Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-01
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

j. w. Garvin, Of Detroit, purchases
the Spring Lake hotel.
The peach crop will be heavy. Buy
ers are paying $1.25 per bushel.
Walter Hanson, aged 16, of Ravens
wood, ILL.,, was drowned In swan lake
The cornerstone OF the new $4,000
Swedish Baptist church, In Cadillac,
has been laid
John Smith, a coachman, took pois-
on and died. He brooded over the
death OF his wife.
Followers OF the Hagenbeck-Wallace
circus in the upper peninsula leave De-
hind them a trail Of robberies.
Lightning struck three barns on the
farm of Robert Campbell, OF Ann Ar
Dor, burning them to the ground.
Eight Dowagiac telephone girls
| struck because they did not like the
! discipline of new chief operator.
Jacob Hinze, of Big Rapids, took
morphine after his release from jail.
He leaves widow and six children.
Ewald Boelter, aged IL, of Luding-
ton, discarded a life preserver, think
ing 1t was not needed, and drowned
Domestic troubles prompted Mrs.
George Scupholm, of Cass City, TO take
carbolic acid, and she may not recover.
The receivers of the Toledo. Ann
Arbor & Detroit electric line have
been ordered to sell the road in Sep
TENDER.
Fred. Fay, union organizer, was dis
charged by the ID. u. r. from the Ypsl-
Ann line. for activity in the NJ. U. II.
labor difficulties
Michigan Rural Letter Carriers Sc
lected Jackson for the next meeting
place. r. T. Walker, Plymouth, was
chosen president.
While preparing breakfast Wednes-
day morning Mrs. Lois A. Bright, OF
Flint. suddenly collapsed and passed
away In a few minutes.
A special election will be held in the
r Lansing legislative district in Septem'
! Der to select a successor to Rep. >. H.
e Montgomery, resigned.
John and Henry Pamptoppe, OF
e Athens. two Indians, refused to tell
t Justice Batdorff who sold them Id
4 uor. and were fined So apiece.
/ Mai.-Gen. julius p King. inspector OF
i Michigan's Patriarchs Militant and
l. prominent Odd Fellow, died in Battle
81 Creek after years of suffering.
Ben. F. Powell, aged %, who lef
= his home in Carson City more thar
: a week ago, saying he would be gone
= few minutes, has rot returned.
n Frank Castor, brother of Fred. Cas-
II tor. who was electrocuted in Columbus
A. O.. is in Jail in Flint for an assault
upon Frank Campbell, a d. u. r. con
Of ductor.
O. More than 5000 people saw the col
N nerstone of the new $4,000 Y. NJ. {
Il. A. building laid in Cadillac. w. "
Q. Mitchell, who gave $4,000, placed tn
w first stone.
" Motorman Heinz and Conducto
n, jerks tried to pufStwo men, who r.
w fused 10 pay their fare, OH an Ups
es Ann car, and The former was cut ]
TT the face. The men escaped.
or Reports from the different Detro
hospitals say that the people injure
on In the wreck near Salem are maxim
good progress toward recovery an
cd will soon be able TO go home.
Determined that Detroit shall m
's get the headquarters OF the supren
-, tent. Knights of the Maccabees OF q
Vi World the citizens OF Port Huron pl;
.oi to secure several thousand new mel
70 bers and thereby retain the headqus
,ha ters.
ga Valentine Bayer, who died In !
,ca Mary's hospital, Detroit while fe
on. eral prisoner, accused OF obtainll
cor mail under false pretenses and the
emf by cheating widow out of 800,
said 10 have died of grief over I
Lar. wrong he did
ire BY nearly all the upper peninsl
on roads. the new passenger rate Will
aim into effect promptly on their lin
me. Lower peninsula railway officials ma
not responded promptly, but many
, is the managers are said to be abst
or from the state.
ent John Carroll, a bridge work
dropped dead on the street in ia
now son wednesday. Carroll had recen
up returned from an extended trip
SER Ireland His death was caused
the heart disease brought on by the
cessive heat.
age Joseph Cain died In the Petosl
de- hospital from injuries received
cep- Pellston. A Grand Rapids & lndii
I Is train cut his leg off, his body
rae bruised and he sustained internal
all iuries. He was as years old and lea
a widow and son.
ues . Judson Harmon, receiver of the T
~ Marquette, places most OF the Dls
s'a for the Salem wreck on the sir
iees' track system of the road. He says
pa such accidents are likely to occur
III single track roads and regrets the
nv that the Pere Marquette cannot an
nos to double track its system
Despondent because of Ill success
business life Henry c. Leighton.
35, clerk of a Battle Creek hotel,
. himself In front OF a mirror yestei
= morning. He was found dead by
= =, wife. who rushed into the room
49, :, - hustily scrawled note told where
~ insurance papers could be found
.ne sides his widow Leighton leaves
,,ont young children.
|, ASK Another college romance culmin
3 the Wedres when Miss Violet Mel
. ~oxs1a ha hrida IF Howard +. WIT