Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-25
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

TO raise funds to furnish bed in Hur-
ley hospital
James b. Nicholson, an ex-convict,
appeared in a Grand Rapids court as
witness against HIS son, Chester b.
Nicholson, who is charged with big
amy.
Frank Helm, a wealthy farmer and
supervisor of Royalton township, was
killed at Berrien Springs, a log rolling
from wagon on him. His back and
neck were broken.
County Clerk Jefferson c. Brown is
preparing descriptions OF 1.515 parcels
of land located in ST. Clair county
which will be sold owing to the non
payment or taxes.
Congressman Mclaughlin, of the
ninth district, will recommend the APP
pointment of Lester Nelson, of Mus
kegon, now sophomore engineer at
Ann Arbor, to Annapolis.
Prof. l.. p. Brekenbridge, instructor
in the mechical engineering depart
ment at the U. Of NJ, has resigned TO
accept similar position in the Shelf
field Scientific school at Yale.
The annual convention of the Michi-
gan Association of Fairs was held in
Lansing. A committee was appointed
to draw up a set of uniform rules,
governing premiums and exhibits.
Because he said the storm was too
severe to take out his horses, Harvey
Sleight, Sebewaing man, walked TO
Portland and back, a distance of Is
miles, during the worst of the blizzard.
F. G. Miller. who had the distinction
of sighting the first gun fired on Fort
! Sumter, during the civil war, died at
his home in Big Rapids. He was form
erly in the lumber business, and was
GS years old.
Both legs of Jacob Schuder, aged AZ,
an oiler at the North American Chem
! ical works, Bay City, were torn off
when he was caught in the whirling
shaft and killed. He is survived by
his wife and two sons.
The NJ. A. c. student body has
passed resolutions deciding not TO al
low interference in future with the
+! junior hop. The attempted wrecking
of trolley car and probe" by the
faculty brought about the action.
! The parents of Emma Carpenter, Of
Port Austin. have appealed to the po-
lice here to find the girl. who
4 has been missing since Christmas,
! and who, they fear. has come to some
! harm in Detroit. The girl is IL years
4 old
On account OF his previous good rec
! ord. Isaac B. Bordenwell. 72 years old,
OF Muskegon, charged with serious
! crime against 10-year-old girl, was
allowed to plead guilty to assault and
4 battery, and escape with nominal
1 fine.
DR.. w. II. Wood has made an offer
OF SO to any girl graduate of the
! Coldwater high school who will wear
a calico dress at the graduation exer-
ciscs. This is the third offer of the
kind, the first two having already been
taken up.
The Bay City Ministerial associa-
ton refuses 10 stand sponsor for the
movement for the reformation of the
city A resolution introduced by Rev.
! S. w. Phelps one OF the members, was
4 defeated. when it came 10 a vote OF
the body.
Rutherford r. jerks died in the
Kalamazoo asylum, aged 2S. jerks
was the son of Police Judge jerks
and was confined in the asylum when
he was is. His insanity is said to
have been due to excessive cigarette
smoking.
Can, horse in a Kalamazoo fire
station. has been declared insane by
several of tho leading veterinaries, and
viii be killed. He raves like a mad
man, throws himself around i'm his
stall, and attacks everyone who comes
near him.
The body of S. j. Wallace, the Pere
Marquette brakeman who was killed
in the Wyoming yards accident, will
be buried in an unmarked grave. Nc
relatives of the dead man could be
found 1t was reported that he had q
wife living in Lansing, but this proved
untrue.
Because baby's "bawling" kept him
awake nights, Donald Dupont son OF
the late Prof Dupont, Of the u. of NJ.
is locked up, charged with DESERVING
his wife Myrtle and their child. Mrs
Dupont is the daughter of +. j. Hop
kins. of Dowagiac. Dupont has beer
singing in scent theaters.
At the sixth annual banquet of tho
Muskegon County Bar association Jus
tice ClaudiuS II. Grant VINO soon re
tires from the bench, spoke on Graf
in Michigan" He said that the unen
forced statutes of the state are re
sponsible for the numerous scandal:
in the different state institutions o.
late.
Mrs. Olive Wood, the woman sent
enced TO from six months to Is year.
Mt Jackson prison some time ago afte
being found guilty of being an acces
sorry to the killing of her daughter!
infant child, was brought back TO thu
Genesee county Jail. She will be re
sentenced to the Detroit house of cor
rection Monday.
The rivers and harbors bill carries
/ recommendation for the conde nina
tiol and purchase of the Chalmers
Dunbar. the two Edison and the st
Marys mower rights in the st. Mary
river. The bill says the obstacle e
navigation in the form of private con
Germs Is undesirable. The secretary o
war. however, Is given the right 10 re-
lease these rights for not more thai
80 years. with readjustment OF com
pcnsation at 10-year periods.