Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-24
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

In mt OF dependency, JOnn frltz,
a Menominee laborer. blew off the top
OF his head with a shotgun.
A carload OF supplies has been sent
| from Saginaw to the fire sufferers at
ST. Helena. The car contained corn,
oats and potatoes.
| Daniel Enders, aged As, we'll
known Colma farmer, was caught In
| the fly wheel of a gasoline engine Sat
urday and so badly injured that he
died.
| The Michigan Anti-Saloon league
has created a new district with TRAY
erse City as headquarters. Rev. t. r.
Bauer of the Church Of Christ, will
be in charge.
Robert Campbell, lawyer. charged
with embezzlement and forgery. was
! released on $500 bail, furnished by
his father. The prisoners aged moth
er is critically i'll.
F. w. Fletcher, regent of the Uni.
versity of Michigan, declares he will
not accept a reappointment, even II
rendered him on a platter. He has
served two terms.
Mrs Maude Perkins. of Eaton Rap
| ids, will probably die from the effects
caught fire as she was passing coal
stove at her home.
The state treasury has been en-
riched by a check for eight cents sent
by the state fish commission II Is
money which remained in the fund
| from the last quarter.
Mrs Lavinia Desonia, of Hemlock
who was hurled upon her baby while
being brought to Saginaw in an am
bulance, died in st. Mary's hospital
following an operation.
Here's the record grape crop for
southwestern Michigan: Shipped for
the present year 2,03S cars. represent
| ing 40,660,000 pounds, for which $780,
900 was paid the growers.
Three Charlotte banks Monday
bought the plant and machinery of
the bankrupt Dolson Auto Co. II is
understood that the plant will soon be
reopened by an outside concern.
Posing an European globe-trotter
and looking the part, John Wolff was
arrested i'm Muskegon at the Occident-
al hotel after he had been inquiring
into the possibilities of buying the
hotel.
| Mrs. Sadie Chapman, proprietoress
OF resort at Almira, is dying from
carbolic acid burns. Mrs. Chapman
says another woman in the resort
placed the acid where she mistook it
for whisky.
Two more violators of the local op
tion law in Reed City have been SEN
fenced. One was fined 1920 and SEN
fenced to 70 days Imprisonment, and
another was fined s1c0 and 80 DAYS
Imprisonment.
Arthur Morriso, aged So, while
watching men unloading potatoes at
an Elk Rapids warehouse was suffo-
! Gated TO death The side of the big
bin gave way and he was buried by a
mass of potatoes.
Lumbermen in Alpena are hiring
every available man nov owing TO the
fact that so much timber was burned
over during the recent forest fires.
The timber must be numbered before
il becomes unfit.
George Crandall, while operating the
hoist in a mill at Crawling was struck
by the handle flying backward His
shoulder bone was broken and he was
injured internally. 1t is feared that he
will not recover.
harvey III. w lllldulS, COlOItu, anu
Rose Cahill. a white woman, were mar
! ried in Monroe Tuesday. The wedding
was attended by the entire board of
supervisors who had been in session
in an adjoining room.
Jackson county prohibitionists de-
clare that they have secured sufficient
signatures to their petitions 10 com
pei the board of supervisors to call
I ;a1 81 IN, -
the question of local option.
Otto Thiesen. who is on trial in
/ Traverse City for larceny, bears a
striking resemblance to the German
emperor. He was in the German army
seven years and when speaking to the
court or attorneys, he salutes grave
ly.
Henry Ramm, Bay City letter car
rier, was surprised to find heron
when he opened mail box. The bird,
which had been injured. attacked
Ramm, but he succeeded in capturing
IT, How it got into the box is a
mystery.
Thirty big estates. not including
that of Delos Blodgett, have paid Kent
county inheritance taxes on S3,459 900
during the past year. Ten of these
| estates are over the $10e 900 mark.
! The Blodgett estate is estimated at
from S5,000000 to s10,000,000.
The local option workers in Mar.
shall recently put up signs all over the
city urging all citizens to vote for
the abolition of saloons. Tuesday
morning it was found that the signs
had all been torn down and the pro
hibitionists are seeking to learn who
destroyed them.
Capt. Jas. NJ. Wells, after an alb.
sence of 80 years, has returned TO
Kalamazoo to visit Col G. E. Foote,
commander of the department of
Michigan, G.. A. r. Capt Wells was
one of 43 men who made daring
escape from Libby prison. He enlisted
from Kalamazoo.
60 back and fat up little" Lieut..
Alvin Baskette. of the Grand Rapids
recruiting Office, several days ago
told ID. s. March, lean Lansingite,
who wanted TO be a soldier but whose
weight of 1873 pounds didn't come up
to requirements March returned,
weighed in at 40 and was accepted.
Lottie l.. CoggswelI, who has three
times married and twice been divorced
| from Harry COpgswell has annlied