Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-01
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

Methodist church.
Cassimir Mulkuski, aged 2, fell in
to bonfire of leaves in Grand Rapids
and was burned to death.
Detected by a love affair, John
Klint, of South Camden. took paris
| green and was found dead.
Count Yama Motto. OF Japan, will
enter Hope college. He will study to
mt himself as a missionary.
Sixteen stables and three barns
were destroyed by fire on the Ionia
fair grounds. and incendiarism is sus.
pected.
Blinko Kilfish, aged Is, of Calumet,
fell 1000 feet in the Tamarack mine
and his remains were collected in a
| basket.
Frank Butterfield, aged about so, a
farmer. committed suicide In the New
ark sanitarium, Charlotte. while be-
ing treated.
A new bank has been organized TO
succeed the defunct Athens State
bank, the capital being obtained Ell
tirely in the county.
The heirs of the late Hugh Nc
Curdy, who are trying to break his
will, have agreed to fight the matter
out In the circuit court
James Daniels, Kalamazoo rural
mail carrier, substituted motor
cycle for his horse and says he saves
threefourths of the time.
An unknown was crushed by the
! shifting of lumber in a box car In
which he was stealing ride TO Cold
water and was found dead.
| William Stratton, of Pontiac,
brought six ducks in from Crescent
lake and insists that he brought down
the whole bunch at one shot.
X. Hanson & Sons, lumbermen, arc
erecting a new village near Grayling
! TO accommodate 400 men TO be EN-
ployed in lumber camp there.
John Beland, aged 40, dropped dead
of heart disease near Hubbard lake.
He leaves a widow and six small chill
dren in straitened circumstances.
Caught under falling slate in the
| Wenona mine, Bay City, the back of
Otto Gillespie. aged 81, was broken
and he will probably not survive.
! A black bear has been reported in
| the woods near Henderson and hunt
ers are after it. II is thought forest
fires may have driven bruin south.
Kept from a picnic which his 10
year-old brother was allowed to at
| tend. Edward Wittske. aged 16, OF
Merrill, hanged himself in his bed
| room.
With a wedding planned for late
| this year. John Merrill, Muskegon
sign and landscape painter, fell from
scaffolding in Milwaukee and was
| killed.
Arthur Shoeburg, aged IA, an in
mate OF the state public school, was
| taken to the county Jail Monday, VOL
emily insane. He will be taken TO the
asylum at Newberry.
Prof. Henry Carhart of the u. of NJ
will attend the international confer
ence on electrical units and standards
in London. Eng, as one OF the three
delegates from this country.
Led by the fire warden, citizens of
Luzerne fought forest fires which rag
ed on three sides of the village and
succeeded IN getting them under con-
troll. A fire line was leveled around the
village.
In order to sue for divorce in Port
Huron Adma G.. Gould, formerly Of
Avon. n. Y, made affidavit that he
| had been a resident of Holly two
years. He has been arrested on a
perjury charge.
Mrs. Maud Jones, aged 80, who was
injured in the ID. U. r. wreck near
Jackson July "a while on her way to
become patient in the state tubercu-
losis sanitarium in Howell, is dead
| She leaves six children.
Charged with attacking Lulu Frazer.
a hotel waitress, on a lonely road near
the Port Huron tunnel, VIM. Donnelly,
Grand Trunk freight conductor, was
held for trial. The girl has been in
a critical condition but will recover.
Nellie Clair and Kate Weyant, the
young girls whose confession prompt
ed Harry Potter, aged H. of Cold
water, to commit suicide, were ar
rested on disorderly conduct charges
and will be sent TO the Adrian school.
As a proposed addition to the ma
tional forest reserve the department
of the interior has temporarily with
drawn FROM sale about 1000 miles of
public lands in Cheboygan, Montmo.
ties.
The state board of agriculture re.
fused to furnish residents of East Ian.
sing village with water and sewer
privileges from the NJ. A. G. after
| January / and the villagers voted to
| bond for $4,000 to construct their
| own system.
John Van Den Brock, son of a
Dutch minister, was arrested In
Grand Rapids on the charge of burg
| larizing store, and Ella Fosket, who
had watch and two bracelets in her
possession, is accused of receiving
stolen property
A team of horses belonging 10
Isaac Thompkins, farmer living near
Big Rapids, was found Friday after
noon in dying condition, terribly
bitten by flies, and their eyesight al
most ruined by the dense smoke from
| the forest fires, tangled in the under
brush in the woods just outside the
city. The horses had been in that
condition for six days, with neither
! food nor drink Thomplins drove the