Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-03-28
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

IL children. has been missing since
Saturday.
Frank Mcclellan, OF st. Joseph. lay
down on the street car tracks and
was instantly killed 1t Is thought he
was intoxicated.
Mrs. Matilda p. Stock. OF Benton
Harbor, is asking for a divorce on the
ground that her husband smokes
cheap, foul-smeling cigars.
Ralph o. Daughtery, Of Mt. Pleasant,
and Phil Eichorn, of Port Huron, have
been appointed members of the board
for the School for the Blind.
Under the new charter of the city
of Flint, the women taxpayers will
have the right of suffrage in municipal
financial questions in the future.
Valentine Beadle, the first white
child born in St Joseph county. is
dead at his home in Fabius township,
that county. He was born April 10,
1881.
Mrs. Amos Hemstead, OF Flushing,
aged GO, was found by her daughter
unconscious on the floor and died be-
fore a physician could reach her. Heart
disease.
Senator Huntley Russell has accept
ed the challenge Of Gerrit j. Diekema
for a Joint debate in their campaign
for the nomination for congress in the
fifth district
John Minue, aged 50. of Bay City,
was fatally injured by the breaking
OF boom rope, which allowed a load
of machinery to fall upon him. His
back was broken.
With a very short crop OF hay which
started in last fall at s11 per ton, the
dried grass has steadily climbed until
now it is $40 a ton in Negaunee and
very scarce at that.
Mrs. Maud Moreley says she will sue
Pontiac city for $4,000 for injuries
received by falling in hole in a
| sidewalk February /. She has served
notice on the city.
Transfers found Ernest Ellsworth,
aged II years, dying in an Alpena
stable, where he had gone 10 attend
to his horses. He died soon after. His
home was in Prescott
The number of houses infected with
measles, which have become epidemic
in Whigville, have become so numer-
Gus that the authorities have given up
trying to placard all OF them.
Forest Morris, aged 10. son OF a
Bellevue preacher. and Miles Barhite,
aged II, are under arrest charged with
stealing $43 worth Of cloverseed from
Peter Mulvaney, a Marengo township
farmer.
VIM. Soule has been arrested in
Ann Arbor on a charge of bigamy.
Soule is now living with wife No. /,
and wife No. shows wedding Ger.
tificate, and claims she was never d.
| vorced
While Mrs. John lyon, of Ionia, was
spending a few minutes with a neigh
Dor her house took fire and was de-
stroyed. Several men were burned in
rescuing the babe which had been left
at home.
Joseph Anthovoic, an inmate OF the
Kalamazoo county poor farm, has run
away. He objected to too much water
on the outside and too little on the in
side. Half a dozen people were neces-
sary TO give Anthovoic bath
Rev. Ezra Moorehouse, the Delton
evangelist who recently kidnapped his
two daughters from his wife, who is
suing for diovrce, has returned to
Delton to live. He says he will not
modest his wife or the children.
Ten Hubbardston dogs. supposed to
be mad, have been killed within a
few days. Thos. O'Connell lost a
number of sheep. which were bitten
by mad dogs. Pigs ate the sheep, be-
came mad and had to be killed.
oil hn1 fu-n
rather spectacular enforced sessions
there to settle the resignation of AS
SCISSOR Henry, and pass the $4,000
paving appropriation. The appropria-
ton had originally been $4,000
The removal of the freight division
of the Pere Marquette railway, from
New Buffalo TO Benton Harbor, means
the removal of large number of fam
lilies to that city, and the benefits of
this move have already been felt.
No lands will be sold for delinquent
taxes in Isabella county this year on
account of an error which was discov-
cred just as the list was about to be
published. The mistake was in the
dates of publishing and day of sale.
John Harrison, of Battle Creek, was
held up by two men, who tried TO rob
him. He chung to two 50 bills with
such a grip that the money was torn
In halves. Harrison is now wondering
whether he or the thieves got the best
of the bargain.
Sheriff Johnson is investigating the
story of an alleged shooting affray
at Interlochen. 1t is claimed that
Charles Cook shot up a saloon there,
breaking the fixtures, causing a panic
and incidentally putting hole in a
man named Garrison.
John Eaton, aged 60, of Port Huron,
coughed up a bullet during a severe
coughing spell. He shot in the back OF
the neck more than 40 years ago.
Walter Fitch, Of Salt Lake City, has
been appointed superintendent of the
Calumet e. Hecla mine.
A sparrow which Matched out n
brood in car in Muskegon followed
the car TO Saginaw. Her regard for
her young touched the hearts OF the
trainmen. and on the permission of
the division superintendent, the car
was sdetracked until the birds are
large enough to care for themselves