Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-23
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

OF erection In the village OF Sawyer.
The thirty-third annual reunion OF
the famous old LOOMS battery" was
held in Coldwater Wednesday.
| Clean Orcutt, aged Is months,
herself in her parents home in Os-
temo, and was fatally scalded.
Feeling his dog tugging at his bed
clothes and barking Frank Miller, OF
Traverse City, awoke to find his barn
! afire. He awoke too late, however, to
save the building.
Kalamazoo city council has decided
to establish municipal tuberculosis
colony on top of one of the city's
highest hills. Canvas houses will be
provided for each patient.
j. Fl. Sullivan, of Grand Rapids, is
endeavoring TO induce the government
to make use of his invention for max
ing concrete molds in the construction
of Gatun dam at Panama canal.
Birds nests in the steeple of the
Congregational church in Delta Mills
caught fire from sparks from the burn
ing home of Gerrit Derby and the
church was destroyed Loss $4,000
Gov. Frank Gooding, of Idaho,
whose life is said to have been threat
ened as a result of the Haywood trial,
is a former Michigan man, having
been born and raised near Paw Paw
Minor Fl. Ingall. who was arrested
in Jackson for Detroit officers, who
wanted him on the charge of forging
a $25 check, is an ex-convict. His wife
has bill of divorce pending in Jack
SON.
In order to provide proper Site for
Battle Creeks new city hall the First
Methodist church will sell to the city
for $4,000 its lot at the head of Main
street, where it was preparing to erect
new church.
Commencement week in the State
School for the Blind will begin June
l6, with the baccalaureate service in
the chapel. Commencement class exer-
cises will be on the evening of Tues
day, June IS.
That she wished to make her par
ents mourn for her as dead is the
reason given by Miss Edna Anstlss. of
Galien. for disappearing from her
home. She was found in farm house
near Kankakee, Ind.
One of the largest funerals in the
history of Ann Arbor was that OF
Charles b. Woodward, late clerk of the
Griswold house in Detroit. Friends
came from all over the state. Rev.
Henry Tatlock officiated.
A jury in the circuit court has
awarded William Waukowsky, Of Me-
nominee, a former employee OF the
Crivitz Paper Co, s5,00h damages for
injuries he received by being drawn
into paper making machinery.
Where is 9-year-old Stanley Sim
mons? This lad is chronic runaway
artist. The Saginaw police have once
more been called upon to locate Stan
ley. His mother is worried lest he be
killed by train while touring"
After a tedious voyage over the
ocean from Belgium and ten days
denton by the immigration author
tiles, Mrs. August Won Roemdonk has
arrived in Saginaw to join her hus-
band after a four years separation.
A. ]. Lambert, of Ovid, agent for the
Grand Trunk, died after an opera
tion for appendicitis. The physicians
found that the inllamed appendix had
bursted and that a quantity of poison
Gus pus had entered the abdominal
cavity.
The Cassopolis Savings & Loan as
sociation has filed articles of incor-
poration; capital, $4,000. 1t is local
building and loan company formed to
meet the demand for houses result
ing from the establishment of new
factories.
Three Sarnia women unknown to
each other decided almost at the same
time to leave their husbands. The
three were arrested in Port Huron
One charged her husband abused her.
but the others said they were tired
Of married life.
According to the latest census re-
port. Van Buren, county shows the
greatest Increase of any county in the
fourth congressional district for the
past five years. The gain in that time
is 100, $50. Michigan has 40 people to
the square mile.
According to the latest census re-
port, Van Buren, county shows the
greatest increase of any county in the
fourth congressional district for the
past five years. The gain in that time
is 109,390. Michigan has As people to
the square mile.
Frank Powell. OF Grand Rapids a
manufacturing chemist, is said to be
turning blue, as a result of swallowing
analine, which caused his blood TO
turn TO ink. His sweat glands are ex-
uding a fluid like ink. His physician
thinks he will recover.
Informed that her mother is dan
gerously III at Frankfort and that she
was needed at home, Miss Gertrude
DragOo, aged Is, employed in a Mt.
Pleasant photograph studio, took car
bolic acid, saying that she would rath.
or die than go TO Frankfort
President Roosevelt has written to
Congressman Diekema expressing his
regret at the latter's resignation from
the Spanish claims commission. Upon
receipt of the letter Mr.. Diekema filed
his certificate of election, and he is
now a full-hedged congressman.
The antics of a sheep which he was
shearing will doubtless cause George
Goodwin. farmer of Linden town
ship. to lose the sight of his left eye
The sheep resisted having its wool
clfnnad and kicked tho ahaarc which