Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-03-12
STATE NEWS III BRIEF.

dered the d., r. a. l. railroad to re
open its Office here.
Six Saginaw saloonkeepers. one a
woman. were fined $25 and costs each
for cracking" the lid"
The farm house of Lincoln Potter,
OF PotteTville. was burned entailing a
loss OF $1,000 with $1,000 insurance.
I. f. Wall, a Berrien Springs dray.
man, has received word that he is heir
10 $4,000 from German ancestor
Warren Leland. aged Is, OF Three
Rivers. instantly killed Stephen Moore
aged IA, while playing with a revolver
Six Italians being struggled in by
way OF the Sarnia tunnel, were arrest
ed In Port Huron and will be deport
! ed
George Kelley sued the Port Huron
| City Electric railway for 100000 for
the loss of leg while trying to board
car.
The face OF Miss Lillian Tries was
badly cut by the explosion OF a bottle
OF smelling salts placed on stove
| to melt.
Edward Rettig, proprietor of the De-
catur Hoop e. Lumber Co. was crush
| ed i'm the machinery and died two
| hours later.
! Judge Parkinson sent Saloonkeeper
| Stephen Wilcensky. of Jackson, to jail
10 days for selling liquor on Sunday,
| his second offense.
In her divorce petition Mrs. Rose
VI. Collier, Of Muskegon, said she had
| had 400 fights with her husband.
decree was refused.
Milford Down, aged "a, OF Leslie,
recently married. was run down by
| freight train while crossing the tracks
in sleigh and killed.
Mrs. Myrtle O'Toole won her suit to
recover $4,000 insurance on her Madi-
son township barns. The defense tried
to show she fired them.
The 400-pound Muskegon high school
bell and school skeleton stolen three
years ago were found in a fraternity
house. Explosions may follow.
John Torrent. Muskegon million
aire, began suit against three farmers
for cutting down 100 trees on his prop
erty. He values them at $35 each.
Donald Mckenzie. aged 81, former
~hiPSba vi aim tdl DOllC dClu III
the Steps OF the Fremont, o.. court
house and died. He was out of work.
Frank Taylor aged 40, OF Morenci,
Toledo < Western freight conductor.
was caught underneath a derailed car
near Franklin Junction. o., and killed.
Roy Chure. aged 20, Of Coldwater,
on parole from the state reformatory.
Intentionally shot himself Friday The
bullet was extracted, and he will re.
cover.
Because he wore false teeth that did
rot fit properly, George Morrison. a
civil war veteran living two miles
east OF Mason, died from necrosis of
the jaw bone.
Lansing police board says it would
be difficult to escape from the third
floor Of the high school in case of fire,
and has recommended that the floor
be abandoned.
Working forces of the Cleveland
Cliffs Iron Co., slack mine in Ishpem
ing have been cut in two because OF
the poor demand for ore About 200
men are affected.
Charles Kierski. a i4-year-old tramp.
while stealing a ride to Grand Rapids
in log car, was caught under a shift
of the logs. He was chopped out but
died shortly afterward.
Archie Willette was caught under
his fishing shanty ont on the bay
about nine miles southeast of Stan
dish, when the wind knocked it over
Willette's right leg was badly
crushed.
Frank L. LeDuc, OF the New Alpena
hotel, who was sentenced to the De
troit house OF correction for 80 DAYS
for selling liquor to minors, says he
is tired of the business and will give
up the hotel.
field, was stricken with paralysis OF
the brain while at breakfast and died
within ten minutes Both her father
and grandfather served in the revo-
lutionary war.
Mrs. A. G. Cole, formerly of Port HUI
ron, who died in Maine. left $4,000 to
the local Salvation Army, $4,000 TO
Hospital and Home and $1,000 to the
Home Mission society OF the First Con.
gregational church.
George Alger, aged 20, Of Clare. an
Ann Arbor brakeman, was crushed be.
tween two cars and died in the arms OF
his fiancee. Rosie Depareau in a Man.
istique hospital. She is in serious
condition from the shock
Warned by Edward Brooker. 1--WE
Flint families escaped from building
scantily clad just before fire explod.
cd two cans OF gasoline. John Brook.
er, aged Is, was struck by piece of
flying timber as he left the house and
was badly injured.
Arthur J. Oldfield has filed suit in
the Genesee circuit court asking 500
900 damages Of George Cocharin, of
Flint. He alleges he was struck by
Cocharin's touring car in front of the
Grswold house in Detroit October 10,
1906, and that he sustained serious in.
jures.
The 10Th birthday OF DR.. James b
Angel, president of the University of
Michigan, was celebrated In the Hotel
Astor, New York. Friday night by the
University OF Michigan alumni. There
was message, among others, from
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