Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-10-31


slice $4,000 tons of beets this season.
Robert Allan, a farmer living near
Port Austin, was kicked in the stom-
ach by colt and died before physi-
clan arrived.
News has been received in Detroit
OF the death on Sunday at Portland,
Ore, of William w. Curtiss, former
resident of this state.
Battle Greek Country club will buy
Gated, having raised $4,000 of the $15,.
600 needed at smoker.
George w. Van Alstine,, aged 81,
noted as a pedestrian. died in Oneida,
and the divorce suit against him in
Charlotte has been removed from the
docket.
Cooley" the dog mascot of the
Grand Rapids grand lodge of perfec.
ton of the Masons, was presented with
a gold collar during initiation cere-
monies.
Fire of unknown origin which start
ed in the Methodist church, Carrolton,
spread to the town hall and James
Burch's residence, doing damage of
about $4,000.
Joseph w. Martin, representing De-
troit capitalists, petitioned the council
of Flint for a franchise to install
new telephone system and operate 1t
for 80 years.
For saving the life of Henry Ellis,
a would-be-suicide, Sheriff Frank w.
Aronson, of Delta, has a broken nose.
Ellis tried to jump off the dock He
is temporarily insane
Ex-Sheriff William Collins, of Gin
ton county, aged TO- was perhaps ia
tally hurt in a quarrel with neighbor
over the fence line, and an ante-mor-
tenn statement will be taken.
Charles Burmeister fell down an ele-
vator shaft in the Shelby canning fac
tory, breaking a leg. Fred Dorrance
fell under loaded wagon and re-
ceived probable fatal wounds.
Despondent over i'll health, Able
Cross, aScd 81, civil war veteran of
Ovid, hung himself i'm the barn of his
daughter, Mrs. Nora Harmon, in Oak
ley and died shortly after being cut
down.
Because one constable had a bill of
more than $500 the board OF supervis-
ors directed Justice North, of Pontiac.
to turn over all John Doe warrants to
the sheriff as a means OF reducing eX-
penses.
Olaf Gonsberg, 40, who after 20
years, planned to visit his mother in
London, dropped dead of heart failure
on the Manistee & Northwestern
tracks, and the body was mangled by
a train.
John Lentz, q, South Shore rail
road brakeman and officer of the Ne
gaunee fire department, was thrown
under an ore car by the swapping of
rod brake and his head severed from
the body.
On the grounds that the verdict of
$1S,250 awarded Frank Mason, of Bay
City, in his suit against the Michigan
Central railroad for injuries is excess
sive, the defendant has been granted
a new trial.
Abraham Freeman, a negro who
killed Robert Pishowski, a Pole, in
protecting the house of Mary Black
smith in Cedar, was acquitted from
the murder charge on the ground that
he acted in self defense
Sherman Freeman, colored. of Trav-
erse City, charged with the murder
of Charles Chessiski, is being tried in
the circuit court. The crime was COM
mitted at Cedar in a quarrel at a
house of questionable repute.
Attorney General Bird has discontin-
ued the suit commenced four years
M IN
Haven & Milwaukee railroad to reduce
its fare, the company having complied
with the recent two-cent fare statute.
SO far this year there have been 40
drownings in the Detroit river, accord
ing to the log book" of Harbormaster
Robert Ellison. This is by far the
largest number that have met death
by the water route during any like
period of time in the history of De-
troit.
Mrs. A. J. Mills, of Kalamazoo, presi-
dent of the WomeKs Civic Improve
ment league, announced in an address
that campaign against placarding
buildings with advertising is soon to
be on in full force. Speaking of plans
she mentioned the idea used in some
foreign cities of having advertising
poles on street corners, as one that
might be used there.
Cecil Mclaughlin, of Detroit, travel
ing salesman, who moved to Vernon
a few weeks ago TO assume control of
his fathers business, the II. B. Nc
Laughlin estate one of the largest in
the country, on the death of the latter.
was Tuesday elected poor commission
er of Shiawassee county, position
which II. B. Mclaughlin had held for
many years before his death.
The old Traphagen cemetery in Hol-
ly township is to be vacated. The old
burial ground has not been used for
nearly 80 years, and 1t is claimed It
is an eyesore to surrounding property.
There are but few tombstones to es-
tablish the identity of the dead, and
when the bodies shall have been re-
moved to the village cemetery II will
be impossible to tell who is who.
Deacons in the Fifth Avenue Chris
tian Reformed church, of Grand Rap
ids, who signed their names to petit
tons for licenses for pool room and
saloon, were charged with hypocrisy
bV church members and have aekad