Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-05-19
NEWS OF MICHIGAN.


the site OF the burned building.
At special election the voters OF
Battle Greek decided to bond the city
| for $4,000 for the erection OF city
hall. The election followed Mayor
Bailey's refusal to sign warrant
drawing on the city's general fund for
$4,000 as first payment
A coroner's jury in Benton Harbor
exonerated Charles Payne, the negro
who shot and killed Charles Jackson,
| another negro, while protecting his
aged mother from an attack OF Jack
| son. The jury deliberated only few
minutes and Payne was released.
Judge Hastings has refused di-
vorce to a Menominee woman who
| charged that her husband was cruel
and inhuman because he swore at
her. The judge quoted authorities to
| show that some men who love their
wives devotediy-, sometimes swear at
| them.
In the arrest of Frank Robinson, 40,
after an exciting chase, the police OF
| Bay City believe they have captured
the yeggman who looted the East
Lansing postofice of $4,000 last week
4 INOOihoOh ndS caught III bhC ottShPs
to rob the money drawer in meat
| market.
Fire destroyed the barn of Mrs.
Elizabeth Palmer, at Hillsdale. A
Columbian Golden Temple" carved
with a penknife by Andrew Keefer
after many years labor, was totally
destroyed The temple was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $1,000. 1t was
exhibited at fairs.
A new counterfeit silver dollar has
been found in circulation in the towns
of the Michigan copper country and
it Is believed to be the product or
| local counterfeiters. The coin is al
most perfect, being but 20 grains
lighter than the genuine coin and pos
sessing very clear ring.
MayorABLgleson, OF McBain, the
smallesmYty In the state, is waging
war INST Sunday business of any
and all kinds and he has succeeded in
getting everything closed up except
one ice cream stand, and he declares
that must go too. His board of alder
men is with him to a man.
Harcourt Drake, an Ann Arbor high
school lad, invented an ingenious
scheme for seeing the comet without
getting out of bed. He has arranged
a mirror so that it reflects the part
Of the sky where the comet appears
and placed it near his bed and set
the alarm clock for 225 a. m.
After several days consideration
Battle Creek Grand Army veterans
have decided to refuse $3.50 provided
for their use by the common council
and Mayor Bailey for Memorial day
purposes, explaining this refusal by
pointing to the councils provision
that a committee of aldermen super
wise the expenditure.
Attn bring respondent severa
weeks because of the loss of COW
and several hogs, his wife says, jacob
Emmers, so, well-to-do farmer and no
tel owner of Shaftsburg, left home
and has not been seen since. Mrs
Emmers says her husband took two
revolvers with him, and she fears tina
he has ended his life.
In the annual Peninsular Oratorica
league contest, five high schools o
; the state being represented, first place
, was awarded to Lyman s. Hubert, O
Ann Arbor, who spoke on Men Wht
, | DdIe, ana StCOllu DldSC was 6lNCh "
Winfred Cook, OF Saginaw east Side
high school, his subject being "Th'
, Charge at High Bridge
The Grand Rapids Brush Co. ha!
, made a unique demand on the city
1t asks that the money paid to The
girl employees of the firm, while the!
+ were sick from the effects of vaccin
alton, ordered by the city authorities
! during a recent smallpox scare, b,
returned to the company. The coun
Gil refuses to consider the claim.
While Melvin Follick, an invalid o
+ many years, was seated in chair a
: his home in Elm Hail. and his wifi
was cleaning a stone well, out of hear
ing distance, a fire which broke on
in the house nearly reached the help
less man before neighbors arrived an
!. rescued him. A bucket brigade ex
tinguishing the blaze after $4,000 dam
age had been done.
! The state fair board is planning OF
. putting 100000 into new building
: this year Besides this the purses
q premium lists and outdoor free al
/. fractions will amount to over 500
). 900 more Later contracts for amuse
Q ments will probably bring the tota
: up to $250,000 to be expended thi
/. year for the people of the state O
. Michigan. This looks like bette
fair than ever before.
r East Lansing will have new pos
: office building, the college official
n having rendered to the United State
S government the use of the buildin
e known as the Bull Pen" fine builc
/, ing situated directly across from tn
Y new weather bureau building. Tn
a government will Immediately con
r mence remodeling the structure. o
l. account of the secluded location q
the old office, robberies have been FRI
quent.
Atty. Gen. Bird has been asked T
# mandamus the Michigan Central Raj
e way Co. to compel il to interchang
e freight cars with the Detroit Unite
t, railway at Oxford The order was j:
e sued some time ago, the Michiga
e Central laid a number of tracks, an
e the ID. u. r. purchased locomotiv
S to haul its consignments to Flint an
a TO points along the line. Nothing ha
| IL, hn a