Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-04-13
BRIEF STATE NEWS

| townships OF Berrlen county. ne ldhu
borders on Lake Michigan.
The Wyoming Cattle company has
bought a section of burnt-over land in
Matchwood township and will put l.
600 head of cattle and sheep on 1t.
The United States government has
leased 62 acres of land three miles
from Monroe on which "A target range
for the regular army will be estab-
| lished.
Gerrit Reinvelt, of Grand Rapids,
who got a splinter in his eye four
weeks ago and did not secure medical
treatment for 1t, had 10 have the
member removed. 1t had literally rot
ted away.
The Coffey feet of fishing tugs, oper-
ating in Lake Michigan, have already
gone into commission. Fair catches
are reported, but some difficulty is ex-
perienced in setting and lifting nets,
| owing to the ice.
The fine farm home of VIM. Rose.
berry burned in Matteson township,
making the eighth farm fire in Branch
county in the past two months. All Of
them were insured in the Farmers Mu
tual Co; loss 1000
Thomas A. Kirkpatrick, formerly of
Alpena, who was reported dead last
December, is still alive, his wife,
whom he deserted, receiving a letter
from him from Cape Nome. Alaska.
He does not explain the false report OF
, his death
Suit has been commenced in Grand
Rapids against the Michigan Central
by j. Darwin Welch, administrator or
the estate of William o. Sherman, for
S25. 600 damages for the death Of Sher-
man. killed last November by NJ C..
r. r. train
The state military board has de-
tcrmincd that il is necessary that
every member of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard should have an extra
cotton service uniform during the
state camp and the roquisition will
soon be made for the outfits.
John Norris, Yale graduate, globe
trotter and veteran of three wars,
dreamed in a Grand Rapids hotel that
he had been buried alive, and decided
TO end the agony by choking himself
to death. He is nursing severe wounds
inflicted by his own fingers.
William II. Hamilton, married in
January 10 Miss Minnie Tassman, of
Kalamazoo. is under arrest for big
amy, the warrant being sworn out by
his father-in-law. Hamilton's first wife
was Miss Margaret Graham Keir, of
Hull, Ont.
The Bay Mills Land G Lumber Co,
capital $4,000, main Office at Negau-
nee, has been formed by the Cleve-
land-Cliffs Iron company to take over
upwards of 100000 acres of timber and
agricultural lands recently purchased
by the latter corporation from the Hall
& Munson company.
Beatrice, the 5-year-old daughter Of
Mrs. Flora Bailey, a Bay City widow,
was crowned In the ciSterH, while
reaching down with tin can to dip up
water with which to mix mud pies.
The body was not found until two
hours afterward. the mother supposing
the child was with her grandmother
across the street.
The auditor general has refused to
audit the bill OF former Secretary of
the State Board of Health Baker for
the last half of March, on the ground
that the bill making a change in the
office took effect March 16. and that
Dir. Baker ceased at that time to be
an incumbent of the office, although
he has taken charge of il since.
State Game Warden Chapman, in hi
monthly report TO the secretary OF
state. says that wolves caused conslu-
able destruction among deer in the
upper peninsula during the winter. but
that otherwise the deer wintered well.
During March liz complaints for viola
tions of the law were investigated anu
forty-siX prosecuted, with thirty-nine
convictions resulting.
S. Baker and wife, said to be Michi-
gandCrs, while en- route to Azuza, Cal,
became crdzed by the high altitude be
tween Sidney and Cheyenne and
through the novelty of being for the
first time on a train. Baker was ar.
rested after having terTorized the pas.
sengers with revolver. Later botn
man and wife rcgained their normal
condition at a Cheyenne hotel.
Hundreds of fish are being caught
with the bare hands by Kalamazoo
urchins. During the night the fish
\ swim up Portage creek and when the
waste from the paper mill is turned
! into the stream the lime suffocates
/ the fish. Some die at once, but others
swim down the creek and are easily
/ picked up in a stunned condition by
the boys who are waiting for them
every morning.
Principal Bison, of the Muskegon
/ Business College, is in state of nerv-
Gus collapse and suffering with typhoid
! fever He is at Hackley hospital in
delirium, constantly talking to his stu
dents and imploring them TO practice
a lighter touch II is said that he COM
! planned a week ago that the noise of
the typewriters worried him, and IL
/ is believed the noise has brought or
form Of insanity.
For the seventh time within three
years the grocery store of John Scha.
berg, of Saugatuck, was burglarized
! Tuesday night. The thieves do not
want money as they only take cigars
and open cans sardines, with which
they smear t. showcases, which
looks as though they have a grudge
against the proprietor. The store has
been burglarized nine times since II
was purchased by Schaberg.
James Volgin, of Ewing, is the cham.
n II, . H.. es.N.. l. a