Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
MICHIGAN BREvITIES.

V. >. Clark, aged "a, and dear, was
struck by train at Galesburg and
may die
Lost for three days and nights,
Mrs. John Smith, aged 20, wife of a
McAllister farmer. was found uncon'
scious in the woods from exhaustion.
Scaling the rear wall of the Indus
trial school, Anna Hull and Mary Fred
ericks made their escape, but were
caught by two Upton farmers and
brought back
Drouth conditions in Galesburg and
throughout Kalamazoo county are fast
becoming calamitous. Pastures are all
dried up and corn and potatoes are In
danger Of being ruined.
The balance in the state treasury
at the close Of July was s2,76S.143.S5.
This includes deposits in the Chelsea
Savings bank and various amounts on
deposit by bank receivers.
At the point of revolvers Sturgis of
ficers forced seven tramps from a box
car and hold them on suspicion Of
being implicated in the robbery of the
night operator in Vicksburg.
Her mother an invalid, the clothes
Of Anna Wutebenga, aged a. of Hol-
land caught fire while she was cook
ing for the bedridden woman and
eight children, and she died of the
burns.
Warned that he wo I'D be tarred and
feathered If he did not move from
the vicinity, Theodore Scott, living IL
Lapeer road near Flint, turned over
the threatening letter to Sheriff Zim-
norman.
The Washtenaw county local option
committee is hard at work lining up
the county for the proposed dry
election and about 10000 pieces of lit
erature have been sent out with $4,000
more ordered.
Dorsi Smith, 16, daughter Of Ezra
Smith, of Alma, stumbled into deep
hole while wading in Van Ettan lake
and was drowned. Her companion,
Jennie Smith, contrived to scramble
to shallow water.
Edward Shirky, whose wife is in the
Detroit House of Correction for opera
ting resort in st. Clair, has been de.
clared insane and will be sent TO Pom
tiac. He recently returned from serv-
ing a term in Jackson.
Chased by bear young deer. APP
parently about a year old, sought re-
fuge in Calumet Wednesday. 1t was
nearly exhausted and was captured on
Lake Linden avenue and turned over
TO the district game warden.
When Fred. Parker was arraigned in
Port Huron on the charge of attacking
Miss Elizabeth Pelger a cripple, the
latter had disappeared. Relatives have
been working hard in the interests of
Parker, former railroad employe.
Fire in the Sawyer-Goodman yards
at Menominee destroyed 10000, 900
feet of lumber Saturday night, doing
damage estimated at about $4,000
The mills of the company were saved
by heroic work on the part of the fire
department.
Charged with using the mails to de-
fraud by selling alleged fraudulent oil
stocks, John B. Jones, of Quincy, was
arrested by order of postoffice inspec-
tors. He was married in June 10 Mrs
Frances Ramsdell prominent
Quincy resident.
day night entertained Vice-President
and Mrs. Fairbanks at dinner at Mac
kinac. Auditor General Bradley, Dr.
Wylie. of Washington, d. c., and Mr.
and Mrs. Pasche, Of Rock Ledge, Fla,
were the other guests.
Angered because he had been chas-
tised for misbehavior, Anthony Spella
aged s, Of Grand Rapids, fed from his
home in rage, crying, You'll never
see me any more" few hours after
ward his body was found in a swim
ming hole in the river.
The state labor department has is
sued figures showing that 33 coal
mines in the state during the six
months ending June 30, employed
3,09G men, and produced 975,463 tons
of coal at cost of 81 ,623,54S.44. More
than s1.000,000 was paid out in wages.
The average wage is $500 a day.
According to an opinion handed
down by Attorney General Bird. the
sale of malt. brewed or fermented
liquors regardless of whether they are
intoxicating, is prohibited in all coun-
ties under the prohibition law. II is
probable that this will put a stop to
the manufacture and sale of beverages
which seem so popular in prohibition
towns
Warren Meredith, farmer. objects
to paying SIS annually for the main
tenance of his daughter as a private
patient in the Kalamazoo insane
asylum. He asked the court to trans
fer her from private TO a state pa.
tient, but when the judge learned that
Meredith owns farm valued at 3d.
900 on the tax rolls and has unencum-
bered personal property worth more
than $4,000. he gave him a severe
lecture instead.
The manufacture OF butter and
cheese is making steady progress in
upper Michigan. Creameries have
sprung up in various localities within
recent years, and all appear to be i'm
successful operation. The most re-
cent industry of this kind is one now
being launched at Bargara. Farmers
are principally interested in II. Stock
TO the amount of 5000 has been sub
scribed for at $40 share and already
the construction OF the nlant ie ~,