Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-09-20
MICHIGAN IN BRIEF.


had his left foot and leg drawn into
bean thrasher and terribly mangled
Saturday. He nearly bled to death.
A strange disease has broken out
among the swine in Clayton township.
and hundreds of the porkers are dying.
The state veterinarian will be called
to investigate.
Miss Emma Reynolds, who disap-
peared from Jackson a week ago, was
married in Battle Creek to Thomas Nc
Cormick, of that city. She is 16 years
old. Her father lives in Parma.
j. G. Morgan refused $4,000 from
Traverse City for the site of his cold
20 WAREHOUSE Deeds riroa i~alnA
up show that the warehouse occupies
city property, giving the town an en-
trance TO the bay shore.
DR.. Norris Anglim, Bay City den
tist, 80 years of age. plunged headlon z
to his death from third story window
in the First National bank building at
an early hour Monday morning. His
skull was crushed.
Miss Mabel Bashaw, teacher in a
NegaInee school, plunged headlong
into well from which she was draw
ing bucket of water A boy passing
by heard her cry and she was rescued
from'the well, which was 20 feet deep.
David B. Hamin, who walked most
of the way from New York state when
he was 16 years old to Jackson, arriv-
ing when there were but two or three
log houses at that place, is dead at
the age of 80 years. He lived in Eaton
Rapids 6S years.
The broom factory, which was in
stalled some time after the institute
for the blind was opened In Saginaw,
has been particularly successful. and
at present, although operating both
day and night, is fully month behind
in its orders.
The thirty-eighth annual fair of the
Flint Valley Agricultural society will
be held in Montrose township, near
Burt, October "a. Purses aggregating
$500 are offered in the speed depart,
ment. Many special premiums are of
fered. Music will be furnished by the
Montrose cornet band.
BY the upsetting of lantern by
his little daughter, the barn Of Oscar
Graham, on the Struble farm. three
miles north of Edwardsburg, was
burned Saturday night. Mrs. Graham's
mother was slightly burned in trying
TO put out the fire. Most of the stock
was saved. Loss, $4,000.
Daniel Mcdonald, of Grand Marais,
an experienced hunter, blew three
fingers off his right hand and will lose
the entire hand as the result of clean
ing a gun which he didn't know was
loaded. A piece Of the wiper penetrat-
ed the hand as far as the wrist bones,
making amputation necessary.
Heming Keranen and William Pen
tilla met death by suffocation at the
Princeton mine when they could have
easily saved themselves. A drift caved
in. shutting off the air, and a few
minutes work would have cleared the
entry, but the entombed men apparent.
ly lost their presence of mind and
frantically dug In the wrong direc-
ton.
Calvin Carr, of Flint, who attempted
to kill his mother because she refused
to give him his pension papers. was
adjudged insane in the probate court
and committed to the Pontiac asylum.
Dewitt c. Leach, member of con-
gress from the Lansing district previ-
Gus to the civil war, and now a man
"a years Of age, is visiting in that
city. He was state librarian in 1857
and was twice elected to congress. In
congress he was a prominent aboli-
ZIONIST and when the state of South
Carolina offered a reward for the
heads Of prominent anti-slavery agita-
tors his name was on the list Mr..
Leach now lives In Missouri.