Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-15
IN THE STATE.

away ACCIDENT White uIlNln6 Win
party OF friends.
A circuit court jury has adjudged
insane Archibald Filion, the lS-year-
old Laingsburg boy who assaulted the
4.year-old daughter Of William Siegei'
Joseph Popa, of Cedar, was thrown
20 feet TO the ground by the breaking
of scaffolding. He struck on his mead
and received fatal internal injuries.
The coroner's jury returned an open
verdict In the case OF Mrs. Dora Gill.
| the woman who died under chloro-
form In a dentists chair at School
craft.
The entire country from Green Bay
to the copper country is flooded Win
| counterfeit money. The spurious COINS
are silver dollars, halves and quarters
and are clever limitations.
The first fire in Lawrence in five
| years occurred last week, when an
old landmark, known as the Good
enough house, burned. 1t had been
standing for over 60 years.
Judge Alfred Wolcott, who sent
enced Thomas f. McGarry TO lonia
| prison for four years for bribing Liant
X. Salisbury, says he would not OPP
pose granting n pardon to McGarry.
Dolly Roe, of Standish, is winning
fame with the hook and line, having
recently caught pike that weighed .
pounds. She also caught the largest
black bass hooked this season in In
dian lake.
Mrs. John Frazer, of Jackson, lost
a finger which was torn off of her
! rio FRIGHT
ened at an automobile which did not
stop and she was thrown out against
the carriage.
Muskegen is to have new indus
try never before attempted anywhere
else saw mill will be built to take
care of the driftwood along the shore
and a launch will patrol the section
to pick up the wood.
After a career of daring deeds and
lastly an assault upon an officer
whom he killed. Fred Caster, who es-
capped from Jackson prison, June %,
1904, with Fred Van MAUI, was re-
captured at Columbus, 0.
The 1S-months'-old son of Fred Otis,
living near Hastings. got out of bed,
while his sister, with whom he slept,
! was absent from the room. and pulled
a lamp over on himself. He was so
badly burned that he died within five
hours.
Parties in Battle Creek are engaged
in novel but profitable industry Il;
is the shipping of water cress to Chi
cago, Detroit. Cincinnati. Toledo and
Buffalo. Battle Creek promises to be
as noted for cress as Kalamazoo is
for celery.
r. Willard. aged G3, ex-city clerk
OF Flint and justice of the peace, was
sentenced Monday by Judge Wisner TO
serve not less than three nor more
than ten years in the Jackson prison,
for statutory crime against 14-year-
old Flossie Fosdick.
More strawberries are being ship
ped daily from Lawrence than before
in years in spite of the late frosts
which injured the, earliest yield. Rasp-
berries will overlap strawberries and
indications point to a mammoth crop.
The same is true of all other kinds OF
fruit.
The Dudley Cold Storage and
Creamery Co. Of Owosso, has put two
steam traction roadsters on its route
to replace the two teams to haul milk
and cream from Elsie, a distance of
IL miles. If the experiment proves sue
cessful all teams will be placed with
the machines.
The Holmes automobile law is caus-
ing the state department 10 tear its
hair in desperation over hundreds of
letters being received from particular
persons who want special numbers
for their machines. The law goes into
effect June Is. Many requests have
been made for No. l.
All is quiet in the street car situa
ton in Saginaw, the only development
being a move by the company to again
put the regular running schedule in
effect A full quota of cars is giving
service. and while there is little rid
ing, more fares are being recorded
than during the past week.
Theron II. Healy of Grand Rapids,
a member of the Nature club, has dis.
covered five plants of the white lady
slipper, in Rattlesnake marsh. The
find is rare, as this species of orchid
is almost extinct, not even the bo
tanical gardens at the Agricultural
college possessing a specimen.
farmer boy out in Pennfield
| Caught strange dllllldl III TRAP
which he had set for woodchuck, and
captured two young ones that were
waiting around for the release of the
mother. The animal proved to be q
badger Old hunters say II is the first
one captured in 20 years 1t was never
common in Michigan.
In an address in Kalamazoo on hi,
favorite type Of woman, Sukichi Nagai
a Japanese student. said there is too
much education about an American
young woman, and he would not wan
to marry one. He said his people di;
not like large women with auburn
hair, but preferred the dark, petit,
type, with dark bright eyes. He saiC
they do not like girls to read anC
talk always.
On account Of the Chicago strike
express companies refuse to handl,
consignments of strawberries tina
have TO be transferred in Chicago, ant
as there is no boat line TO Wisconsin
ports. Milwaukee and the northwes
are shut off as a strawberry market
Notwithstanding this fact berries ar,
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