Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-11-26
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Atty.-Gen. Bird has ruled that the
unsealed Flushing ballot box cannot
be opened and the count on sheriff
came 10 sudden end.
Fishermen along the Saginaw
river are packing their herring and
suckers instead of shipping them,
owing to the prevailing low prices.
A stock company composed OF
prominent Republicans may buy the
Arenac Independent. at Standish, and
make it a strong Republican paper.
Mayor Winchcll of lonia. has barred
keno parties. and local saloonkeepers
who had planned such entertainments
are trying TO sell their turkeys at any
price.
1t is reported that the s35O,OOO
power house of tho proposed Lansing
a. Saginaw electric line will be built
on the Shiawassee river bank, near
Owosso
Alexander Baldwin. recently convict
ed Of aSsaulting a 1G-year-old girl, was
sentenced to from two TO ten years
in Jackson prison by Judge Tappan at
Port Huron
EX-Judgc Michael Brown, long
resident of Big Rapids, has decided to
leave Michigan and make his home In
Billings, Mont He expects TO go next
month Several of his children live in
Montana
Over so Port Huron business men
attended the booster banquet" given
by The Chamber of Commerce to slim
uate interest in the advancement of
the industrial program mapped out
for the new year
A. II Klise. of Petoskcy. presented
a check of 81 900 and the Presbyterian
church 500 toward the building fund
Of the Buelah Land Home for Boys.
The boys are striving TO raise $4,000
before Thanksgiving.
Jacob Born. CT. for many years an
employe of the quartermasterge generals
department in the state armory. is
dead. He was a native of GermaI>y,
and served in the civil war in the
Sixth New York Infantry.
Leonard Johnson, of Beacon Hill,
was mistaken for a bear by two com
panions. John and Jacob Solomon,
while hunting and probably fatally
wounded The bullet struck Johnson
JUST ABOVE the cOllaT-DOne.
OF the 235 deer hunting licenses is.
sued by County Clerk Shepherd at
Newaygo five went to the family of NJ.
ID. Troyer. of Wilcox township viii.
cox. who is a Mennonite, and his four
sons, each took out licenses.
Nine shareholders in the United
Home Protectors fraternity at Port
Huron have petitioned the circuit court
for the prosecution OF the officials OF
the society in an effort TO recover
S12,775 alleged to be due them.
Fire from an unknown cause de
stroyed the large factory of the j f.
Drielick Co. wood handle, door and
window sash manufacturers of Trav.
erse City, entafling loss of $4,000
and throwing large number of men
out of employment.
Prof l.. c. Hull, principal of the
Michigan Military academy at Orchard
Lake, has filed complaint that five
Pontiac girls. aged about 10 years,
have been behaving improperly at the
academy every evening and corrupt
ing the cadets morals.
Hal Weaver, son of DIR F A. Weav.
er, OF Charlotte, and a graduate of the
University of Michigan last June, has
received notice of his appointment as
an instructor in the mechanical en-.
gineering department of the Univers-
ity OF Texas, in Austin.
Because he handed to a bull an
ear on which there was no corn Perry,
16-year-old son of +. l.. Ransom, of
Traverse City, was knocked down and
trampled upon and would have been
killed had his father not appeared on
the scene with a scantling.
Lieut-Gov. Patrick J. Kelley admits
that he will be candidate for the
governorship two years hence. and
that he is already laying his fences
with that end in view. He says that
he will make no formal announcement
of his candidacy for several months
yet.
In the circuit court at Port Huron
Judge Tappan declared Charles Sam
berg legally dead and directed the Mod
ern Maccabees TO pay Mrs. Anna Sam
berg the $1,000 insurance policy on
his life which she had kept up since
her husbands disappearance 10 years
ago.
The second annual meeting OF the
Michigan Independent Telephone as.
ISOLATION closed Wednesday at Cadil-
lac. The meetings were largely given
over TO the discussions OF matters that
would improve the service The execu-
tive committee will decide the place
for holding next years convention.
Rev Flannery, of st. Demands
church. Alpena, has turned over to
the fire relief commission 81 500, which
was sent by Bishop Richter as part
of the amount received thus far from
last Sundays collections in the
churches of the Grand Rapids diocese
Alpena Polish Catholic societies have
also contributed $205.
Michigan Uniform Forester associa-
ton, NJ. w. of A., at its closing session
at Lansing adopted the new constitu-
ton and bylaws for the organization
of the drill team captains and elected
the following officers of the associa-
ton: Colonel, II. ID. Jessop, Lansing;
adjutant. Lieut.. Col. G. ]. Clark, Lam
sing: quartermaster. Lieut.Co Chas.
Holcomb. Albion. These officers CON
stitute military board and will have
charge of the organization.
Authorities of Saginaw and the
northern counties report that immi-