Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-24


sleeves OF his shirt.
A burglar gained entrance TO the
second floor of the residence OF Daniel
J. Gerow, In Owosso, with ladder
while the family was away and stole
jewelry worth $500.
Charles Rutledge, who murdered
George Mitchell, OF Muskegon. when
he found his sweetheart. Dorothy King,
in Mitchell's company, was appre-
hended in Chicago Tuesday
After deserving his family August
Krenig. OF Port Huron, was brought
back from Denver, but his mind was
q blank He was sent to the Pontiac
asylum. where he has just died.
The Glazier stove plant in Chelsea
was sold this afternoon to capitalists
represented by Walter Oxtoby. De-
troit lawyer, for s95525. II is not
known whom Oxtoby represents.
The barns of d. ID. Cooper and
James Callahan were destroyed and
the houses OF Callahan, l.. +. Ranney
and George Chickering in Greenvnle
were damaged by fire; loss $4,000.
Ground was broken Thursday noon
for the laying Of the tracks of the
long planned Flint & Saginaw railway.
The work is being done under the
supervision Of Supt. Charles Yeazill.
Sidney Adams, aged %, of Dawson
township, was feeding a corn husker
Tuesday, when his right arm was
drawn into the machine and SO badly
lacerated that amputation was neces-
sary.
The body OF man found murdered
and buried under debris near Rolling
Prairie, Ind, answers the description
of Cashier KerZenien, who disappear
ed from his home In Grand Rapids in
August.
Glenda Coddington. aged GS. Civil
war veteran. was badly beaten and
robbed OF $40 pension money on a
lonely road near Grand Rapids. He
may not recover. Two suspects are
under arrest.
The body of Rev. John Wander Muel-
en-. aged so, retired Reformed
church minister. OF Holland, was
found floating in Black lake and 1t is
believed he took his life, though rela-
tives say he had shown no signs OF
dependency.
Ford Munger, Onaway's fistic won
| der, was beaten up in a street fight
in Alpena. The fighter made some re-
mark TO Carl Schenck, known as
Fairy" Schenck. an Alpena boy 18
years of age. Schenck clearly out
pointed Munger at street fighting, and
had him bested when the police ar
| rived.
The report of Presiding Elder Finch,
| OF the Lansing district of the Meth
odist church, shows that there have
been 600 new members taken into the
church during the last year, and that
about $4,000 has been expended by
the churches in improvements. There
are now nearly 5000 members in the
district.
Nearly 100 veterans were in Flint
| Tuesday for the forty-third annual re-
union of the Twenty-third Michigan
| infantry. Officers were elected for
| the ensuing year as follows: Presi-
| dent, Jarvis E. Alvrd. Flint; vice
president, William Bailey, Flint; sec
rotary and treasurer, Robert Ander-
son. Maple Rapids.
Arthur Salvo, an 1S-year-old boy liv-
! ing at Kaleva, came to Manistee with
a lynx which he had shot two miles
north of that place Tuesday. He was
rewarded with the bounty of S. allow
ed by law. The lad was hunting for
| the animal, which had been stealing
rabbits from the trap, and killed ii
with a single charge Of buckshot.
Fifteen Saginaw saloonkeepers
pleaded guilty before Judge Gage and
were remanded for sentence. Fifteen
others pleaded not guilty and their
| cases were continued. Mayor Baum
| announced that the saloons could re-
main open until IL instead Of IL, but
! the police refused to recognize the or
der and wholesale arrests followed.
| John l.. Buell.. of Menominee, has
started suit against the Menominee
of land valued at $4,000 lying east OF
Vulcan. Buell. bought. the land during
boom which afterward collapsed.
| The Menominee River Co. assumed
| control of the land and valuable ore
deposits were found on II. Buell. claims
| that he never relinquished his title
| to the land and the suits are a re-
suit
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, whose ar
rest four months ago on a charge OF
numbering Oscar Peterson and bury
ing his body in the sand, and whose
escape subsequent caused a big SEN
sation, was sentenced in Bay City cir
| cult court TO two and a half to four
years In the Detroit house of correc-
| ton for forgery. The first charge was
dropped. On her way back to jail Mrs.
Barnett threatened suicide. She was
searched and ground glass was found
| in her pockets.
After having been separated for 81
years by a lovers quarrel, Hazelton
Rorabuck, aged Go, retired grocer
| of Port Huron, and Mrs. Victoria Arch
err aged 90, were married in Chicago.
| They were engaged to be married
while both were living in Port Huron
| in 1877, but a lovers quarrel prevent
ed the wedding. and Rorabuck went
| to Chicag Both married, Mrs. Archer
| having had two husbands. Their mar
| ital partners died. however, and when
they met by accident in Chicago the
old spark was rekindled
Frank u GLACIER has returned from