Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-09-19
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.


The Citizens Manufacturing Co.,
of Standish, lost $4,000 by fire.
A fall festival and street fair will be
held September 1920 at Richmond.
Peter c. Bird, of Romulus, is pro-
noting the organization Of a new
private bank.
Mrs. Isabella Munro, aged II, OF
and was killed.
The Indian camp meeting at Frost
lake closed with 1000 people In at
tendance, after converting many In
dians.
John Wilson, a desperate colored
convict, serving an 11-year sentence
for Port Huron burglary, died in
Marquette prison.
Mrs. Marie Jackson, 104, born in
Stafford, Eng, and a resident of Mich
igan for 40 years, is dead. She lived
at Hancock 10 years.
Edward Miller, of Toledo, lost
roll of $4,000 on a Port Huron street
car and 1t was later returned by
conductor, who found 1t.
Dean Gillespie, Spanish war vet
eran, formerly of Traverse City, was
burned to death in RitZville, Wash,
and foul play is suspected.
Edward Fulette, aged 16, OF Mar
quette, was run down by an auto
driven by Selden Rose, a mining en-
gineer and died Of his injuries.
All records for attendance at the
Calhoun county district fair were
broken Thursday, when Treasurer T.
j. Shipp announced that 10000 people
were on the grounds.
At the concluding sessions OF the
National League Of Veterans and Sons
and the Ladies' National league, the
auxiliary, Flint was chosen as the
next place of meeting.
Though she was shot by her hus-
band on the eve of motherhood, Mrs.
Sylvanus Soules, OF Battle Creek, has
circulated a petition for his release
from prison on parole.
The engine in the gasoline launch
Of G. B. Warren, Of Alpena, exploded,
burning Hans Hansen and hurting him
into the river and blowing out the
front OF the boat house.
Christopher Peterson, a farmer liv.
ton from a knife wound and officers
are searching for Newman Valentine,
who is accused Of the stabbing.
Matthews Maize. a pioneer OF Com
merce township, Is dead at the age of
rs years. Maize had lived on the
same farm for over forty years. He
leaves a widow and four children.
While leaning out of the window of
his second floor room, Wallace Cook,
aged 25, of Grand Rapids, lost his bal
ance and broke his neck In the fall,
dying on the way to the hospital.
While playing with revolver he
found In a bureau. drawer, Stewart
Smith, aged 4, of Battle Creek, shot
his brother Lawrence, aged 2, in the
hip and the injury may be fatal.
While being driven In fast heat
on the Bay City fair grounds track,
Roy NJ, fine horse owned by James
Meogher, stumbled, fell and broke his
leg. The suffering animal was shot.
In statement Railroad Commission
er Glasgow says no railroad will resist
the operations OF the two-cent fare
law after September %. All roads have
agreed to adopt the rate without con-
test.
In contest between two divisions
of the Plainwell Baptist church, one
side raised $4,000 pennies and the
other $4,000, more than a mile of
pennies to be used in church re-
pairs.
Workmen excavating for a sewer
in Walkerville discovered a box in a
pit containing the bones of a man.
1t is thought the pit was dug to con-
ceal the body of a man who had been
murdered.
I'm through" said William Chap.
| pell, a Grand Rapids teamster, who
| was respondent over iii health and an
injury, and swallowed carbolic acid
His wife was in an adjoining room and
| called doctor, but he died shortly
afterward.
Gov. Warner has hit upon scheme
| to reduce the running expenses of the
various state institutions. Every month
he has printed a comparative table
showing the different prices paid for
| provisions, and copies are sent tc
every institution manager and board
member. For the month of July there
was difference of nearly 81 between
the price paid for beef at the Michigan
Soldiers home and the Eastern Michi
gan asylum. Gov. Warner believes
the comparisons will give institution
managers an inspiration to buy cheap
| er.
With the skull fractured, the body
OF William Simmons, of Wetmore, was
found on the D., s. s. & A. tracks near
that place. The indications are that
he was struck by a train during the
night.
Il John w. Hoffman, farmer residing
three miles north OF Coldwater, fell
ON the street Saturday morning and
died while being carried 10 Emer
gtncy hospital. He is survived by o
widow and one son.
While at the .encampment Of the
Grand Traverse Soldiers and Sailors
association, Mrs. Levi Soule was
struck on the head by falling tent
] pole and may die.