Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-19
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.


has been appointed superintendent OF
schools in Porto Rico.
Robert Colwell, former Port Huron
man, who extorted money from Sar-
MIA man by posing as detective and
accusing the former of murder, got Is
years.
The Rainier automobile works OF
Saginaw, which went into the hands
or a receiver recently, will be kept In
operation until the company is reor-
gained.
Philip Vogel, farmer near Grand
Rapids, slipped from his hay NOW and
was impaled on the handle of hay
fork. He leaves widow and three
children.
Albert Radley was up in police court
at Muskegon for the ninety-fifth time
Monday and drew 90-day sentence in
the Detroit house Of correction for be-
ing drunk.
The Michigan Farmers Normal In
stitute suggests that a tax of % cents
per head be placed on all Michigan
cattle to provide funds for preventing
the spread of tuberculosis.
Standish.-The Standish NJ. f.
church celebrated its fifteenth ami
versary Thursday by a program and
the public burning of the last mort
gage on the church property
Lansing.-Attorneys German and
Macarthur, representing Frank p. Glaz-
Ter, will ask that the trial of their
client be adjourned until the January
term Of the Ingham circuit court.
A gang of robbers took possession
of the summer cttage of j. f. Fyffe,
OF Chicago, at Ottawa beach. and lived
there until they had ransacked every
cottage on the shore of Black lake.
Benjamin G. Bemant of Holland,
who was employed by the Citizens
Telephone Co., has reviewed a verdict
against the company of~$500 for dam
ages by falling from rotten pole.
The state chemist has reported that
he found no trace of poison in the
stomach of Henry Thomas, the Shia-
wassee county farmer who died three
months ago under mysterious circum-
stances.
Former Game Warden Chapman
says the reports of forest fires in the
upper peninsula have been greatly eX-
aggerated, and that in Chippewa coun-
y they were positive advantage to
the farmers.
Statements of water taxes with a
notification that 90 per cent penalty
will be added if not paid in time have
been declared by the postoffice at
Kalamazoo to be threats and must not
be sent on postcards.
Charlotte.-Horace Hodge. the form
err Ingham county officer who gained
considerable prominence through To-
eating Eli Sutton in Mexico, is defend.
ant in a horse-trading case now being
tried in the circuit court.
Mary f. Cornelius, aged %. and her
maiden dapghter. Jane Z. Cornelius,
TO- died within 16 hours at Adrian of
each other. They were the mother and
sister, respectively, of Prof. j. ID. II.
Cornelius, of Adrian college.
Pearl Congdon, of Holland, who was
arrested last September on suspicion
of having been connected with the
burning of the ferryboat Holiday al
Macatawa park. has been released, as
there was no evidence against him.
AS a result of the accident wherein
DR.. W. F. English almost miraculously
escaped death when his automobile
went through the draw of the Sixth
street bridge, Saginaw, will equip its
bridges with improved safety devices
State Land Commissioner William
H. Rose. of Bath and Mrs. Minnie D.
Freeman. clerk in the auditor gen
erals office, will be married next
month. The exact date Of the wedding
has not been set. Mrs. Freeman has
two young daughters.
Sherwood Clemens, the Grand
| Trunk railway station tookkeeper al
Bay City who was arrested after tell
| ing wild-eyed tale about having been
| assaulted by robbers who then burned
| down the depot, has confessed that he
set fire to the building himself, be
cause he wished to hide the fact that
/ he was $500 short in lis accounts.
Conductor Weicher, OF the Wolver
/ inc express. reported to the local au
/ thorities at Hastings that he had
seen the body of a man lying beside
| the track seven miles from Hastings
! Sheriff Furniss, Deputy Richie and
Passenger Agent Watkins went back
on a handcar and found a blackened
| log which much resembled a human
| figure.
Fire did $4,000 damage in Grand
Rapids Wednesday night. The CLARK
building was Quilted and the Elks
lodge rooms and the armory OF the
Grand Rapids battalion were both con
siderably damaged. The firemen had 8
hard fight to keep the fire from the
magazine of the armory, where sew
eral hundred pounds of powder are
stored.
Five brothers, sons OF the late Fran
els Dewey. sitting in unbroken array
in the same pew that they occupied 81
years ago, was one of the features o
the celebration of the fiftieth anniver
sary of st. Michaels and All Angels
church at Cambridge Junction, foul
miles south of Brooklyn. The brothers
are A. F., George, /. S., F. S. and J
| w. Dewey.
"A Cowpuncher's Sweetheart.
which has been filling weeks en-
| gagement at the Marquette opera
house, was presented at the prison
chapel with scenery brought out from
the city. The play received an enthusi
sstic reception. The occasion was tn,