Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-01-23
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

at Marquette ala damage OF $Z,VVO W
the Office and building.
Hiram Morse, of Flint, Grand Trunk
train dispatcher, has been pensioned
after As years of service.
C. A. Whipple. conductor on the
Pere Marquette, slipped under his
train and was killed near Colomo.
Requisition on the governor OF I'LL
nois has been made by Gov. Warner
| for George II. Rich, now a fugitive
from justice.
w. A. Comstock. at a meeting of
! business men at Alpena announced
that a hotel and an electric line to
nearby summer resorts are projected
Charles Horitz e Son have been
awarded the contract for the new post
office at Ann Arbor which will cost
S63, 700 and is TO be completed by May
| 1909.
At the meeting Of the joint board
Of the Michigan asylums ii was recon-
mended that butterine be used in all
asylums and state public schools, thus
saving $4,000 a year.
The board of supervisors of Grand
Traverse passed resolution TO sub
nit the local option proposition to
the voters of Grand Traverse county
at the spring election.
Marshall has two representatives
with Fighting Bob" Evans on his
cruise around the continent. Harry
Felter, of Lee township, and Karl
| Freed, of Eckford township.
Atty Gen. Bird gave his opinion, in
regard to the pay of jurors, that 81 a
day, allowed by the law, is for the
whole "a hours. and they should have
no extra pay for night duty.
Rep Dalzell, of Pittsburg, member
of the house committee on rules, has
taken up the cause of the Indian
schools, and it is likely Mt. Pleasant
will not lose the local institution
C. A. Cover. Rev. j. p. Sanderson,
City Clerk NJ. F. Gray and w. G. Hull
are candidates to succeed the late l..
! c. Storrs, as secretary of the state
| board of charities and corrections.
Edward Quackenbush, of Bav City,
and an unknown man were forcing
sticks of dynamite into a drill hole
with an iron rod and both were ia
tally injured by the subsequent explos-
! ion.
Col. Robert Bates has been formally
commissioned brigadier-general of the
| NJ. n G., and will take command at
| once. Capt Passmore. Third regi-
ment, will be brigade adjutant with a
majors rank.
II have taken your revolver, and am
! going to kill myself" is the note that
! Della Robinson, of Lansing, left her
father Sunday, but the father thinks
that she has gone to New York to
| join her mother.
The u. of VI. has bought tract Of
! land near the hospital for heating
I plant. mile of frontage on the HUI
| ron river for a park and botanical
/ garden and a lot on Geddes avenue for
/ the botanical park entrance.
George Black, Is. of Aberdeen Nd.
! died suddenly in the Jackson jail from
| a disease resembling jaundice. He was
! first taken i'll on Wednesday, being
sick about "a hours. An effort is being
made TO locate his relatives. He was
arrested for vagrancy.
| After a period of IA years of SER
! vice as state travelling nurse, Mrs.
| Cora Lamping, of st. Joseph, was APP
| pointed by the board of trustees as
state superintendent of the Michigan
! Children's Home society, to succeed
| Amos Barlow, resigned
AS result of the active crusade
made by the anti-saloon faction at
| Escanaba, slot machines have van
| ished and it is declared that il will be
only a short time before the few sa-
| looms which don't now observe the
closing law will have to,
Alfred Wright, an Indiana man, de-
| frauded farmers in the vicinity by call
! ing himself q representative of Parke,
Davis & Co, of Detroit, and selling a
supposed cure-all. He was fined S25,
but could not pay and went to the
! Detroit house of correction for sixty
five days.
Two young sons of John Fine, a
| farmer near Kingsley have died of
scarlet fever, third is dying and a
! fourth very i'll. and his 2-year-old
| daughter is also near death. The par
ent buried the first victims at mid
! night There is an epidemic In the
/ neighborhood.
The Spence VS.. Greenfield case,
heard before Judge Smith, in Hastings,
| last week. is a hoodoo. During the
progress of the case Judge Smith was
taken violently i'll, with an attack of
acute indigestion and had to be as
sisted from the bench. and at dinner
the same day Mrs. Greenfield, wife OF
! the defendant, had serious attack
of heart failure, probably brought on
by the excitement connected with the
! illness of the court. The court has re-
| covered sufficiently to open the Jan
uary term in Charlotte.
Even the cemeteries are booming at
Battle Creek. Stockholders OF Oak Hill
cemetery have purchased Is acres
| from William II. Fonda, seven OF
which will be converted into park
and the rest used for burial purposes
The park purchase consists of heauti-
full woods, which will be connected
with the cemetery by means OF a rus.
tic bridge over the Michigan Central's
tracks. At the foot of the bluff con.
tanning the park lie the famed Fonda
quarries of the earlier days, when
Marshall sandstone was shipped from
Battle Creek all over the country.
According to officials who closeu