Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-01
AROUND THE STATE

Az tohCeOh aiiu q NotuUAntu maui
OF 5000 worth of gold leaf
Surveying OF the site of the new
Grand Trunk roundhouse and repair
shops at Durand has begun.
Delano & Clapp's private bank at
Otsego has been recognized as the
First State Savings bank, capitalized
at $4,000.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
Alonzo Stapleton, of Flint, was bitten
in three places by strange dog. The
wounds were cauterized.
Erection of the 100000 building of
the Murphy Manufacturing Co. in Fen
! ton for making chairs and implement
parts will begin this week.
On Pere Marquette excursion Nor
rls Golf, of Saginaw, shot at his wife,
from whom he was separated, and a
panic ensued. Con was arrested.
Prof. Frederick Novy, of the bacter-
biological department u. of NJ, is said
TO have refused an offer of $1,000 a
year from Johns Hopkins university.
Kalamazoo colored people will cele-
brate Emancipation day on August l..
1t was voted to extend an invitation
to Senator Foraker to deliver the ad-
dress.
Mrs. Daniel Berger, pioneer resi-
dent of Sturgis, was attacked by neu-
ralgia after eating a quantity OF ice
cream Wednesday and died the same
night.
Miss Title Lutz was struck by a
bolt of lightning while at a window
of her home in Ann Arbor Wednesday
and rendered unconscious, but is re-
covering.
The body of Earl Near. aged 16, son
of James Near, of Worth. was found
on the Michigan Central tracks in a
badly mangled condition. No one saw
the accident.
Frank Barron, aged %, stumbled on
the Pere Marquette tracks before an
approaching engine. in Port Huron.
and was badly mangled. He died
shortly afterward
The overturned boat of Perry Leak
strom and Louis Anderson was found
on Grand river and it is believed the
men were drowned They were fishing
during the night
Hilda Collins, 10 years old, living in
Bedford township. was brutally as
saulted by an unknown tramp as she
was walking along the highway Her
condition is serious.
Edward c. Campbell, aged 70, a res
ident of Hillsdale over years, and
widely known as an architect and
! builder, is dead after a long illness.
He retired year ago
Willard Y. Mitchell, a prominent
/ Chorlntfa hnCinncC
the initiation as a Master Mason,
though rs years old. He was pre-
sented with gold lapel button.
William Levi, aged 81, of Bay City,
after quarrel with his wife, jumped
| behind a vicious horse in his barn and
| swallowed ,carbolic acid in her presc.
ence She was unable to follow him
and he died.
Antoine Nicholas, an Armenian, was
shot in Battle Creek Sunday while
asleep, but will probably recover. The
police think the shooting is the result
of feud among Armenians who live
in the house
Dynamite was found under the house
of Rev. FIR. Papon, of ST. Albert's
church, Menominee There has been
friction between the pastor and con.
gregation and the priest was assaulted
recently while saying mass.
Thirteen socialists were arrested in
Hancock Sunday morning on a charge
/ OF carrying the red flag of anarchy
in defiance of city ordinances, and the
appearance of the police at. the proper
time averted riot and possible blood
shed.
For tearing down q United States
! flag and then trampling it, James
Grant was tried and convicted at Birch
and was brought to the 500 to serve
80 days. In Jail. In addition he was
fined $40. He's a subject OF King Ed
/ ward
St Louis, Mo-, officials say that the
Mrs. Mamie Long who died there
and was identified by Toledo detec-
tive as Mrs. Fred. Beslmer, formerly
| or Ann Arbor. never was in Michigan,
but on the contrary. was a southern
woman.
Francis Kenyon, whose home was
in Durand, Mich, died at the Detroit
house OF correction Tuesday afternoon.
He had been brought there TO serve
a term on a charge of drunkenness and
WIS apPoiNhtiy SOOu W0eH
he was locked up.
Removing everything that was port
able from the home of William Horn
by, where she was employed as a
housekeeper, Mrs Sylvester, alias
Cracked. 1t is alleged, left Port Huron
suddenly for Detroit, where she is now
believed to be in hiding.
In the recent examination of can
didates for appointment in the con-
sular service for which "a men were
designated, 3S passed, receiving the
required mark of go Among the sue
cessful Michigan candidates we're Sam
uel t. Lee and James p. Worden.
The special committee appointed by
the Kalamazoo school board recently
TO look into the advisability of the
purchase of the seminary property for
public school purposes, today decided
to recommend the purchase of the
| property, which consists Of two fine
buildings and % acres of land. covered
with an oak grove. II is the intention
/ of the school board TO make the Sam