Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-03-04
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

NJ, refuses TO mention the names OF
any candidates for the presidency OF
the college.
James Mcclure, 90, lumber jack,
was crushed by rolling logs, near Penn
bine. He died twenty minutes after
the accident.
Seven Traverse City saloonkeepers
have now appeared in court as the re-
suit OF the activity OF the Law and
Order league.
Emma Carpenter, the Port Austin
girl who mysteriously disappeared
from her home some weeks ago, has
been located in Detroit.
Cliord Goodhall, II, of Pentoga,
died while under the influence Of gas
in the Office OF a dentist. Weak heart
action is assigned as the GAUGE OF
death.
Mancelona is excited over the dis
covery of an apparently deep oil well
where farmers had been digging.
There is talk of forming $4,000
company.
The Traverse City basket factory
will start March 10, giving employ
ment to 800 men. Because Of rush
of orders, the factory will have TO run
10 months this year
Charles Emlong. Lake township
farmer, was killed by Pere Mar
quette passenger train near Stevens
vile. His wife and daughter found the
body beside the track
Alleging local option as the cause.
the Capital Brewing Co. has filed no
fDn ~ nl..fik n hn
of state. The company had planned 10
build in Lansing in the spring.
Dick Comstock, a 17-year-old jack
son boy, has been sentenced to pay
$40 fine or spend five days in jail for
contempt OF court. He refused to tell
where he obtained some liquor recent
ly.
Mrs. Anna Sanberg, of Port Huron,
whose husband disappeared seven
years ago, and who sued the Macca-
bees for his 1000 insurance, has been
gi-en a verdict Of S1,0G0.5S against the
order
A wet" and dry" war is being
waged at the Ann ArbOr university
About 40 students are preparing tn
stump the county in tho interests Of
local option, and hard struggle is
looked for.
Harold Beal Williams, aged q, a
nephew of Regent Beal, OF the L. or
NJ, has been removed TO his home in
Ann Arbor. suffering from an attacl,
of mental arrangement brought about
by overstudy
The mangled form of Irving McGerr
laborer from Oakley was found by
w. A. Taggart. station agent of the
Michigan Central road, on a south
bound passenger trains trucks a!
Owosso Monday night.
Because the new Saginaw and Flint
electric line has raised the fare from
Bridgeport to Saginaw one cent over
that charged by the old d., F. &
s. road. citizens threaten TO fight tho
new company in the courts.
Allen Jacklin, lad befriended by
Mrs. Edna Pollard, of Flint, after his
! parents, it is alleged, had left him and
moved TO Detroit. was in court Tues
! day, charged with stealing s160 from
/ his benefactres. He will be tried soon.
"Buckshot Dan" McPhail, the 104-
yearold Muskegon river hermit who
| had been unheard of all winter. came
/ out OF his hut on Muskegon river bot
tom with the incoming of March. all
| doubts as to his whereabouts thus be
! ing removed.
The board of supervisors of Oscoda
county has granted franchise TO the
Eastern Michigan Power Co. to build
dams on the Au Sable river in the
county. The franchise was more fav-
orable to the county than the one orig
/ inally asked.
The will of Miss Emily V. Mason,
sister of the first governor OF Mich
| gan. has been filed for probate in
! Baltimore. The will disposes of an
estate valued at $4,000, which is di-
vided among relatives and close
friends of Miss Mason.
Miss Jessie McIlwaine who left
Kalamazoo recently to accept a posi-
ton as stenographer in Seattle, Wash,
has written friends that she had
changed her mind after arriving there
and was married to Edward Cramer
a former Kalamazoo man.
Isabelle Moorehead, the pretty vau
dette singer charged with board bill
jumping at Petoskey, sought the sher-
! if in Cadillac and gave hersCf up
while the police were watching trains
and securing the city TO find he~, un'
der instructions from the local police
Little Tommy Doyle and his sister
Frances, of Grand Rapids, found what
they supposed was coal dust in a
leather flask in the basement OF their
home. They poured it into a stove
and it exploded, as it was sunpowder
Little Tommy was so badly injured he
will die
Isaac Bowerman, aged az, of Shelby
a. church member of long standing
was sentenced at Hart to so days in
the Oceana county jail for attacking
1O-year-old girl. The court tool
into consideration the fact that Bow
erman had lived lifetime without
committing a single offense and show
Cd him leniency.
Some of Ann Arbor's residents arc
stirred up over the stevens bill pro
hibiting fortune.telling and soothsay
ing. believing that possibly IL make.
The practicing OF astronomy a felony
Prof. Hussey, instructor in star-gaz
ing at the u. of M, says he has M
fear that the legislators have strucl
n blow at science.