Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-15
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Land Commissioner Rose sold state
lands in the upper peninsula for $32.
600.
Thomas Williams, aged wife murder
er. OF Houghton, got from 10 TO ~
years In Marquette prison.
James Hoffman, aged II, OF Port
Huron, vanished on an errand to the
store for his mother. She believes he
has drowned
There Is no Jewish place OF worship
in Bay City or Saginaw and Jews OF
the two cities plan TO unite to build
one in Saginaw.
Franklin p. Eddy, OF Grand Rapids,
pleaded guilty to embezzling $1,000
while postofiice cashier and will be
sentenced later.
A committee of nine will appear
before the state military board in
Lansing to urge that work be started
soon on the Ionia armory.
The 100000 Wenona hotel, Bay
City, will open October q, and work
will be started soon on the auditorium
to be built in connection.
Voting machines have been declared
impracticable in Battle Creek for the
coming election and the Australian
ballot system viii be used.
John ]. Hill, civil war veteran, con-
victed of selling liquor in his lunch
room, got 500 fine and so days ia
Jail from Judge Chittcnden in Cadillac.
Here is where | end it all. Too
much booze and strenuous life. For
give me. Nellie. l love you STILL read
note in bottle on the beach at st.
Joseph.
Charging persecution, Henry Gid
ner, Grand Haven hotel proprietor,
who was arrested for liquor law vio-
lation. announces that he will close
the hostelry.
Preferring damage TO his machine to
running down little girl, Carl Fox,
of Adrian, sent the auto into the curb.
He was thrown out and slightly in
cured and the machine wrecked.
Pleading guilty to stealing two
stamped envelopes valued at five
cents, Jesse r. Letson, Of Lansing, got
five years from Judge West. He has
been in prison three times before.
The safety .belt of Noble Runyon,
lineman, broke while he was climb
81 100000 electric railway dam in
Berrien Springs and he died from
the fall.
One person was killed and another
slightly injured in an automobile ac-
| cident near Holland Sunday after
noon, while three other people mir
aculously escaped death. All were
from Grand Rapids.
Midland authorities have asked
Saginaw officials TO join in an injunc-
ton suit against the st. Louis Sugar
Co.. OF St. Louis, charging the plant
dumps its refuse into the Tittabawas-
see river and kills the fish.
The Crosby Street Christian Re-
formed church. Grand Rapids, burned
with loss of $4,000 and the parsonage
was damaged to the extent of $1,000.
Members had just paid off the mort
gage and installed $4,000 organ.
Philip G. Hetzeln q salesmeG ysessrrssi
| for stealing clock from the resi-
dence of Lansing woman to whom
he sold 1t, asserted drugs caused his
downfall. He has wife in Saginaw.
The Grand Trunk was fined 500 in
! the L. S. district court at Bay City for
railing to have car equipped with a
SAFETY coupling as required by the in
terstate commerce law. This is the
first fine in the state for that offense.
Ruth Groh, aged 6, of Ann Arbor.
got hold Of box of strychnine pei
lets In her home and Is near death.
Her father, an Ann Arbor railroad en-
gineer, recently died from burns from
an explosion of the boiler of his en-
CINE.
Arrested on charge of deserving
his family in Watertown, n. Y, Her.
bert Marshall confessed to stealing
S44 from Gregory Delisle, Of Flint
by whom he was employed as a meat
cutter Delisle had recently reported
the theft and suspicion fell on Mar
shall
A Pere Marquette passenger train
was held up by a severe hailstorm
near New Boston Wednesday after.
noon. The hail fell so thickly that the
engineer was unable to see the track
ahead and stopped his train until the
storm passed. Many windows we're
broken by the storm.
Wandering aimlessly without hat or
shoes near the Lake Shore road. Ger
lluuC w ulCdhtl, the 1b-ytdT-OlQ FORT
Huron girl who was supposed to have
drowned herself, was found late Tues
day. She was in an extremely nervous
condition and all from exposure and
was sent to the city hospital.
Burglars obtained $50 worth OF
jewelry and $40 in money from the
residence of Congressman Fordney
Monday night The burglars removed
the money from the glass frame in
which Mr.. Fordney had carefully laid
IL away. IL was money won by him.
while member of the state militia.
A. F. Ridges, of Chicago. Saturday
loaned valuable diamond ring. an
heirloom in his family for many years.
to Kalamazoo friend. When the
latter came to return the gem he was
unable TO find it, After dozen de-
tectives had worked on the case for
20 hours, the man found the ring in
his pocket.
So far as can be learned there has
been but one desertion from home.
sickness at Ann Arbor university this
year. The one instance was a Porto