Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

been appointed an assistant observer
in connection with the weather bureau
Frank Lewis, of Pontiac, went TO
husking bee and while operating the
machine husked his handsome gold
watch.
Insane from business cares, John L.
Smith, clerk of Bently township. was
attacked by paralysis of the brain
causing death.
A smooth stranger operated in Ann
Arbor Saturday and CLEANED a harvest
OF $40 as result OF few hours work
and handy pen.
Mrs. jeremiah Sullivan was struck
and instantly killed by Grand Trunk
engine at a Lapeer street CROSSING
She was &c years old.
Thomas Hill, of Bay City, aged 10,
married, saw filer, swallowed an
ounce of carbolic acid because nc
could not secure employment.
Mrs. NJ. A. Preston, the newspaper
writer Of Charlotte, who was struck
by an auto at San Diego, CAL, last
Thursday, died Of her injuries.
Coldwater business men have organ
lied to work unitedly for the industrial
interests of the town. The organiza-
ton starts out with III members.
All of the schools and Sunday
schools south Of Black river, in Port
Huron, have been ordered closed be'
cause of the epidemic Of diphtheria.
The Michigan Orangemen are fiSur'
ing on Port Huron as the place FOR
holding their annual state reunion and
III, It,lx n
is asked.
For saving two lives many years
ago in Germany, Joseph Stang, brew
master in a Menominee brewery, has
received a silver medal from Emperor
William.
The body Of Reuben Goliath. old
hunter and trapper, was found In the
bayou at Bell, Pressure Isle county
He had fallen into an air hole cross
ing the ice.
Bread and water diet and no tobacco
or playing cards are the regulations
of Ingham supervisors for tramps who
are seeking shelter at the county jail
in large numbers.
Word reached Kalamazoo OF the
tragic death OF Charles Eames at 81.
Louis On Sunday. He is the fourth
member of the family whom sudden
/ Death has reached.
Dynamite placed in the oven Of the
| kitchen stove TO be thawed exploded
! killed August II. Schroeder's 2-year'
4 old daughter and Injured himself and
wife, of Menominee.
Enos Schaal. OF Menominee. while
attempting to separate his two broth
ers, who were in a fight, received q
deep cash In his leg from an AK in the
hands of Dan Schaal.
Theodore Durkee, aged IS, of Oh
sego, was found bound and gagged III
a Lake Shore box car in the Elkhart
Ind, yards. He said he had been robbed
nd thrown into the car
John Gongaw, of Bay City, was bad
ly stabbed in a row among men wnc
were stealing a ride from Grayling He
was taken from the car at Roscommon
and had his wounds dressed.
Nearly 175 shot entered the groin
and abdomen of Delmar Kibby, of Bat
tie Creek, who discharged his gun as
he stepped into a buggy while on
rabbit hunt with Capt. Chandler Ln
cas-.
II. NJ. LIQUIDS Sons Co. have secured
the river rights for nearly 100 miles
of the Au Sable river and. it is said
propose TO utilize the steady, stront
current for a huge power and ngh
plant.
THE first man in western Michigan
TO be made a Mason, was the distinc
ton claimed by James ID. La Bar, wh'
died in Battle Creek, Saturday night
of old age. He was in his ninety-nintl
year.
All Tho cars Of the Port Huron
street railway have been equippe'
with compressed air brakes. Por
Huron is said to be the only city o
it's size in the country having thes
brakes.
: Finding her husband in iail on
charge Of larceny so overwhelme
Mrs. Florence Murray, of Lansing
with grief that she attempted to en-
her life with poison. Murray got 6
days in prison.
BY mistake Sadie Neal, of Muskt
'. gon, gave her 6-months-old baby brotl
er dose of gelseminum, deadly po
son, and although it was sufficient
kill a man instantly it had no eneC
on the babe.
! Bitten in the check by a mad dol
11-year-old Leon Halleck, son of M
. and Mrs. E. r. Halleck, of Plainwel
, was fastened to Ann Arbor, there b.
I ing fears that he might not live Ion
, enough to arrive there.
Returning from hunting trip, Cha
Kantz, aged Is, of Hesperia, laid h
gun on a table and, forgetting 1t VIZ
!. loaded. started TO clean 1t. The bull
struck him in the abdomen and he h;
4 little chance for recovery.
S Bert Frisbie, aged IL, of Kalamazoo
/ after an operation for diphtheria, WI
e supplied with a silver tube for breat
ing through while the wound heale
?, The tube became displaced at mig
& and the boy strangled to death.
L. Port Huron is trying to secure Il
n Headquarters Of the Woodmen of Il
< World. which is to be moved fro
l. Omaha because the Nebraska supren
e court says the order must pay an q
IS nual tax on $4,000 reserve fund.