Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-08-08
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

with 40 tons of hay.
Despondent over ill-health, Ames
Gied, aged 40, of Cadillac, took car
boic acid and died.
c. c. Long, aged %, son OF George
Long, of Lake Odessa, was killed by
a freight train at Huron, s. ID.
Work on the new Jackson-Lansing
interurban line has begun and will be
completed TO Mason by Jan. /.
Peter Menass, a Sarnia Indian, crept
under a freight car in Port Huron for
shelter and was run over and killed.
Orders to arrest all Ann Arbor boys
with rifles have been given, because OF
the accidental shooting Of Miss Mamie
Collins.
Edward Plumb switchman, who
lost leg in an accident on the Hecla
Belt Line Railway Co, has sued for
$4,000.
John W. Clark has been appointed
by Gov. Warner 70 succeed John Baird,
Of Saginaw, as deputy state salt in
spector
The recruiting ship Wolverine has
had poor success in enisting men for
the navy. The small wages offered by
Uncle Sam is blamed.
Guests of the Hotel Windemere,
Gratiot beach, protested because the
mattresses were permitted TO battle
at the same time they did
William II. Harrison, aged 70, a
unique character, who refused to ac-
cept pay from his employer in Delta,
dropped dead of heart failure.
Many grandchildren and great grand
children attended the wedding OF
Oliver Bueregard, aged II, to Salina
Dion, aged 60, in Battle Greek.
Clyde Simpson, of Flint, student
at Ferris institute, jumped from a train
before 1t reached the depot, and in the
fall seriously injured his back.
Albert Koch, Of Ann Arbor, who, it
is charged stabbed George Eschelbach
II times at a picnic during row about
a girl, has been bound over for trial.
Ex-Railroad Commissioner Atwood
and Walter S. Wixom, of Caro-, will be
indorsed by the delegation as dele
gates to the constitutional convention.
As the result of a runaway in Wy.
andotte Tuesday noon, August Rahm
sustained injuries from which he died
later in Emergency hospital, in Ford.
Since the first of January 20 new
state banks have been organized in
Michigan, according to a statement of
State Banking Commissioner thinner
man.
Gottfried Morofski, a pioneer Ger
man Of Lansing who recently fell from
a sprinkling wagon he was driving,
breaking his leg, died at the city hos
pital
The body of Willis Garfield was
found on the Michigan Central tracks,
near Ithaca, ground to pieces. 1t is
supposed he was killed in the night by
a train.
The cash balance in the state treas
ury at the close of July was $6,2SS,-
514.44, the expenditures of the month
having reduced the balance about
100000.
Willard E. Baker, a Saginaw pho
tographer, is charged with violation
of the law as to the proper observ-
ance of Sunday. Baker says he is an
Adventist.
With her household goods packed
ready to move TO Detroit, where she
intended living with a son, Mrs. Ben
jamin Page, 4S, Of Lansing, dropped
dead Wednesday.
Auditor General Bradley says the
$500 appropriation to the Corn as
ISOLATION" for corn culture, is another
illegal legislative act. He will refuse
to pay out the money.
Clarence Meers, an employee Of the
Imperial Wheel Co., Flint, caught his
right hand in an automobile spoke
machine Thursday and lost all the
fingers of that member.
1t is learned that Adrian L. Greene,
associate justice of the Kansas SUI
preme court, died Sunday morning in
the sanitarium, Battle Creek. Stom-
ach trouble caused death
On August 10 the Munith Business
Mems association will hold a dav of
sports. The officers are: President,
VIM. II. Weeks; secretary, DR.. r. H.
Leece; treasurer, p. V. Ok
A dozen members of the Lansing
Business Mems association called on
Gov. Warner TO urge the appointment
of Harrie f. Thomas as a member Of
the new railroad commission.
Fire of unknown origin swept Wal
loon Lake Sunday night and virtually
wiped out the business portion of the
village. The damage is placed at $780,
600, with considerable insurance.
In reply to a question as to his can.
didacy for third term, Gov. Warner
replied that it would depend on the
future and that in a few months he
would be prepared to state his posi-.
ton.
Flint small boys, needing tent to
go camping with, took one from John
Small's back yard. In the tent was
Frank Tomleson, aged Go. Tomleson
awoke to find himself sleeping in the
open.
Henry Adams, 10 years old, was
brought to Lapeer from Attica and
locked up in the county Jail on q
charge of breaking into the Grand
Trunk depot in that village and steal
ing four cents.
Charles ]. Mitchell, of Port Huron,
has received certificate for $50 acres
from Tho Canadian covorproont