Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-07
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

work on the Bay City a. Port Huron
railroad soon will be started.
The death list in Port Huron city
for 1907 was 301, this being an In
crease OF 2S over the previous year.
Muskegon county has received $780,.
1925 OF the longawaited primary
school money from the state treasury
Several Battle Creek and Kalama-
zoo people have become interested in
a fruit grove in Jackson county, Texas.
Henry Rose, a Kalamazoo negro. In
drunken rage. cut the throat OF Mrs
Della Let's from ear TO ear, severins
the windpipe.
Walter p. Kezar, a farmer living
near Stephenson, caught a wolf in a
trap near his ginseng garden that
weighed nearly 200 pounds.
Local option will be submitted to
the voters of Ionia county next April.
Many more than the required number
of voters have signed the petition.
Land Commissioner Huntley Russell
announces that there will be no set
Elements under his administration for
trespassing and that offenders will be
jailed.
Eleanor Carso, aged C, of Ypsilanti,
died Monday of tuberculosis of the
brain Physicians say that this is one
of the rarest maladies known TO n d.
ical science.
Seven former mayors of Adria- bore
| the casket of Willard Stearns = the
grave Wednesday afternoon. The err
vices were held under the auspices OF
the Knights of Pythias.
Mrs. Charles Swener. of Marquette,
mother of ten children, was accident
ally shot in the heal by her 4-year'
old son James, who was playing with
small rife. She is dead.
According TO Game Warden c. ID.
Leach, of Paw Paw, several kalama
zoo county farmers stand in Imminent
danger of arrest for violation OF the
law against bass fishing through the
! ice.
Dice games in every form must stop
in Charlotte. That's the latest order
| from City Marshal Babcock. Every
gambling device, such as slot ma.
chimes, tabooed by the law, will be
! confiscated.
The Grand Rapids Retail Grocers
association lost it's first case against
alleged violators of the Sunday clos
! ing law when George Bashara, an AS.
| syrian candy merchant, was acquitted
in police court
BY the delicate operation of wiring
| the bones, physicians believe they will
be able to save both legs of Henry
! Johnson, the Michigan Central brake
/ hx- W.
! log cars at Bay City.
| Casimir Marecki, recently sent &c
Marquette to serve 20-year term Tor
shooting his wife, is dead as the re
suit of drinking disinfectant two weeks
ago while in jail at Bay City, after he
had tried to hang himself
Frank Willard, brother-in-law of Gov.
! Warner, on February l will become
chief clerk of the state railway com
mission. Samuel Kelley, of Benton
Harbor. assumes the secretaryship OF
the commission on January ].
Mrs. Edward Slaughter, colored
who was detained in Saginaw pending
the investigation of her husband S
sudden death last week, has been re
| leased. Slaughters death is believed
|
The state starts the New Year with
practically empty treasury. The last
allowances for the board of state au-
ditors cleaned out what was left OF
the money after 100000 had been
paid for current expenses, Thursday
Stanley Smith, a miner at Norton
e. Co.'S Chatham shaft No. 2 at STAN
baugh. was beheaded by the explos
ion of % 50-pound boxes OF dynamite
Monday. Three others were serious
" injured. The cause of the explosion
is mystery.
A thousand st. Joseph people Sun
! day witnessed Rev. August F. Schmitz
immense for baptism in an ice hole ten
converts to the Church of God. There
were men, women and children among
the baptized, the last to go in being a
Russian woman ~ years old
Just after mailing her last wedding
invitation, Miss Grace Preston, daugh
ter of Capt. A. +. Preston, of Battle
Creek, received a message announcing
the death of her fiance. William +
Kirkmaler, in Kansas City The couple
were to have been married in Chicago
January 2.
Mrs. Fred. Thomas, whose usbanC
owns third interest in a Grand Rap
ids saloon. did the Carrie Nation act
and broke up" his saloon by hurting
cuspidors and other articles at the bar
She said be bad taken $500 she had
saved. The police allowed her to &c
on hearing her story.
Immediately after being sworn into
office Friday, Superintendent of Pub
lie instruction l.. l.. Wright an.
nounced that he would make a deter.
mined effort to secure the passage OF
law by the legislature providing for
the township unity school system He
declares that this is the only real
school problem in Michigan at the
present time.
State Senator Walter r. Taylor. OF
Kalamazoo, is being urged 10 intro
duce at the next session of the legis
lature bill which will provide for the
manufacture of school books by prison
labor. He has also been asked TO in
troduce bills TO abolish private banks
to provide for military institutions IN
public schools, to prevent the sale o.
cigarettes and to restrict the sale Of
liquor by drug stores.
Bert, the 13-year-old son of Main
Dewesse, OF Howard City, was sho
and instantly killed while he and his