Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

bernardo fOWers, dgeu OO, was cut
in twain by freight train at Powers.
Three Grayling business men raised
81 200 In less than two hours for
Fourth of July celebration.
Eight thousand sheep imported by
Gov. Warner and c. s. Pierce from
Wyoming for their Ogemaw farm
have arrived
The daughter of Mrs. Rose Smith
broke into her mothers home In Bay
City and found her dead in bed. She
had died alone.
Guards and keepers of the Marquette
prison have had their salaries boosted
1914 per cent. They will now get $500
and $500 respectively.
Andrew Divine, of Standish, was
thrown from a train at Lansing and
died without regaining consciousness
widow and son survive.
A horse belonging to Rankin Meade.
of SCOTS, sank TO its neck in the pas
ture and 1t took 90 men an hour to
get him aboard stone boat.
Henry Buckley, of Flint, serving
time for drunkenness, saw his son
brought to Jail for petty theft, and
greeted him .sympathetically.
The home Of DR.. Mary Green, one
of the finest in Charlotte, has been
bought by the Odd Fellows for $1,000,
and will be transformed into temple.
George H. Clippert, of Detroit, has
been appointed a member of the board
of guardians of the Adrian School for
Girls by Gov. Warner TO succeed Gill
bert Hart, of Detroit.
A strike has again closed the Eureka
coal mine because the 60 miners re-
fuse to wait for their pay. The mine
has been greatly damaged of late by
flooding and other mishaps.
The Michigan Central has been max
ing tests of the eyesight of its train
men for color blindness and as a re-
suit il is said that a number of the old
est engineers are to be laid off.
When hotel attendants went to
arouse John G. Benson, aged 60 years,
of Mangum, who was a guest in
Chicago Clark street hotel. he was
found dead a gas jet was partly open
John Hume, aged 40, formerly of
Port Huron, was drowned at Spokane,
Wash. Hume left six months ago and
was to have returned this summer.
He leaves a mother, sister and two
sisters.
A Kalamazoo minister urges cam
paign against the stocking display on
leg models in store windows, declaring
they are just as suggestive and i'm
moral as any pictures seen in the slot
machines
A mob of men and women assaulted
John Doggy, who tried to act as
peacemaker at a fight at a Polish
christening in Jackson and he was left
senseless on the sidewalk with two
bad scalp cuts.
The Kalamazoo river will be
| dragged for the body of A. G. Pea.
cock, whose clothing was found on
the banks of the river, where foot
prints lead into the stream. Peacock
was labor organizer.
A battalion of the Seventh infantry
of Fort Wayne has received orders
from the war department to march
from Saginaw to Ludlngtun to the
state encampment. On the return trip
the battalion will march from Saginaw
to Detroit.
Because of the backward season ap-
4 pie blossoms were imported from
Grand Rapids for the wedding of Will
X. Foote, prominent young business
man OF Traverse City, and Miss Grace
Hastings, daughter of former Rep. E.
w. Hastings.
threatening letters have been re-
ceived by Prosecuting Attorney ]. F.
Mcdonald because of the Sunday clos
ing crusade in Grand Rapids at Reed 8
Lake and at Comstock park Mr. Nc
Donald says he will continue TO keep
the saloons closed
1t is said by enthusiasts that the
Saginaw Valley Sugar Co. is paying
more money each year into Saginaw
than was paid out for labor by the
sawmill industry in it's prime. Last
year the Saginaw sugar plant used
6,4OO acres of beets, and has contract
ed for much more this season.
AL. G. Peacock, the union organizer
believed to have committed suicide in
the Kalamazoo river, may be alive. as
word has been received by the police
from c. o. Kirby, of Eden, Mich. that
Peacock wrote him from Lagrange
Ind. The letter does not explain how
his clothing and suit case happened
to be found on the river bank.
The body of a female infant was
found floating near the dock at Trav
erse City by three boys 1t is thought
the child was thrown into the water
while alive and had been in the water
about ten hours when found. On the
dock was basket and under a lum.
Der pile stained grain bag. Five
punches of flowers were also found
nearby.
Despite the CT that Michigan
hardwood forests hove been depleted
one of the best known lumbermen in
Cadillac declares there is more stand
ing hardwood timber in this state than
any other in the TN on. This largest
part OF this is maple. II is said that
there is still enough to keep all the
mills in the state busy for the nexi
rs years.
George F. Ball, aged 81 years, Al
years a resident of Midland is said to
be the Oldest living mail carrier In
Michigan. Mr.. Ball was a frontiers
man in 1881, coming from Wendell