Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-02-13
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.


While walking on the c., M. IL ST.
p. tracks, Isaac Matson, of Iron Noun
tain, was instantly killed by train.
William Hinton, aged so, an inmate
OF the Northern Michigan asylum,
choked TO death Tuesday night while
eating supper.
Roscoe Lawrence, aged Is, of Gay
lord, accidentally shot himself in the
stomach while shooting sparrows. He
may not recover.
Visitors will again be admitted to
the Jackson prison after February l.
Quarantine was declared after a case
of smallpox was discovered.
A grand ball was given in Battle
Creek by the grand lodge OF Colored
Masons of Michigan at the conclusion
of Tuesday nights session.
A false alarm of smallpox case OK
cited the village of Salem for the past
few days, but it is learned that the
case was only chickenpox.
Flint will appeal the Stockdale case
will case to the supreme court. The
jury held no will existed, giving the
city 100000 for a hospital.
Municipal ownership appears to be
in healthy state in Battle Creek, the
water system having more than paid
for Itself in the past 30 years.
Flint was given an agreeable sur
prise when Mrs. Whitney Hoff, OF De-
troit and Paris, gave the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association 5000.
The body of man who became
exhausted and froze TO death was
found near Sanda. The mercury
dropped TO Al below in Humboldt.
Port Huron police are trying TO find
the Buffalo relatives OF Mrs. John
Bailey. who is i'll and nearly destitute.
The former are said TO be wealthy.
George Phelps, Of Ardella township.
farmer in comfortable circum-
stances, refuses TO pay $50 fine for
wife beating and went to jail for 60
days.
The appropriation for the Indian
school at Mt. Pleasant has been cut
out at Washington, and unless the
item is restored the school will have
TO close.
One-third Of the telegraphers on
the Michigan Central's Mackinaw di-
vision have been laid Off Officials
say it is in line with the retrench-
ment policy.
John A. Miller. 23 and Vera Gle
ment, Is, were married on the stage
Of Stones theater i'm Flint after a per-
Torrance. They received S25 from
the management.
Franklin s. Eaton. formerly on the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music fac.
ulty, was sentenced to from five to
ten years for attacking little Emily
Gray, of Lansing.
Mrs. William Clark. Of Battle Greek,
who was burned Tuesday while di-
recting the saving OF her baby's life,
refusing first aid for herself, died that
night in the sanitarium.
Margaretta Fairman, aged H. OF
Owosso, is dead from burns received
four weeks ago. She fell down n flight
OF stairs. overturning lamp and set
ting fire to her clothes
About 500 people braved blizzard
TO follow the body OF Frederick
Hotop, OF Kalamazoo. a widely known
hotel owner, to the grave. About
900 attended the services.
The Ann Arbor railroad has shut
down its Owosso shops, throwing the
remaining 140 men out OF work. In
line with the concentration policy the
local offices are being moved to To-
ledo, o.
Lee +. Joslyn, referee in bank
ruptcy, is trying to learn where Will
Ross, of Ross Bros. bankrupt Beaver.
ton lumbermen, shipped a train load
of lumber a day or two before the
failure.
Atty.-Gen. Bird has held the cleo
ton of DR.. II. p. Mowry, of Bronson.
as secretary of the state board OF
charities and corporations, illegal. He
says Mowry should have first resign
ed as member.
For the second consecutive year
Muskegon public schools were award
ed first prize in the grammar school
department OF penmanship at the Ma
tional Penmanship Teachers associa.
ton exhibit in Pittsburg.
William Schirner. convicted OF elop-
ing with Mrs. Ella Davis, of Lapeer,
was fined $500 and agreed to pay his
wife $4,000 and 81 weekly for each of
their four children until they are II.
hIS. LAWS WdS ulltu 3EUV.
Maj. Harrison Soule who retires
after 20 years as treasurer OF the u.
Of NJ, with his wife and about 20
others was the guests of President j.
B. Angel at dinner. A loving cup
was given Maj. Soule from the older
members of the faculty.
The newly incorporated Grand Rap
ids & Northern Railway Co. elected
as officers: President. NJ. f. Buffers,
Ludington: vice-president. George
Clapperton, Grand Rapids; secretary,
Samuel Toplefs, Chicago; treasurer,
George n. Stray, of Ludington.
While sitting on gas stove, where
he had been placed by his brother,
lie Roy Busch, aged 3, of Jackson, fell
over on burner, his clothes catch
ing fire. The brother rushed him to
the street, where a passerby extin-
guished the flames. but the child died.
Half frozen in the back of sleigh,
William Charters, aged Ia, was found
by Bay City police officers in an al
legged intoxicated condition The driv-
ers. Frank Villaire aged 10. and Frank
Grouix. aged 16, also alleged TO have
been intoxicated. said they bought the
liquor at a roadhouse.