Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-15
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MICHIGAN BRIEFS,

| dCIOsS Lake ndIulln.
John F. Lee, of Menominee, was
scalded to death by the bursting of
a steam valve In lumber mill.
Muskegon county officers will abide
by Attorney General Birds ruling,
holding the juvenile law invalid.
Re-entering a burning building near
Atlantic TO secure some personal bag.
gage. John Hill was burned to death.
Joshu Minard, a Lansing driver.
formerly OF Detroit. was struck by
Lake Shore train and will probably
| die.
Fire destroyed the general store.
house and barn of George Kwialkow.
ski In Beuna Vista township. Loss
10000
August IA. Is and 16 are the dates
for Frankfort's Homecoming. The
Business Mems association is back of
the affair.
Alforious Parsons, aged 8, waded
beyond his depth and was drowned.
IL was Kalamazoos first drowning of
| the season.
While blowing at the Michigan In.
sane asylum, Edward Gwisdalski. an
employe, was kicked by mule and
| may not recover.
The body of a fully developed I'm.
rant was found in a Saginaw sewer
with the head crushed in. Officials are
making an investigation.
Wellington Decker aged II. OF Cad
lilac, was caught under a wall that
his father knocked down in making
repairs, and fatally injured.
Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Kuite, Sr., have
Just celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary. They have lived in Hol
land nearly of their lives.
William Blanchard, of Ann Arbor
was arrested on technical charge of
assault for tattooing the body of Rus.
sell Wallace and was fined $14.75.
Jay Hart. aged 25, of Shepard.
brakeman on the Ann Arbor railroad,
fell from his train near Forest Hall
and was mangled under the wheels.
Mayor John J. Bell, of Port Huron.
has designated August 2S as a civic
holiday. Business will be suspended
and an outing held at Tashmoo park.
The child of Christian Borason. OF
Menominee, was chased and bitten by
pine snake over six feet long which
invaded the city. The snake was
killed.
Patent medicine tablets were eaten
by the two young children of William
Rinchart, Ludington farmer. One is
dead and the other in a critical con-
dition.
Alonzo A. Smith was killed in an
automobile accident at Hartford.
Wash, where he was engaged in lum-
Der operations. He at one time lived
In Saginaw.
Battle Creek business men and
farmers who are paying for the new
road to Beadle lake will hold an all.
day celebration next month, when IL
Is finished.
The summer term OF the North
ern Normal is closed. The attend
ance reached 400, and showed the
best gain OF any summer term since
the institution was opened.
A canoe, occupied by Harry Marx,
Clare Petit and John Callahan, was
overturned when one of the trio
rocked the boat in Lake Huron, but |
the boys contrived to reach the shore. |
Alfred Burke. aged years, of Port |
Huron, deserted by his father, who is |
in unknown parts, and abandoned by |
his mother, Who refuses to support /
him, will be taken to the Coldwater /
school.
Directly following the funeral SER
vice over the remains of Mrs. William
Brayer, In South Haven. Rev. Clark
g. Wheeler, who officiated, baptized
the little week old and motherless
daughter, Leone.
The first women ever arrested I'm
Kalamazoo on charge Of exceeding
the automobile speed limit Mrs. Van
Urk, wife of leading physician, was
hailed into court Friday. She is said
10 have been going some rs miles an
hour within the city limits.
Ovid has been stirred up for the
past two weeks by burglar scares. and
many have been most afraid to 20
to sleep nights for fear their house
would be broken into. Nearly every
morning some house or barn would
show signs Of having been entered.
A census of the city is now being
completed by the postofice force.
There are upwards Of $4,000 people, 1t
appears. from these returns, compared
Win lV,oVV III the spring OF 1905, thus
giving Marquette the distinction of
being the largest Incorporated city in
upper Michigan.
In the trial Of VIM. Shimmel. at
Grand Haven, charged with the MUIR
der Of Martin Golden, Abe Rubey and
Charles Deuck testified that they saw
Shimmel near Dennison, the scene of
the murder, on the same day Shin.
mel has insisted right along that he
was not In the vicinity the day of the
crime and the testimony was consid-
cred very material by the prosecu-
ton.
Through the death OF her father.
Miss Maud Baeher. aged II, residing
with her grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca
A. Laptad, In Battle Creek, has fallen
heir to two large ranches and other
real estate, valued at $4,000. William
G. Baeher, her father, died several
weeks ago. The legal transfer has Just
been made and Miss b. L. Bilberstein.
aunt Of Miss Baeher, appointed guar