Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-09-21
STATE BRIEFS.

county. 1t comprises 1920 square
miles and is bigger than Rhode Island.
The contract for the big Maple riv-
er drain, 9S miles long, seven miles
IN Clinton county, and n in Shia-
wassee county, has been let for
100000.
Geo. Kerry's planning mill in Boyne
City was destroyed by fire Wednes-
day morning. Loss, $4,000; no insur-
ance The origin of the fire is I'M
known.
After two trials B. l.. Marsh, Of
Vernon, will pay VIM. II. Putnam, of
Durand, $45 and court costs for dam
age Putnam's horse did when fright
ened by Marshs automobile.
Though impaled on a broken pitch
fork handle which penetrated his
bowels eight inches, George Eccles, OF
Alpena, who fell from a hayloft, will
probably recover.
Although Miss Hattie Dodgem of
Lansing lived to the age of rs years,
she died too soon to realize her wish
TO be married long enough to have
Mrs" placed on her tombstone.
Three joints were removed from the
spine of Mrs. b. Williams at Grace
hospital, Detroit, TO relieve the effects
of fall from a street car two years
ago. She will be crippled for life.
Thos. Daily. aged 40, was fatally in
jured by D., T. & |. train at Bliss
field. He had been drinking and lay
down on the track to sleep and the
engineer didn't see him until too late.
The wreck on the Pere Marquette
/ .lx..tl -. tiki
due to a mistake in signals. sent u
freight cars into the ditch. Brakeman
George Furse, of Detroit, was seriously
! injured.
Lieut.. Ross Parker, of Coldwater,
! treasurer Of Co. A, NJ. n. c., found
Tuesday night that a thief had taken
from his house 1894 of company
money that had just been paid to him.
! No clue.
Albert Jones, injured in the Jen-
nings mill explosion at Pinconning
Saturday, when five were killed. is not
| expected TO recover. One shoulder and
three ribs were broken and he is bad
ly cut and bruised
Secretary Shumway, of the state
board of health. urges great vigilance
on the part of local health officers
TO prevent dn outbreak of smallpox
this fall, as the disease is harder TO
stamp out in winter.
BY a vote of 400 TO 102 at a special
election. Monroe has decided to reject
the offer of the General Construction
Co. of Detroit for $4,000, for the
municipal lighting plant and a 10-year
contract and franchise.
Urp, II;,1orI;o+ou
was buried in a ditch while laying a
sewer The earth was removed in
few minutes, but the man could not
| be revived. His collar bone was brok.
en- by the weight of the earth.
Gaining entrance to the hotel by
! means Of the fire escape, clever
! sneak thief worked the Russell house,
Detroit. Sunday night. Two handsome
gold watches and $40 constituted the
loot secured from three rooms.
Robert f. Robinson, president of the
! village OF Mackinaw City, and for %
! years an extensive fish shipper, was
accidentally killed while cleaning o
shotgun in his office, the charge strik
ing him in the neck. He was dead
when found.
A telegram says that Nelson Olson.
supposed to be Port Huron resident.
was found dying along the railroad
tracks in one of the suburbs near Buff.
| falo. 1t is thought that he met with
foul play, as a deep cash was cut in
| the back Of his head
While raking In field where dyna.
mite had been used in blasting
! stumps, Tony, son of Daniel McKin
ley, OF Traverse City, had his face
and hands badly lacerated by the ex
plosion of cartridge, part of which
imbedded itself in his skull.
When preparing to go hunting, q
son OF Jas Sutherland in Marley
township dropped his gun and both
barrels were discharged, the contents
striking the youth and his young sis
ter in the ankles. The doctors ampu-
tated the girls right foot and the boy
may also lose foot.
The Owosso Sugar Beet Co. has In.
vaded Ionia territory on a huge scale,
having contracted with the Kelsey es-
tate for the use of 17e acres on the
fats, bordering the town. VIM. Steele,
Del Place and others will also contract
for the use of land and Ionia will be
veritable sugar beet patch next
year
Joseph Sweeney of Bay City was
perhaps fatally injured at the Great
Lakes Shipbuilding Co.'S works or
Monday afternoon. He was carrying
rivets and did not notice the approach
of the big travelling crane. One of the
wheels caught his left leg and ground
It to a pulp from the ankle to the
knee.
Dean Opie, the pretty and accom-
plished 1S-year-old daughter of Harry
Opie, of Port Huron, has run away
from home for a theatrical career
This she announced in the following
note to her mother: MA, don't be
alarmed have gone to join the
| atrical troupe"
II is officially stated that the Cincin
natl. Hamilton & Dayton and Per,
( Marquette railroads have been dis
posed of, the purchaser not being an
a.