Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-01
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

lleNeS ne mas solved the problem OF
perpetual motion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Sherman, aged
10 and is respectively, living in Ian
sing, are parents of three children.
A Lansing man was seriously in
jured while caring for a horse. The
animal rolled on him and kicked him.
The River Rouge Savings bank has
been authorized by Banking Commits
sioner Moore u transact business. IL
has $4,000 capital.
Ira Delaney's 1-year-old daughter, of
Romulus. found some medicine intend
ed for her 9-year-old brother, and died
after eating several pills.
The 3-year-old son of Samuel
Brown was burned TO death at the
home in Wells township. The father
Is working in the north woods.
William Leek. aged GO, of Alpena,
prosperous farmer. father of fourteen
children. dropped dead as he was
about TO take drink of milk.
Camille Leonard, popular Monroe
teacher, was married at Erie TO Frank
Yer Sraten, of Port Huron. The
groom is well known in marine circles.
Eugene Kratz, aged II, and Sam
and Charles Titus, aged IA and 16,
are under arrest on complaint of
l2-year-old girl. All live in Rich town
ship
+. ID. Ford's hardware store at Sa-
line was burglarized, the side door be-
ing pried open and the stock of knives
and razors taken. and the pennies in
the money drawer.
Among the requests in the will of
Marshall Field was one for $4,000 to
a cousin, Miss Dencie Field of Jack
SON sister of the well known dry
goods merchant of jackson.
The Hemlock Association for North
ern Michigan has raised the price of
hemlock lumber from so cents to $3.50
per 1000 feet, owing 10 the big de-
mand for it and its scarcity.
Milo Keep will receive a life sen
tence for the murder OF Bert Miller.
II Is not expected any further move
VIII be made for new trial or TO car
rl the case TO the supreme court.
A megaphone has been placed in the
pulpit of the First NJ. f. church, of
Saginaw, and several Detroit friends
evangelist, hear his sermons each
evening over the long distance tele-
phone.
A "horse-buyer" spent the day with
Farmer Ray, near Vassar. and after
having dinner and supper with the
family said he guessed he'd stay all
night He then revealed the fact that
he was John Ray, a son who had been
away Is years.
Register OF Deeds f. w. Wilson
slipped on the courthouse steps at
Traverse City, and striking his head
and hips, lay unconscious for half an
hour before being discovered. Only
the day before County Clerk Robert
Walker was taken with appendicitis
Murderer Jim Hathaway, who es-
capped from Jackson prison and was
captured in Detroit a few hours later,
has been put al work in the trip-ham-
mer shop of Wilmington & Cooley. the
hardest work in the prison. and In
sharp contrast TO his easy work as a
~trusty."
Five men of Battle Greek were bit
ten by a bulldog before the animal
was killed DR.. Vary has disinterred
the animal, and on order of the state
board OF health. will send the brain
and spinal cord TO the laboratory at
the L. of NJ. 10 determine if the dog
had hydrophobia.
Wooden molds, apparently intended
for making counterfeit money, have
been placed in the prison museum"
at Jackson. II is said that they were
found during the building of the new
cell block, prisoners evidently having
tried TO turn out lead dollars The ef-
fort was rather crude.
Burrell Trip, of Allegan. was
awarded 1859 against the Standard OIL
Co. He brought suit in Justice Zick's
court, alleging that that amount was
due him as rebate, oil being sold to
the Grange store AT 91s cents while
he paid 10 cents a gallon. The trust
representative will appeal the case.
The Durable Cement Butt Co. of
Battle Creek, has been reorganized.
with 100000 capital. with Cortland u
Camp. of the Great Lakes Shipbuild.
ing firm, as president. Capitalists of
New York and Pittsburg are back of
the enterprise, and plants will be es-
tablished throughout the United
States
BOSTON mas come 10 Michigan for |
a large quantity Of its favorite food
beans From 90 to % carloads of beans |
are shipped from this state TO Boston
every week. Secretary f.. e. Kelsey. |
of the Michigan Bean Jobbers' asso- |
citation. which held its midwinter meet
ing in Detroit. proudly told of Mich !
igan's connection with hub culture.
Andrew Patterson. alleged wife de |
serter. who has been missing since |
November 81 apparently escapes pun
ishment through novel technicalities. |
He was a former United States sol |
der in the Philippines. and in 1892 /
married Miss Dora Bradt in Port |
Huron They recently moved TO
Sarnia. and there, 1t is alleged. tho |
wife was deserted.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Bird, while in Washington to appear
before Il committee concerning a gen
eral pure food law, secured a ruling
from the postofiice department for
the acceptance of the departments
bulletin as second-class matter. max.
ing a saving OF about $4,000 a year.
He also arranged for the admission