Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-03
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

| Twelve paroles were granted by the
state board of pardons at the meet
| ing held In Jackson last week.
South Michigan was visited by a
| severe frost and late corn and vege-
tables ruined In some sections.
Abe Druax, OF Henderson, was
crushed between a threshing machine
engine and separator, and died.
]. F. Plat, 70, for the past nifty
years one of the most prominent bust
ness men of Coldwater, Is dead.
The biggest fair in the records OF
Arenac county closed at Standish FRI
day with an attendance Of 5000.
A heavy frost has visited Muske-
| gon and Oceana counties destroying
crops worth thousands of dollars.
Joseph Boylan, aged II, of Benton
Harbor, was asphyxiated. He left the
| burners in gas range wide open.
Reed City's Tri-County fair opened
with excellent attractions but poor at
| tendance because of heavy rains.
Henry Weurding. aged ~, living
near Forest Grove, was struck by an
interurban freight car and instantly
killed.
Nine tramps who refused to obey
trainmen's orders to leave freight
train were met at Vassar by officers
and seven arrested.
William Herrick was arrested in
Gaylord by Detectives Maynard and
Cunningham, of Saginaw, charged with
abandoning his child.
After writing farewell letter to
his grandchildren, George Jewett, aged
~, of Jackson, shot and killed him
self because of i'll health.
Prof. NJ. E. Cooley, of the U. of NJ,
has been selected as a member of the
interstate commerce commission board
to test railroad signal devices.
Mrs. Mary E. Fitzsimmons, of Mum
Gle, Ind, died while upon a visit to
her sister, Mrs. James Cook, of Ann
Arbor She was 73 years old.
Mrs. Lorinda Dennis, widow of
Civil war veteran, is dead at the age
of ~ at Muir She leaves three sons.
Her husband died last December.
General Manager Bramlee says the
receipts of the NJ. u. r. lines will
increase 1000 q week. when the anti
pass law goes into effect January l
Atty.-Gen. Bird began suit against
the Postal Telegraph Co. for penalty
of $4,000, charging that the company
has not filed articles of incorporation.
Within the next two weeks, the
new shoe factory, which has been
completed at Hopkins, will be in op-
Grafton. Thirty men will be given
employment at the start.
Harlan Page Smith, GA, one of the
best known real estate dealers in the
Saginaw valley, graduate In the law
department in the u. of NJ, is dead.
A widow and one son survive.
Tillmans store in Houghton was
entered by safe-blowers during Sat.
urday night, who cracked the safe.
securing a small amount of plumber
for their trouble. There is no clue.
From the sale of delinquent tax
lands at the land commissioners Of
fee last week the state realized $685.
900. Some Of the lands sold are of
considerable value, and brought good
prices.
Martin Poultney, the Detroit man
arrested In Gaylord some time ago on
a charge of assault with intent TO do
great bodily harm, has been found
guilty in the circuit court and remand.
ed for sentence.
Oscar Labadee, not yet 20, has
been bound over on a charge of steal.
ing $50 from Paul Delisle, of Flint,
with whom he spent Thursday night.
He has been within the clutches of
the law twice before.
The two children of Mrs. Althea
Desmond, who was recently refused
a divorce from her husband, have been
abducted from Port Huron by
strange man. II is said the woman's
husband has disappeared.
Catherine Carver, of Grand Rapids,
wife of Robert J. Carver" the dentist,
who, it is charged, married IL times
and is now wanted in Battle Creek and
Port Huron has sued for divorce, al
leging desertion and non-support.
Charles Loder, Al years old, who
confessed to having committed an as
sault on his 11-year-old daughter, was
sentenced by Judge West, of Lansing,
to the extreme penalty in such cases.
a minimum of five and a maximum of
ten years.
Although he has lived with his girl
wife but short time, Clarence Walk.
er, of Detroit, has signed bonds to
pay $3.50 per week to support their
child. In 1906 Walker married Miss
Bessie Hanson, then Is years Of age.
in Windsor.
After she had failed to find her
son in the morgue, Mrs. c. w. Messen.
ger, OF Battle Creek, went to police
headquarters and swore out a war.
rant for his arrest, charging grand
larceny. She hopes to locate him in
this manner
In two addresses, one before the
young men, and one before the young
women of Olivet college, President
Lancaster denounced the college mat
rimonial agency" and declared that he
is going to put a stop to college en-.
gagements at his institution.
Breaking through the screen of q
porch where they were taking an air
ing. five inmates of the Kalamazoo
asylum escaped. They were Mrs. Jen.
at