Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-12-26
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

who was struck by a freight train,
DIED of his injuries.
Postmaster A. r. McKinnon, of Shell
by. was stricken with apoplexy In MS
office and is seriously Ill.
Miss Sally Stuart. OF Muskegon, has
gone to the Isle of Pines, where she
VIII manage pineapple plantation.
Due to a mistake in signals the en-
CINE and coaches of Pere Marquette
train No. ran off the derail at Pea
cock
Despondent over illness, Mrs. Chas.
Gilbert, aged so, of Battle Creek,
drank half pint of wood alcohol and
died.
State Factory Inspector Lurella NJ.
Burton says the recent increase in
child labor in the factories is enor-
nous.
Jacob Dalm, aged 16, OF Holland.
who lost both hands in a paper cut
ter in the Bryant mills, got judgment
for s7,S3125.
Arthur Herrick, Emil Laroux and
Bert Bellmore were arrested in Bay
City charged with entering a store in
the night time.
The six children of Mrs. Mary A.
Folkmire, of Battle Greek, were given
verdict of $4,000 for her death by
an M. u. r. car.
Mrs. Sarah e. Conant, aged 80, a
member of the Coldwater Presbyterian
church for so years, died as the re.
suit of a fall out of bed
Denver Bates, aged Z. living near
Walloon Lake, was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of rifle in the
hands Of brother James.
Old notes of the proposed Detroit
Bay City traction line are being paid
by Detroiters, and it is believed the
project has been revived.
Lansing and Saginaw police have
put a stop to shooting sparrows in the
city limits, considering the danger TO
human anatomy too great.
Fire which originated in the fur
store of e. S. George, Detroit, Satur-
| day morning, caused losses aggregat-
ing about 100000. Two firemen were
seriously hurt
John w. Blodgett, member of the
Republican national committee, en-
| gagged rooms for the Michigan delega-
ton at the Auditorium Annex, close
to Taft's headquarters.
While shooting at a cat Henry
| Windt, of Muskegon, missed the cat
and hit his brother, the bullet passing
through his left arm and lodging just
in front of the hip bone.
The state military board took action
| Wednesday to make II necessary for
the candidates for the NJ. N. G.. to
have to pass examinations, the same
as those of the regular army.
The youngest stenographer to any
statesman at the capital at Washing
| ton is Miss Edith Ochs, Of Muskegon,
/ who is private stenographer to Con-
| gresham James G. Mclaughlin.
Thorpe Chamberlain, u. of M. en-
gineer employed on the Panama canal
came 5000 miles 10 spend Christmas
with his parents, Prosecutor and Mrs.
Dan T. Chamberlain, of Muskegon.
Thomas Hume, a wealthy citizen,
presented a 100000 printing outfit to
| the Muskegon public schools, to be
used for fundamental training in type
setting and general newspaper work.
The Pere Marquette railroad has
been made defendant in a $4,000
| damage suit brought by Mrs. Anna
| +. Smith, whose husband was killed
near St Joseph January /, 1906 by
being hit by a train.
Earl Ordway, a naval cadet, OBJ
| tanned a divorce from his wife, for
merly Miss Helen Pickett, of Battle
Creek. They met in New York and
were married on the impulse, but sep
arated three weeks later
Fearing the spread of prohibition
| hn accnniafinY1 0f
| the upper peninsula agreed to sell
beer only to law-abiding saloonkeep-
ers and will try to eradicate the
dives: They also raised prices.
Thomas st. Clair, accused of having
blown the Birmingham postofice safe,
pleaded not guilty and says he will
prove an alibi. The testimony of
Robert Kenyon will be used in an
attempt to break down the alibi.
James G. Cross, who shot and killed
Blanche Phelps, aged 10, in Jackson
saloon, was convicted and sentenced
to life imprisonment. The Phelps wo-
man supported Cross and the shooting
was the climax to quarrel which sep
arated them.
Three Grand Rapids boys were bit
| ten by dog last week, and although
| the Off1cialS are not certain as 10
whether the animal was suffering from
hydrophobia, 1t is feared that rabies
may result and the boys are being
carefully watched by physicians.
Members Of the state tax commits
sion will inspect the Wisconsin &
Michigan railroad, one of John r.
Walsh's enterprises. Prof NJ. f. Coo
ley and Attorney General Bird declare
the present 100000 assessment too
high and 1t will probably be lowered.
Colored men who rob women on the
streets of Detroit seem to evade cap
ture despite all efforts of the police.
Holdups have been very numerous
during the past few weeks. Saturday
night five women were stopped and
their shopping bags and money forci-
bly, taken.
The graduating class of the Lake
Odessa high school has prepared the
following lines as an apology to their
Latin study:
"Al are dead who wrote 1t,
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