Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-07-23
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.


Mrs. Tessie Bears, of Shelby, drowned
herself in rain barrel.
Democrats have agreed to run
Mayor Gustave Hine as candidate for
congress. Hine has not yet committed
himself.
A movement has been started to
merge the various reform organiza-
tions OF Grand Rapids and put up an
independent ticket.
Receiver II. G. Showers report on
the United Home Protectors frater-
nifty shows assets of 1921 ,022. The liza
bilities have not yet been ascer-
tanned.
The 4-year-old son OF Peter Horn,
of Carmel, while hiding in the wheat,
was run over by binder driven by
his father, and one of the boys legs
was cut off.
After asking expressions from Pom
tiac business men as 10 whether the
board of trade shall continue its Of
ficers have decided to give ii one more
chance for life.
In a collision between a local com
bination freight and Lake Shore pas
senger at Eenawee Junction, due to a
mistake in orders five tranmen were
slightly injured.
A reward of $4,000 is offered by the
county for information leading to the
capture of the person or persons who
sent an internal machine TO Sheriff
Beck at Calumet.
Leaving a note saying she was tired
OF life. Ethel Connor aged II, of Jack
son, disappeared and it is feared she
took her life in Grand river. The
police are investigating.
VicePresident Fairbanks, w r. Day
and other celebrities expect TO be pres
enc at the dedication of the Fort Sum
ner cannon at Mackinac August s. c.
r. Miller, of Adrian, will be in charge.
Three Indians, including a squaw,
were arrested at Port Huron for being
intoxicated and officers have now
started a crusade to enforce the law
prohibiting the sale OF liquor TO In
dams.
Invitations, were received from De-
troit. Flint and Kalamazoo but the
executive committee of the Michigan
State Dairymens association chose
Grand Rapids for the annual conven-
tion next year.
William Heath, of Pentwater, who
eloped with l6-year-old Mabel Won
Brocklin to Sheboygan, Wis. was con-
victed there Of a statutory charge on
the girls evidence and got six months
in the county jail.
While playing on a dock at Muske-
gon Lee Charland, aged II, sank in a
sawdust pit and was almost buried
in a smoldering fire beneath He was
| badly burned about the lower part of
the body when his companions rescued
| him.
Deputy Factory Inspector Hall and
Deputy Labor Commissioner Fletcher,
OF Bay City, conferred with Prosecutor
Hitchcock and declared they would
ask for warrants for school members
not placing the school fire escapes
ordered.
immigration officers at the Port
Huron tunnel Tuesday removed from
a train an insane Swede who was on
his way from Montreal to Chicago.
The man was carrying two revolvers
and two ugly looking knives. He will
be sent back TO Montreal.
While engaged in a swimming race
in Muskeg on lake, Arthur Cory. a sea
man on the United States receiving
ship. Wolverine was seized with
cramps and would have drowned but
for Carpenters Mate Lutten, who held
him up until a boat arrived
Malcolm J. Mcleod has been APP
pointed collector of internal revenue
al Detroit His commission reached
the White House Monday to be rec
orded. II was signed by the president
Saturday at oyster Bay. This appoint
ment ends a protracted fight
The United States Telephone Co,
of Cleveland. which does a large bust
ness in Ohio has flied articles of in
corporation i'm Michigan This may
mean more telephone competition in
Michigan as the company already has
line from Toledo to Detroit and Sag
NAV.
A coroner's jury. which investigated
the death of William Schoenberg.
aged 90. whose body was found in
Muskegon lake, found that the man
had taken his own life. II was shown
that Schoenberg had risen at 2
o'clock in the morning and jumped
into the lake.
The awards of the board OF state
auditors for the fiscal year ending
June l. aggregated S47S,791.16. The
awards on account of the constitution
al convention, amounted TO more than
$4,000 This total award is slightly
larger than in 1907, but much smaller
than in 1906.
According TO the terms of a fran
chise granted TO the Grand Rapids
Electric Co. at meeting of the Plain
well village council, an electric line
will be built from Kalamazoo to Grand
Rapids by way of Plainwell within Is
months. A spur may be built from
Plainwell to Otsego and Allegan.
When GO members Of the Free Meth.
odist church at Battle Creek. gather.
ing in a new cement block structure
on River street applied the torch TO a
mortgage Sunday night ii meant the
cleaning up Of a $4,000 church debt
after four years of hard labor The
congregation is poor as well as small
and Rev. II. l.. Schermerhorn. in an
nouncing the removal Of the debt.