Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-06
STATE BRIEFS.


while preparing TO go TO church.
David Crotch, the last of the Potta-
wattomie tribe, is dying at the Indian
reservation in Menominee county
Vice President Fairbanks has taken
a cottage at Mackinac Island for the
rest OF the summer and is on his way
here.
Attorney General Bird ruled that the
deposits Of insurance companies, or
ganized under Michigan laws, are tax
able.
The Kalamazoo Spring & Axle Co.
found market in the Argentine Re
public and shipped carload Of
springs there.
Supt. c. f. Straight OF the Green
vile schools, student in the U. of M.
summer school, rocked himself on
a porch and broke rib.
George Brooks, aged As, a paroled
forger. went back to his old tricks and
was sent to Ionia from Port Huron
from one to fourteen years.
Geo. Page. years old was drowned
In Maple river. north of Eureka.
While in bathing he was taken with
cramps and sank before help could
arrive.
Nelson Kunze. aged 10, OF Traverse
City, who set fire to four buildings
lust to see the fun" will be sent
to the Lapeer Home for Feeble
Minded.
Four young men playing poker and
smoking pipes in barn at Walkerville
Sunday produced fire in which four
structures valued at $4,000 were des-
troyed.
Temporarily insane, Mary Mar
queandant, aged SO, of Mason. swal-
lowed strychnine capsule at the
home Of her brother, four miles north,
and died.
Fire originating in the finishing
room destroyed the plant OF the Gale
Chair Co, the Grandville department
being unable to cope with the flames.
Loss $4,000.
Cutting his way through the dormi-
'ory floor with a piece of glass, Daniel
Shelley escaped from the Newaygo
lail He was held on serious charge
made by woman.
Sheriff Ginger with six deputies is
searching the woods that border the
lake shore where David Shelley, the
convict who escaped from the New
aygo Jail. is supposed to be hiding.
Miss Gladys Click, the young school
teacher, attending summer school in
Port HurcE, is still in a critical con-
dition as result of jumping from an
electric car while ii was i'm motion.
Because the appropriation was well
in excess of the Bids on the new fed
eral building at Coldwater, the treas
ury department has rejected them and
will draw up more elaborate plans.
Charles F. Robinson, aged 90. OF
Muskegon, is dead OF old age. Rob
inson fought in the Mexican war, had
medals for bravery in the Civil war
and participated in the freeman raid.
John Kallianen, fisherman Of HUI
ron Bay, has started suit for 800
damages against State Game Warden
Charles S. Pierce whom he charges
with having destroyed a quantity of
his nets.
Charlotte's water supply is serious
ly threatened by the continued drouth.
Official notices are posted requesting
citizens to get along with as little wa
ter as possible until the situation is
relieved
John B. Purdy, an electrical manu-
facturer of Muskegon, has disappear
ed leaving behind him note in which
he said that he intended TO leave
and start life anew. He provided
for his wife and family.
A broken rail on the Pere Mar
quette derailed the southbound freight
running between Pentwater and Mus
kegon at New Era Thursday after
noon. Seven cars were telescoped, and
the loss will reach $4,000.
The old Michigan Female seminary
building and % acres of land have
been offered in the attempt to obtain
the Christian Reformed Theological
seminary and John Calvin college of
Grand Rapids for Kalamazoo.
Benjamin Scotch. of Bay City, un-
married, shot himself while despond-
ent Sunday morning and will die He
lay on the bed in his room, held the
muzzle of the gun over his left breast
and pulled the trigger with his toes.
Charity netted $4,000 from the an
nual Elkoypthian festival of one day
in Battle Creek. The money was raised
game between the Elks and Knights
of Pythias. at which every known sort
Of graft was worked.
A. c. Jones, Quincy, accused OF us
ing the mail to defraud. was held for
trial in the October term of the u. S.
district court in Detroit. In selling
alleged fraudulent oil stock, Jones is
said to have signed various names as
officers Of the concerns.
With the death of Mrs. Charles An
derson, aged ~. Muskegon has had
an average of one drowning every
week since the first of June Tenn
porarily deranged, Mrs. Anderson
walked steadily from the shore OF the
water works pond until she was sub
merged Neighbors saw her walk out
and recovered the body.
The man declaring that President
Roosevelt was king" of the United
States, the application of Dickinson
county alien for citizenship papers
has been turned down in the circuit
court. Like that Of second foreig-