Belding banner., 1909-04-08
STATE BRIEFS.

August S. Snowsky, of Lansing, a
| Pole. whose home burned recently,
says that some enemy started the
| fire.
At recent meeting OF the business
men IL was decided to hold ten-day
Chautauqua In Cadillac, beginning
July 13.
| An epidemic of pneumonia Is pre-
vailing in Crisp. about nine miles
north of Holland. and "a cases have
already been reported.
The Essig Co., of Detroit, has been
awarded the contract for furnishing
| $3.50 worth of shrubbery to beautify
the city parks of Marshall.
| ID. ID. Aitken goes on record as be-
ing the first open-air speaker OF the
season in Flint He addressed large
crowd in favor of local option.
William Schlenka was sentenced to
from 10 to 20 years in Jackson prison
at Lansing for criminal attack on
his daughter, Matilda, aged 16 years.
The state military board awarded
the contract for the new M. n. G. ar
mory to be constructed at Saginaw to
j. b. Kerns & Son, his bid being S22,-
27S.
The Dunkley Co., of Kalamazoo,
which was forced into bankruptcy
through the failure of the fruit crop,
has been reorganized, and will reopen
its six canning factories.
In the past month only one person
has been arrested in Cadillac for
drunkenness. This condition some
people attribute to the strict enforce
ment of the local option law.
Miss Alice Baker, of Kalamazoo,
was given a headache powder by
physician and Immediately became un.
conscious, remaining in that state for
three days despite all efforts to rouse
her.
The recent mad dog scare at Me-
nominee, during which nine persons
| were bitten, is over, and the mayor
and council have authorized the re-
moval of the muzzles from the ca
mines.
Barber Moore, and George Barton,
alleged yeggmen, escaped from the
Greenville Jail by dynamiting the floor
of their cell. The drill used on the
cement floor was made of an old UNI
brella handle.
!
Heights, and his sister, Mrs James
Redoye of Newark, n. j., were re-
united Wednesday after a separation
of so years. They were parted by the
death of their parents.
John Kemp, 55, Bancroft farmer
died of shock, caused by the excite
ment of runaway accident. He waa
thrown out of the wagon when tho
team ran away, but physicians say
that heart failure was the cause OF
death.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Alexander McCollom, who was killed
by a locomotive in the local Grand
Trunk shops at Battle Creek returned
verdict blaming the railroad com
party for not properly protecting its
employees.
Falling on slippery sidewalk, Mrs,
Caroline Laty, an old resident of Ish-
peming, fractured her right forearm.
The accident was peculiar in that ii
was the third mishap of exactly sim
liar nature that Mrs. Laity has ex-
perienced.
Floyd Lash, 90 formerly of Camden
met a violent death at GAINESVILLE
Wis, according TO word received by
relatives. He was working for a rail
road and the body was found in the
yards with the head severed and one
arm cut off.
Senator Ming has introduced a bill
at the suggestion of the superinten
! dent of public instruction, permitting
the state to accept surety bond in
stead of a personal bond from the
! treasurer of the state board of pub
lie instruction.
Samuel Hohorn asked the Crane
Rapids police Thursday to aid him il
search for his daughter, Eliza, is
He says the girl left him several days
ago and, while he hears from her b.
note almost daily, she refuses 10 re
veal her whereabouts.
Charles Ecklund, 60 years old. sicl
and mentally weakened. is wandering
about somewhere in the woods o
: Menominee county, and searchers are
fearful that he will die before the!
can locate him. He has been sicl
more than two years.
I The supreme court will decide
whether or not a common law mar
: riage is subject to divorce. The ques
D ton arose in the suit of j. Dwair
y Moore, who is suing his wife for sep
aration. The supreme courts of Other
4 states have held that common Law
S marriages cannot be dissolved.
Instructors representing nearly
: every county in the state, about 1,50(
? in all, attended the forty-fourth an
E nual meeting of the Michigan School
masters club at Ann Arbor, it being
the largest convention of the kind IL
the history of the state.
While the parents were absent tn,
S-year.old daughter of Jacob Jonas, o
n Kalamazoo. attempted TO remove th'
a 7-months-old baby from high chair
g and the ribbons of the child's hoo'
3 caught in such a manner that tn,
: baby was hanged, dying from stran
n gulation.
|; Because the secretary-treasurer O
: the local ladies' auxiliary of the Por
!, Huron B. r. T. forgot to file her an
: nual report with the state insurance
a commissioner. the organization wa
!. liable to action on the part of tn,
= state body. The report was filed re
Gently, nearly six months late.