Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-10-22
STATE NEWS BF.IEFS.


Ernbaugh. aged 60. Bannister farm
er, died Of a fractured skull.
A petition signed by 1880 in Tuscola
county asking for a local option cleo
ton was presented to the supervisors.
Burned in an explosion while at
tempting to fill a gasoline stove,
Amelia Thomas, aged IA. of Colon, is
dead
John Jones and Lester Cook, con-
victed of burglary, were given from
enc to fifteen years each at Ionia by
Judge Smith.
Clark Brown, aged So, of Battle
Creek, dropped dead of heart failure
while in the Office of a specialist he
had gone to consult.
A petition with 1000 more sigma
lures than needed to insure local
option election. was presented to the
Ottawa county supervisors.
The state will be compelled to stand
the expense of the prosecution of ex-
Rep. Archibald Bunting, Rep. Jerry"
Anderson and former State Treasurer
Frank p Glazier.
Seeing n stranger leave his home,
Clarence Day, Lapeer road farmer, liv-
ing near Flint, pursued and caught
him on a pillow horse and made him
give up his loot Of jewels.
Unable to find her husband, for
mer English minister Mrs. Sarah
Roberts, OF Ann Arbor after waiting
seven years, filed suit for divorce and
sequestration of the estate
While Miss Lena Sheatsley, of Niles,
was handling a supposedly unloaded
revolver the weapon was discharged
and the bullet struck her mother,
breaking bone just above the knee.
Miss Jessie Laid, OF Traverse City,
was found dead in bed by her sister
Friday morning Death was due TO
heart failure. The young woman's
father and grandfather died in sim
liar manner
Gertrude Whitaker, aged 16. of Port
Huron, who was thought TO have COM
mitted suicide and was later found
wandering on the Lake Shore road
half demented, was sent TO the Adrian
Industrial school.
While driving from Cadillac to
Grand Rapids, the auto of Richard
Massey, wealthy lumberman, went
over 25-foot embankment He es-
capped with slight bruises, but the ma
chine was wrecked.
A break in the canal bank at Utica
released the water Monday night. The
canal is the reservoir for water used
TO run the mill and electric light plant
and the town will be in darkness until
the break is repaired.
Diamonds owned by Mrs. Benton
Hanchett, OF Saginaw, and worth sew
eral thousand dollars disappeared
while she was attending the d. A. r.
conference in Grand Rapids. The po-
lice say she lost them.
branch of the G. r. g. I. railroad
was completed from Lake City to
Houghton lake, and in a dense will
derness two miles from the lake, a
new numbering town to be known as
Merritt, will be founded
The divorced wife of Clement Wag.
goner. of Bay City, who shot his COM
mon law wife and killed himself, was
among the mourners at his bier. Wag-
goner's aged mother with difficulty
raised money for the funeral.
Three minutes after a jury had con-
victed him of killing George Mitchell,
Charles Rutledge walked into the pris-
oners' cell at the Muskegon Jail and
started a pedro game in which only
convicted prisoners awaiting sentence
were allowed to take part
Francis Dandes, aged II, claiming
10 come from Hindustan. was arrested
in Port Huron as vagrant. He said
that he was making a trip around the
world. He carried with him a tent in
which he lived. He is being detained
here pending an investigation.
After cashing a check for 500 in
Saginaw Cornelius Geddes started to
drive to his farm, eight miles, near
Thomastown, but the team arrived
there without him. His family fears
he was drowned while crossing a Tit
tabwassee river ford.
Owosso council will give the New
Haven Coal Mining Co. franchise
to enter the city with steam road
from its mines, six miles north. and
the people will vote on proposition
to donate $4,000 toward a railroad
bridge across the river.
Articles of incorporation OF the
State bank OF Harbor Beach, capital
$4,000, were approved. The Itch
field State Savings bank. $4,000. and
the First State Savings bank Of Bron-
son, $4,000, formerly private, have
been chartered as state banks.
w w Wedemeyer, receiver OF the
Chelsea Savings bank, sent out checks
for a dividend of 20 per cent on saw
ings deposits and per cent on COM
mercial deposits Monday. The bank
has now paid 80 cents on savings and
35 on commercial deposits in its two
dividends.
Fred. Parker, the Grand Trunk
brakeman who was convicted in Port
Huron of brutal assault on Eliza
beth Pilger. a crippled girl, was SEN
fenced to from four to six years in the
Jackson penitentiary Friday. Parker
was arrested several weeks ago in
Winnipeg.
Heartbroken over being removed
from the position which he had held
for so long, Daniel Johnson, janitor of
the Pontiac court house, went before
the board OF supervisors. which had
removed him, thanked them for the
consideration which they had shown
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