Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-01-09
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Eugene Perrault, aged 20, plohe
through the ice on Torch lake while
skating and was drowned.
Registration figures OF the u. OF
NJ. show a gain of 293 over the same
date last year. The total is 4,526.
The board of supervisors decided to
submit the local option question to
st. Joseph county voters in April.
Alexander Baker, aged 30, a Michi-
gan Central brakeman, was crushed
between cars in Bay City and died.
David Dickie. an Orchard Lake
farmer. was kicked by horse and
found unconscious. He is in a critical
condition.
Houghton county has 27l saloons,
according to County Treasurer Foley's
report. Eighty are in the village of
Red Jacket.
The newly organized state board OF
BARRIERS examiners collected $4,000
from Michigan BARRIERS for license
fees in the past year.
To make room for a modern $3.50
600 hotel in Lansing, the Methodist
church built in 1859 on Washington
avenue, will be torn down
Mrs. w. w. Johnson has donated
$4,000 TO Petoskey for site for a
Carnegie library. saving the PROPOSE
ton from defeat by the voters.
Capt. Luke Wallis, So, who mus
tered a company and went to the
front at the outbreak OF the civil war,
died in Eaton Rapids Sunday night.
George L. Maltz, Of Detroit, taken
It'll -s4st La. ,phf Ats tn
pena, is some better. His case has
been diagnosed as acute Indigestion
Edgbert Miller, Grand Rapids drug
clerk. was fined $50 and costs, with an
alternative of 80 days in Jail, for the
confessed emebeZZlement of less than
So.
John Smith. ST Joseph laborer
has been told by his brother. Thomas
Smith, OF Muncie, Ind. that they share
equally in $4,000 estate left by their
mother.
Judge Clyde c. Chittenden, of the
eighth judicial circuit, will resign be.
fore the next election and go TO the
Pacific coast, where he has extensive
interests.
Rural free delivery carriers of many
towns met in Twining and decided TO
ask the Michigan delegation to work
for an increase to 81 200 year. They
now receive 5000.
Held in Jail in Flint awaiting trial
for 1873 days, Frank Newberry was
sentenced to serve one day on a stat
utory offense. His long wait was taken
into consideration.
r. G. Crawford, a st. Joseph gro
ceryman. reputed to be millionaire,
has declared for local option in the
county and offers to advance the cash
for the "drys" campaign.
After attending a Christmas cele-
bration in Escanaba, Robert HachHse,
aged 2S, woodsman, lay down in the
snow partially intoxicated and went to
sleep. He was frozen to death.
Andrew Berla, of Bay City, was shot
and his skull fractured in a quarrel
over Mary Ratkos. The girls broth
ers. Andrew and Joseph. who objected
TO his attentions, are under arrest.
John Grissel, of Flint. attempted to
get on moving Grand Trunk passen-
ger train at Inlay City and fell under
the wheels. breaking both legs below
Peter Wellington, aged 55, of Point
Edward, Ont, was crushed between an
engine and some castings in the Grand
Trunk shops in Port Huron and killed.
The engine was one of those in the
LenoX wreck.
Adolph Gereaux seemed much
pleased when sent TO Jail in Bay City
for 80 days for stealing pair of shoes,
which he says he took so that he
might be sent to Jail, and not sent to
the poorhouse.
James Quirk, of Niles. was instantly
killed while eating his New Years
dinner by Fred. Schumacher, who
lives in an adjoining room. Schumach.
or was examining a rifle and accident.
ally discharged it.
State Senator Frank l.. Marlborough
has formally announced his candi.
dacy for the congressional nomination
i'm the tenth district to succeed Rep.
George A. Loud. to whom he was
formerly private secretary.
After long wandering about the
country. Edward J. Lee, alias John
Thorn, who says he escaped last Jan.
nary from the Jackson prison, gave
himself up in Media, Pa. Warden Arm.
strong says he never heard of Lee.
President Roosevelt wrote Gov
Warner a personal letter expressing
pleasure that Michigan will be repre-
scented at the Washington conference
in May to discuss preservation of the
countrys natural resources. Gov
Warner will attend
That the five trainmen killed in the
collision last week between a Grand
Trunk passenger train and two freight
engines at LenoX ~ came to their
deaths by "the throwing Of the switch
by an unknown person" was the decis.
ion of the jury which has been sitting
in the inquest before Justice Heath.
The question whether the cities OF
the state can establish pest houses for
isolation of smallpox and other con
tagious disease cases outside their
own limits is TO be decided in a case
from the Jackson county judicial cir.
cult, OF which notice of appeal to the
supreme court has been given. The
township of Summit, adjacent 10 the
city of Jackson. objects to a pest
house situated within it's limits and
just outside of Jackson's limits.