Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-03
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

After locking her doors and attirinS
herself in her best clothes, Mrs. Jeff-
rey Nichols, a Kalamazoo boarding
house keeper, took morphine and died.
Grant Meirell, young aeronaut,
landed on the glass roof OF green
house while making parachute drop
at Reeds lake and was painfully cut
AS a result of the reform epidemic
which is sweeping Grand Rapids, the
council Monday night passed an or
dinance closing the city parks at 3
o'clock.
Playing with matches the 3-year'
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Greitz,
South Saginaw, set fire and burned
the house and was himself badly
burned.
Surrounded by GO descendants, in
Guiding four children. Is grandchildren
and 10 great-grandchildren Mrs. So
phia Ship, of Bellevue, celebrated
her Tooth birthday.
Ann Arbor "drys" after making a
canvass of the city report Go per cent
of the residents in favor of prohibi-
ton, II per cent wet" and about 10
per cent nOH-cOUllnlIldl
A spark from a locomotive set fire
to and destroyed 100000 feet OF lum-
Der in the yards of the Lake Superior
corporation recently bought by the
Saginaw Lumber Co.. loss $4,000.
A heavy loser in the Cameron Cur
RE & Co. failure in Detroit, VIM. F.
Matter, superintendent of the Shaw
Walker Co., applied to the u. S. court
in Grand Rapids to be declared bank
rupt.
Edward Guskie, residing on a farm
just outside Flint city limits, was
kicked in the face by a vicious colt
face was torn off. He is in the city
hospital in a critical condition.
Held up ON a lonely spot in Travers
road and threatened with death II he
did not give up his money, Frank
Hagen. wealthy farmer. jumped from
his wagon and fed. Charles Bachtle
q former employe, was arrested.
Immediately after his release from
the Washtenaw Jail, Frank John, full
blooded Pottowatomie Indian, filled VI
on "firewater" again and put women
at Whitmore Lake into a panic by
chasing them. He was taken back.
The embalmed body of Corp. Harold
Poole arrived in Battle Creek from the
Philippines. six months after his
death. He was driven insane by the
climate and shot himself a few days
before his enlistment in the sigma
corps expired.
Mentally unbalanced by recent
-
Grand Rapids, attacked and badly
slashed his wife. Neighbors came tC
her assistance and Ross fed toward
the river and is believed TO have
drowned himself.
John Slingerland. aged %, an EN-
ploye of the ManistiQue iron works
was killed Monday when halftor
hammer fell on him crushing his
body to a pulp. 1t is thought thai
the mans sledge hammer struck the
trip Of the big hammer. releasing il.
Pinkerton detectives charge the!
have traced the sending OF an infer
nal machine to Sheriff Beck, of Hough
ton, to George Hamilton, an alleged
forger now awaiting trial in Duluth
| Several years ago while in the jai
| here Hamilton tried to escape, but wa!
| discovered by Sheriff Beck
Work on the Michigan United elec
/ trio line connecting Jackson with Ian
sing by way of Leslie and Mason II
| progressing rapidly. Grading TO with
! in a mile south OF Leslie is completed
/ and a second gang is working nea
! Rives Junction. Most of the line be
tween Lansing and Mason is graded
and the rails laid.
| Fire of unknown origin destroyed
! two houses. FIVE large barns, consider
! able machinery and nearly all OF tn,
seasons crops on the farm OF NJ. b
! Bradley, IL miles east of Bay City
| Four horses were cremated. A farm
ers' bucket brigade saved the farm
residence and one other house. Tn,
loss is $4,000, partly insured. TIL,
| Bradleys charge incendiarism.
Still another case OF the swindln,
methods of William l.. Wilson, forme
secretary OF the Home Protectors fra
ternity. now serving time in Ionia
came to light Monday. Mrs. Carrie
Rowe. an aged woman, made tn,
\ charge in circuit court that an $50
mortgage on her home. which she pal,
March 4, had never been discharged
She will be allowed TO intervene II
/ the suit between the state banking
department and the receiver OF TIL
association so that she will not hav
TO lose her home.
The Soldiers Home board strucl
from the rules references to takinI
any portion OF the soldiers pension
money, as ordered by Gov. Warner
The board also decided that veteran
drawing SIS a month or more In per
sions shall not be admitted except b.
special showing.
Martin Feighner, son of a Cas-
county farmer, has been arrested Il
Laporte, Ind, in connection with
murder case. VIM. DELPHI, the ac
cused. alleges Feighner threatened {
shoot him and that he fred at Feigf
ner, but instead hit his mother-ir
law, with whose murder he
charged