Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-10
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.


Thieves entered the Vickeryville
postofice Friday night with skeleton
keys and robbed it of $40.
The potato crop in Osceola county
is being ruined for want of rain. none
having fallen In several weeks.
The l.. o. T. NJ have purchased for
100000 corner lot in Detroit on
which to erect headquarters build
ing.
Henry Wilson, the Saginaw man
who slew his wife in Duluth. has been
sentenced TO life Imprisonment in thai
city.
His mind unbalanced by excessive
use of liquor. l.. n. Thatcher farmer
living near Caro-, shot and killed him
self
Charged with burning the large barn
of his neighbor, Robert X. Carr, Thos
Robb, of Hubbard. Lake, was arrested
on an arson charge.
A committee of bondholders is ex
pected to buy the Toledo, Ann Arbor
& Detroit electric railway at the pub
lie sale, October -.
A gang of gold thieves is burglar
izing the dentists Offices in Kalama-
ZOO Sheriff Shean has offered re-
ward for their capture.
Lightning followed the telegraph
wires of the Pere Marquette into the
Williamsburg depot and stunned
Agent r.. A. Macarthur
Cornelius Herman, a Coldwater lad,
| tried to drive a nail through a stick
OF dynamite, thinking it was wood, and
his left hand was mangled.
Claims against the city for S11,773
in damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned from defective sidewalks have
been filed with the city clerk.
Judge Wisner allowed a final ac-
counting by the Detroit Trust Co.
and discharged it as receiver of the
Detroit, Flint & Saginaw railway.
While turning on an electric light,
Fred Lundstrom, aged 20. of Mar
quette. received the full power of the
current and was instantly killed.
George II. Groh, the Ann Arbor
railroad engineer, who was scalded
two weeks ago by an explosion on his
engine, died in University hospital.
While running away from home
with two chums, VIM. Routler, Jr., son
of a Battle Greek auction commission
er. was killed under a freight train in
Chicago.
George Fl. Groh, the engineer scald-
ed in the explosion on an Ann Arbor
railroad engine, may die. Prosecuting
Attorney Sawyer is investigating the
accident
The sixteenth annual convention OF
the Michigan Jobbers' association will
be held Wednesday and Thursday,
September 8 and 10, at the Hotel
Farmland.
Eluding the nurses while in delir-
ium, Mrs. VIM. Carrier, aged 40, leaped
I through a wire screen of a Grand Rap
ids hospital and died a few hours
afterwar1
While painting his house Patrick
Culhane. aged co. an Adrian township
farmer, lost his balance and fell from
the ladder. He broke his neck and
died instantly.
Charged with misappropriating ST.,
600 Of the school funds. Chas. Kin
sella. clerk of the Spalding township
board, was arrested on a warrant
taken out by Supervisor Prince.
James c. Hatfield of Kalamazoo
began suit for $4,000 against the
Michigan Central for injuries in an
accident in which his auto was demol-
ished and he was nearly killed.
Alleging failure of the train to give
any signal of it's approach. Mrs. Mary
Frasier has sued the Ann Arbor rail
road for $4,000 for the death Of her
son and support, at grade crossing
in January.
Escaping from a Battle Creek hos
pital, where he was delirium trem-
ems patient, Bert Mahoney was caught
on the street by officers In an almost
nude condition. He thought he was go
ing fishing.
John Sabns. of Cooper, came to
Battle Creek Saturday night to see
the sights He slept in a barn. and
Sunday reported to the police that he
had been touched for valuable gold
watch while he slumbered
After being shot in the side by a
prominent Vicksburg woman, Ray
Bruce, a young man of the village. is
missing. The woman, who is married.
admits the shooting. but will give no
other reason than self-defense.
Determined to make her suicide
sure. Mrs. Jacob Russell drank chloro
form, took Paris green and bound a
cloth saturated with chloroform over
her nose. She was found in bed and
hurried to hospital, where her life
was saved.
| Some person in Bay City with a
mania for killing and manning dumb
brutes Is believed to be responsible
for a number of brutal cases that
have occurred within the last month
Several head of stock have been
poisoned and others cut and slashed
Claiming that he was either robbed
of or lost $4,000, the savings of life
time, while en- route from Chicago to
Muskegon Friday night on the steam.
er Virginia, John Coyne, of Chicago,
who was about 10 buy Muskegon
county farm, reported the matter to
the police.
Fred. Parker, the Grand Trunk
brakeman who was arrested in Winni
peg several weeks ago on a charge
OF having criminally assaulted Grip
lyxla