Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-06-25
STATE BRIEFS.

INC Iesult Vi a ldil III lecumsen.
Lacking few days of being 100
years old. VIM. Mcpherson was locked
up In Kalamazoo as tramp and beg
| gar.
The national Christian Reformed
synod decided TO enlarge the John Cal.
vim college and seminary In Grand
Rapids.
Theresa Castle, aged Is, who ran
away from her home In Durand q
month ago, was found working In q
Sarnia hotel
The site for the new Cadillac Tur
pentine Co. plant was purchased and
ground will be broken at once for an
$4,000 plant
The supreme court admitted 161 law
students of the Il. of NJ. to practice
Detroit College of Law students will
be admitted June 26.
The lawyers and county officers OF
Genesee county with their families.
will go TO Detroit for their annual out
ing Wednesday, June II.
Among the los Ann Arbor high
school graduates was Albino Sycip, a
native of China, whose Grafton was
The New Era in China"
Mrs. Ruby Welch. Of Bay City. said
10 be the largest woman in Michigan,
died Saturday night She was AZ years
old and weighed 40 pounds.
Carey Horton, aged 10, son of Rev.
Isaac Horton, and high school grad
uate this month, was drowned while
swimming in the St Joseph river
OF oh a
carpenter, woke up blind after taking
a large dose OF quinine for a cold. He
was taken to Detroit TO see special
lists.
Starting in search for her child, Mrs.
Adam Portfolio, of Chassell. reached
the door just in time to see her killed
by Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
train.
Because he ordered a gang of row.
dies from the Lyric theater in Grand
Rapids, Harry McFadden, manager,
was assaulted on the street and is near
death.
Frederick Stevenson, of Muskegon,
graduate of the literary department of
the II. OF NJ. will go to Natal, in Brit
ish South Africa, TO establish a normal
school,
Van Gilbert church, three miles
from Big Rapids, burned TO the ground
and the commencement exercises OF
three township schools have been de-
ferred
A Saginaw river dredge pulled up
large bones which School Superintend-
ent Hubert pronounced those of mas
todon. A foreleg bone is 10 inches In
diameter.
Rev. u. G.. B. Pierce. pastor Of All
Saints Unitarian church, Washington,
which Secretary Taft attends while in
Washington, graduated from Hillsdale
college in 1890
The Pontiac asylum has filed claim
OF s6,306.50 for the recent fire losses.
The state carries it's own insurance
and fire claims are allowed by the
state auditors.
Fire destroyed the Keller hotel,
Boyne Falls One guest leaped from a
second-story window, while another
was rescued from the top floor. The
loss was $4,000.
While awaiting the supreme court
decision, w. H. Wilson, convicted Uni.
ted Home Protector fraternity embez-
zler, spends his time In Jail in reading
the Bible and singing hymns.
George w. Loring, aged ~, coroner
Of Shiawassee county, was found lying
dead on the floor of his Office Thurs.
day morning 1t is believed that death
was caused by heart failure.
Michigan district United Mine Own.
ers of America. agreed to extend their
a
OF one, the owners desiring TO have
the price of coal production known
farther ahead
Sixty of the 70 girls in the gradual
ing class of the Saginaw high school
will wear dresses that they themselves
made. All the work was done in the
sewing rooms of the manual training
department of the schools.
Mrs. Conrad Peterson, who left Mus
kegon two weeks ago for the bedside
of her dying father in Denmark, ar
rived there too late, the father having
died just before her arrival. Mrs. Pc
terson will inherit an estate OF $780,
600 from her father.
The drug store of J. c. Brown. of
Battle Creek, was robbed and set on
was damaged to the extent OF $4,000.
The branch postoffice in the place was
robbed of $50 in stamps and money.
In the store $40 and two gold watches
were taken.
The climax TO series OF petty bur.
glaries that have occurred in Port HUI
ron in the past few weeks was reached
Sunday night when an attempt was
made TO burglarize the residence of
Police Captain Kerwin The captain
heard the men trying to effect an en-.
trance to his house and chased them
down the street, firing three shots,
none of which took effect.
Struck over the heart by pitched
ball. John Roach. aged 81, of River
Rouge, was practically dead for 10
minutes Sunday afternoon. Roach was
umpiring a ball game on the Detroit
Sprocket Co.'S grounds in old Delray,
using no chest protector, when a wild
pitch hit him. The physician resorted
to artificial means 10 restore respira
ton and after 10 minutes hard work
Roach opened his eyes. IL was some
time before he was able to be moved,