Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-12-28
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

engine III IdpStI Slltcl Nioooi'o'
She was 7G years old.
Chauncey Hall. an employe OF the
American Screen Door factory, will be
totally blind, a flying nail having In
jured his only good eye.
Grand Rapids council has passed.
an ordinance to compel all saloons 10
be on police beats. Eleven saloons now
operating are affected.
Mrs M. A. Preston, the newspaper
writer of Charlotte, who was struck
by an auto at San Diego, CAL, last
Thursday, died of her injuries.
Willie Schimmel, an S-year-old Flint
boy, was accidentally shot in the right
shoulder Friday afternoon by an older
brother A flesh wound six inches long
was inflicted.
The Hume-Bennett Co., composed OF
Saginaw, Muskegon and Grand Rapids
capitalists, has purchased the largest
redwood section in California. II is 90
miles long.
Word reached Kalamazoo of the
tragic death of Charles Eames at St
Louis en- Sunday. He is the fourth
member of the family whom sudden
death has reached.
Gov. Warner has not granted a par
don during his first year of office. One
hundred pardons have been granted in
the last six years, 81 of them being
/ by Pingree in 1901.
Samuel Reeves, of Constantine,
drove directly in the way of a backing
freight train at the station in 'Ihree
Rivers. His right leg was cut off anc
he will probably die.
Mrs G. d. Obeman, of Grand zap
ids, wife Of an old soldier and in rath.
er moderate circumstances, has H.
ce lived a $4,000 bequest from the 81
100000 Guy estate in London.
George l.. Atkins, of Prescott, killed
the largest bear seen in that section
of the state in half a century. 1t
weighed 439 pounds, and several rifp
shots were necessary to dispatch it.
Albert Neal, aged 10, was found gull
ty of ncn-support. His wife was form
erly Miss FraDces Conger, and both
resided at Akron. Tuscola county. A
family row broke out and estranged
the young couple.
Banking Commissioner Moore has
approved the articles of incorporation
| of a new state bank to be established
at Oxford under the name of the Farm
| ers' State Bank of Oxford with capt.
tali2ation of $4,000.
Elsie Brown, a pretty 12-year-old
! girl, whose family removed from Men
ominee to Tacoma. Wash. some time
ago. has been sent TO the reform school
! at Tacoma for trying TO elope with and
J A nlH
II. w. Loomis. of Geneva. y. Y, came
to Ionia to fight for a settlement with
! the Pere Marquette railroad for the
! title TO three-quarters of an acre OF
land He says he is used TO such scraps
He is reputed 10 be a millionaire.
Kidnapped from his home in small
Canadian village 2S years ago, Rudolph
Chartrand, a former resident of De
troit. has located his father in Han
cock. as well as number of other rela
tives. His mother died at his birth.
Because the Eaton county jail has
been condemned and fearing Thomas
Jones. alleged burglar, who broke jail
last July, would try it again, Sheriff
Halliday has secured a court order &c
remove him to the Barry county bas
tile.
Suit will be commenced on behalf Of
the Saginaw west side school district
against the coal companies which are
undermining the streets public build
ings. parks and other public property
under authority of the council, they
claim.
The dead body Of man hanging tC
the limb OF a waysido tree was the
CHASTITY discovery made in the early
dawn this morning uy a farmer neal
St Johns The man is supposed tC
have been George Antonius, of Gran,
Rapids.
Dr. Chas Lards, of Adrian. has re
ceiyed word that the Toledo d Mjohi
gan railroad has been successfully
financed in New York, and the ~oac
from Adrian 10 Coldwater, and ulti
mately to Elkhart, Ind, will be pushe,
in the spring.
Louis Roman. aged 81, Of Bay City
bled to death from an ulcer on hi
ankle eating into an artery The frs
he realized of his danger was whel
his shoe began TO fill with blood. :
doctor was called, but Roman died be
fore he arrived.
Frank A. Wheeler, Lawrence Fish
er. Ira Dennis and L. II. Clcndenina
all of Ohio were each fined 500 an
costs for violating The game laws d.
PENDANTS came from Ohio during tn
deer season and secured resident L
censes in Lenawee county.
Frank jerks, trapper and scout, VIII
for years made his home at Cass LAX
and who is as well known there as tn
lake itself, has returned to Pontia
from Luce county, where he has home
steaded 100 acres and where he ma
spent the past five years.
After Clarence Weatherby, Of Mu,
kegOn, had been sentenced 10 the Dc
troit house of correction for 60 day
for working a confidence game on c
l.. Mckinley. several shrewd mel
chants acknowledged that the boy ha
worked the same game on them.
The state military board has a con
rnunication from Robert A. Craft.
farmer near Ludington, who says n
drove into the camp grounds. last sun
mer TO sell butter. A gun fired a salut
and one of his horses died of fright
The farmer wants pay for BIS horse
Attorney-General Bird has feuueste
Senator Burrows and Congressma