Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-22
AROUND THE STATE.


Fire destroyed the feed In the grist
mill of H. B. Bowers, at Clawson; loss
$4,000.
Henry Hagemeister, a Lenox farm
er, killed a savage lynx weighing over
20 pounds.
Col. E. ]. Marsh, former postmaster
and veteran editor Of the Hillsdale
Leader, is critically iii at Baw Beese.
The Century club, an Ovid bust
ness mems organization, banQueted
the county grange Friday night. Gov
ers were laid for 400.
Frank Miller, OF Flint, who stole
a dead boys clothes, kept by Isaac
Bornette as keepsakes, was sent to
the Detroit house of correction.
The Royal Oak Savings bank, re-
Gently organized with $4,000 capital.
has been authorized to transact bust
ness by the state banking commits
sion.
Miss Anna NJ. Hume, aged AZ, who
has worked in the government print
ing ONCE for "a years, has inherited
$4,000 900 from a great uncle In Eng
land.
Saturday afternoon was prolific of
street car accidents In Detroit, no
less than three men and one woman
being injured, one Of the men prob
ably fatally.
Justice William L. Carpenter, Of the
state supreme court, is being talked
OF In certain political quarters as a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for governor next year.
Although II is over a week since
an unknown assailant shot and killed
Patrolman Clarence Shockley, OF Niles,
the police have not cleaned the first
clue TO the identity OF the murderer
The contract has been awarded for
the Marsh drain ditch, in Kalamazoo
county, which will make about TO-
600 acres OF present thicket land suit
able for cultivation. The ditch will
cost $4,000.
Steve Warren an attendant at Sill
yer Beach resort, had a headache.
He took a powder and repeated the
dose. Then Steve nearly died, and
ii was several hours before he was
out of danger.
BY vote OF Is to 6 the Ohio Re-
publican state central committee de-
clared Tuesday afternoon that Will
lam II. Taft, secretary OF war, is
Ohio's choice for the next Republican
nomination for president.
Ray Morrell, son of f. E. Morrell
son of a we'll known Allegan farmer
and Miss Jessie Wilson, announce to
their friends that they are MIR. and
Mrs. Ray Morrell, and have been so
NJ
Mrs. Henry c. Ward, near Pontiac.
whose apple orchard is one of the
largest in the country, has closed out
her 1907 crop to a Chicago house at
80 a barrel While the crop is light.
II is expected there will be at least
1900 barrels.
Harasaht Tansti, a native OF Africa.
who graduated from Wilberforce and
Atlanta colleges, and has been janitor
OF the Ann Arbor Y M. c. A., will re.
turn to South Africa and teach the
natives. He will take his wife, who is
an Ann Arbor girl, with him.
There were 4,017 births in July and
2,591 deaths, a rate of III per 1000
inhabitants. OF 26O violent deaths,
sixty-two were from railroad acct
dents, the Salem accident being re-
sponsible for one-half There were
sixty-four cases of drowning.
Jackson citizens organized an anti
noise society and have secured a po-
lice order requiring the licensing OF
all hucksters who cry their wares.
The cost of the license is almost pro-
hibitive, and IL is believed the buck
sters will be forced out OF business.
Congressman II. Olin Young will
recommend the appointment of G..
H. Scott as postmaster at the 500 to
succeed William Webster, who has op-
posed Scott and his friends In party
AFFAIRS. Youngis, announcement in
dorses the action of me Republican
primaries and county committee.
Richard Mcdonald, who went to
Alaska from Jackson three years ago
and had not been heard from since.
has been located at Dicks creek In
the gold regions. Mrs. Mary Mudgett,
sister, met man on a train who
had been in Alaska and mentioned
her brother, who had been given up as
dead. The stranger said he knew him
and gave his address to Mrs. Mudgett.
and letter has just been received
from Mcdonald. who says none of his
letters home had been forwarded.
Michael Busch. OF Stephenson. while
working in the woods, was struck by
a falling tree, receiving injuries that
may prove fatal
Exasperated when she found a roll
OF $4,000 hidden in the cellar by her
husband and son, Mrs. Joseph Gar
diepy, Of Hancock, threw il into the
hre. She will be examined as to her
sanity by the probate court.
Death released William Simpkins.
aged 30, from the prospect OF serving
long term for highway robbery. lie
was sent TO Jackson from Bay county
a few months ago with an indeterm.
mate sentence OF from to IS years.