Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-02
STATE BRIEFS.

| the result or a fall In Tecumseh.
Hobart college has conferred upon
| Prof. Robert NJ. Wenley. of the u. oil
M, the degree of doctor OF letters.
Mrs. j. S. Purdy, of Grand Rapids
received notice that an aunt had died
In the Netherlands and left her $3.50
Several car loads of peanuts and ma
terials for candy were destroyed in a
$4,000 fire in Kalamazoo warehouse
John Baad. a Colon farmer, aged SO.
died of cocaine poisoning, contracted
two years ago when a tooth was ex-
| tracted.
Mrs. James Cuttell. of Pottsyille,
was seized with an epileptic fit in hei
home and fell to the floor. breaking
her neck and dying instantly.
Western Michigan fruit growers arc
realizing unusually heavy returns from
the finest and heaviest crops OF straw
berries marketed in recent years.
Prof. G. A. Williams taught James
| S. Sherman, candidate for vice presi-
dent, i'm the old Whitestone seminary
near Utica, n. Y, between 1873 and
| 1876.
Trying TO light a fire cracker. the G.
year-old son of Harold Pohlamus, of
Bellevue. set fire to the barn and the
| flames communicated to the house. de-
stroying both.
Mrs. b. A. Lindermann suffered a
broken collarbone and Mrs. Frank j.
Quinn broken leg when the automo-
BILE in which they were riding with
their husbands overturned in Muske-
gon.
Frederick c. Frieseke, of Owosso,
has been elected member OF the So
ciety of Beaux Arts of Paris, being
the first American in Is years to win
this honor. Frieseke is now in New
York.
When Mrs. Clark Beattie. of Frank
lin, bent over the bed TO lift her A.
months-old daughter, she found the
child dead IL was suffering from
whooping cough and died during a
paroxysm.
At the last chapel exercises OF the
year the Mason high school senior
class presented Supt. Fred. Fullerton
with signet ring Mr.. Fullerton re-
signs after six years connection with
the school
met Methodist Episcopal church took
the costly silver communion set home
TO have it cleaned saved II. as the
edifice was broken into and rummaged
the same night.
While wading along the shore OF
Macatawa bay hand in hand Nellie
Tubbergen and Georgia Sullivan, both
aged z. fell into E. deep hole. The aunt
of the Tubbergen girl rescued her, but
Georgia was drowned
Putting the lid on has driven the
wicked 10 the parks, says the com
mittee of 100 having Battle Creeks
morals in charge. The committee sug-
gests electric lights and many police
for the parks at night.
To prevent its removal to Flint, the
city gave to the Jackson-Church-W
cox Co half block known as the west
side market place, in consideration of
the company's agreement to erect an
addition TO cost at least $4,000.
Saving his wife deceived him by
giving her age as p when she was %,
Morris Miller, aged 20. of Bay City.
is seeking a divorce. His wife was
formerly Miss Hattie Bishop. OF De-
Because she persisted in her cruel
treatment OF her 4-months-old babe,
Mrs. Libbie Field. aged &c. of Colfax
township. has been taken to the Ira
verse City asylum She has been in
sane ever since the birth of the child
Suffering from the heat. Abraham
Demink, one of Kalamazoos old-time
celery growers. attempted suicide
Wednesday morning by cutting his
throat with razor. He was taken
TO Borgess. hospital and may recover
Mrs. l.. c. Chamberlain, of Detroit.
one of the victims OF the ID. L. r.
wreck at Denton April %, has nearly
recovered and will soon be able to
leave the Ann Arbor hospital where
she has been confined since the wreck
Huga Loynes. OF Elsie. cleaned his
gun with gasoline, held match at
the muzzle to dry out the barrels and
then blew into them to clear out the
smoke AS a result of the explosion
that followed his mouth was badly
burned.
A windstorm of almost cyclonlc
proportions swept a path mile and a
half wide, taking in Plainwell Tues
day afternoon. Miles of fences were
blown down. sheds were blown about
and enormous damage done the fruit
crop.
Doctors found no poison in the
stomach of Oscar Peterson, whose
body was found in a shallow grave
near the house OF Mrs. Charles Bar.
nett, but Mrs. Barnett will be held.
the authorities desiring to know what
caused his death.
John Hokala, the Hancock man who
fatally wounded his. wife, attempted
the life Of his little daughter and then
shot himself. died Saturday Mrs
Hokala's wound is very dangerous one
and the physicians regard her chances
of recovery very slight.
Worsted in a fist fight with William
Leonard owner of a Duck Lake ho-
tel Elmer Eddy, of Lee township,
swore out a warrant charging the
former with selling liquor without a
license. Detectives had tried in vain to
get evidence against Leonard.
William l.. Wilson, the embezzling
secretary OF the Home Protectors as
sociatiOn saws that no is NOT sire tho