Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-22
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

ID. a. M. passenger train near ToDlco
and killed
The plant of the Marquette Wooden.
ware Co. was destroyed by fire with a
loss of 100000.
Hersey township is experiencing q
drouth, and unless rain comes soon the
crops will be destroyed.
The Ionia board OF supervisors have
let the contract for the new poor
house, at a cost of $27,34735.
Henry Durham, of Mackinaw City,
was drowned from capsized sail
boat and two companions were res
cued
John Oleson, an inmate of the Trav-
ing for several days, was drowned in
the bay
The third annual students jollifi-
cation was held on the high school
campus at Lapeer with a dress parade
and fireworks.
The Ionia county battalion reunion
at Portland voted to meet next year
at Saranac and elected Comrade
Pinckney president.
will make an extended trip abroad
OF absence for year.
Charles Sveiboda, aged IS, of Me-
nominee, fell into we'll and his body
was found in the morning by his moth
er after an all-night search.
The clothes of Mrs. James Crotty,
aged 70, pioneer resident Of Bay
City, were ignited from a bonfire and
she received burns from which she
died.
Residents In and out of Elk Rapids
are stirred up over the depredations
OF someone who has been milking
cows right and left for the past few
days.
Frank Let's, Grand Trunk opera
tor, while riding on a freight to Davi,
son from Belsay, missed his footing
and both feet we're mangled under the
wheels
A report from Blind River says that
the Dominion Lumber Co.'S plant. to-
gether with 100000 feet Of lumber,
has been destroyed by fire. with loss
Of $150.000
The large building formerly used as
box factory, for which Vernon viii
lage bonded itself for 10000, was
burned to the ground. II was operated
but q short time.
Aaron Meddaugh, OF Caro-, was
chosen president Of the Veteran Sol
diers and Sailors of Lapeer, Genesee,
Sanilac and Tuscola counties, at their
reunion at Lapeer.
Over 800 Vassar members attended
the annual excursion of the local Sun
day school to Bay City: About 500
from smaller towns In the vicinity
joined In the excursion.
Despondent from long illness, Har-
ley w. Strong, aged SIS, OF Battle
Creek placed the barrel Of rife
at his head and pulled the trigger with
his foot He cannot live.
Judge r. II. Person, OF Lansing, is
mentioned as the Democratic member
Of the state railroad commission. Gov.
Warner is expected to announce his
choice within two weeks.
The biggest picnic in the history OF
Hillsdale was on Tuesday, the occas-
ion being the Lansing butchers and
grocers outing, and fully 1000 came
In on four special trains.
Judge Frank limerick, of Alpena,
has refused the nomination to the
constitutional convention, and Mich
ael O'Brien, one OF the Democratic
nominees, is mentioned for the place
Walking in her sleep Mrs. Mary j.
Henshaw, of Kalamazoo, stepped
through window and plunged 20 feet
to the ground below. She was inter.
nally injured and physicians say she
will not recover.
In the head-on collision between two
trains. midway between Ludington
and the camp grounds of the National
Guard on the Ludington e. Northern
railway eight persons were injured,
two of them seriously.
Viola Bevier, aged 2, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank E. Bevier, OF Pom.
tiac, is dead from eating tablets pre-.
scribed for her grandmother, Mrs.
William Hazard, and her father is dy.
ing from typhoid fever.
Tom Robinson, who is travelling on
foot to Detroit to advertise the state
fair, is a few miles behind his SEIZED
ule, owing to heavy roads. He says
rural carriers bother him by offering
him rides, but he has refused.
Inc aged mother OF FRANK heltn, SUI
perintendent of the department OF
public works in Lansing, threw her
self into a cistern after removing her
shoes, apron and spectacles, and was
drowned She was in feeble health.
The horses of Verne Brininstool a
farmer, were frightened by an inter
urban car In Battle Creek and Brinin-
stool fell underneath the overturned
rig, receiving fractured skull His
companions, Louis Hicks and Joseph
Johnson, escaped uninjured.
II the weather remains good the
record crop Of sugar beets will be
raised in Ingham, Clinton and Shia-
wassee counties. Three hundred
hands for the gathering will be
brought to Ingham county from De-
troit and Cheboygan. The crop will
be a few days late this season, com
ing about September 20.
Fires have started up in the woods
all around Bessemer, caused by the
long dry weather and careless berry
pickers. who neglect putting out fires
they cook their lunch coffee or tea at.
A high wind is blowing and everybody
is on the alert. This city's water sup
ply is very short. and 1t would be hard