Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-04
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.


mint growers. have purchased 700
acres near Baroda. The firm now con
trolls 1000 acres.
The collection of John r. Starr. OF
Coldwater, containing 10000 stamps,
has been sold to a Chicago agency for
$1,000. Some single stamps were sold
for as high as $40
Taking advantage of the mild
weather of the last week, many far
mers are doing their spring blowing.
The oldest inhabitants cannot remem-
Der OF similar happening.
William Bloomfield, of Owosso, :,l.
though 80 years old. is recovering
from a stroke of apoplexy which he
suffered recently. Ii was not thought
possible that he could survive.
Frederick Splcer, rs, one of the old.
est residents Of Eaton county and
founder OF the village of Splcerville.
which was named after him, died Sun
day afternoon, after long illness.
o. b. Burrell, graduate NJ. A. c.,
who has been taking a course at Am
herst college, Massachusetts, has been
appointed agricultural inspector to the
Philippines, and sails from Seattle
Feb. /.
William McLain. 60 years Old, ap.
piled to the county clerk Friday for
a license TO. marry 15-year-old Ocon-
to girl. The license was refused, al
though the girls father had given ais
consent.
Recca Patterson. civil war veteran
IF hot hn
Patterson, who was killed in the Chi
cago crib disaster is his son Charles,
and will take steps to establish his
identity.
Mrs Kate Chapel has started suit
for $1,000 damages against Muske-
gon furniture dealer, alleging trespass.
She says that the man took cook
stove containing her dinner out OF
her home.
Twenty passengers were snowbound
on a Grand Rapids Muskegon interur-
ban car. between Grand Rapids and
Coopersville, for 10 hours Saturday.
They arrived home Sunday in fam
ished condition.
Chase S. Osborn, former railroad
commissioner of Michigan, is in
Clifford Pinchot TO do his best TO es-
tablish the forestry products labora'
tory in Michigan.
The three oldest triplets in Michi-
gan-Benjamin Champion, Miss En-
ma Champion, of st. Clair, and Mrs.
Ellen Kemp, Of Saginaw, celebrated
in the latter place. the siXty-third an
niversary OF their birth.
George Clouse, the Capac farmer,
who threatened young boy with
death If he refused 10 pray and who
at the time was suffering from insan-
itv brought on by religion. has been
taken to the Pontiac asylum.
The last rails for the new Flint e
Saginaw electric railroad were laid
in Flint Monday afternoon. Officials
say that with favorable weather cars
will be regularly operating between
Saginaw and Flint by March |.
Adelbert Bills, farmer, living near
Kna9gs. was bitten by pet cat a
few DAYS ago. The wound has given
him so much pain that on the advice
Of his physicians he will go to the
Pasteur institute at Ann Arbor.
1t is estimated by the county audi
tors that the killing OF Gideon Brown.
ing by Rev. ]. II. Carmichael will cost
the county about $500. The Detroit
detectives. whose work resulted IN
trailing the minister to Chicago, will
be the largest single item OF OK.
pense.
Scarlet fever in three ward schools
Of Battle Creek caused Health Officer
Thomas Zelinsky 10 take charge OF
these buildings Sunday. They were
disinfected. but will not be closed I'M
less there are more cases of the dis
ease. II is said that there are 20
cases in the city.
Howard Burchfeld. the Charlotte
youth who threw a pop bottle during
the Elks carnival, few years ago.
which caused the death of Leonard
Green. is in trouble again. At that
time he was sentenced to ten years
in Ionia but was paroled. Now he
is charged with highway robbery.
The state military department has
issued orders for the officers of the
First. Second and Third regiments to
assemble in Lansing February % to
elect the field officers OF the regiments
for the next three years. The offices
to be filled are those OF colonel, lieu
tenant-colonel and three majors for
each regiment.
The coroner's jury. which has been
investigating the accident in Saginaw.
in which Fred J. Gerlach, a lineman.
was electrocuted, brought in a verdict
holding the Valley Telephone Co. re-
sponsible for the fatality The yer.
dict states that Gerlach met his
death through coming in contact with
the company's telephone wire which
had become detached in some man.
ner through inferior construction. fall.
ing TO the ground over a high tension
wire.
Because, he says, he couldn't bear
to see his sons first and second wives
In hair-pulling contest, at the home
of the latter, Cornelihs Nicholson,
Grand Rapids, has sworn out a war.
rant for his sons arrest on a bigamy
charge. Nicholson the elder says his
hoy" Chester. "a. 10 years ago mar.
ried Sylvia Carskadon. and that they