Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-12-05
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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This season $4,000 square feet OF
cement walk have been laid in Battle
! Creek. breaking all records.
Miss Stella Forsyth, formerly EN-
| ployed in the Flint postoffice. left Tor
India to become missionary.
James Graham, of Battle Creek,
while building a fire in his room,
dropped dead. He was GO years old.
Patrolman Fitzgerald nearly lost his
life Sunday in rescuing two men from
a burning tenement house in Bay City.
Ann Arbor "drys" are circulating
petition asking the con.-con. to pass
the proposal making Ann Arbor
dry
The quarantine Of the Grand Rapids
veterinary college was raised after
three weeks and the students re-
i leased.
Mrs. Susanna Wilson, of Jonesyille.
who still keeps house by herself, cele
! brated her nlnety-frst birthday ami.
versary.
The lid was clamped on at Adrian
| Sunday by the prosecutor with the aid
of plenty of deputy sheriffs and plain
! clothes men.
! The Dolson Automobile Co., of
/ Charlotte, has been declared bankrupt
in the United States circuit court at
Grand Rapids.
! Mrs Charles It. Holden, aged so, OF
Saginaw, died of elephantiasis after
reaching a weight of 395 pounds, four
| times her normal size.
President w. G. Coburn is in New
York to book speakers for the Michi-
| gan State Teachers association con-
vention at Saginaw next year
Thomas E. Sloop, of Elk Rapids,
because he hit Lena Ball over the
head with a hammer, was fined $40
| and costs, amounting to $3.50
Francis Hodgman, the aged survey
| or of Kalamazoo who is dead, left
among his effects a song written by
himself to be sung at his funeral.
For the third time in five years,
! the Upton house, Port Huron was
destroyed by fire Thursday night
making five times in the past Is years
Free mail delivery begun in Caro-
Monday morning. Three deliveries
daily will be made in the business
section and two in the residence por
| ton.
Oil Inspector Neal declares he will
prosecute the merchant who sold
gasoline in a can not painted red to
a Dewitt family, resulting in the burn
! ing of child.
A. J. Kimball, of Grand Marais, who
has been i'll for some time and is a
civil war veteran, has gone TO the sol
diers' home that he may die among
his old comrades.
Poisoned by tainted oysters eaten at
a Masonic banquet in Dorr, two men
| are dead, four likely to die and about
twenty others are seriously i'll. The
banquet was held November 2.
A new and interesting experiment is
being tried by a Roscommon land
company which is bringing 1,G00 an
CORA goats to this section to clear and
fertiliZe the cut-over timber land.
Because Frederick Baumgrass, 75,
Of Lansing. insists on a diet Of fried
cats and chickens feet he will prob
ably be sent to the asylum where he
spent some time a few years ago.
Daniel Lyons, a deaf and dumb
mute, of the Lapeer county farm. was
struck by a Michigan Central pas
senger train, and though hurled many
feet, escaped with only broken arm.
Earl Bourke, the train butcher who
took the package containing 81 900 be-
longing TO State Treasurer Glazier
from a Grand Trunk train at Port HUI
ron last week. was given his freedom
Friday.
Mrs. Oren Case, of Long Lake, who
was adopted by relatives when she
was small, recently learned that the
father she mourned as dead was liv-
ing in Peterboro, Ont, and she has
gone to visit him.
Detroit relatives refused to pay the
$3.50 fine Of Bernard Kowski, imposed
in Port Huron, who posed as DR..
Lorenz, and he was taken to the De-
troit house of correction, crying, II
cannot live until the end"
Michael Long" as he was known
when he died in California some time
ago, is now known to have been
Michael Laherty, of Pontiac. the iden-
tifcation having been discovered
through his autobiography.
The warehouse of w. ID. Lakin &
Son, in Portland, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Two tons of Thanksgiv-
ing turkeys and chickens, awaiting
shipment. were in the building and
about half were a total loss.
Henry r. Hague, of Jackson. has
begun suit against the Chicago, De-
troit e Jackson railway, formerly the
Ypsi-Ann road, asking $4,000 dam
ages for alleged injuries sustained in
collision August 16. 1906.
Congressman Samuel w. Smith. of
Michigan, who is slated by Speaker
Joe Cannon for chairman of the com
mittee on the District of Columbia,
has won the position by years of pa.
tient study of its conditions.
During the absence of her mother
Emma, the 6-year-old daughter of VIM
Tigner. of Jerome township. was IA.
tally burned The child attempted to
put wood in the stove and in some
manner her clothing caught fire
Rushing from the house she tried to
extinguish the flames by rolling on
the ground. but was unsuccessful and