Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-12-01

100 10 give out.
When a certain Escanaba attorney
went hunting recently he put a Sign on
his office door reading. Gone for
Deer" Some wag came along and made
the ID into Il.
The .;wartz Creek sensation Is over
1t seems that Fred Gundry. swho SO
mysteriouslv disappeared. did the
funny business himself and was not
abducted nj all.
Mrs. Jane Riley died ut her home
in Alpena township Tuesday night
aged LOG years. She was born in Eng
land and was the oldest person in this
part Of the state.
Included in the petitions for pardons
to he heard by the state board of par
donS In Detroit. December $. are five
murder cases. all of which We're com
mitted i'm that city.
Mrs. Mary Peterson, Muskegon
widow. dropped dead on the steps of
the city hall from emotion and excite
ment due to the fear that her son was
going to be arrested.
Cap" Streeter. the notorious discov-
erer OF the District Of Lake Mich
gan" just out OF Joliet prison. was Il
Thanksgiving guest of his 90-year-old
mother ut MOntrose
Joseph Krause aged %. Of Sagi-
nav. suffered II broken back frac-
falling slate in the Nerre mine. He
died in ST. Mary's hospital.
A ponderous beer wagon ran down
and crushed to death the 2-year-old
daughter of William Griesel. Of De-
trot The tragedy was witnessed by
the mother of the little one.
Henry Walcott, of Holland. charged
with numbering John Gravenwood, 10
years old, for trespassing on his farm,
will claim self-defense because the boy
attacked him with knife.
Two carloads of groceries have been
delivered at Otsego on orders taken in
the vicinity 10y foreign grocery con-
Germ. Over 81 400 has thus been sent
away that ought TO have been kept at
home
The other night mt Il public meeting
at Carson City n half dozen boys threw
pepper on the red-hOt stove. then made
Il haSty retreat. The crowd was nearly
sulfocated berore they could scramble
10 the open air.
Edmund Wilson. Battle Creek
bookkeepcr. has brought suit for $1,000
against the Jackson * Battle Creek
Traction Co. for a broken leg that he
received July in "A collision on their
road near Bear Creek.
Mrs John j. Roberts. of Battle
Greek is the first woman i'm Michigan
to he charged with driving an auto.
mobile too swiftly. She recently went
to Milwaukee and thence TO st. Louis
acting as her own chauffeur.
Burt Barrlnger. Of Coldwater. was
the victim of a corn husker. having his
left arm completely severed and his
left side badly m1ngled. Three weeks
ago Parringer's haf-brother lost his
left arIn by the same machine.
Several weeks ago CharlevoiX boy
came 10 his mother. complaining that
ne had stepped on IL bee and that it
had Stung him. Recently the foot be-
came so swollen and inflamed that it
was opened and piece of needle OK
tractcd.
The Finlanders who work i'm the
upper peninsula during the summer
and emigrate TO Finland to spend the
winter all remain here this year. The
fact that they may he required for
military service ut home keeps them
away.
During the past summer Harry l..
Cronins shipped from his frog farm
at Marshall 10 the city markets 10000
frog legs which did not fill near all
of his orders. Cronins is i'm the rabbit
industry now, and adycrtiseS for 10000
OF them.
The members of the state tax COM
mission discussed the making of the
next railroad assessment. which must
he completed by Jan. IL. Much will
depend. it is said upon the position
taken by commissioner Shields, the
new member
All hopes have been given up by the
friends OF +. +. Bennett. who is sery
ing term at Jackson in connection
with the death Of Miss Agnes Eber.
stein of Battle Creek. Of his getting n
pardon. or even Il parole during the
term of Gov. Bliss.
The coroncrs inquest into the death
Of John Bouts. of KalamO. resulted in
n verdict Of the jury that the man
came To his death last Sunday by re-
volver shot fired by George W. Tubbs
with malicious intent. The two elder
Tuhbses are also held.
An air blast In the Atlantic mine,
Calumet brought down hundreds of
tons of rock in abandoned workings on
the thirty-frst level. 1t resembled an
earthquake and alarmed residents of
the location. Fortunately no men were
employed in the vicinity OF the blast.
Hunters near Galesburg set fire to
brush heaps on both sides Of the How
landsburg mill one day last week for
the purpose of soaring UP rabbits. The
fire spread and burned over tract
covering about 200 acres Of wood ana
brush. The forest contained much val
liable timber. which was all destroyed,
besides the mill being threatened.
Ralph Rock. the young hunter who
disappeared Friday night. was found
by the searching party in a cornfeld
one mile from Hesperia, dead. He was
shot in the right side of the face. and