Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-09-03


Thomas Cilmorr. h retired farmer
living i'm Traverse City. committed
suicide Sunday Nv shooting himself
lie was 40 years old,and his mind had
beelf unbalanced.
Because he paintel his horses and
COWS 10 discourage flies. Thomas
! Mooney. n well-knovn farmer OF Che
boygan. has been sent TO the Traverse
city Insane asylum
~ flower pot ard little grass
would prevent many divorce, says
lansing divine. evidently meaning
that more grass wives would make
Fewer grass widows
Frederick. the l5-year-old son of
Sylvester Walker OF Tompkins, is
dead from the kick OF horse. He
had lain unconscious since Saturday,
the time OF the injury.
The official records show that last
week there fell IN various parts of
Michigan from IA to IL inches OF
rain. This is about One-tenth of the
normal supply fora year
\ man by the name of Kinlon was
held ND I'm Coldwater early Saturday
morning AZ the point Of a revolver by
some unknown ana relieved Of ~ N
money and gold watch.
The Ontonagon Lumber & Cedar Go.
has awarded 10 James Norton. az
! Even. a contract to put in It's seasons
cut OF 100000 feet OF pine, TO be
banked on the Baltimore river. s-
TO scare the servant girl, 14-yca.-
old Albion boy pretended to hang
himself. The Moose slipped and had
not the mother promptly arrived Oh
the scene. il wouldn't have been 4
joke.
Mai. y. s. Boynton, of Port Huron.
lost his pocketbook at Duluth. II
was returned 10y lady who refused
a reward, hut designated a charity
TO which she. said the major could
donate.
The boy who told the police Satur-
DAY that ne was an orphan and that
he was turned cut into the streets OF
| Grand Rapids ty the man with whom
he had lived S James Johnson, Of
| Lowell.
\ The coroner's inquest on the death
I of Otis Mosher ended In verdict ex-
onerating from blame Deputy Sheriff
| Annis. of BATH Greek. who shot Mosh-
or when the later tried TO escape from
custody.
Tuesday evening. while the crowd
was returning from Sparks animal
show IN Hillsiale, Ambrose Tyler, an
old resident o. this city. was struck by
dray horses nd run over. lie died
about an hou later. ~
About 30 Jackson sal0onkeepers
!. charged. mos of them. with violations
of the liquorlaw in doing business on
July 4. wcr arraigned in the police
court and hdd TO the circuit court
Each gave o $500 bond.
The heari before Gov. Bliss in the
matter OF tie cxtradition of Charles
Thomas. th colored man wanted in
Georgia FOR the murder of a white
man. has hen postponed by the gov
ernor untiSeptember 3.
Msr.d.Agaret Johnson. OF Bay City.
60 years ldJand an Invalid, swallowed
carbide acid yesterday afternoon.
through mistake i'm getting hold of
what he thought was medicine bot
tie. Sic died i'm 20 minutes.
Conracts for cleaning the snags
from Iaple river from the bay near
lthac. To Maple Rapids. about eight
miles. has been let for $4,000. II il
purel, Il local work, the federal gov
ernmnt not paying any of the eX-
pense
Til, Seventh-Day Adventlsts OF
Iiorthrn Michigan arc preparing for a
camp meeting at Mancelona. Sixty
tentsare on the grounds. and there are
more TO follow. \ large attendance is
expected and prominent speakers will
he present..
Attorney T.. l.. Turner. who was ar
rested at Detroit one month ago ana
has ben in the county jail In Cadillac
since. gave $500 bail to appear for ex-
ANNA ion on the charge of embeZZle-
mem December l. Turner was a law
yer at Sherman.
Fred Cassidy. who was burned 10
death in Newberry Friday while try
ing To rescue his child from his burn
ing hmse. lived on n farm near Reed
city III recently. He had lost mn arm
in an accident when boy. He was
highly esteemed.
nNutI VI J'N'hss 'uaN'! HhH
! small notions. who is supposed TO be
Frank Lehman. of Toledo. was found
dead h his old wagon on the road
three niles west OF Mason. His outfit
was not disturbed and heart disease
was lrohably the cause.
Two "-year-old daughter OF Daniel
! McPcak. OF West Ray City. while at
the home Of her uncle. Frank Peters.
Yesterday. was attacked by the Peters
family bun dog. The child's face was
terribly laceratcd Ivy the brute. but
she will recover. though disfigurcd for
life.
Engineer Elmer Smith. who was In
Iured I'm the derailing of the special
Pere Marquette train near Lowell
Tuesday and died in a hospital in
Grand Rapids, was trapped in his cab,
where escaping steam poured over him
for two hours before he was rescued.
While riding on a hay rack Saturday
nj Otter Lake. George Bcrridge drove
over stick Of dynamite in the rear
! OF George y. Porter's store. The dy-
Mantle exploded. the horses were
knocked down. Berrldge was blown
from the wagon and the vehicle was
wrecked. II is supposed that the ex-
! plosive was dropped by the burglars