Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-02
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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the county house. committed suicide.
Eugene Clark, of Standish. lost his
left hand as the result of premature
explosion of his gun. Mrs. Clark is not
| expected TO live from the shock.
Mrs. Eva Marsh, OF Three Oaks,
committed suicide at Frankfort. Ind,
| by drinking chloroform. She had been
| deserted by her husband.
The Pere Marquette depot in Mears
was robbed Wednesday night. The
| safe was blown TO pieces and the rob-
bers got about 5000
Mr. Harvey Bailey, aged 20 years.
! prominent farmer living near Hills
dale, was found dead in his cornfold
| Thursday. ApopleXy was the cause.
An epidemic of diphtheria has caus-
| ed four deaths and there are numerous
cases in the ST. Mary's lake commu-
| nifty, eight miles east of Pentwater.
| Menominee does not want a repeti-
| ton of her recent storm experience
and will try to secure a government
! breakwater to protect docks and ship
| ping.
Clara, 4-year-old daughter of Edward
| Schulransky, was burned to death in
her parents home in Osineke. The
childs dress caught from spark from
| the stove.
Gov. Warner has issued requsition
for Lucius Sink, of Port Huron, who
is charged with having abandoned his
wife and children. Sink is under ar
rest in Toledo.
Flora ", the gasoline fishing boat
missing from South Haven for SO
hours, reported at st. Joe, having
broken down and then making port
| under a small sail.
Lansing artillerymen of the First
battery, NJ. n. G., will establish a
school for the study of military sub
| jects and the scientific handling Of
the long range guns.
VIM. Blackford, of Yale, the other
day read an item that application had
been made to send him TO the East
ern Michigan asylum, and he has
been missing ever since.
Adjt Gen McGurrin wishes to OBJ
tain the records of the Michigan sol
J diers and sailors who served in regi-
ments of other states in the Cuban
war and in the Philippines
Unable TO find food or work, Mrs.
! Anna Hanes, who says she lived at
! Boyne Falls up to the death of her
husband, dropped in a faint on the
street in Grand Rapids and was cared
for at the Jail.
An attempt was made TO burglarize
the postoffice at Alma Tuesday night.
The burglars had started to bore holes
around the lock In the rear door when
they were frightened away, leaving
their tools.
Peddlers, or transient merchants, 90
not have to take out state license
under the law of 1905, according TO
Atty.-Gen. Bird, who holds that the
1902 law was repealed and that only
a local license is now necessary.
Miss Bertha Boyles, only daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Boyles, of Char
lotte, goes to Butte, Mont, to be mar
ried to Fred A. Clark a Lansing man
who went west two years ago to look
after mining interests.
! Prisoners had planned a jail deliv-
cry at the 500, but Sheriff Upset
discovered the hole they had made
part way through the wall. Several
knives and saw were found. VIM.
Kirby is on bread and water diet.
Work has been begun on the cement
work of bridges, power house and
culverts of the Grand Rapids & Kali
amazoo valley electric line. The grad
ing between Kalamazoo and Plainwell
will be completed within a month
Justice c. B. Grant, of the supreme
court. celebrated his SEVENTEEN birth
day Wednesday night by giving din
ner TO the members of the supreme
court and few friends. Judge Grant
is still a vigorous man despite his adj
vanced years.
Miss Eliza Denham, of Flint. an &C.
complished young lady, went 20
Ouray. Col, for her health. She and
Miss Jeanette Lang went prospecting
"just for fun" and now report that
they have located a claim that prom
ises both gold and silver.
The 4-year-old son of. Ed. Evison,
two miles from Wallin, strayed from
home Sunday afternoon and not re-
turning at night, the whole neighbor-
hood and every one from Wallin form
ed searching party. The lad was
found Tuesday in the depths Of a
dense swamp, dirty and hungry, but
otherwise all right.
While playing at the M. c. stock
yards in Lapeer, Jake Slattery, s years
old, went to the rescue of hog that
a dog was biting. The hog was re-
leased, but turned upon Slattery, and
lacerated his arm and hand seriously.
His condition this morning is alarm
ing. Blood poisoning is feared, and the
arm may have to be amputated.
Mrs Branch, Of Muskegon, married
but a short time, showed her inexperi-
ence with marital life when she poured
gasoline in wash boiler on a heated
stove. The explosion which followed
enveloped her in flames, but she ran
to the yard, wrapped and rolled in a
rug, and escaped with severe burns
The house was nearly destroyed.
Putting strychnine in his beer VIM.
, Wells raised his glass to several men
in a Muskegon saloon, and said. We'll
goodbye, boys" Then he drank the
: liquor to the dregs. The bystanders
seeing the label poison" on the bot.
tie he dropped rushed him to the
hospital in a dying condition. He was