Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-06-03
STATE BRIEFS.

Benedict Doll. proprietor of the
| Coldwater Brewing Co., has been ar
rested charged with selling Branch
county man eight gallons of beer.
George Leece, farmer, will be sent
| to Kalamazoo for the summer, as his
mind is slightly affected, but his neigh
bors In Bovine township will care for
his crops.
Niles officers have declared war on
the automobile owners who indulge in
fast driving, and the first TO be ar
rested was Russell Earl, son of the
mayor of the city.
Four teeth and a piece of clay
pipe stem were swallowed by Fred
Christian, prominent farmer of
Moor.and township, when he was
kicked in the face by colt.
Daniel Green, 20, and a well-known
farmer near Lapeer, was fatally in
jured when the team which he was
driving on a heavy roller ran away,
and the roller passed over his body.
Detroit's tax levy this year is &c..
1923 800 of which S3,2S5,439 is for sal
aries of city employees. The taxpayer
gets what he earns and saves; city
employees are not famous for hard
work.
Mrs. d. F. Diggins, who with her
husband presented Mercy hospital to
Cadillac about a year ago, will erect
another building, which when COM
pleted will double the capacity of the
institution, providing 60 beds.
Frank p. Glazier, ex-state treasurer,
CHI nf
Glaciers defunct Chelsea bank. have
been served with notices to appear at
the bankruptcy proceedings on the al
fairs of the bank, to be held June 2.
Lightning struck flock of sheep
belonging TO James Paterson, OF Kala-
mazoo, and II were killed. 1t struck
the house of Edward Paterson, broth
er of James, tore a telephone from
the wall and hurled it through win
dow
Claude Rourke, 16, who was released
on parole from the state industrial
school only a few days ago, has been
returned to that institution, having
stolen a bicycle from farmer near
Owosso, and sold it at a secondhand
store.
again." was the remark of Lewis Culp
when he left the Flint Jail, where he
had been serving 80 days for larceny.
Saturday morning his body was found
floating in the mill race adjacent TO
the Grand Trunk station.
Because both Gov. Warner and
Lieut.. Gov. Kelley are out of the state
limits, with the Detroit Board of Com
merce excursion, Secretary of State
Martindale would be the chief eXecu-
tive if any great public emergency
should arise during their absence.
1t may be that Banker Burletson,
just sentenced to from four to twenty
years for wrecking the Parma bank
is not broke. He told the deputy who
took him to Ionia that he could have
$4,000 for eight years, the time that
Burletson expects TO remain in prison.
1t is reported that d. F. Geesey,
killed in blowing up of the elevator
at Dowagiac a few days ago, had a
considerable amount of money on his
person when the explosion occurred
and this has not all been found. Re-
ports place the amount variously at
$400 to 800.
Grand Rapids has been notified by
the department of commerce and la
Dor that the proceedings to deport
English upholsterers brought there by
the Stickley Bros Co. would be
dropped. 1t was claimed by the depart
ment that the contract labor law was
being violated
Muskegon sa 'oonkeepers have de
cided to fight the anti-free lunch act,
adopted by the Legislature, and are
raising a fund to test the law in the
courts. They say that all will serve
the lunches as usual and put up a
warm contest, on the grounds that the
law is unconstitutional
Edward Moriarity, brakeman from
Fort Wayne. Ind, was instantly killed
Friday night when the rear coach of
G. X. & J. passenger train No. 6 was
derailed by a misplaced switch near
the Sturs!s depot. 1t is thought the
switch had been tempered with as the
catch bolt had been drawn from it.
Sheriff Houghton. of Hersey, was in
Charlotte looking up evidence TO be
used in the trial of Mrs. Minnie Be
man, the Charlotte woman charged
with sending strychnine through the
mail to her little son, recently adopt
ed by the parents of her husband
Sheriff Houghton says the chain of
circumstances is very strong against
her.
Capt j. E. Slower, lake captain of
Detroit, called on Prosecutor Foster,
of Lansing, and asked il he could set
tie for the valuable merchandise
stolen by Molly Mcguire and have the
complaint against her dropped. He
said he is relative of the woman,
who. after robbing a number of stores
in Lansing. was captured, taken to the
county Jail, and escaped from there
and has never been recaptured. No
satisfaction was given him.
His eagerness to reach the Gem
etery in which his parents had been
buried so that he might have the en-
tire day for decorating their graves
cost 15-year-od Charlie Bahney, of
Battle Creek. his life Sunday. The DO,
had started to go to Hamlin township
cemetery, Seeing a freight train he
hoped on board, lost his grip on the