Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-04
BRIEF STATE NEWS


household goods being saved.
The Berrien county board of super.
visors is in deadlock over the cleo
ton of a chairman. the board stand
ing 16 Republicans 10 10 Democrats.
Andrew Carnegie has presented
Hope College. Holland, with $4,000
He asks the college TO add $4,000 in
addition TO his sum 10 the endowment
! fund.
Strikers at the Wolverine mine re-
turned TO work Tuesday morning az
1 ter being out several weeks. The men
| gained no concessions and return UNI
der the old terms.
Tuesday night John Loheman, a
| stranger, working as hired man on the
farm OF Nj. Hayes, in Bedford town
! ship, fell dead while chopping wood.
/ His home is unknown.
Mrs. j. r. Beckwith, an aged lady;
! OF Grand Rapids, was fatally burned
/ by the igniting of gasoline vapor. In
! attempting 10 save her. Mr.. Beckwith
! was also severely burned
After he had taken a dose of paris
/ green. Herbert Zimmerman, of Grand
| Rapids, desired to live, bat it was too
| late. He was 20 years old, respondent
/ and temporarily insane
Without known reason, Bert God
frey shot and killed himself early Sat
urday morning in the livery barn of
the New Leslie hotel He was EN-
| ployed as hack driver for the hotel.
While temporarily insane John
Smidling, an aged bachelor of Selllirk,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
He was an eccentric character and
lived alone in an old tumbledown
house.
motion for the discharge of Will
liam Sauer, convicted of involuntary
manslaughter, has been filed by his
attorneys, who maintain that there is
no such a thing as the crime of which
he was found guilty.
Charles Randi. Of Alaska. formerly
a resident of Newton township. Cal
houn county, while prospecting for
gold, discovered a tin mine. the only
one in the United States. lie has a
fortune ahead of him.
Two more Grand Rapids water deal
victims were sentenced Saturday by
Judge NEWMAN. EX-Ald Daniel e.
Lozier. charged with accepting a bride,
was fined $500, and eX-Ald. John Nc
Laughlin, similarly charged, $500. Both
paid.
The retail dealers of Detroit are
seriously considering an advance of
80 cents a ton on anthracite coal the
raise in prices to go into effect at the
beginning of next winter. This would
make the price to the consumer $3.50
per ton.
George Gould, ii is rumored, has for
hidden his sister, Helen Gould TO con
tribute to the anti-Mormon fund. Miss
Gould financed the fight against Brig
ham Roberts, and intended giving lib
orally TO the women in their present
campaign.
Prosecutor Brown proposes TO keep
Rev c. NJ Welch, of the Nina Caven
charge of illegal parentage fame, in
Jail indefinitely. When the term of six
months is up, If he fails 10 support
the child. he will be rearrested on a
charge of non-support.
The case involving a voting machine
count in the election of city attorney
of Jackson is now in the supreme
court. a writ Of certiorari having been
issued. The contest is between Ly-
man Trumbull. republican, and John
f. Hennigan, democrat.
The Norwegians Of the copper coun-
try will celebrate the forty-first ami
versary Of the declaration of their
country's independence. May II.
United and faithful till Doore falls" is
the sentiment of Norwegians. Doore
being the highest mountain in the
country.
John r. Mains. father of Charles
Mains, the Calhoun county forger,
who mortgaged his property six years
ago to defend his son. has discharged
the last mortgage. He is 20 years old,
and when his son was convicted,
friends of the family said the old man
was ruined
Mrs A. Hartzhorn, the woman from
Holland, who has become a public
charge on Kalamazoo county, because
she refuses TO work, gives as her
reason that a lawyer refused to collect
$3.50 for her from John Zounriider. a
young man whose passage she paid
to this country.
Anna NJ. Beeson has filed bill in
the Grand Rapids circuit court asking
that the divorce obtained by her hus-
band seventeen years ago be set aside
on the ground of irregularity. She
claims that she never knew Of the di-
vorce having been granted until De
cember "a last.
L. S. Circuit Judge VANITY has de-
cided against the United States in the
celebrated land case brought 10 years
ago against the Lake Superior Ship
Canal. Railway & Iron Co, and the
Keweenaw Land association. The de-
cree in favor Of the defendants com
pletely clears their title to the land.
Joseph Woolford, aged II years, ar
rived in the village of Holton Thurs
day morning with load of apples,
and while tying his team fell TO the
ground from stroke of apopleXy. He
died in ten minutes The doctors pro-
nounced il a case of overeXertion. He
is survived by a widow and two chill
dren.
Because they gave their 4-year-od
child into the custody of colored peo-
pie, where it was frightfully neglected,
Mrs. Ed Williams, of Marshall, was ar
rested in her home with two other
women and five men. Her husband
came in from Eckford township