Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-08-27
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.


ed several months ago, imposing a
city tax OF $3.50 on saloons, has been
repealed.
With 100 tents pitched In grove at
Manton soldiers and sailors OF Wex-
ford, Missaukee and Osceola counties
held a three-day reunion.
The first shipment of grapes was
made from Lawton. The present in
dications are that this years crop will
be double that OF any former season.
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.
Held for stabbing another colored
| boy. Lester Odom, aged II, of st. Jo-
seph tried to cremate himself on the
| bed clothing in his county Jail cell
Officers discovered the fire In time to
save him.
| Escaping from a Battle Greek hos
| pital, where he was a delirium trem-
ems patient, Bert Mahoney was caught
on the street by officers in an almost
1
| ing fishing.
The old stave mill at the North
western Cooperage plant at Gladstone
burned Wednesday morning. 1t caught
ire from sparks from the smokestack.
! The loss is estimated at $4,000, par
TALLY insured.
Il would be satisfied with the pri-
1 lou of A., cta q dnd
that the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor should be nominated by a plu-
rality vote" said Rep Chas e. Town
send in speaking at the annual rally
of the 80 oranges of Lenawee county.
The Ann Arbor railroad has started
work laying 40 miles of track from
| Thompsonville south. The work rep
resents an expenditure OF 100000.
Robert w. Tawse, superintendent OF
motive power, states that when this
extension is completed, others will be
undertaken.
Miss Eda Gibbons, aged Is, saved
her companion, Ethel Gould, aged 10,
from drowning in the ST. Clair river
Monday. The younger girl was sitting
on log when ii fioated away into
the river Miss Gibbons plunged after
her and succeeded in bringing her
safely to shore.
The BURBERRY crop in the vicinity
| OF Grand Marais is exceeding all ex-
! pectations. Hundreds of pickers are
in the field. All former records were
broken recently, when in one day 900
| cases OF the berries were shipped to
big city markets. Buyers are paying
$3.50 per bushel
There were 1865 deaths in the state
| during the month of July. An increase
! is shown in the deaths caused by lung
! trouble. The heat caused six deaths:
lightning, four; tetanus, seven. and
241 violent deaths were reported. OF
those 50 were drowned. The births
during the month numbered 4,755.
Needing complaints of the central
! iZing cream plants, the railroad COM
mission reduced the new rates fixed
by the railroads. The smaller cream
cry men were satisfied with the ad-
vanced rates because ii tended to keep
| the product at home instead OF being
shipped to Chicago and other cities.
Col c. E. Foote, department com.
mander Of the Michigan G. A. r., has
received word that the Railway Traf-
fic association has extended the time
on excursion rates to the national en-
campment at Toledo to and over Sep
TENDER /. This will enable the vet.
Grams to vote at the primaries August
81.
The eighth annual convention of
the Michigan Hay Dealers association
opened at Flint Wednesday at the Ho-
| tel Dresden. Addresses were delivered
by Mayor Spencer Maurice Meier, OF
Monroeville, Ind, president Of the ma.
! tional association E. Steen, of Balti-
more. Md; F. NJ. Shefield, OF Detroit.
and Burdick Potter, OF Fenton.
Mrs. Ellwich Barton, of Port Huron,
has started suit for $4,000 against
Henry Fenner and his bondsmen,
| Frank Beckton and Leon Cohen. She
| alleges that Fenner sold her husband
liquor after he had been warned not
| to- Mrs. Barton recently obtained a
divorce from the man and then re.
married him. He is now in jail charged
with assaulting her
For strenuosity. the Battle Creek
Nature club has IL on most organiza
tons, despite the fact that II is com.
posed OF teachers, editors. and folks
or sedentary habits. Sunday the club
will walk around Lake Goguac, a dis
lance of six miles. On the trip the
club will study flowers, birds and fos
sils, this region being also noted for
the frequent findings OF Indian arrow
points.
A few days ago Mrs. NJ. Dryer. of
Saginaw. was bitten by a dog which
was supposed to be suffering from dis.
temper. but shortly afterward suspect.
ed to be rabies. The dog was killed
and his brain and spine sent to Ann
Arbor for analysis, where il was
proven that the second suspicion was
correct. Thursday Mrs. Dwyer went
to Ann Arbor TO take the Pasteur trent.
ment. Her case is believed 10 be ser
ious.
A crowd Of italian workmen en-
ployed on the Grand Trunk railway at
Battle Creek went on q strike Thurs.
day when the pay car stopped at the
new locomotive shops instead OF the
Nichols shops, as they had expected
When the car did not show ND and