Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-01-02
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

October deliveries.
John Vader Kool, a Muskegon meat
dealer. resisted two highwaymen and
was beaten insensible.
The Kalamazoo Trust Co. was
named trustee OF the defunct Bowman
and Union Richland banks.
Secretary Shumway. of the state
board of health, will go to Hesperia
to investigate a smallpox epidemic.
Boys catching sparrows are soaking
bread crumbs in whisky. The birds
get intoxicated and are easily caught
Eleanor Granger, of Morenci, the O.
year-old child accidentally shot by
her baby brother, died on Christmas
morning
The Goldie Hoop Co. will bring logs
from its lumber camps near Wisner
TO Sebewaing and then 10 miles across
the ice TO Bay City.
Alma board of trade passed reso-
luton protesting against the Philip
pine high tariff reduction measure
now before congress.
Mrs. Margaret Hodgins, whose hus-
band was electrocuted by wires or the
Bay City lighting department, got
judgment for S6,44S.49.
In spite OF the fact that Friday
was the thirteenth of the month, over
200 Thrashers met in Lansing and or
ganiZed a state association.
Earl Johnson is being sought by the
Traverse City police. on charge of
Jumping a s22 board bill. 1t is also
haf hn ic
army.
Capt Vandercook, of Battery A,
Michigan field artillery, has received
word that the new field pieces to be
furnished by the government, will ar
rive about January 20.
In sentencing George Robinson TO
pay a SIS fine and serve 80 days,
Judge Hess, of Grand Rapids, ex-
pressed regret that Michigan has no
whipping post for wife-beaters.
Thomas Payne, who killed his wife
when he was "a years old and was
the oldest man sent to Jackson prison,
is dead. He was sent up for from two
TO six years and was paroled last
April
Jesse ID. Hand, one of the promot-
ers of the Britton Pressed Brick Co.
at Britton, was caught in a flywheel
at the works and thrown into a clay
pit His head was gashed and sew
eral ribs broken.
Through the search of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Minnie Bowser, of Bay City
Mrs. Peter Chandler, colored, hiss
found four of five children she gave
auo,, 81 vaarc ogo bacauca sha pnu1d
not support them.
A skunk, which was asleep in the
gutter, jumped into the lap of { he OF
the ladies invited by Thomas Massey
of Port Huron, to take drive with
him. The skunk was killed, but the
drive was postponed.
State Senator Frank l.. Marlborough
formerly secretary Of Congressman
George A. Loud, will formally an
nounce himself soon as a candidate
against the latter for congressman
from the tenth district.
Frank Lax, while crossing the Me
nominee river near the Menominet
paper mills, broke through the ice
Thursday morning and was drowned
He was about so years of age and i:
survived by widow and two children
Christmas night Lansing ElkS
rounded up 400 Juveniles and gave
them a big dinner and entertainment
in the lodge rooms Christmas trees
teddy bears, toy soldiers, dolls, candy
and all the rest of it, were handed out
During the hearing of suit hi
brought for wages, Adams Burrows
aged IA, of Muskegon, admitted tina
he had never heard of God and haC
only a vague knowledge of wha
Christmas and the Fourth of Jul!
meant.
The claim of Patrick c. Dwyer, ;
member of the Ironwood company o
the NJ. n. c., for injuries received il
the 1905 encampment, was rejected b.
the state board of auditors. The legis
lature authorized payment If the CLAIM
was found just.
Mrs. James Mcdonnell, of Bay City
was shot by Charles Cushway, aget
| 10. with a flobert rifle. Her husband
jumped from their buggy. caught thu
boy and took the gun. The shot en-
tered her hip and Cushway says /
was an accident.
Arthur Patriarche, general manage
of the Pere Marquette, gave bon,
| for $1,000 for his appearance in tn
March term of the federal court il
| Grand Rapids, for trial on the charg
| Of giving rebates to the Stearns Sal
& Lumber Co of Ludington.
Sam Couch was given Christina
| present in the shape of notice tina
he had the smallpox and must go t
the pest house. Bartlett Dalton wa
also sent to the same place Tuesda
night. Both men are Mormon mission
aries and came to Lansing to max
converts.
In the presence of 1000 veterans
Mrs. Nora Mcconnell was married i
Grand Junction, Col, to Melville Jones
to whom she was engaged before tn
civil war. Jones letters went astra
and she mourned him as dead unit
they met at the G. A. r. encampmen
two years ago.
Edward Upp came home from Hills
dale to spend Christmas with his pal
ents near East Gilead. He went to
barn and his father. hearing a revo
yer shot, found him dead. He was
years old and had had warm argl
ment with his father being unwillin
to return to farming.
Doeu,au noodeIi nrohah1v tho oIJas