Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-05
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

il has been announced that lonia
is TO have the states aid in building
new armory.
Two hundred citizens Toasted at
the Stearns in the interest of Great
er Ludington."
About 100 attended the third annual
banquet OF the Plainwen Business
Mems association.
There are II cases on the Washte-
nav circuit court calendar Twelve or
them are divorce cases.
Earl Patten, son OF Lyman Il. Pat
ten, OF Muskegon is reported missing
in Chicago where he had gone TO
work
Approximately $4,000 will be spent
this year in repairing, improving and
constructing new roads in Menomlnee
county.
A fire in Mas City did damage esti'
mated TO be 100000 two saloons, the
postoftice, hotel and general store
burning.
The adopted daughter of Israel Lll'
cas-. residing north Of Batavia STATION,
fell into pail of hot water and was
scalded to dealt.
Congressman Fordney has intro
duced bin at Washington providing
for an additional So 900 for the Owosso
federal building
Mrs. William jackson, North Boyne,
got up from sick bed and fed with
her three children when her house
was destroyed by fire.
John Brown. aged 70, of Bay City,
was found dead i'm bed with a bullet
hole through his heart. 1t is believed
that he committed suicide.
Mason county will vote at the gen
eral election To be held in April on
the proposition TO raise $4,000 Tor a
new county agricultural building.
Grand Rapids school board decided
TO close the night schools despite
offers Of assistance from the council
Members say the attendance de-
creased.
Mrs. Nelson w. Napier. 81. widow
Of the late Capt Nelson Napier, the
veteran lake navigator. died Friday
of old age. She lived in st. Joseph
over half a century.
Port Huron law and order league
claims 10 have further evidence OF
crooked work in signing saloon bonds
and win demand that corrections be
made or licenses revoked.
Joseph Narrowitz, Muskegon
tailor, has been declared insane. He
is the man who insisted on digging
graves for himself. He chose his
own jury in the sanity case.
Miscreants paid their annual visit to
/ l.a fpI. oh do y
night. They entered by means of d
| skeleton key and carried $4,000 worth
of books from the freshman rooms.
Rural carriers, who were blocked"
because of four days of non-delivery
of mail during the storm. intend to
carry the matter TO higher officials.
They say the, DRIFTS were II feet high.
In the case ef the People VS.. Roy
| Phillips, Battle Greek juror, was
| asked where his cousin who was
charged with a similar charge as Phil
| lips was, replied. II don't knowles
| dead"
Oscar Settergren. who was captured
| at Bozeman. Mont. and who is wanted
| in Manistique on a serious charge. is
I now lodged i'm Jail. Recently it was re-
| ported he had been killed in a railroad
| wreck.
Ivan Coppens and Frank Morris,
! Grand Rapids boys. inmates of the
industrial school in Lansing. were
| picked up i'm Flint Friday and return
ed to that institution. They had been
truants 80 days.
In statement by Railroad Commits
sioner Glasgow an increase of passen.
! ger earnings by most OF Michigan rail.
roads in the last three months of 1907
| is shown, despite the operation of the
! two-cent rate law
When told that her daughter, Mrs.
| T.. F. SwaTtZ. is dead in Landor Wyo..
Mrs. Ellen Mulvaney, OF Lansing, said !:
! What! Dead again? I've sent money
twice for her burial. Now the city
can care for her"
Miss Kate Piger, of Port Huron.
aged 80, and cripple, was attacked
by an unknown man in her house.
Angered by her screams. he struck
her with her crutch, breaking her
nose. He then fed.
John l.. DeWolfe Of Dickson, tried
TO get a divorce from his wife by tell
ing the court she deserted him. Mrs.
/ INV Olit ObJGCAth, ohONNh Nh1 NOhi y
she did not desert her husband, and
got the divorce herself.
IL believe I'm going to faint" said
Mrs. Gust Johnson, of Big Rapids, but
hardly had she uttered the words than
she rolled over in her bed and died
Two weeks ago she slipped on an icy
sidewalk and was injured.
At the thirty third meeting Of the
Oakland County Pioneer society Ezra
W. Jewel was unanimously elected
president. During discussion Of "old
times" the fact was brought out that
90 cents day was once big wages.
Alex Ploof, who gives his occupa-
ton as nothing" Is in jail in Bay
City charged with holding up Frank
Brown in the latter's saloon. A fight
ensued between the two and a bullet
directed al Brown lodged in the cell
ing.
Appraisers Of the defunct Bowman
and Richland Union banks have pre-
pared their report for the trustees. II
will show less than ten cents on the
dollar for Bowman bank depositors
and little more for those OF the Rich