Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-08-31

WoouruH place after an illness OF TWO
weeks.
Burglars entered the Fife Lake post
Office in connection with the store oi
DIR. Lewis Walter postmaster ana
merchant. and secured but Sl2 ID
stamps.
Because the school teachers o;
Adrian are resigning, the board has
been having a strenuous time getting
a full number to start the next semes-
ter with.
Nelson Hobart, Of Galien, Is sung
Louisa Hobart for divorce. Both are
octogenarians. He alleges she con-
stantly insults him in the presence
of friends.
Eight prisoners in the Kalamazoo
jail have been placed in the dark hoic
for throwing tureen of soup at the
turnkey. They complained of the quail
ity of the food.
William II. Elson, superintendent OF
schools, declares Grand Rapids Is a
race-suicide city. For the past three
years the school census shows a gain
of but one child.
hour, ran into a wagon in the 500
Wednesday afternoon and Joseph La
londe had both legs crushed SO that
he may lose them.
Niles was visited by a severe cleo
trical storm Tuesday and the resi-
dence of James Passo was struck By
lightning and all of the members OF
the family were shocked.
NJ. f. Fuller, a printer, of Traverse
City, carried a peanut in his ear for
some months and didn't know it until
his ear panied so badly he went TO "a
doctor and had II removed.
Simon II LAWYER, a pioneer resi-.
dent, aged 60, of Battle Creek, fell
dead while walking in his own yard
He had been in good health. LAWYER
had lived in one house so years.
The first fair to be held IN Michigan
this year will be the fifty-sixth annual
fair and race meet of the Calhoun
County Agricultural society, at Mar
shall, from September 5 TO s, in
elusive.
The Grand Rapids police authori
ties are puzzled to know what TO dc
with two little girls, Stella Dutkil
wicz and Helen Dendlengalenskam
who are accused of series Of small.
robberies.
While assisting in the unloading OF
the package freighter Russia, john
Alloway, foreman of the Grand TRUNK
freight sheds at Port Huron, fell from
the gangway and was carried away by
the swift current.
Frank Jerry Koepeck, who came re
Gently from Detroit, shot himself Fri
day evening on the Monroe docks.
He was out of work and respondent.
The bullet entered below the CHR and
lodged in the brain.
Mrs. John Baron, of Lapeer, who
was badly burned by the explosion Of
a gasoline stove on Saturday, is dead.
The Kalamazoo police are looking
for q young man who is accused OF
hugging two elderly ladies against
their will
While no one was watching, a fran
chise was granted along the Midland
stone road from the west Bay City
limits 10 the western county line 10
unknown promoters of projected
electric line Even the official records
were kept secret.
The closing of the convention of the
Sailors association of Livingston
county marked a large attendance,
and Howell was again selected for the
next meeting. The following officers
were elected: William Horton, Fow.
lerville, president; A. w. Messenger
Iosco. vice-president; G. l.. Fischer
Fowlerville, secretary and treasurer.
Because William Burns, of Morrill,
a fireman on the Pere Marquette, be.
came so excited on the morning OF
his wedding day as TO forget the H.
cense when he went to claim his bride
Miss Lizzie King, who was waiting al
the Hazelton Catholic church, the
ceremony was postponed by the priest
until evening. he having driven to
Corunna and secured the necessary
document,
Charles Canepi eight years old, o.
Yonkers. n. Y, has been In All I'm
broken trance-like sleep for more thar
four months, and 1t is probable a con
sutation OF specialists in nervous
diseases will be called TO investigate
the case. April last, while whirlins
around lamp, he became dizzy, fel
TO the ground and struck on the back
OF his head. Two days later he lapseC
into Inconsciousness.
Chairman Shonts, of the Isthmiar
canal commission, dined with Pre5i
dent Roosevelt Sunday, and announced
| the appointment of w. G.. Bierd, OF the
Rock Island railroad, as superinteEd
ent of the Panama railroad. to succeed
Supt. Prescott. The salary is $4,000
/ a year
Albert Kobler, Pere Marquette
railway employee, was found drowned
at Elk Rapids, Friday. He was IL
| years of age.
An attempt was made to wreck Z
/ train on the Northwestern railroad
at Birch Creek by placing a farmer $
wagon across the tracks. The engi:,C
! pilot was wrecked and the Wagon
/ smashed. No one was hurt.
AT the close of the annual conven
ton of the Michigan Federation oi
/ Colored Women. held I'm Grand Rap