Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-08-13
STATE NEWS IN DuIEF.

Jealousy committed the deco.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Dr. \. w. Adams has been ap'
pointed postmaster of Sau!t Ste. Mars
10 succeed Mrs. NJ. c. PIN. resigned.
The latter had held the office IS years.
The losco County Agricultural assc.
citation has appropriated 5000 for ~
exhibit of the county's product at tn
state fair.
Much sympathy is felt for Miss Jen.
ME Mitchell. a popular school teachers
! who is dying of cancer at the BrancI
county house.
A loaded cigar in the hands OF a
fool friend nearly deprived Lee Embo-
den, a popular young man or 81. DO
seph, of his eyesight
Governor Bliss denies any ambition
to succeed julius c. Burrows as Unit
ed States senator. He claims his only
| desire now is 10 leave behind him
record as governor satisfactory to the
| people.
The Holt Lumber Co. OF Oconto.
| Wis. is operating a summer logging
| camp In Ontonagon county. About
seventy-five men are employed ana
twelve carloads of logs are being
shipped daily.
Charles Conroy. n lineman working
| for the Michigan Telephone Co. fell
from pole in Fenton, Saturday, a
distance of 81 feet aad broke both
arms below the elbow. bis homo is
! in Port Huron.
| Harry Bell. Of Muskegon, son OF III.
! +. Bell. of the Alaska Refrigerator
/ Co., who was appointed as candidate
/ for West Point. passed the eXamina-
tons and has left TO join the summer
| camp on the Hudson
| Samuel Charles. Of Battle Creek,
| went hunting Sunday and has not re-
! turned He is only II and is unaccus-
! toned to being away from home, SO 1t
| is surmS;ed that he has accidentally
| killed himself in the woods.
Melvin Bishop. who was released
| from Jackson recently after serving a
five-year term, is locked up OH the
charge that he stole horse and bug
| gy from Charles Ostrom. of Tostoria
| Ii Is said that he has confessed.
Some prominent citizens here are
moving to secure a pardon tor Albert
| C. Cummins, former register OF deeds
If Hillsdale county, now serving
| fve-year sentence at Jackson for OBJ
| tanning money under false pretenses.
Albert Burdick. OF Undertook town
ship, went after the county snake
killing record a few days ago. He
started TO pick berries at Gilead. but
the snakes got os1 ffisf far,qpd, YeedRl, .l h.
| Five Italians were drowned Sunday
at Vulcan, two miles from Norway
| The accident was caused by the cap
sizing of the boat containing the men
| 100 yards from shore. All were single
men except one, who had a wife in
Italy
The body of Mrs. Gilbert Taylor, OF
Sarnia. who was drowned last week
while trying TO save little Isabel
Thompson from drowning. was found
floating in the river at Port Huron
Tuesday. The little girls body was
found Monday.
J. :. Stevens, II years old. cashier
Of the Swift Beer Co.'S local branch
in lshpeming has confessed to en-
bezzling 50 600. stealing regularly each
week by changing bills he collected
from local meat firms to their account
III the beef company.
On Daniel Hadaway's farm in Cas-
co. an experiment in embarrassing is
being tried. Mr.. Hadaway found, while
blowing, tifty-six snakes eggs of the
blue racer variety. He placed them in
sand on sunny hillside. covered them
and awaits developments.
A colony of hoboes estimated at
/ 500 have infested the lake shore. in
st. Joseph county, from Watervliet on
the north to New Buffalo on the south,
for the past three months. They live
in camps and enjoy life of their own
ideal.
Deer are said to be quite numerous
In the upper peninsula this year. Re
Gently two fine specimens of the fam
lily came TO farm near Sidnaw,
grazed for some time, and although
they were seen by number of per-
sons, no one got IA gun and they went
away unframed.
Governor Bliss has appointed
Charles l.. Benjamin. of Saginaw.
sthte oil Inspector. dating his commits
sion August 8. 1903. The governor
said that there would he practically
no changes among the deputies as only
one. and that contemplated by the late |
Inspector William Judson, would be |
made.
The fercest southwest gale of the |
season swept over Berrien county |
early yesterday morning. 1t is feared |
that the loss to fruit growers will |
reach thousands of dollars. Uncon-
firmed reports from various inland |
fruit points say that thousands of |
bushels of pears, peaches, plums and /
apples were shaken from trees.