Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-07-13
STATE BRIEFS.

AltA ItHy, dSeu 90, VI odubueuSN,
was drowned Wednesday while bath.
ing in Kalamazoo river
Three hundred Pere Marquette en-
ployes in the Ionia shops have been
put on five-hour-a-day schedule.
Clarence Vanderbeck, of Shepherd,
aged 8, hit dynamite cap with ham
mer and be is minus one eye now.
Ann Cohen, the Northport girl,
whose babe was found dead In an
clubhouse, has been convicted of aban-
donment.
Walking all night and portion OF
the day between two policemen was
all that saved Rolla Cove OF Saginaw,
who took morphine because of jeal-
ousy.
Mrs. Clarence Marsh, Of Battle
Creek, is in the city Jail, her mind be-
ing wrecked by long care of her father,
Jay Darlington, who died after
lengthy illness.
Gov. Warner is prolonging his trip
to Menominee, where he was one OF
the speakers on the Fourth, TO take
a trip through Wisconsin inspecting
cheese factories.
The body of Clarence McClelland,
who was accidentally drowned in
North lake on the Fourth, while swim
ming, was found about four rods from
where he went down.
George Hasper, of Bannister, is dead
Of a terrible disease. A small sore
spread over his entire body and he
died in great agony. The skin cracked
and fell from the flesh.
George e. Wood, well known lum-
herman Of the middle west, former
owner OF large timber holdings and
saw mill in Muskegon's halcyon
days, is dead at Chicago.
Mrs. Martin w. Morton and her
daughter Blanche, of Kalamazoo, were
shocked into Inconsistencies by a
stroke of lightning, while sitting at
the kitchen table hulling berries.
f. G. Whitman, of Battle Creek,
while riding his wheel collided with
\. NJ. Bishop, also awheel. A bottle
in Whitman's pocket was broken, cut
ting a serious cash in his abdomen.
The United States naval reserves
of Detroit took holiday trip TO Mon
roe on their good ship, the Yantic.
Returning she struck on Fighting ISL
and, requiring several tugs to pull her
off.
The Lansing Arbeiter society enter
tanned several hundred guests from
other cities at the dedication OF their
new hall. Charles Werner, of Detroit,
president of the state society, made an
address.
Col. c. V. r. Pond, superintendent of
rural free delivery for Michigan, after
a conference With the postmasters and
carriers of the county, said that Shia-
wassee will be given solid rural de-
livery.
Calvin Wright has given himself up
as a deserter from the United States
army and was taken to Fort Wayne.
Detroit He has been working on the
streets in Traverse City and the feel
ing that he was fugitive became UNI
bearable.
The jury in the case OF the death
of Timothy LaLonde, Of Sault otC
Marie. brought in a verdict of acct
dental drowning. The relatives stiD iiI-
sist the young man was murdered at
Beaver park the night he went there
with a load OF soldiers from Fort
Brady.
On her way home from visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Harriet Fox, of TRAY.
erse City, met a friend and jokingly
said, I'm very tired. you may come TO
my funeral Sunday" Later in the
evening she died from heart disease.
The funeral was on Sunday, as she
prophesied.
Edward f. Stone. of Kingsley, said
to be the Oldest Odd Fellow in Michi'
gan, died after lingering illness, aged
So Mr. Stone became a member OF
Horeb lodge at Fairville. Pa. in DC.
tober, 1864 He has repeatedly rep
resented his lodge and encampment
in the grand lodges.
Mrs. Agnes Randall, of Port Huron,
has made application to the probate
court for the admission of her daugh-
ter Agnes to the insane asylum. A
year ago Miss Randall was a bright,
popular girl, but she inherits insanity
from her father, who drowned himself
a few years ago while insane.
The little daughter of George A.
Estee. of st. Johns. was thrown from
n rig In a runaway and struck on her
head on the pavement. The fact that
her mother had done her hair up on
top Of her head doubtless saved her
life. as she struck on the cushion OF
hair braids. She was badly hurt.
+. T. Houghton. of Durand. the faith
er of Zella Houghton, the school teach
or who committed suicide recently by
cutting her throat, has become insane
through brooding over the tragedy OF
his daughters death. He wandered
away from home and has just been
located and returned from Grand
, Haven.
Mrs. Jennie Ferguson. recently mar
ried TO Orson Taylor, of Flushing, and
Immediately placed under arrest on q
charge Of tigamy, preferred by her
former husband. William Ferguson
has been released. She says she will
secure a divorce from Ferguson and
remarry Taylor. She was Is years old
when she married Ferguson, and Is
81 now.
The library burglar who has raide6
the buildings at Menominee, Greer
Bay and Meneska broke into the II
brary in Marquette, although the
building was especially guarded. He
cut his hand in breaking a window