Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-28
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

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uniformed In white.
vicious horse, while being fed by
Johnnie Heater, Of Dowagiac, bit the
lad In the face, tearing on the greater
part OF his lower lip.
The Seventh Day Adventist stock
holders who recently were read out OF
the Battle Greek sanitarium will build
a similar institution at Berrien
Springs.
Roy Mack. who was arrested In Chi
cago charged with having stolen $500
worth of diamonds, was brought TO
Muskegon with diamonds Of about that
value on his person.
Roy Garrison, i'll in bed with pneu-
monia, was rescued from his burning
home by his brother Orla and neigh
Dor, Emerson Worden, who carried
MIN through a window.
Kali War;, Syrian farmer, is un-
der arrest charged with running
"moonshine" whisky still. Many cases
OF intoxication at Ada have been
traced 10 this houce, II is alleged.
Horace Buchle, Lakefield ownship
! farmer. has sued Charles McCreery for
$4,000 damages alleged to have result
ed from the spread OF blaze on the
farm OF the latter TO the premises OF
Buchle.
| A reckless Saginaw sparrow shooter
warned the 9-year-old son of VIM. F.
| Buetow that he was about to shoot
and then let go with his Flobert rife,
with the result that he put out the
lads eye.
Riva Perry, negro porter in Kala-
mazoo billiard parlor, fell four stories
down an elevator shaft Sunday night.
He landed squarely on his head and
beyond few cuts and bruises, was
uninjured.
| Frank NJ, alias Joseph b. Wilson,
OF Decatur, convicted of bigamy. was
sentenced by Judge Desvoignes Satur-
day to from two TO five years in Jack
son, with a recommendation of two
years and six months.
| Mildred Lawrason, 6, was obliged to
submit TO an operation that cost her
one eye Tuesday. The other one may
be saved. She was shot in the eve by
Jesse Rainbow, Is. who didn't know
that his rife was loaded.
Mrs. John Norris, of Oxford. who
was Mrs. Andrew Fox, of Pontiac. Is
| doubly bereaVed. Her present hus-
band and her former husband died and
were buried at the same hour WedneS-
day-Norris in Oxford and Fox at Hol-
| ly.
| A mad dog is terrorizing the far
mers in the vicinity of Portage Prairie.
! The dog ran from one farm TO an
other biting the live stock that it en-
countered. A number of animals that
were bitten have been killed but the
dog has not yet been found
The brothers and sisters of Miss
Marcelle Parker, formerly of Niles, are
seeking share in the 100000 estate
which she left in her will to her nurse
and guardian. They are trying to
| prove she was mentally unsound al
the time of the drafting of the instru-
ment.
Paul G. Sulley. a U. of NJ. sophomore
engineer from Minneapolis. received
| word Monday that his grandmother,
who had lived in Messina in the heart
of the earthquake district, was re-
| leased from the ruins of her home af-
ter she had been imprisoned there for
six days.
After waiting six, years to file an
| answer and cross-bill, George NJ
Smith, of Whitehall, has put in the
| long-delayed reply to his wifes di
vorce suit. wherein she alleged de-
sertion. Gladstone Dowie, the Gun
kissed son" of the late lamented
"Lige," represents Smith.
George Moon, aged AZ, a hermit,
was found helpless in an epileptic fit
and nearly frozen in his filthy hovel
! in Mason, dying soon after he had
been removed to the Jail for medical
| treatment. His mother and sister live
| in Mason. His father, Robert Moon,
civil war veteran, died some time ago
John Sherman, an employe OF the
| Grand Trunks railway, who weighs
| 10 pounds. and Mrs. Eta Wright,
who tips the scales at 200, were mar
ried on the stage OF a local theater
Saturday night. They were given $50
| by the theatrical company. and one
of the largest crowds the theater has
ever seen attended.
| Ferdinand Pinney Earle. of affinity
| fame, is stopping at the Battle Creek
| sanitarium seeking rest from the men
| tai and physical ills attendant upon
| the divorce proceedings recently in
| stituted by his soul mate" He made
| every possible effort TO conceal his
| identity and when discovered an
| nounced that he would leave Battle
| Creek at once
Putting a display advertisement of
the services of the Park Street (Kala-
mazoo) Christian church in a Sunday
morning paper vast he method OF
getting a crowd adopted by Rev. H.
ID. Williams, pastor of the church.
He says that 1t attracts people to
church and that he sees no reason
why churches should not advertise as
do other institutions.
The report sent out from Port HUI
ron to the effect that Port Huron's so
ciety young women were infatuated
with Harold Jeffrys. a negro singer in
local nickleodeon. caused the Ethio-
plan to lose his place and be ordered
out of the city A delegation of well.
known business men and citizens call
ed on Chief of Police Marx and com
| planned of the stories in circulation,
which they said were started to adj
vertise the thoater. AS a result the
chief ordered the negro to leave town
at once.