Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-01-19
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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the expense.
Figures compiled by a Marshall paper
show that there are 800 unmarried wo-
men in that city.
The mid-winter meeting of the JOINT
! boards of trustees of Michigan insane
asylums will he held at Kalamazoo.
January 10.
! The position Of woman physician on
/ the staff of the asylum in Pontiac has
been rendered to DR.. Elizabeth Morse,
of Baltimore. Md
Wolves are increasing rapidly about
Calumet and XIII more deer than hunt
ers do. The board of supervisors has
increased the bounty on them TO 50.
Thomas Primrose. brother of the we'll
Known minstrel. George Primrose. has
lain in a hospital in Port Huron for %
years suffering with lOcomotOr ataXia.
The senior literary class. Ann Arbor.
voted to have Il portrait of Prof. X. y.
Wcnley painted by Percy Ives and pre-
scented TO the university as Il class me-
mortal.
Lucy A. Streeter. of st. Johns, has
been awarded S4.247.50 against the Pere
Marquette railroad for injuries sus-
tanned in the collision at Paris in De-
cember. 1908.
Four men were killed instantly, and
two others severely injured in a shaft
which is being sunk at Glenn Falls
branch of the OntonagOn river by the
Victoria mine for the hydraulic power
plant.
The following Michigan items arc
included in an omnibus claims bill re-
ported TO the senate: g. X. & |. rail
road, S1,S96, for carrying mails; Min
nie H. Dewall, $1.59l; j. Il. Read. adj
ministrator, 5000
The sank certificates which were stol-
en- from Paquala Spatafore, Pontiac
fruit dealer. bv strange Italian. on
Dec. -, have been returned to the First
Commercial bank. having been cashed
in Logansport, Ind.
The superintendent of the poor Of
Calhoun county did not have TO ask for
an appropriation this year. as the So
loOnkeepers' tax amounts TO $l9,S10.T4.
which is sufficient to support all the in
sane and poor in the county.
With IA sob in his voice and begging
the privilege of rocking the b,by. Will
lam II. Pierce. OF Kalamazoo. who had
been restrained from visiting his home
pending divorce proceedings was taken
back and forgiven by his wife.
Two large barns and sheds on the c.
Croley farm two miles south of Thorn
vile, were totally destroyed by fire.
VIM. Swain. the tenant. lost - tons of
hayAns "lN Soo u Of oats. his entire crop
off,at lON',notS 4. farm tools, etc.
krcv. So nd then are out Of work in
,.rozs tnAs,the hospttolg are.0,auI
Cal .hes rrinc sisAffTH
lmrnigratis Commissioning Sargent
Michigan's senator's. It is said. will
have Il hard time holding the place
now occupied by Henry NJ. Rose as
assistant secretary of the senate. when
he rCtires to become collector at Grand
Rapids. The job pays $3.50 year.
The main feature of Governor La.
Follette'S message, which he read per
sonally 10 the Wisconsin legislature
was demand for an appointive
freight rate commission. the last of
the big reforms asked 10y the COVER
nor.
-Four mel were convicted in Mon
roe of destroying muskrat houses and |
were fined - each or 20 days in Jail. |
They took tie latter. From 40 To 50 rats
live in one house. and, when il is de- I
stroycd they are driven into the river
and are drowned under the ice
Alfred Dtkcnkolb formerly Of North
port. and Atcr of Traverse City, is
wanted by tle German consul He has
fallen heir To Il large estate i'm Ger
many. Win , wears old. Alfred's faith
or killed tie mother and then commit
ted suicide leaving Alfred an orphan.
\ searching party of 100 farmers
has been oganized 10 search for Eddie
Weeks, an S-year-old boy who has been
missing fr'n Bennington since Dee. 20.
1t is ahegd that on that date he was
severely whipped by his foster parents
for gettingdrunk on hard cider that he
found in TIC cellar.
Buried a snow drift, a G. II. & /.
train draw by two engines slowed
down. anc ON going forward to find
the cause. lic conductor saw the engine
vanishing the distance. They went II
miles bcfdn they discovered they had
left the tran behind them. The passen-
gers werehearly frozen
Stories {, the effect that the interur.
ban electri, line is hurting the town f
Marshall, tat a number OF merchants
are going ct of business. and that the
plant Of ne Marshall Furnace Co..
which empys over 100 men. and also
the d., +. VI. shops are To be moved
to Battle teek. are utterly without
foundation.
That $1,000 which Philo Bennett.
OF Connecrut. left to William .Ten
nings Brys but which the latter has
been unab 10 collect, is having an
other whirin the courts. Bryan hav. !
ing appeal 10 the supreme court Of
Connecticu on the ground that the :
superior c'rt erred in not admitting
In evidenGthe sealed letter To the ,
widow with directed the bequest. ,
Mr.. and,Irs. Chase s. Osborn of
Sault ste. lrie. will sail ". the Pacific n
Mail and Ganic line from san Fran .
cisco for wv Zealand. stopping en-
route in Hail and Samoa. From there
they will ! 10 Australia. the philip- 4,