Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-03-22
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

tight that Flint saloons are closcu
tight at 1880 p. m.
The Union Mutual Benefit Life asso-
citation of Denver has withdrawn from
doing business IN the state.
Chippewa county will expend sew
eral thousand dollars In roads this
year under the county system.
Hair cutting as n method OF hazing
has not been wiped out at the Orchard
Lake military academy. Nearly every
plebe has shorn locks.
The death OF John Collins, aged 81,
an Indian, after fight with another
Indian I'm Ludington, is being investi-
gated. Collins body having been ex-
humed.
DR.. j. 7. Bergen. for Il years profess
sor in Hope college and several years
a pastor Of Hope church, has accepted
a call TO the First Presbyterian church,
of Dubuque, la.
The Lapeer council committee which
investigated has reported its findings
to the council. but they will not be
made public until printed in the OIL
cial papers of the village.
There is prospect of new electric
line from Saginaw to Detroit, To be
known as the Detroit, Flint River
Saginaw line, 10 connect Detroit and
Saginaw, paralleling existing lines.
Grand Traverse bay was frozen over
Friday for the first time this winter.
According to the ice record kept for
fifty years, this is the latest ever
known, the bay freezing once before
on March 16.
Louis Knoblauch, wealthy farmer
of Blissfield, has been convicted OF
perjury in connection with a land con-
tract. He was put under $4,000 bonds
to appear for sentence and will appeal
the case 10 the supreme court.
A sample package of patent medi-
cine tablets thrown on the doorstep
was picked up and eaten by the little
child of w. II. Harrison, of Pontiac.
who became very sick. and was saved
by the physician who was hastily
called.
To materially improve Summertown,
an embryo town in Tennessee, is the
intention and aim OF two plucky Plain
well young women, Misses Edith John
son and Helen Christian, who will
start the Summertown Gazette next
month.
The announcement of the state fair
executive committee that the grounds
would be opened on Sunday and that
bids would be received for liquor
permit has aroused the church and
temperance workers of Detroit to ac-
tive protests.
Joseph Vero, an old-time sailor who
died at Saginaw, was a cook during
III ityil . h. Co. l.,1
which was destroyed by the Kearsarge.
He was born in Portugal in 1882, and
in his younger days he saw service on
whaling vessels.
Mrs. j. Warden, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, died on the steamer Prinz Abel
bert, from Naples TO New York, March
Z. during a violent storm. Mrs. War
den was SO years old Her daughter,
Mrs. Bradford who lives in New York
state, and her two grandchildren, were
also on board.
The trial of Evangelist George f.
Allen, who was charged with miscon-
duct at the home of Rev. G. ii. Ander-
son at White Pigeon last December
has been postponed at Sturgis until
March "a because Attorney Knappen,
for the defense. claimed that his wit
nesses were not all there.
Most unique is the defense Of the
Loscher Tanning CO.. being sued by
the Muskegon Chamber of Commerce
TO recover $4,000 bonus, for alleged
failure to conform 10 the contract. The
firm alleges that any bonus given to
induce a factory TO locate in a town
Is illegal. Muskegon has secured most
of its industries by bonuses.
If VIM. Magrain had not preferred
his liberty TO paying $75 fine when
convicted of violating the liquor law
he would not have persisted in the
burning of the Compton house at Tus-
tin. He had been fined SIS or 80 days,
and at first he decided to 90 TO Jail,
but later changed his mind.
The federal grand jury which has
leen in session for the past two weeks
IN Detroit, returned twenty-five in
dictments. Much of the time was
taken up with alleged butter frauds.
and indictments were presented
against those accused of being en-.
gagged in the swindle. Those indicted
we're: Thomas Lorimer. Alonzo L.
Hart, George Hart and John Hart. The
latter is still at large.