Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-10-25
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.

The State Whist association will
meet in this city October % and %.
Claude Fields, aged 50, of Charlotte,
was killed by train on which he was
conductor, at Joliet. ILL.,
Mrs. J. Nelson wife OF Monitor
township farmer, drank mixture of
fly poison and died OF resultant peri
tcLitiS.
Human bones were found by work.
men excayating on the former site of
Kalamazoo saloon Of unsayory rep
utation.
The low water in Kalamazoo river
causes fear of n typhoid epidemic.
The river bed is filled with refuse from
the sewers.
A fall while attending party about
a month ago has resulted in the death
of Miss Lucille Read, aged 10, of
kalamazoo.
James Fairbanks, a Holland farmer,
aged Ga years, was killed when thrown
backwards from his wagon while pick
ing apples.
The 4-year-old daughter of Richard
Downright, of Allegan, backed into q
wash boiler of boiling water and was
fatally scalded.
With deliberate intention OF getting
In Jail to have a warm place 10 live,
Lizele Alpine, a Hungarian who has
been out OF work. smashed a 800 plate
glass window in Lansing and got three
months.
Jack the lnsulter" is still at work
in the vicinity Of the Ann Arbor uni
versity residence section. A third case
where this man has approached wO-
man with outrageous language has
been reported.
John Parrah, aged So, woodsman,
while skidding logs near Paynesville,
was killed by blow of a log which
had caught in the roots Of tree and
sprang up when suddenly released.
Parrahs back was broken.
Miss Grace briggs. an Adrian so
ciety woman, attempted to saddle q
horse In her brothers barn when the
animal kicked her in the face, causing
a compound fracture of both jaws and
tearing the right car nearly of.
Battle Creek business men are much
incensed over report sent out TO the
effect that typhoid fever epidemic
has struck the city. AS a matter of fact
there are less than two dozen cases
there, nothing remarkable for q city
of 10000 population.
Charles Symonds passed in front OF
team pulling heavily loaded cart in
the boiler room of the Chaplin mine.
The pole broke and the horses lurched
forward, the pole striking Symopds in
the abdomen and pinning him against
beam. He died in a short time.
Dressed as a little school girl and
wearing gaudily trimmed straw hat,
Miss breeds Joyce, as a part OF her
Initiation into the Kappa Delta Psi
high school sorority, wheeled a doll
cab through the business part of Battle
Creek while the other girls walked on
the opposite side of the street and
made fun at her expense.
Vincent Czpinski. aged 10, OF Bay
City, who a month ago stole 1920
which HIS urcle had hidden I'm his
home, returned $500, which he left on
his uncle's doorstep and then ran TO
his fathers home. He refuses TO tell
where he has been or how he spent the
missing $50.
While hunting cartridges, Albert
Lavigne, of Lake Linden. shot himself
Thursday, inflicting dangerous
wound,
All Kalamazoo hard coal dealers are
charging SO a ton for hard coal. 1t is
rumored that there is a government of.
fetal here looking into an alleged com.
bine.
The supervisors of Calhoun county
have restored the county game ward
ems salary to $3.50 day, instead of
80 cents, voted year ago for actual
time spent at his work. Without some
surveillance hunters became careless
and the farmers live stock and poultry
suffered.