Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-09-03
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

ruined nearly all gardens in Luzerne.
Muskegon Standard Nlalleable Iron
works notified its 700 employees that IT
| will again run ten hours day and six
days a week.
Joseph Turner. aged SO, OF Port
Huron, who was struck by an auto
10 months ago, has just died OF his
injuries.
Before his 12-year-old son, Joseph
Allie, aged So, of Houghton, shipyards
employee, fell from dock and was
drowned
The final report of the Detroit
Trust Co. as receiver for the Detroit,
Flint & Saginaw railway, shows
deficit of 364.374.74.
Henry Van Dyke, youth. was ar
rested at Reeds lake by laundering
officer for hugging his own sister He
was released at the Jail.
Mrs. Zoe Winters, aged 81, OF West
Branch, was found wandering In the
woods after being missing nearly
week. She will recover.
Gilbert Brown, sentenced from Ma
son for life % years ago for Killing
his wife, died of heart trouble in the
Jackson prison, aged CO.
Revenue officers made an unexpect-
ed inspection of Flint saloons and the
owners are on the anxious seat, many
irregularities having being discov-
cred
After writing a note to his sweet
heart, Herbert Lampman, aged Il, OF
Lake City, clerk in local restaurant,
shot and killed himself. He had been
in i'll health.
The thirty-ninth annual reunion OF
the Fighting Fifth" Michigan infan.
try, which served throughout the civil
war was held in Saginaw. About 100
| were present.
After consorting with a stranger In
Kalamazoo saloons, Edward Roberts,
of Allegan, was found robbed, bound
and his skull fractured, in a lonely
spot. He may die.
Circuit Judge Knappen held consti-
tutional the act of the last legislature
providing a municipal court for kala-
mazoo. The law does away with five
justices of the peace.
Queen Mary of Little Sicily" in
the town of Lansing, who was import
ed by King Mike" as a helpmate, is
asking for a divorce, alleging the
king" threatened to Stay her.
John NJ. Moore, missing salesman
of Bay City, was arrested in Ohio,
charged with embezzling several hun
dred dollars from his firm. He was To-
Gated by letter written to his wife.
Suspended on an electric light pole
40 feet from the ground. Frank Still
well, aged 80, Of Ludington, came in
contact with a live wire and was cleo
trocuted. His lifeless body fell to the
ground.
A homecoming will be celebrated
in Mason September 1925, the pro-
gram including the annual meeting of
the Ingham County Pioneers society
and Ingham county soldiers and
sailors.
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 60
ing fishing.
The badly decomposed body of a
Soldiers home veteran was found in
Grandville road, south of Grand Rap
ids. 1t has been impossible to iden-
tify him thus far. Death was from nat
ural causes.
The residence OF Mrs. Samuel
Hubbs, a Greenville widow and Grip
pie, was destroyed by fire Wednesday
morning In rising TO take some medi-
cine in the night, Mrs. Hubs upset
a lamp, setting fire to the house.
A public wedding, in which Miss
Selma Aunke and John Colkema were
I inin0d In, OF ri footnrad in tho
annual picnic of the Muskegon grocers
and butchers, at Mona lake Wednes-
day afternoon. Over 10000 were pres
emit
After having spent 16 years in the
penitentiary for Staying man whom
according to the evidence at the trial
he killed for $40. Frank Stein has
been released from Marquette prison
He has been a model prisoner and
gained considerable good time.
Woodmen of the World unveiled 20
monuments over the graves of men,
bers in Lakeside cemetery. Port HUI
ron, under the auspices of the Sow
ereign lodge A parade was held prior
TO the unwilling. Sovereign Command
er J. c. Root, of Omaha, Neb., was
chief speaker.
John MannlX, farmer living sew
eral miles north OF Flint. has been
busy for several days digging his own
grave. With the assistance OF a ma
son he is now lining il with brick and
cement Mannix says that he does not
expect to use the grave soon. but
wishes to make sure that his wishes
will be carried out after death.
After a desperate fight with the
police of st. Thomas, Ont, George
Crawford, who escaped from Sheriff
Graham while being brought to Mar
shall from New York state, was re-
captured Tuesday night in st. Thorn.
as. Crawford tried to communicate
with the woman with whom he is said
to have eloped and this betrayed him.
a telephone operator notifying the St
Thomas police.
About 5000 farmers of Washtenaw,
Wayne. Oakland, Livingstone, Monroe.
Lenawee and Jackson counties held
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