Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-05-11
BRIEF STATE NEWS


making the tenth cheese plant owned
! by him.
Safe crackers attempted to blow the
safe in the bank at Jasper, but were
| frightened away before the vault door
could be opened.
BY falling into an excavation, where
a house was being erected, Joseph
] oquette. woodsman, aged Us years,
OF Escanaba, was instantly killed
Fifty men have been laid off at the
! Fildew mine, Bessemer, the reason
| given being that ore in sight is not
sufficient to employ so large force.
Andrew Carnegie has presented
| Hope College, Holland, with 100000.
He asks the college TO add $4,000 in
addition to his sum TO the endowment
! fund.
Marcus Graft of Newport. a German
! farmer, shot himself twice in the right
side. his body being found in his barn.
His wife left him six weeks ago with
five small children.
Congressman Sam Smith has Sc
cured promise that nothing further
will be done toward the construction
of a public building az Flint until after
the next session Of congress.
Mrs. Anna Brady, widow of John
Brady, died in Bay City Saturday
morning at the ripe age of 80 years.
She was born in France, and the moth
CT Of II children, eight of whom sur
vive her
Port Huron high school is emulating
the University of Michigan in the mat
ter of hair-cutting and Albert Bryant,
senior and one Of the victims, has
engaged a lawyer TO prosecute the
shearers.
Deputy Game Warden Thrasher
had two men of Attica township be
fore Justice Perkins, of Lapeer, for
illegal fishing. They were given the
choice of paying $40 and costs or 10
days in Jail.
The r. F. Kimball grain elevator at
Vicksburg, built in 1872, burned 10
the ground Saturday. Sparks from
passing engine are supposed TO have
caused the fire. The Kimball loss is
$4,000, $500 insurance.
Ray Walker, OF st. Joseph, has dis
appeared. and his friends think he
has committed suicide. He has been
Respondent of late over his wife'S
! poor health, and has been heard To
make some queer remarks.
Fred Matteson, aged %, employed
by the Mass Consolidated Mining Co,
at Mass City, was kicked and killed
by his horse, which he was attempt
ing 10 take home from pasture. A
widow and child survive him.
From railroad circles it is learned
that within a couple of weeks the Lake
Shore and Michigan Central railroads
will establish a cent rate between De
troit and Toledo and the Lake Shore
will also add another passenger train.
Dr. William NJ. Edwards. medical
superintendent of the Michigan in
sane asylum at Kalamazoo, who has
been lying at the point of death in
University hospital, Ann Arbor, for
several days, died Wednesday morn
ling.
( Mrs. a. r. Wilson. of Cadillac. mis-
took gasoline for kerosene and poured
some on a bed of Goals in preparing
the fire for supper. Her clothes were
entirely burned off. her body charred,
and her chances for recovery are
slight
After being struck by lightning. the
Eaton telephone exchange building
burned TO the ground and 40 tele-
! phones were put out of commission.
The large house and all belongings Of
Manager A. w. Strong were also de.
! stroyed.
Sidney Smith, aged %. of Morrill,,
WAS arrested a Byron and brought to
Flint Jail on the charge of stealing a
| horse in Argentine. which was drag
! ged behind a wagon until 1t dropped
! dead. The animal belonged TO Milton
| Shepard.
Mrs. A. r. Wilson. OF Cadillac, who
was seriously burned Monday evening
/ as the result of a kerosene can eXplos-
4 ion while building fire, died Tuesday
morning from the effects of her. burns.
/ Mrs Wilson is survived by husband
/ and two small children.
Edward Donohue, condemned to die
June 10 for the murder in Indiana OF
\. n. Northrup of Benton Harbor. is
! q nervous wreck and requires the con-
slant attention of a physician. He
refuses religious consolation and
PAGES his cell constantly, refusing to
eat.
While an Alpena poker joint was
being raidcd number of the occu-
pants made perilous escape by sliding
down the rope of an abandoned ele-
vator, leaving their coats and hats be-
hind. Five arrests were made and the
gambling apparatus broken 10 kindlinS
wood
A large granite monument is being
put up for the late James Manning,
who was one of the oldest residents
of Clay township. He lived a hermit
/ life. scarcely ever leaving his little
shack. He was kept largely by friend
ly neighbors. He was 100 years OLD
when he died.
An epidemic of smallpox is feared
i'm Grand Rapids. Within the past week
there have been two deaths from
malignant smallpox and a number are
i'll in the pesthouse, one of them be-
ing Patrolman Lyman Wilson. A pa
tent who had broken quarantine was
arrested Monday in a west side Cath
Ollie church.
Mooresville, y. c., society is
shocked. Ralph Carlisle Hamilton"
popular photographer and social lead