Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-08-10
STATE BRIEFS.

service began Sunday.
Henry Hoffman, an old citizen, OF
Metz, has been killed by falling to see
train coming upon him.
Five cases of typhoid have been re-
ported in Kalamazoo within the past
week, and the health board is looking
for the cause.
A company Is prospecting for coal
on quite an extensive scale at Bent
ley, just west of Standish, and there
are all kinds OF indications.
Gov. Warner has issued proclama'
ton setting Wednesday, August 8, as
Michigan day az the Lewis and Clark
exposition at Portland. Ore.
Frank Allcott, a Toledo business
man camping on the Au Sable, near
Crawling. has been fined SO and costs
for killing a deer out of season.
Judge Carr of the circuit court has
ordered a grand jury for THE Septem-
Der term of court, the first in Cass
county since the March term, 1859.
The attorney general has sent an
agent to Alpena TO conclude the SET
Element of the cases commenced
against homesteaders on state lands
The 2-year-old son of Capt Thomas
Wills, of Norway, drank some gasoline
left in a cup on window sill after
some cleaning and died in 20 minutes.
John o. Ross, miner in Pere Mar.
quette No. 2, lies in a plaster cast in
Saginaw hospital, having been
crushed by fall of slate in the mine.
After 20 years as a section fore
man on the Michigan Central railroad,
Dennis Kiley, Jr., of Standish, has quit
railroading and will be a coal dealer.
Claud Russell, sent To lonia reform
atory from Kalamazoo county March
81 for two years for criminal assault,
has been paroled by the state pardon
board
Lightning struck in ten places, most
ly in Augusta township, one day last
week and among other damage killed
four hogs, three horses, two cows and
one mule.
Gov Warner has committed to Is
years the 20-year sentence of John
Mallach, who shot Frank Glawacki.
when several drunken men attacked
him on his own porch.
The marksmen of Co. d, First NJ. y.
G., challenge any three men from any
one company in the state, slow firing,
200, 800, 500 and 600 yards. totals of
each man to decide the contest.
Ray Bedell, aged ~, living at Aloha,
on the Detroit a. Mackinaw railroad.
piled distractions on the track and
nearly wrecked the northern flyer. He
is now in the county Jail and says lie
Just wanted to see a wreck
South Haven was wide open town
Sunday and thousands of visitors from
Chicago and other places came TO help
the liberal citizens celebrate. 1t is
said that an appeal has been made to
Gov. Warner for troops to enforce the
laws.
John d. Doyle, aged % years, a
former Detroit millwright, was scald-
ed TO death in the plant of the Helm
bacher Forge & Rolling Mills Co.,
branch of the American Car G. Foun-
dry Co, in East st. Louis, H., Sal.
urday.
Forest fires started Wednesday
afternoon few miles east of Haak-
wood in Cheboygan county, and are
still raging with considerable fury.
About 100000 feet of logs which were
cut and skidded were consumed. The
loss will be considerable.
Willie Tromp and Lizzie Mime
Willie 10 and Lizzie 17-have been
corralled by the police of Grand Rap.
ids for doing nothing but running
away from their homes in Muskegon
to get married. The deed had not yet
been cinched when the cops butted in.
Five strike breakers were held for
trial in Saginaw on the charge of muir
dering Henry Week, Jr., who was shot
on June Z, at the opening of the street
railway strike. The five are: Fred
Harris. VIM. F. Johnson, w. ID. Hurl.
burt, James Sullivan and Anton Tubak.
The body of the man killed by a
Pere Marquette train last week at st.
Joseph. has been identified by DR.. F.
NJ. Gowdy as James Gray, a farm
hand in his employ. Gray was once
charged with murder. but proved an
alibi. He later served time for rob-
bling mails.
George Gage had been out of work
n 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 to Battle Creek
six months ago and secured work at
at Advance Thresher Works. Satur-
day evening he suddenly dropped
dead.
Two Bessemer boys, Willie Patova
and Dickey Banneld, Is and 16 years
old respectively, did a genuine burglar
act by breaking into Hummel's hard.
ware store in the dead of night and
packing off with as much plumber as
they could carry. The night watch
nabbed them and they have been sent
to the reform school
Lieutenant Of Detectives Lally of
Detroit has been the recipient of a
mysterious package. the contents of
which proved TO be a number of
checks, notes and other important
papers, aggregating in value over $685.
600. II appears that a few weeks ago
the office of the Crystal Salt company
at st. Clair, Mich. was entered by
burglars who blew the safe. Very lit
tie cash was stolen, but all of the
firms papers, books, checks. notes,