Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-09
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

saturday afternoon.
Henry Polky, of Standish, was acct
dentally shot in the leg by his broth
er, George. while hunting cartridges.
Game Warden Chapman says lie
will particularly watch the western
portion OF the upper peninsula.
A 8 per cent dividend on preferred
stock was declared by the Detroit a.
Mackinac r. r. Co. annual meeting.
The special election in Ann Arpof
resulted in authorizing $4,000 bonds
for a new detention hospital for coli
tagious diseases.
While feeding a dog from the porch
Of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Clark,
Mrs. Lydia Glover, aged 70, of Ithaca,
fell and broke her neck.
The Arcadian mine, Houghton,
which was closed about two years ago,
Is TO be reopened again for exploration
on an extensive scale.
Halloween jokers set fire to James
Kuney's barn, in Adrian. which was
totally destroyed with all Of the con-
tents, including a COW.
II. E. Gill. of Northport, consigned
1927 bushels of potatoes to James
Flood at Chicago. This is a record
breaking carload of potatoes.
Miss Blanche Feishuhn, living near
Maple Ridge, had her skull fractured
while out riding. An operation was
pei formed and she may recover.
Christian Norman, aged 60, of Grand
Rapids, dropped dead in his store.
Heart disease and the sudden shock OF
his daughters death were the cause.
iceland township will go TO the
courts to try to compel the Grand Rap
ids e. Holland Interurban line 10 abide
by its franchise and not increase its
rates.
John Gould, of Battle Creek, has
never walked in his life, and weighs
but AZ pounds, yet he took the state
bar examination at Lansing and will
practice law.
A coffin was stolen from the undei-
taking establishment of Chambers e
Co.. Grand Rapids. Halloween night
and so far all efforts to find it have
been fruitless.
Fred Leninger, of Lansing, had his
skull fractured by the falling of
heavy cast iron weight attached TO the
mechanism for lowering the street
lamps. He may die.
Gov. Warner has appointed Chester
e. Cone, Of Cassopolis, Judge of pro-
bate for Cass county. to succeed Judge
l.. b. Des Voignes, who has been
elected circuit judge.
State Game Warden Chapman re-
ports that during October he seized
$500 pounds of fish that had been un-
lawfully taken and distributed them
among the state institutions.
Only 1925 was raised by the private
bankers to defeat the Mckay bill in
the last legislature to provide for state
regulation, so Prosecutor Macarthur
has dropped the investigation.
Potatoes are decaying as a result of
the blight. The dealers are now asking
80 cents, and it is thought the price
will go h. CHER before the end of the
winter. Report from Houghton.
To comply with the new state law
German parochial schools will hereaf-
ter teach English. German will be
the official language, but English will
be used in teaching the lower branch
eS
Eighteen-year-old Fred Fuller, OF
Pontiac has been sentenced to from
six months to Is years in Ionia for
assisting G.. b. Flodell in a restaurant
theft. He also assisted Flodell to escape
from Jail.
After a search of a year and eight
months Elmer Dewitt. of the Lehigh
road, has located a car of furniture
shipped from New York to Grand Rap.
ids, on side track between Port Hur
on and Saginaw.
Theodore Sloat. aged IA, only son of
John Sloat, of Turner, accidentally
shot himself in the arm while hunting.
The arm was amputated at the should.
er, but gangrene has set in and there
is little hope Of recovery.
b. ID. Chandler, secretary of the com
pany manufacturing voting machines,
has placed a forfeit of $500 that Mayor
Todd, of Jackson, cannot prove his as
sertions that voting machines are a
menace to honest politics.
Lewis A. Monroe, a veteran of the
first engineers and mechanics, having
accidentally been found to be an in
mate of the Lenawee county poor
house, steps are being taken to have
him sent to the soldiers home.
Richard Sulvin, OF Alpena, was ser.
iously hurt by an explosion of dyna-
mite Saturday His left hand was
shattered and his face and eyes badly
injured. He had just recovered from
the result of a fall to the bottom of
the quarry some time ago.
Just as he was about to sit down TO
the evening meal Tuesday night, Will
liam Hodges, aged rs, Of Bay City,
fell TO the floor and expired. He was
apparently hale and hearty, working
at his trade, ship carpenter, in all
kinds of weather.
The chastisement of a high school
girl by Principal Dunning has not re-
suited in a public apology, neither
has that official resigned. The stu
dents seem to favor the principal and
boys and girls Joined recently in Civ
ing him three cheers.
Commissions for the members OF
the new state tax commission are as
OF