Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-17
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.


vent the theft of farm property.
Following disclosures OF Matilda
Brown, aged 16 years, the Flint po-
lice have started campaign to close
all resorts.
A new rural high school has been
instituted at Orleans, Ionia county, by
Deputy Superintendent OF Public In
struction French.
The Fenton State Savings bank or
Fenton, capital $4,000. has filed ar.
ticles of Incorporation with the state
banking commissioner.
A pimple on the neck of Edward w.
Hoyt, OF Jackson, mail clerk, de-
veloped into erysipelas and the doc
tors say he cannot live.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
ander Van Norman, Of Port Huron,
smothered beneath the bed clothing
while its parents were asleep.
Ann Arbor board of commerce has
chosen j. d. Ryan to visit the north
west grain elevators with the view
to constructing an immense one in
that city.
Port Huron citizens will decide at
the coming election whether to limit
the saloons to 40 and add $500 an
nual license to the present state Ii.
cense of $500.
Gov. Warner refused the request
of the naval reserves to recommend
the increase of the naval tax from
three-quarters to one cent. Two ships
are now maintained.
Mrs. Jane II. Calkins, wife of Port
Huron cigar manufacturer and former
mayor of Owosso, died in that city as
the result of a strain sustained while
attempting to lift a heavy grip.
Chris. Bassick, aged II. and Carl
Glogofski. aged II, are under arrest
in Lansing for stealing a COW. When
approached by officers the boys out
ran them, but were later captured.
M. Fisher, of Lansing, and Mrs. SUI
san Spencer, of Bell Oak, believed to
be the oldest twins in Michigan cele-
brated their S5th birthday at the home
of the latter. Many guests were pres
ent
Deputy Game Warden Haywood, of
Marquette, coming on three men shoot
ing game out of season, marched them
to the nearest justice at the point of
his rifle, where they were fined SIS
each.
State Railroad Commissioner Dick
inson has returned from a trip to
Ohio, where he conferred with rail-
road commissioners Of that state, full
Of tips and information relative to rail
way workings.
James Gross, Chicago steelworker,
fell Go feet down an elevator shaft in
Battle Creek, broke a hardwood plank
at the bottom, and as he got up unin-
jured remarked: 81 have had just as
bad falls as that before"
Thomas Walker, IA years old, of st.
Joseph, died Thursday from injuries
received several days ago when he
fell from a pile OF lumber. He lost
consciousness shortly afterward and
never regained his senses.
September" Perine, who once dug
his way out of the Ann Arbor Jail and
gave three other prisoners their liber-
ty, has been sentenced to from five
to fifteen years in Jackson for burglar
izing saloon in Ypsilanti.
Angel Frastor, 9 years old, has ar
rived in Lansing from Greece with
tags in four languages attached to
his clothing. He travelled alone the
entire distance, nearly three weeks
being required for the trip.
u. K. Hinshaw, 67, is dead at his
home in Leland. He was county clerk
of Leelanau county for IL years. He
came to Michigan from Ohio 40 years
ago and was one of northern Michi-
gan's best known residents.
are reporting that their potato crop is
rotting in the hills, caused by the re-
cent rains. 1t is feared that the crop
will be short and that excessive prices
will prevail before next spring.
Joseph Abair, a Fairhaven farmer,
took his son. John Abair, home from
the Pontiac Jail. The boy had become
i'll and wandered about the state,
finally making his home for several
weeks in a deserted Royal Oak barn.
In a 50-foot launch Simon and ia
cob Skunk, Of Sault Ste. Marie, with
their families left for Florida, via Lake
Michigan drainage canal and the Mis-
sissippi and expect TO return next year
by way of the Atlantic ocean and Erie
canal.
About to climb down a steep en-
bankment to the railroad tracks at
Nestoria, Michael Phillips, an employee
of the d., S. S. & A. railroad of that
place, missed his footing and fell and
broke his neck. When picked up he
was dead
William Schaal, aged 65, serving IL
years from Lapeer for murder, died
in Jackson prison just week before
he was to be released. He was sent
enced in 1898, but had been a model
prisoner and his term was shortened
to nine days.
John Van Vleet, convict, who
stabbed Charles Douglass, another con-
vict, to death, was arraigned before
Judge jerks in the Michigan state
prison Thursday afternoon on a charge
of murder. He demanded an examina-
tion and il was set for October 1S.
A Port Huron man whose wife
has asked the circuit court for
a divorce, alleges in his cross-bill
that she at one time entered saloon
in st. Clair with their little child in