Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-05-21
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

only ~ cents.
"Yeggs" blew the Sherman post
office safe. They got SIG in cash and
"A few stamps.
Park Commissioner Barlow denied
the use of Grand Rapids public park
for Socialist meeting.
Because of the high price of corn
the Michigan Starch Co.'S factory at
Traverse City will shut down.
Burglars stole slverware, firearms
and cutlery worth 5000 from the
Chambers Bros store in Wixom.
The Grand river is rising and sev.
eral Ionia factories for the second
time this spring are preparing 10
move out.
Ii is now suggested that Thomas
Morrish. who disappeared from Flush
ing year ago, may have been a Gun
ness farm victim.
kalamazoo board of health will ask
the council 10 pass an ordinance re
quiring screens 10 keep out the germ
spreading house fly.
President Fitch of the Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic railroad, de
MES the report that his road will ac-
quire the Detroit 4 Mackinac line.
The title of the old Mansfield a.
Coldwater roadbed has been obtained
by the Coldwater-Battle Creek line
which il is declared, is now financed.
William 5. Downey, of Kalamazoo
former sheriff and chief of police, has
been detained on charge Of insanity
He met with financial reverses recent
~.
Instead of going to Benton Harbor
10 visit daughter. James II. Bean
a wealthy Keller farmer. took carbolio
acid in barn and the body was found
several days later.
Samuel Cameron. aged 80, reported
to Sheriff Davidson. of Port Huron
that he was lured into a resort by tive
women and robbed of his bank book
containing a deposit OF 500.
While in an absent-minded mood
John Wardell Battle Greek grocer,
walked against a fast moving trolley
car and was probably fatally injured
His wife died not long ago.
A party OF 81 persons. all natives
OF England. will leave Ishpeming for
the old country. The foreign steam
ship business has been better there
this spring than in years before.
Fifty sheep raisers OF Vernon and
Venice townships have formed a tacit
agreement not to sell their wool un
I'll there is an advance in price. They
are holding about ESQ. 900 pounds.
Conductor George Meade, who has
been in the Homeopathic hospital at
Ann Arbor since the ID. u. r. Denton
wreck April 2S. will be able TO leave
soon and will probably be arrested
Sixty IT, of M. freshmen pulled as
many sophomores through the Huron
river in the annual tug Of war. Later
the freshmen won the bag contest.
Nearly 5000 people saw the contests.
Norman W. Greene, OF Grand Rap
ids. who was six feet two inches in
hight and for years the living skele
ton OF Barnum & Bailey's sideshow,
is dead. He weighed only 80 pounds.
The new Hickman hotel in Kalama.
zoo was almost stripped OF towels.
doilies, sheets and pillow cases by
souvenir seekers at the formal opening
Thursday. II is estimated that 10000
people visited the place.
Arthur Burg, of Bay City. believed
from newspaper dispatches that his
son Frank had been murdered in San
Francisco and the family was stricken
dumb when he walked into the house
He had been gone year.
Mrs. Peter Thinner, aged 20. OF Mus
kegon, but recently bride. took car
bolic acid because her husband scold-
cd hor for f,,o oF
they would blow on a neighbours
clothes. The doctors saved her.
Released from the charge OF aban-
doning his wife and ten children on
condition that he furnish 81 week.
Newton w. Losse. aged 81 OF Flint.
was unable 10 meet it, He took acid
in hayloft and was found dying.
May Malone, proprietress of the
Grand Central. and William Dryer, OF
the Northern hotel in Lake City. are
under arrest charged with selling
liquor. They are the first arrested in
the counties recently voted dry"
Judge Kline ordered Elmer c.
Glenn and Thomas Purchase, defend
ants in the suit brought ny u. of NJ
professors and others 10 recover money
invested in an oil well. to place ST.
e1061 to the credit Of the case in 10
days.
Members Of the Chicago Commercial
association will leave Chicago on a
two weeks trade booming expedition
into Michigan and Ohio The Michigan
cities To be visited include Muskegon.
Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Bay City.
Saginaw, Flint, Lansing and jackson.
Taking into. her house party of
Bohemian beet weeders. who had
missed train connections, Mrs. Frank
Seafred, aged 60, of Durand. made
beds for them on the floor and gave
them food. over-exertion and a severe
cold brought an attack OF pneumonia
and Mrs. Seafred is near death
Prosecuting Attorney Sawyer says
that Bert Reynolds. manager OF the
wrecked Star theater In Ann Arbor.
has asked him for warrants for 66
students, charging them with malici-
Gus destruction of property and offer
ing him 20 per cent of the amount II
he would collect the $4,000 represent
ing the total OF the Star bill at the
recent riot The nrosecutor refused