Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-09
STATE BRIEFS.

throat while a prisoner in Battle Creek
Jail and will probably die.
Hillsdale Masons celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of the initiation
OF l.. s. Rainey, aged II, as Mason.
The body of Joseph Bqdd, the Sagi-
nav youth drowned while gathering
lilies for his mothers grave, was re-
covered.
Thomas Mcclure, aged 30, woods
man, was thrown under the wheels
in trying TO board a moving train in
Kaleva and killed.
DR.. Howard A. CRUDE, OF Coldwater,
has been appointed surgeon of the Sol
diers' home. succeeding DR., II. f..
Thomas, resigned.
William Wagner, of Pittsburg, a
guest at the Star Island house, ST.
Clair Flats, fell from launch while
fishing and was drowned
Mai. j. ID. Parkhurst, a civil war
veteran, was trampled on by horse
in Charlotte, receiving injuries which
il is feared he cannot survive.
Lightning struck and burned the
barns on the farm of John Zull, Of
Gilead township, Monday afternoon.
The loss is estimated at $500.
Accused of tearing off one ear OF
his brother George, in a quarrel over
farm implement, Frank Porter, Rush
township farmer, is under arrest.
Samuel Parsons, 20. was drowned
by being carried over the dam at Tri
Mountain despite the heroic efforts OF
his companion, Oscar Steinbelt, TO
save him.
The farm residence Of Henry Hins-
peter, four miles south of Owosso,
is the third in this vicinity TO be
destroyed by firecrackers II was
burned Friday afternoon.
William Hull, aged 60, became en-
tangled with a high tension wire at
the new Berrien Springs dam and
was electrocuted Two fellow work
men were badly shocked.
Gabriel Cober. 2S, Hungarian labor
er, was drowned while swimming in
the Grand river at Grand Rapids Sun
day. He dived from boat in the wa
ter and never arose to the surface.
AS the result of the protests of a
delegation of business men before the
state railway commission, the com
railway 10 build a new depot at Boone.
Mrs. Henry Fox, aged GO, of Carrie
ton, fell from a tree while pic king
cherries. Wednesday afternoon, and -e.
ceived broken arm and hip besides
internal injuries, which may prove
fatal
While working as a line-man William
Salter, of Ithaca. fell from the branch
of tree a distance of Is feet to the
ground. He sustained severe injuries
and II is feared that his spine is af-
fected
During a drunken quarrel, between
two lumberjacks, August Matson
stabbed John Maxi at camp near
| Chassel, early Monday morning Maxi
will probably die and Matson is under
arrest.
railroad torpedo exploded while
Roy Lewis, Michigan Central fireman.
was entering his engine at Bay City
| and a piece of the casing entered his
body There are symptoms of blood
poisoning.
In his address before the Kalamazoo
Chautauqua, Friday, FIR L. ]. Vaughn,
of Chicago. declared that were Christ
living today. he would not get so much
as a headline in any of the newspa-
| pers Of the world.
The body of Paul Simonson, 81, who
| disappeared from Muskegon a few
| months ago, was found floating in the
river at Milwaukee The police are of
the opinion that he was murdered and
thrown into the river.
Lem Jim Kee. of Battle Creek.
failed this year TO set off his two
| strings of 10000 firecrackers He says
American dealers cornered the Chi
nese market and he could not get his
countrymen TO ship him any firecrack-
| ers.
While gathering water lilies in
| Riverside park, Saginaw. the canoe OF
Joseph Budd and Frank Hildebrand,
both aged IL, overturned. Hildebrand
pulled Budd to the canoe, but the for
mer could not hang on and was
! drowned.
After AZ years, John Gayar a civil
war veteran living in Marquette. has
! received a check from the government
! for $3410, the amount due him for
| transportation from Governors Island
to Calais, Me. at the time he was
discharged from the army in 1866.
Saginaw bondholders filed formal OBJ
lection in the circuit court to confirm
alton of the sale of the Detroit, Flint
& Saginaw railway for $4,000 to Is
aac Applebaum. OF Detroit. They say
Otto Shoup, a Saginaw capitalist. will
| be prepared TO offer $50. 900 in a few
days
j. E. Austin, wealthy automobile
manufacturer of Grand Rapids, SAYS
that the $4,000 breach Of promise suit
which Miss Kittie Shillinger, OF Stan
| dish, started against his son, Walter.
was begun merely to annoy his son
He denies that there was ever any en-
gagement
Thomas Stewart. a colored lawyer OF
! Kalamazoo. got an injunction restrain
| ing Harry Simpson, also eolored, from
! paying attentions TO his wife Simp-
son violated the order and was sent
TO jail for 30 days. Stewart says Simp-
son had been making love TO his wife
for two years.
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