Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-04-16
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Capt b. H. Dorsey. l.. S. A.. retired,
has been detailed as instructor for the
NJ. y. G.
Port Huron is fast becoming known
as one of the greatest salt centers in
the world.
J. ID. bort. OF Flint, says he will not
enter the race against Congressman
Samuel Smith.
Bennett J. Elms has been appointed
deputy game and fish warden for west
ern Michigan.
The Michigan Employment Institu-
tion for the Blind has installed feath-
CT buster department.
Charles Lindstrand, OF Paulding,
aged "a, went 10 sleep while smoking
pipe and burned to death.
Four Muskegon churches commend
ed the board OF education for abolish
ing the high school fraternities.
Dairy and Food Commissioners Bird
holds II is unlawful 10 sell bad eggs
and will prosecute guilty dealers,
Chicago colonists bought 1.725 lots
on Blue lake. and a new resort 10 be
called "Ravenswood' will be built
Mrs. John Rudd. of Munising. who
last year gave birth 10 twins, has now
presented her husband with triplets
Adelbert Loveland. having been ar
rested i'm Flint three times for drunk
enness was sent TO lonia for two
years.
Marion was visited by fire Friday
night which DESTROYED several bust
ness places causing a loss OF about
$4,000.
Harry Elverton. aged 30. while load
ing timber near Thompson, was struck
by a log and instantly killed. His head
was crushed.
The proposition to bond Midland for
s5S,000 for a new court house and a
poor house and the county road sys
TEN were lost.
David Markwart, of Standish, fell
from his wagon while driving from the
Pinconning elevator and was killed
under the wheels
Marine medical men are making an
effort To have a marine hospital estab
lshed at Muskegon in connection with
the Hackley hospital.
Port Huron police confscated SO in
cash and a poker outfit in a raid on u
pool room. Nine players were released,
after being registered.
After campaigning all day for a
friend who was candidate for super
visor John Burgoyne, Bridgeport town
ship. died of heart failure.
Propositions TO place Washtenaw
~ faa nd a
erect $500 addition 10 the county Jail
for insane persons carried.
Two months ago August Wilson. OF
Lamson township. went to the poor
house. He died the other day, leaving
$4,000 insurance to brother.
Frank p. Glazier, ex-state treasurer,
is frequently seen hunting in the vicin-
ity of Kavanaugh lake, where he has
been staying for several days.
Just after recovering from long
illness. Ensign Edward Long, of the
Salvation Army in Adrian. disappeared
and relatives fear he took his life.
A recount may he asked for in
Dowagiac. as the "dTys" are charging
the vets with colonizing votes. The
vets won by majority OF % votes.
The treasury department has held
that the foreign business at Petoskey
and Holland is not sufficient to war
rant recognition as supports of entry.
1t is understood that Chicago par
ties are considering the plans for the
building of an interurban line to con
meet Marquette with Negaunee and
Ishpeming.
The body OF John Sucose. aged 45,
was found decapitated on the G.. X. q
l. railroad tracks. He had been de
spondent, and it is believed he jumped
in front of a train.
The u. of NJ. calendar will show
sob students enrolled as follows:
Medical, $50; literary, 1895; engineer.
ing. 1853; law, 791; pharmacy, 101;
homeopathic, 50, and dentistry, 16S.
Postmaster Ripley, of Montague, has
been cleared of charges preferred
against him in his official capacity. An
inspector found that charges that he
was lax in his duties We're unfounded.
w. j. Dancer, receiver OF the Glazier
Stockbridge bank, asked the circuit
court for permission TO dispose of sale
ANY bhbho anu Olllti llpBtllg VI tic
bank lie expects TO declare divi-
dend soon.
The infant son OF Louis Keif, OF Riv.
erton township, bled TO death when an
artery was severed while the nurse
was performing an operation with a
pair OF scissors. The nurse thought
the child was tongue-tied.
Linn Johnson Fred Hill and George
Talhammer, Blissfield, are held on sus-
picion Of having tried to blow the safe
of VIM. Kimmerling's store in Wells
Vile The charge exploded so the safe
could not afterward be opened.
Joseph Powley is going TO the poor
house. The man Powley came to Port
Huron years ago from England and
worked as a stonemason. He was one
of the workmen employed in building
the present county Jail and has many
times boasted Of the fact that when
the institution was ready for the re-
ception OF prisoners ne was the first TO
be arrested and confined there. feat
which he had prophesied while the
building was in the course OF construc.
ton
III,