Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-03
AROUND THE STATE.

| Avery Bardslee. aged 10, living east
or Clarkson, was kicked by a colt and
his skull was fractured.
| Frank Kukookeski, Of Gaylord, who
got into a slashing scrape, drew 90
days in the Detroit house of correc-
| ton.
| William Wampo, OF Grand Rapids,
an uncle, claimed the body OF Blanche
Phelps, who was shot and killed by
James Cross, and her associates raised
money to pay her burial expenses.
Mrs. Jason Pierce, for forty-five
years resident of Hart, died there.
| son, Franklin Pierce, travelling
salesman for the Standard Oil Co., of
Grand Rapids, is the only survivor.
Gov. Fred Warner will ride in car
| riage No. 13 when he goes to St.
Louis to meet the executives of other
states and President Roosevelt, ac-
cording to the drawing made in that
city.
Convict Davis, who escaped from
! the Grand Marais Jail on a Duluth
steamer and held up one passenger
and assaulted another, was captured
at Silver Mountain, near Port Arthur,
| by a posse.
Although Peter Olson, of Escanaba,
slashed his throat from ear to ear
| Sunday, severing his windpipe, the
| physicians who were called say they
believe they can save his life. He
was respondent from i'll health.
While seven-year-old Hugh Cottini
was carrying a shotgun from one
room to another in the home of his
uncle, Frank Rafello, of Quincy, the
weapon was accidentally discharged,
blowing the top of the boys head off,
killing him instantly.
While on their way to bring the re-
mains Of their son home for burial
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Keller, of Ma
son, were nearly Frustrated by re-
ceiving a letter which the young man
had mailed in Grand Rapids a few
hours before he was stricken.
He don't know he's going, but he's
on his way" This is the case with
! Floyd Elmore, of Suttons Bay, who
Friday left for Chicago, where a
stranger is to give him the address
of his mother, whom he has not seen
in eight years. Elmore is 16 years
old.
Birmingham seems to have been
| spotted by burglars as an easy mark.
OF late hardly a night has passed but
an attempt Is made on some store.
! Sunday night was no exception, but
the marshal spoiled the plans of some
one trying to break into O'Neirs meat
market.
There is a great crop of cabbages
! grown in the vicinity of Saginaw and
large quantities are shipped to kraut
! factories. One day last week a load
was brought to town which weighed,
exclusive of the wagon, four and a
half tons. The farmer received $27
| for the load.
School District No. 4, in Colfax town
ship, Wexford county, which has been
! levying school taxes for seven years,
without even having a school house.
and has accumulated 5000, has been
ordered by the department of public
instruction to establish a school or
cease levying school taxes.
In letter to the state military de-
parhtment naval officer praises the
Detroit Naval Reserves, who brought
the Don Juan de Austria to Detroit
and says, 81 hope to have the pleasure
of fitting out another ship that was
manned with as highly civilized a crew
as was sent from Michigan"
A big touring car belonging to a
motor car company of Pontiac, started
out for Detroit Sunday. After TAX
ing winding course as far as Birm-
ingham, it is said the machine stop
ped there about two hours and took
on too big a load of gasoline" At
any rate, 1t was left a wreck in the
ditch near the Bloomfield tollgate.
While the steamer Majestic was
bound from Port Arthur to Sarnia a
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs Delaney
of Detroit, who in honor of the cap
tain, Alfred Montgomery Wright.
named the child Alfred Montgomery
Delaney. Passengers of the ship took
deep interest In the event, and a
purse OF $50 for the infant was col
lected.
Joe Kewaskagun, Bay Shore In.
dian, was found dead with his head
mutilated on a lonely road, and Will
lam Horton and otto GETAWAY, who
are alleged to have quarreled with
him, are held on murder charges.
State Highway Commissioner Earle
who has returned from an inspection
trip of eastern roads says that auto.
mobiles work considerable damage "a
macadam roads. He says the huge
tires cut a rut. then suck the dust
loose and the low bodies of the ma.
chine whirl the dust cushion off. and
send II broadcast over adjacent farms