Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-26
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

| lnere were Z, 100 deaths III MlChlbdl
during August and 1902 births.
Burglars cracked two safes at Palm
er and escaped with yaluables worth
about $500
Henry Sanford, Jackson farmer,
who was married five weeks ago, ate
poisoned mushrooms and died.
Fifteen students will enter the U. OF
NJ. from the June graduating class of
the Kansas City, Mo-, high school.
An auto driven by Frank Woodward,
vice-presdent of the Owosso Casket
Co, turned turtle and Mrs. Woodward
broke her leg.
Michigan ranks first in this county
in the number Of sleighs manufactured
and third in the amount spent for car.
riages and vehicles and its pleasure
vehicle output.
Mrs. William Osborne, of Kingsley,
accidentally gave her 15-year-old
daughter, who was i'll with diphtheria,
carbolic acid, instead of medicine,
causing her death.
In fit of remorse after a debauch,
Alfred Taylor a printer and Spanish
war veteran, threw himself in front
of street car in Sault Ste. Marie and
was instantly killed.
A Pere Marquette train rushed to
Grand Rapids from White Cloud, AZ
miles away, to get James Atwater, an
employe who was crushed under a
freight train. He died on the way.
| Because of conflicting evidence pro-
] duced before the coroners inquest in
to the death of Brakeman Fraker,
| found dead in a freight car at Menom
inee, foul play is suspected. Two ho-
boes are in Jail awaiting further in.
vestigation.
| For the first time in % years, James
and Henry Dalrymple. brothers, met
in Port Huron and talked over their
boyhood days. The two were separat
ed when young, Henry remaining in
Port Huron and James going to Ply.
mouth, Mich.
The recent completion of the grad
ing operations of the Chicago, Milwau
kee & st. Paul railway extension
southwest from Green postoffice to
Iron river, means the near opening
of vast era of virgin timber in On.
tonagon county.
Secretary Smith, of the University
| Y. NJ. G. A, who is registering stu
dents who need financial assistance in
completing their college course, says
that about 1000 young men will put
themselves through in whole or in
part by their personal efforts.
News has reached Muskegon from
Bear Swamp, telling of a lightning
prank that visited the home of Frank
Beebe. A bolt struck his 20-year-old
daughter and without harming her in
the least ran down her left side and
tore the shoe from her left foot.
After getting on a Grand Trunk
train in Battle Creek to return tc
| Owosso, Mrs. Jerome Markham. an
elderly lady fell dead in a car seat
Her daughters, whom she had been Wis
iting and who had accompanied her
to the train, were overcome with the
shock
Eks' island, at Lake Gougac, was
rallied to raise funds for the new
building of the order and went to a
pool of fifty men who bought $50 tick.
cts and paid Asa Converse $500 for
his chance when the contest narrowed
to his and another ticket. The receipts
were $4,000.
If certain industry, which Bay
City claims the distinction of being
the originator, continues to grow
the way it has the past two
years, the city will soon be
known throughout the country
as Peanutville. Tons of that commod.
ity are shipped from there to every
state in the union.
With a disposition that does not
seem to appeal to his many adopted
parents, too good to be sent to a re-
form school, because no charge can
be placed against him, yet too bad to
stay in any of the homes found for
him, not wanted by his mother, who
is destitute, deserted by his father is
the sad plight of Allen Bisbee. of
Grand Rapids. Temporarily Allen Is
in charge of Police Matron Mary linn.
pending some solution of the stua-
ton.
The scheme to reform drunkards
and confirmed booze artists as out
lined and put into execution by Judge
Adams, Of Kalamazoo, within the past
year, by farming them out instead of
giving them jail sentences, has proven
a big success, as far as 1t has gone.
Jim" Hawley, a notorious flrewater
consumer, has emerged from his six
months sojourn at the Stoddard farm,
and has been pronounced a model citi.
zen. He has even lost his taste for
spirits.
Henry Hess, II, and Frank Link. 16
under arrest in Port Huron, have con.
fessed. the police say, to having start.
ed out with the intention of becoming
regular desperadoes, with horse-steal
ing as their long suit. They are
charged with breaking into the resi-.
dence of Henry Brown by forcing the
door with the butt Of shotgun II
is alleged they took two revolvers and
some cartridges.
A pet calf rugged up to sulky by
Miss Matte McCardy. OF Ann Arbor
ran away and in trying to dodge a
tree threw her against II, breaking
her nose and knocking out several
teeth.