Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-11-18
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Health Officer Warren, or Standisn,
says that five new cases of smallpox
have been reported to him, and extra
ordinary precautions are being taken
in the quarantine.
Police Judge Hess, of Grand Rap
ids, established a new record by finine
John Mckenzie, aged 10, $40 and
costs for smoking a cigarette on the
street The boy paid.
Mistaking the cellar door for that
OF the dining room, Mrs. Cornelius
Phinney, aged 81. fell down stairs
and was instantly killed at the home
| Of Mrs. Viola Maxon in Coldwater.
| Albert Wienert, 60, of Port Huron,
has started a suit for $4,000 against
the Pere Marquette railroad. In 1907
| Wienert lost the sight of one eye.
Now the other has become affected.
Arthur McDaniels, of Hills6ale,
aged 50, was electrocuted when he
| touched steel chain on street arc
light which had gone out. thinking to
shake the pole and light the arc again.
Blaming the newspapers for accusing
them of many wrongs, the Nj. U. X.
has applied to Judge Knappen for an
order dissolving the injunction which
|
James DeYoung, superintendent of
waterworks of Holland. received a
visit from his brother, Samuel, whom
he had not seen for 80 years. Samuel
| Is now prosperous western rancher.
Frederick e. Smith, of Saginaw,
| has been lying in bed, motionless, for
| three and half years, yet he re-
mains always cheerful and takes an
active interest in the worlds affairs.
Bay City intends to ignore the APP
| peal for the re-equalization of tax as
| sessment, and was not represented at
| a meeting of the committee. The city
| officials hold that the law is uncon-
| stitutional
Janette, 6-year-old daughter of Fred
! Hoag, of Battle Creek, is dead from
burns received while playing with
cook stove. Her parents had gone
for a walk when the childs clothing
| caught fire.
John Foubert, of Republic, woods
man, was blown 60 feet by a prema-
| ture explosion of dynamite and lost
both eyes. one leg and suffered in
ternal injuries, but it is believed he
will recover
Mrs. Richard Reed, of Chesaning
aged "a. was killed in the presence
Of her son when a Michigan Central
train hit her buggy. She was carried
so feet by the train before she was
picked up. dead.
Telling the Saginaw police that he
was wanted in Detroit for taking
money under false pretenses, Joseph
Patten, deaf mute. gave himself up
and wrote his charge against himself
on pad of paper.
Grand Rapids high school fraterni-
ties have obtained an opinion from
the city attorney declaring the action
of the board of education in barring
them too drastic. The frats will now
demand retraction.
Mrs. Kate Corbett, OF Traverse City,
has begun suit against three local sa-
loonists for $4,000 damages. She
claims that they sold her husband
| liquor and that he came home drunk
and threatened to kill her.
H. c. Simmons, Of Coldwater, has
received check for $13. money he
earned AZ years ago, when he aided
the famous Ohio squirrel hunters"
in the defense of Cincinnati against
! Confederate raiders in the Civil war
BY promising to marry the man who
paid the 500 fine imposed for local
| option violation, Stella Greenman, OF
Battle Creek, gained her freedom and
husband. Two men were anxious
! to get there first and William Pritch
ard was the successful man.
The office of postmaster of Garland
which last year paid William e. Scott
| $3.50, is vacant because OF Scott's re-
| signing recently, and the government
is having hard time to find man
to accept the position. An examina-
ton will be held in Owosso Dec. 4.
Soldier and sailor veterans of the
civil and Spanish-American wars who
| live in Washtenaw county are plan
ming for the erection of monument
| to the men who lost their lives in
those struggles. The monument will
| be of blue-white Rhode Island gran
| lite, rs feet high, and will cost $4,000
Three Lansing men appeared in po-
| lice court Monday and pleaded guilty
| to a charge OF drunkenness. They
were given a stiff fine and all signed
pledge for one year. According to
the terms OF their sentence, a viola
| ton of the pledge will cause their
| imprisonment in the Detroit house OF
| correction for IS days.
Postmaster McElroy and his fam
| lily, OF Oshtemo, had a narrow escape
| from being burned Sunday night,
when the young son awakened his
parents and notified them that the
house was on fire. They succeeded in
escaping in their night clothing.
| Neighbors rescued the safe, contain
| ing $1,000, from the postoffice
The banner potato raiser of Shia-
vase county this year is e. p. Sher-
man, the Bancroft banker On 81
acres he raised 10,700 bushels. The
| potatoes have been harvested and
placed in pits, and will not be mar
keted until the price stiffens some
what in the winter, though they
could be sold now for so cents
! bushel.
So confident are the liquor men
that Gratiot county will go wet" at
tho cpriuu olnctiOn that al 4..,o