Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-14
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

cash on hand Wednesday was only
about $4,000.
The board of supervisors has voted
unanimously to submit the local option
to the voters of Calhoun county at the
spring election.
Saginaw hay market is demoralized
as result OF the embargo which held
that commodity from the avenues OF
commerce for several weeks.
Nearly the whole business portion OF
Sidnaw was wiped out by fire that
destroyed six buildings on Main street,
with a total loss Of $4,000 and no in
surance.
John Licta, soft drink" emporium
proprietor Of Hastings, has been sent
enced to spend rs days in the Detroit
house OF correction for selling ia
booed "near-beer'
The state auditors have appointed
John b. Matthews. OF Pontiac. clerk,
and Herbert Coister, OF Clinton coun-
ty, late deputy land commissioner, as
temporary bookkeeper
Miss Alice LOOMS has been sus-
pended from the Muskegon high
school for one month. Miss Loomis is
a member of a sorority which the
board has been fighting.
P'sisting that Michigan already has
the best drainage laws of any state in
the union the Michigan Association OF
Drainage Commissioners will oppose
any changes by the present legisla-
ture.
Carl F. Carver, a Lansing brewery
wagon driver. was badly burned about
the face Tuesday when a quantity of
boiling pitch from a vat sprayed over
him. He way lose the use OF one Of
his eyes.
William Stevens. alias Roy Arm
strong of Detroit. is alleged TO have
stolen a valuable horse and buggy
from a Muskegon livery, which he is
Fupposed to be driving toward Kansas
City, Mo.
Mrs. Olive Wood, OF Grand Blanc,
convicted of mansIaughter for kill
ing the infant of her daughter, Lulu
Cummings, was given a sentence OF
from five months to Is years in Jack
son prison.
Roy Coulter, a University of Chica
go boy on his way home in Charlotte,
stopped off at Grand Rapids and
dropped a fat roll of bills to a pool
shark. He thought he was up against
sure thing" game. He was.
The cattle shipping industry. al
most paralyzed for a month or more
by the quarantine on Michigan stock,
is now rounding into its normal con-
dition. Shipments are again being
made to Buffalo and other points.
Ex-Congressman James ODonnell,
who was an unsuccessful candidate
for the gubernatorial nomination num-
erous times, announces that he is
considering the advisability of en-
tering the race for the United States
senate.
Heret. the mysterious Ingham
county hermit fell dead in the door
yard OF a neighbor. where he had
gone for help. He had $1,000 in a
belt he wore around his waist. and
owned a good 160-acre farm. His
antecedents are unknown.
The high school fraternity and so
rority scrap" has reached such q
point that it is reported about Mus
kegon that the board of education will
present a bill TO the state legislature
TO do away with secret societies in
every high school in the state.
The liquor interests of Charlevoix
county are joining forces and are
threatening the supporters of local
option who have been circulating
petitions during the past two weeks
with an Injunction. The dry ele-
ment claim they will carry The county
at the next election.
w. II. Botsford aged 60, arrested
in Kalamazoo for the alleged larceny
OF $500 worth of clothing from tho
state asylum, was able to give bail,
but his 23-year-old wife could not,
and went back to Jail. Mr. and Mrs
NJ. S. Botsford were nurses in the
asylum. The girl first met her hus
band when she came TO his home to
nurse his 90-year-old parents.
A negro club which the police claim
has been for the sole purpose OF dis
pensing liquor TO its members" was
raided Wednesday. and in court Jim
Brooks and William Barker were fined
The former drew 10 days and n fine
of $50. AT the expiration OF the sent.
ence. If he fails TO pay the fine. no
will be returned 10 Jail for 90 days
i ne latter Was BlNtH ~ ud!S anu the
alternative OF 800 or GO days.
After three years investigation. tho
u. s. pension department has awarded
to Mrs. Florence T. O'Connell, OF
South Gardiner. Me-. with back pay
a pension of $12 month as the widow
OF David O'Connell. formerly OF Flint.
who was a member of Co. F, Second
Michigan infantry. during the civil
war. Another applicant for the pen
sion, whose claim is thrown out. was
Mrs. Jennie e. OConnell, Of Flint
O'Connell seems TO have failed to get
a divorce from his first wife, who was
the successful applicant.
Stock raisers are becoming impat-
lent under the long drawn out restric-
tions OF the cattle quarantine and
united effort is being exerted to have
1t lifted The farmers say they are
losing hundreds of dollars daily and
point to hte fact that not a single case
of hoof and mouth disease has been
discovered outside of Wayne county.
Since they are permitted to ship stock
only to Wayne county they say that