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

ldlc VI 10 CeutS per uleUl lOI maintain
ing patients of state asylums and it
will be reduced to as cents.
Arthur Bryant and VIM Wright.
electricians, charged with larceny,
were discovered preparing TO burn
their way out OF Mason jail with an
electric wire
Judge John B. Shipman, aged 76,
of Coldwater, has just become mem
Der of the Elks. He is probably the
Oldest man ever initiated into the or
der in this state.
Co. !. NJ, N. G., of Ann Arbor, is to
have the third rifle range in the state,
according to the promise Of Gen. Nc
Gurrin. Grand Rapids and Detroit
have the other two
Roy Ravens, the 14-year-old son of
r. r. Ravens. of the state land of
fce jumped off a street car backward,
and fell, sustaining a serious concus-
sion Of the brain.
Charles Bromstra, 81 years old, of
Muskegon while working complained
of pain in the region of his heart, said
he thought he would die and at the
supper table suddenly expired.
An Ann Arbor extra freight was
wrecked in a cut near the depot at
Lucas by a marine engine rolling off
Hat car. Nine cars were piled up
in scrap heap. No one was hurt.
A woman witness in the Martin
Golden murder case has failed 10 iden-
tify alcohol Bill'' Schimmel as the
man she saw near Golden's store in
Denison the night of the crime. Things
look good for Bill"
Mrs Elizabeth Meydriech. of St Jo-
seph, pointed her forefnger at a bur
glar she found in her house and
threatened 70 shoot him. The man
thought she had revolver and after
dropping his booty, fed
Separated for 2s years and then
brought together through a CODY of
the city directory, David Bechtel, EN-
ployed by Dibble G. Latta, coal mer-
chants, and Mrs. Emma Alice Bechtel.
his sister, who recently moved to
Flint, have been reunited.
The concurrent resolution of the
legislature appropriating SIS TO repair
the Michigan memorial tablet in the
Washington monument at Washington
was never enrolled or presented to the
governor for his signature. Payment
on the resolution has been stopped
Look straight UP in the air or we
will blow out your brains" said two
highwaymen to Archie McKillips, of
Sault Ste. Marie, who was on his way
with $240 in savings to buy real es
tate. While he was looking at the
heavens the men took all he had and
then made him walk away still looking
at the stars.
The feature of a recent ball game
in Lapeer between Goodrich and La
peer was the errorless game pitched
by Rev. p. E. Edwards, for the Good
rich team. The Goodrich boys say his
sermons are as forceful as his pitch
ing, the only difference being. he
leaves the curves at the door on en-
tering. Score, 8 to in favor of Good
rich
Robert Featham, &c. a mason con
tractor Of Alpena, died of lockiaw af
ter an Illness of two days. He ran
rusty nail into his foot a week ago
He was unmarried. His father, LaS
Featham, died over a year ago from
bullet wound fired during a family
dispute by Peter j. Wood, his son-in
law, who is now serving % years in
Marquette prison.
Fire Quilted the store OF the Don
sereauX Dry Goods Co. in Lansing.
starting from a rubbish burner in an
alley. The flames were famed by a
high wind and swept through the store
in a short time. The stores of Mrs.
NJ. A. Sternberg, a milliner, and J. r.
Everett, grocer, were damaged.
general alarm was turned in and the
firemen succeeded in preventing a
further spread of the flames.
Three persons were killed and two
injured. one probably fatally, in col
lsion between an electric car and an
automobile in Jackson Friday. The
dead are Mrs. Emily Pulver, 50 years
Bernice Oliver, years, grand-daugh-
ter of Mrs. Puver Mrs. Levi Palmer.
45 years The injured are II. Adelbert
Oliver. in critical condition, and Mrs.
r. A. Oliver, who is slightly hurt suf-
fering mostly from the shock.
At a meeting of the Joint prison
boards and allied boards held on
Mackinac Island, resolution was
adopted approving of the way Mich.
gan voters have voiced themselves i'm
favor of industrial pursuits in the
prisons. Warden Fuller. of Ionia, sub.
mitted in his annual report state
ment showing a decrease OF 100000
year in the cost of maintaining the
reformatory since 1894, although the
number of prisoners has increased 81
per cent.
Lew Brooks was arrested in Flint
for the government authorities on
charge of desertion from the United
States navy Wednesday afternoon. He
gave inconsistencies as his reason for
leaving the federal service without
permission.
Mrs. Belle WEIGH, of Royal Oak,
is charged with assault. The Welches
are what the neighbors term squatters
and the Wilcoxes their nearest neigh
bors. Family differences in which
Jersey COW and a flock or chickens
played the part of trespassers on the
WEIGH domain, led TO the brandishing
of a gun on the part OF Mrs. WEIGH,
| 1t is alleged. She gave BAH.