Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-08-03
IN THE STATE.


fell dead while taking the milk from
the milkman.
The trolley road from Lansing to
P.ne Lake is finished and regular car
service began Sunday.
Dominick Talerico. of West Mech
ish, was drowned Friday by the up
setting of a sailboat.
Henry Hoffman. an old citizen. OF
Metz, has been killed by falling to see
train coming upon him.
The board OF state auditors have
voted s2,214 to repair damages to the
fsh hatchery at Mllbrook, June 8.
Burglars have robbed the postofiice
In champion but they got but seven
cents, overlooking 5000 worth OF
stamps.
Five cases OF typhoid have been re-
ported in Kalamazoo within the past
week, and the health board is looking
for the cause.
Circuit Judge Davis has decided that
the lonia county drain law passed
at the last session of the legislature
is constitutional.
While working his way TO Denver,
Jackson, was killed on the Sante Fe
railroad at Edna, Mo.
Frank Allcott, Toledo bu-:less
man camping on the Au Sable, near
Grayling, has been fined SO and costs
for killing a deer out of season.
Charles Rife alias Ernest Conrady,
has been arrested in Nebraska on
charge of holding up farmer in Kali
amazoo last month and taking SIS
from him.
Having lost leg by falling from
the steps Of a locomotive. John w.
Nichols, a Pere Marquette employe,
now sues the company for $4,000
damages.
Martin. the S-y~r-old son of Thos.
Mount, living in Frankenlust town
ship, was burned TO death by setting
fire 10 his clothes as the result OF
playing with matches.
Mrs. Anna Nestle's judgment of S.
600 against the city of Flint for injur-
les received by falling on a broken
sidewalk in 1902, has been approved
by the supreme court,
An ordinance has been passed by the
common council TO close up saloons,
stores and all kinds of business in
Standish on SUNDAYS. This includes
even the livery stables.
Fearful of becoming insane as the
result of brooding over the death of
her six children in eight days by diph-
iberia. Mrs. Barney Campbell, of st.
Joseph. committed suicide.
The 15-months'-old child of John p.
Jones. Of lshpeming, fell while it had
a pencil in its mouth. The point went
through her tongue and into her wind
pipe, causing death in two hours.
The old soldiers are making ar
rangements for the reunion Of soldiers
and sailors of 1S6l-5 for Macomb, ST.
Clair and Sanilac counties, to be held
in Lexington September and Z.
Ingham county superintendent of
the poor spent $11,G41.10 for the care
and support OF the poor during the
past year. SiXty-nine paupers were
cared for at the county poor hou=e
The nine-months-old child of Ray
mond Van Est, poor family recently
arrived in Jackson from Belgium, was
fatally scalded Tuesday evening by
the upsetting Of a pan of hot milk.
Frank Krusc. an Alpine township
farmer, went into a field to work Mon
day with a cutivator and at closing
time for the day the horse came back
to the barn alone. Kruse's body was
found in the field. ApopleXy took him
off.
John d. Doyle, aged p years, a
former Detroit millwright was scald-
ed TO death in the plant of the Helm
bacher Forge e. Rolling Mills Co.,
branch of the American Car & Foun-
dry CO., in East st. Louis, H., SAT
urday.
While playing with matches the g.
year-od son Of Thomas Mount, en-
ployed at the Bay coal mine, set fire
TO his clothes, and before the frantic
mother could eXtinguish the flames
the child was so badly burned that 1t
died in horrible agony the following
day
officer Ed. Honkala, who went to
Omaha TO bring back Hilda Ekloff,
who was reported to be demented by
the chief of police of that city, found
that the girl was robbed of $210, her
two years savings. and drugged by
the same man. Her ticket from Omaha
to lshpeming was also taken from
| her.
George Gage had been out of work
long time at Decatur, H., when his
home and contents were burned, his
wife barely escaping with a tiny babe
in her arms. He came 10 Battle Creek
six months ago and secured work at
at Advance Thresher Works. Satur-
day evening he suddenly dropped
dead.
Mrs. NJ. T.. ID. Trowbridge, widow of
the late Rev. Luther Trowbridge and
partner with him in many benefactions
to the Baptist denomination, has just
added another to the list of her gen.
erous acts by deciding TO Kalamazoo
college, a Baptist institution. her hand
some residence at Is Madison avenue,
Detroit.
| Gov Warner has requested the state
board of health TO make an investiga-
ton OF the outbreak Of typhoid fever
which II is claimed. resulted from the
eating of ice cream at a social function
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