Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-08
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

tween Flint and Saginaw has been re-
sumed in earnest.
]. j. Hill, of Manton, pleaded guilty
to selling liquor I'm his store. His son
is on trial for the same offense.
The best sugar season has opened
and manufacturers hope TO turn out
100000 900 from the product this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Okenvall, OF Ho-
bart. were thrown from buggy In
a runaway and both will probably die
Convicted of running a bar In his
farm house near Kalkaska, John Tai
man was given 80 days in the Detroit
house of correction.
A stock company headed by Con-
gresham j. w. Fordney will build
first class hotel on the site OF the
old Taylor House in Saginaw.
John j. Hill, civil war veteran. con-
victed of selling liquor in his lunch
room, got 500 fine and so days in
jail from Judge Chittenden in Cadillac.
An epidemic of typhoid fever. at
tributed by Supt Chamberlain to the
flies and dust, has broken out in the
state home for feeble-minded. There
has been one death.
Parents of Mary Bell, aged %, OF
st. Clair township, have asked her
commitment TO the insane asylum.
saying she must be watched constant
ly to prevent suicide.
Dean Converse, express agent at
Cadillac, was sent 10 the Detroit
house of correction for 80 days for
ordering liquor from Copemish and
then selling II in bottles.
T. c. Eldred was appointed receiver
for Cashier w. II. Burletson, of the
Parma bank, and furnished bonds for
$4,000. Burletson is held on $4,000
bail, which he cannot furnish.
Sheriff Carl Wing warned White
Pigeon x-saloonkeepers who have
been operating thirst parlors since
the dry" law went into effect, against
selling any more two per cent fizzes.'
Chicago men connected with the
stock yards are negotiating for the
purchase of 100000 acres of swamp
land. near Seney. which they intend
to drain and use as a big cattle ranch.
John M. Ward, slayer of the wife
he deserted 20 years before, wept on
trial on a murder charge after offer
ing to plead guilty to manslaughter.
His son will be the states star wit
ness.
Analysis of the stomach OF George
Kaufeld the Beuna Vista school boy
who was supposed to have been pois-
oned, show no trace of poison and the
coroner's jury declared his death due
TO heat exhaustion.
Among 81 civilians appointed TO be
come second lieutenants in the Unit
ed States army after competitive ex-
aminations is one Michigan man
Oral +. Clark, of Bronson. His appoint
ment is TO the infantry.
While driving across the Lake Shore
tracks in Hillsdale the team of Albert
Stahl, farmer. was killed and he was
thrown about so feet. but not injured.
A year ago Stahl was struck by the
same train and also escaped, =
Pearl Congden. aged 40, oftHolland,
was brought back from Chicago on a
charge Of firing the ferry steamer
Holiday, which burned to the waters
edge. He told conflicting stories.
Congden is marine engineer.
Fred. Bartell. the Owosso member
of the NJ. n G.. who was burned while
trying TO remove with gasoline the
paint which had been put on him in
an initiation in Camp Benjamin Har-
rison, has been brought home and
will recover.
Three freshmen were hazed at Ann
Arbor by being made TO sit upon to-
mato cans and peel onions, their only
clothing being coat of varnish and
the eggs with which their heads had
been shampooed. Later they went home
draped in sheets.
A jury in the Shiawassee circuit
court awarded verdict of S4,S94.06 to
Mrs. Margaret Siege, administrator
of the estate of her brother, Charles
Hughes. Hughes who was a Grand
Trunk brakeman. was killed in a
wreck at Drayton Plains, Mich, in
September, 1905
Mrs. C. II. Ormsby. wife of wealthy
Benton Harbor contractor and builder,
who has been missing since Septem-
Der 10, was located by her husband
Tuesday in Hammond, Ind. by means
of a post card written by her. Her alb
sence is said to be due TO temporary
mental alteration.
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
Rican. who was taking joint freshman
and high school work. He departed
suddenly in the night without inform
ing anyone of his intention.
Following a quarrel Herbert Stone.
aged 20, is at deaths door at an Iron
Mountain hospital. and Braggio Fer
zacca, IL years old, is in the county
iail threatened with the likelihood of
trial on the charge OF manslaughter.
IL is charged that Ferzacca stabbed
Stone with a knife. The blade of the
weapon penetrated a lung. and, pneu-
monia having developed. the wounded
youths condition is reported extreme
ly critical.
John Tolman, of Kalkaska, was
found guilty of conducting a blind
tiger" in the Wexford county circuit
court Tuesday, the case having been
transferred from KaIkaska county
Tolman was sentenced to pay fine
of $4,000, and in addition spend 80
days in the Detroit house of correc.
ton In naccinO Qaptapra TudOo Chit