Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-26
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

and before 1t was shot two children
had been bitten.
The Menominee Light & Traction
at Chapee Rapids.
John Beard and John Order. miners.
were killed by falling ground in the
Central Vulcan mine, Norway.
Fire Chief Murphy says the
Traverse City schools are unsafe and
that two of the schools are fire traps.
Paul KAMA, who arrived in Iron
Mountain from Poland a year ago,
has confessed 10 the killing of Pat
rick Campbell, farmer.
William Horton, 90, and oliver Jad-
way. IS of Charleyoix, have been con-
victed OF manslaughter in connection
with the death OF an Indian.
Wellington Williams, farmer liv-
ing near Owosso, was struck by a
Grand Trunk train and instantly
killed, while walking on the tracks.
Mrs. James Russell, OF Fremont.
gave birth TO girl while in the Sasi
nav detention hospital as a smallpox
patient. The child is free from dis
ease.
The medical department has applied
to the regents for an annex to the
University hospital for patients suf-
fering from eye, ear and throat
trouble.
II is rumored that search warrants
will pc gotten out by Ann Arbor po-
llcemen 10 enable the officers TO re-
cover their headgear they lost in the
recent riot.
County Physician Hanson attributes
the spread of smallpox in st. Clair
county to the numerous revival meet
ings which have been held in the past
two weeks.
For the second time within two
weeks the Globe hotel in Port Huron
has been quarantined because several
of the walters have been stricken
with smallpox.
Municipal ownership of water works
system has paid here. The board
of public works has a $4,000 surplus
on hand and no bonds due until 1916,
1917 and 1918.
Hiram Tice of Standish, who was
released from the Traverse City asy-
lum, has been returned to that insti-
tuition because he attempted to kill
his wife with club.
Margaret Allen, Muskegon millin-
or, began suit for $4,000 against
William CastenholtZ, prominent club
and business man. She alleges he en-
braced and kissed her.
While planning a reception for her
son after the expiration of his enlist
ment in the U. S. infantry in the
Philippines, Mrs. j. NJ. Poole. of Bat
tie Creek, received word Of his death.
Peter Gooseman. 76 years old, an
old pioneer and soldier of Greenville,
having served in the Mexican and civil
wars, is dead. Charles Hubbs, 81, an
other civil war veteran, is also dead.
One hundred and six members of
the Muskegon high school, compris-
ing the flower of the junior and senior
classes. have refused to resign from
their fraternites and sororities when
told TO do SO by the board Of educa
ton.
Seven hundred patients are now in
carcerated in the Newberry insane
asylum. The number has shown a
steady increase until the matter of
their accommodation has become a
serious problem. The asylum is over.
crowded
Mrs. II. " Rowley, OF Battle Creek,
sent a letter TO the chief OF police at
Newark, y. j., asking for information
in regard to her son, Frank Rowley.
The police department, in replying
stated that the boy had been found
dead i'm furnished room there two
weeks ago.
A stray deer has been killed by
dogs just on the outside of Big Rap
ids. Deer used to be very plentiful
there at the time of the great forests,
but for years have entirely disap-
peared. This deer seems to have been
shot before the dogs found il and they
nished the job.
Foreman Gessler Dow brought into
w. II. Whites lumber camp No. 8,
near Boyne City, the largest load of
logs that was ever loaded on sleigh
in northern Michigan. The logs
which composed the load were pine
and "a feet long, and scaled 1900
feet, scaler's measure.
1t is proposed by the finance com.
mittee of the Saginaw city council tc
divert the various rivers in Roscom.
mon county. which flow into the Sagi.
nav into the Kawkawlin and hence by
that river to the bay. BY this plan,
they believe, they could prevent much
damage during spring floods.
While walking down a stairway in
Bouty's hotel at Spalding Ed. Nordin.
schild fell and was picked up at the
foot OF the stairway with a broken
neck. Nordinschild was 63 years old
and a resident OF Spaldine for the past
% years. He was prominent in town.
ship and county affairs. So far as
known. he leaves no relatives in this
country.
A romance OF the woman's early life
is recalled in the will OF Miss Mary
K. Cook, late of Charlotte, who leaves
the earnings of her estate TO her sis
ter until the latters death. The estate,
which is valued at several thousand
dollars, will then go to charity. When
the two sisters were young they loved
the same man. One won the suit, and
moved with her family to California.
Miss Mary Il. Cook never communi.
Gated with hpr nv visit nr letter and