Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-23
STATE BRIEFS.

| kegon LABOR DAY.
Two men bound and gagged Albert
Miller, of Cadillac, and then ransacked
his house, getting $40.
Percy Crumb, aged 4, OF Colma,
pulled over bottle OF boiling water
and was scalded TO death.
Isabelle, 2-year-old daughter of Rich
ard Murphy, Paris township, fell into
the horse tank in the barnyard and
was drowned.
Gerrit Meeloer, OF Traverse City,
was badly burned in an explosion on
his gasoline launch. Boat and boat
house were destroyed.
| Despondent over ill-success in sup
porting his wife and five children,
Richard Brandenberg, OF Grand Rap
ids, drank acid and died.
Three barns and several outbuild-
ings burned on the farm of Walton
Smith, near Centreville, cremating
three horses; loss $4,000.
Albert Van Patton, who made three
attempts to kill himself, died at Port
Huron in the city hospital where he
had been confined two months.
Mrs. Dorothy Walters, aged SO, an
old pioneer of Sturgis, died of heart
failure Thursday at the residence of
her daughter Mrs. John Stropagle.
Mrs. Lydia w. Pelton, aged SO, died
at the Michigan insane asylum at
Kalamazoo after having been an in
mate of the institution for so years.
There are students from dozen
states attending the summer session of
/ N Ont al tA oh
gan, Ohio furnishes the greatest num-
! Der.
Isaac Staples, aged 40, shot himself
with a shotgun, blowing off his head.
He resided west of Mears. Oceana
county, and was respondent over
financial affairs.
IF the men wish to come in their
shirt sleeves, am willing they
should" announced Rev. w. p Lovett,
of the Wealthy Avenue Baptist
church, Grand Rapids.
Exertion brought on by her work to
| give dinner party for her husband
on his 10Th birthday caused the death
of Mrs. ID. w. Richards, aged II, OF
Flint, from heart failure.
The unknown man injured when
John NJ. Child, of Charlotte, was killed
on Lansing & st. Johns trestle was
| identified as Edward Mcneil, Massa-
chusetts man. He will recover.
The Holy Land" flyer on the
Goshen division OF the Michigan Cen
trial was derailed from an unknown
cause near Battle Greek, but the pas
sengers and crew escaped injury.
Port Huron saloonkeepers who wish
the law enforced to avoid anti-saloon
agitation. made complaints which
caused the arrest of four salookeepers
charged with the liquor law violations.
James Buckelow. an alleged abusive
and Incorporate husband, was killed
| by a Kalamazoo car while on a spree,
| ii is said. His wife refused to receive
the body or have anything to do with
! the burial.
Welded at 8 o'clock in the evening
| by a justice of the peace in Kalama-
ZOO, Mr. and Mrs Noble Cummings,
! the latter formerly Matte Smith, were
| jailed at midnight on a charge of in
| toxication.
A heavy hailstorm damaged crops
north of Lapeer In Lum a miniature
! cyclone blew down small buildings,
carried away the roof of Fox & Les
ter's store and blew in the side Of the
! Hotel Arcadia.
| The S. Gutter Furniture Co., Port
| Huron, claiming to have a stock worth
| $50 600, was closed under trust mort
| gage by c. c. Peck, cashier of the
| German-American bank, in his capac-
! ity as trustee.
Joseph Droste, accused of the muir
| der of Ben Cook, of Pewamo, in a
! quarrel In Nav, was bound over 10
! the circuit court. The defense blames
the murder TO Nicholas Kraemer. who
was drowned short time after Cooks
! death
A Cassopolis negro. known only as
Matt was drowned when with his
white companions, Thomas futile and
! Will Whitmore, he tried TO change po-
sitions in a boat on Lake Goguac. Re-
sorters saved the other men from the
overturned boat.
Going to sleep on the trestle of the
st. Johns and Lansing interurban line
! just north of Lansing. John M. Childs,
a farmer, whose father lives in Char
lotte. was instantly killed and his un-
| identified companion so seriously in
jured that he may die.
For shooting his roommate, Ezra
Bastido. OF Pontiac, George Hicox has
been dishonorably discharged from the
Soldiers home at Grand Rapids. The
bullet plowed across the top of Bas-
tido's head, inflicting a painful scalp
wound officials say Hicox had been
| drinking.
United Spanish War Veterans de
partment of Michigan, chose Saginaw
| for the next meeting and elected Mai.
| ]. B. Westnedge, OF Kalamazoo, de-
partment commander over Charles Is
mond of Jackson, and Capt. Mcintosh,
of Traverse City. Other officers
chosen are Senior vice commander.
j. c. IRVINE. of Bay City: junior vice
commander, j. H. Vanaken, of Cold.
water; inspector, John Dolson of Sag
inaw;; Judge advocate, A. o. Reese.
OF Jackson; chaplain, Rev f. w.
White, OF Jackson; marshal o. w.
Mosief, of Detroit; surgeon. DR. Boyse.
of Kalamazoo; board of administra.
ton, G.. l.. Booth. A. H. Gamer. All.