Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-11-07
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

apoplexy at the age of So.
William Morey, of Ravenna town
ship, Civil war veteran, fell into a
drain ditch and was drowned.
Colon G. Lille, deputy pure food
commissioner, resigned until the con-
con. in which he is a delegate, is over.
George r. Bates. aged rs, of Grand
Rapids, married Virginia Bootheby,
aged 6S, the sister-in-law OF his daugh-
ter.
Mrs. Brandt Hyde, who was carried
from their burning house, in Grand
Rapids by her husband. died OF her
burns.
Merle Willis, aged 23. OF Gobels,
was struck by the fragment of the
fly wheel of a feed cutter and instant
ly killed.
While attending to her household
duties, Mrs. Emeline Foote, 70, wife OF
VIM. II. Foote, of Milford, dropped
dead. She had been married So years.
The Democratic students of Ann Ar
Dor. not willing to be outdone by the
Republicans, have organized Demo
crat club with r. o. Minton chair
man.
Attacked by heart failure when he
awakened in the morning, Richard p.
McHugh, aged IA, high school stu
dent. of Saginaw, died shortly after
ward.
1t now looks as II 5000 students
would be included in the u. of NJ. cata-
logue list Of the collegiate year of 1907
foI nil hA 1tnh
month.
AS result from fall from the roof
OF his kitchen, w. s. Clements, OF Bay
City, well known lumber inspector,
Is dead. A widow and five daughters
survive.
Apple parings, sent to France from
Traverse City, return as sparkling
wine. The parings are evaporated
and sent in carload lots, mixed with
grape juice.
Mrs. Charles Konkle, OF Grand Rap
ids, had one arm severed when a
Grand Trunk train struck a carriage
in which she and two other women
were riding.
DR.. William Coll, of Sebewaing, who
was arrested for the attempted murder
Of his divorced wife, pleaded guilty
to assault and was given four to ten
years in Ionia.
Matilda Pogel, of Hancock, employ
ed as domestic, was helping to carry
a boiler of hot water. She stumbled
and the boiling water poured over her.
causing her death.
John T. Mccormick, a Pere Mar.
quette switch tender in Grand Rap
ids, fell under a car and both legs
were crushed so badly that amputa-
ton was necessary.
George Palmer, 35, Of Logan, living
six miles north of Prescott, dropped
dead while at his work clearing up
land. The cause of death is attribut
ed to heart failure.
Charles Herman, of Niles, while at
Laporte, Ind, Wednesday, fell under
a Michigan Central train and received
probably fatal injuries. He has wife
and several children.
Port Huron physicians say there is
little hope for the recovery of Eta
Willie, who suffered 10 fits while
aboard a street car. She has been I'M
conscious three Gays.
There is every indication that the
plan of the Grand Rapids battalion to
raise $125,000 to build an assembly
hall which will accommodate at least
1000 people will succeed
William Harden, whose home is at
Scottville, Mich, was run over by a
pair of big wheels and instantly killed
Thursday morning in Schurer's lumber
camp, 10 miles from Frederick.
Circuit Judge Stone, of Gladstone,
sent a bartender who was arrested
for the third violation Of the saloon
laws, to jail and served notice that
he would do the same to others.
The farm house of John Ralph, in
Charleston township, Kalamazoo coun
ty, was totally destroyed by Are Wed.
nesday afternoon. Mr.. Ralph is IS
years old and his loss is about $4,000.
Mrs. John Orban, Of Alpena, made a
second attack with a Ratchet upon
the saloon building of John Beck,
which she claims as her property, and
it took several officers to place her in
jail.
Samuel Cowell, sc years old. an
inmate Of the Soldiers home, was
struck by a car near the home in
Grand Rapids, and received injuries
from which he died at the home hos
pital.
A coroner's jury failed to place the
responsibility for the death of Peter
A. Ralston, the Lansing insurance
man killed under mysterious circum
stances while out in Fred X. Piatt's
auto.
While playing solitaire in the kitchen
at his home, Benjamin Adams, OF
Jackson, dropped dead, probably from
apoplexy He was found on the floor
by his daughter short time after
ward.
Because he wanted to scare a lab
orer named Nelson Carlson, John
Boyle, a Waterman of Berrien Springs
discharged a revolver loaded with o
blank cartridge in his face, and now
Boyle is paying the doctors bill.
1t has just come to light that docu
ments representing $10,000,000 which
Grand Rapids has paid out on its debi
are exposed to danger by fire OF
thieves, all because the vaults in the
city hall have long ago been filled.
Evpryone "tOOk car" I'm LANSING