husband. who was killed
while working behind a switchboard in
the power plant Of the Toledo & Mon
roe road.
William Frank. aged 80 years who
was received at the Calhoun county
house seven years ago from Emmett
township, is dead. He had a rather
unique taste in style. having always
worn dresses
The statement that there are six
cases of smallpox in Harrisvilie is a
falsehood. as there isn't case OF the
disease in the place and never has
been within the recollection of the old
est inhabitant.
The breaking Of brake beam on n
freight car in a train on the Michigan
Central caused n bad wreck at Alex
andria Wednesday afternoon. Nine
cars were demolished, blocking traffic
for some time.
For some unknown reasons the Pere
Marquette depot at Willow was closed
by the company several days ago. An
employe of the road nailed up every
window and door. The public raised
a howl and Saturday the doors were
again opened and trains continue to
stop.
Byron Emery. young man Of Sault
Ste. Marie. is undergoing a 30-day SEN
tence in the county Jail. in default Of
fine OF S2j. He had trouble with n
woman of the half world. and playful