Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-07
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

] vance.
The p. NJ. depot at Shelby was
broken into, but the burglars got only
10 cents.
The Traverse iron works, which
were destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt
at once.
Fire destroyed the Coburn hotel and
its contents Thursday evening. The
house was built 81 years ago.
Metamora is to have the old Lapeer
depot which will be replaced by new
one. Both places need new buildings.
The battleship Iowa is now totally
disabled at Pensacola. Fla. having
burst steam pipe which tore away
the steering gear.
Business men of Saginaw are con-
sldering what inducements shall be Of
Tered to bring the proposed new insti-
tute for the blind there
The body of Thomas DeVries. who
disappeared from his home in Grand
RAPIDS April IL. was found floating in
Grand river Tuesday morning.
A government official who IL In a
position to know. says that one drug
glst In Van Buren, county sells TWEEN
ty-nve barrels OF whisky every year.
France is preparing to step in and
suppress the instruction of 100000
Chinese rebels in Kwang-Si province
which borders the French colony OF
Tonquin.
There is CONSERVATION among the
fair sex In Battle Creek. as a Chicago
man, George Delmater announces that
he will open barber shop. OF u
chairs. each with female operator.
Lanslng's new municipal court, pro-
vlded by the present legislature, began
business Monday. The first prisoner
before 1t was n penitent drunk, in
whose case Judge Roe suspended SEN
tencc.
Fifteen men were overcome by the
gases in the Port Huron tunnel while
laying ties, because OF a defect In the
ventilating system. They were dis
covered by trackmen and rescued In
the nick of time.
The business men OF Caro- have
formed a syndicate to raise beets for
tL> Peninsular Sugar Co, of this
town. They have subscribed $4,000
to rent 200 acres of land near Caro-
and raise the beets.
Mrs. Jennie c. Kinley. widow, of
Saranac, Mich, is the victim of mar.
rage advertisement. w Il. Bickford
is the husband she got. and ii Is
charged that he ransacked her trunk,
took $50 and ran away.
A married womay who lives IN the,
house with relative i'm Battle Creek.
was arrested and the following COM
plant made to the officer. who includ-
ed it in his report: Singing, whist
ling and talking to herself"
After trial lasting two hours. Sa.
rah Robinson, who paid Mexican five
peso bills TO Lansing merchants and
got American money in exchange as if
the pesos were dollars. was acquitted
on the charge of false pretenses.
Frederick Hagen. the 7-year.old son
Of DR.. w A. Hagen. prominent Mus.
kegon physician, played truant from
school Friday afternoon. and while on
Hackley & Hume's dock by Muskegon
lake, slipped in and was drowned.
Only i retail saloons are open i'm
ST Joseph as compared with Is opera
ted last year. Mayor Starts promise
for reform has been honored. and all
questionable resorts closed for the first
time in the history of st. Joseph.
Several hundred acres of pine bar.
rens in the eastern portion of Grand
Traverse county and the western part
OF Kalkaska county. the property of
j. A. Coffin OF Machias. Me. will at
once he devoted TO the cultivation of
blueberries.
An explosion that caused death and
destruction occurred in the plant of
the Thor Manufacturing Co. Cleve-
land, Saturday afternoon. Four per-
sons are dead. while % others are lying
at hospitals, some fatally and others
seriously injured.
Il. c. Bennett, who is serving n SEN
tence In Jackson for the death Of
Agnes Eberstein. of Battle Creek, has
petitioned for pardon. Bennett has
many friends. and strong effort will
be made TO get him out before Deem
her %, 1907, when his time would ex-
pire.
Mrs. Almira Eaton. the aged Sagi-
nav woman who was taken III at the
home of w. w. Redfield, in Flint. two
NttkH hEV Nhli' lOllbnS, mas
been taken TO the pOorhouse. She was
so feeS!e that it was necessary 10
carry her to the county house on a
stretcher
Morse and Perry White, OF Lansing,
aged % and Is respectively, are under
arrest on a charge of arson i'm connec.
ton with an attempt to fire a house
from which their mother was about to
move. The officers lay the blame on
the older boy, who has often quarreled
with his mother.
Charles III. Johnson. prosecuting
attorney of Genessee county, was ac-
quilted in the Circuit Court Saturday
OF conspiracy. He was charged with
being implicated with Joseph w.
Stockwell and others in fleeing Jacob
Raquet. wealthy Saginaw brewer,
out OF $4,000 on June IA, 1900. All the
others were convicted.
Halstead's private bank at Concord
was robbed some time after midnight
Thursday. The safe was blown open
with dynamite. IL Is stated that all
the money in the bank was taken, in.
Guiding postoffice money and stamps.
Bank officials are reticent regarding
the amount stolen.