Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-16
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

fined 500 for giving away a drink
with every cigar purchased.
Prof. Morley e. Osborn, OF Lansing,
has been engaged as superintendent |
of the L.Anse public schools.
VIM. Butler, aged 10, of Grand Rap
Ids. fell from post he was painting
and when picked up he was dead.
The Park house, Flint's first hotel,
has been torn down, and from the lum-
built.
DR.. Waterman, professor of veterin-
ary science at the Agricultural col
lege. has resigned to engage In COM
mercial work.
The farm home Of f. S. Hellman, of
Davisburg, occupied by his son, How
ard. was destroyed by fire. Loss $500,
partially insured.
Fire totally destroyed the large grain
elevator and feed mill belonging to
b. S. Caldwell & Co, at McBrides. The
damage was $1,000.
Eugene A. Bartlett. OF Port Huron,
for four years county clerk, will resign
and become assistant cashier Of the
Memphis State bank.
While Rev VIM. T.. Morrison and
family, of Webster township, were
In Ann Arbor Friday, their house was
destroyed by bre. Loss $4,000.
The d. u Il has purchased property
in Monroe which will give 1t complete
right OF way through the city. II is
a 20
Miss Louise Mullenhoge, of Petos-
key, has been engaged as principal OF
Macomb county normal training
school, in place of Miss Nj. Replogle,
resigned.
While temporarily insane Mrs. Wei
come Irish, aged g. wife of retired
farmer living al Pewamo village. threw
herself into cistern and was
drowned.
Charles Miner, aged "A, of Battle
Creek, having just finished a hearty
dinner, was reading a paper and
( laughing al the funny pictures, when
he expired.
The settling of the Midland Jail
/ caused cell door TO become wedged
so that il took Sheriff Ryan and a
blacksmith an hour TO open it 10 take
a prisoner out
The 81 900 saloon license and the
$4,000 bond requirement have driven
TOUR of Plainwells 10 saloons out OF
business. Otsego has granted but one
| license, and that's 10 hotel propri-
etDr
Instead of shooting a hawk for
which he was cunning. the 13-year-old
son of August Semiling, of Even, ac-
| cideH1ally sent charge OF shot
through his arm, which has been am
putated.
The absence of his 14-year-old son
! from the farm is causing w ID. Schutt,
of Traverse City, considerable alarm.
He is searching for him. The lad has
grown tired OF the farm. fears the anx-
ious father.
John Rappleyea, a Plainfeld farmer.
dug into a nest containing 46 snakes.
| Six were black snakes, the smallest
three feet long. One blue racer was
six feet two inches long. Rappleyea
killed EN- all
Sunday bars" in saloons are no
longer running in Coldwater, and ordi-
nary saloons must blow out the lights
at $50. This is the order of the
mayor, and Chief of Police Payne is
! enforcing it.
Eva Chamberlain and Clarence
| Chamberlain, brother and sister, to-
| gether with their respective sweet
hearts, Howard Powell and Ida J. Nc.
Adams, all of Laporte, visited Midland
| and departed married.
Hundreds OF people thronged the
streets of Big Rapids watching
! mirage of Lake Michigan, which was
plainly visible, The water looked real
and people crossing the street APP
peared 10 be wading in it.
Bay City's mayor has determined on
a crusade against stall saloons, gam
bling joints and places where crime
breeds" as he expresses It, Il don
want to interfere with saloonists who
are obeying the law says the mayor
After telling his father he woulC
soon be a corpse, Harry Bulls. aget
10. of Harrisonville, went into tn
yard, and in the presence of his sis
tiers. drank carbolic acid He ran int
the house, cried: Forgive me-" an
fell dead.
Temple Emery, the new state sal
inspector, says that he understand
his Office is to be abolished, II certai
salt manufacturers can bring 1t abou
because he has insisted on the enforce
ment of the law on full weight an
matured salt.
Both Michigan senators were plui
cling at Washington for the appoin
ment of z. b. Moore, assistant pater
, commissioner, as commissioner. HI
: salary was $4,000, and as commission
; er will be $4,000 The president mao
!, the appointment.
!. A. j. Cain, aged 20, who claims
a have been policeman in Jersey CIT
!. and New York for 10 years, is DANCE
4 ously i'll in his room in Jackson, ar
Q friendless and penniess. He has tv
Q sons in the east, but pride keeps nj
v from appealing to them.
l. When Mrs. Edith Axford-Gillis we
{, to Detroit to claim fortune of $7,5
IS left her by an uncle in Liverpool, En-
she found the money had been Ga
nisheed by Miss Rachel AFFORD, w
II alleges Mr.. Axford-Gilis owes her $
nm Cor a., ~Antal of a hOuCa an Flo