Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-10-14
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

| verses, Phlllp Hone, former Well-to
do business man of Menominee,
hanged himself in his barn.
Bert III. Hadsall, an Owosso timer,
has fallen heir to $4,000 bequeathed
him by his aunt, Mrs Carrie Payne
Filler, the Manistee philanthropist.
The.apple crop of Branch county Is
failure. according to reports. Care
lessness in not spraying trees while
in blossom Is given as the cause.
A reckless bicycle rider ran down
| 7-year-old Beatrice Dickinson, OF
Owosso. on sidewalk, badly bruised
her and then heartlessly kept on his
way
The Haskell Home for Children,
Battle Creek, which burned last Feb
ruary, is to be rebuilt at once with
the $4,000 still in the treasury as a
starter.
I'll be ripe when come out.
judge" joked Stephen S. Pangburn
when he was sentenced to serve from
20 to 40 years in Marquette prison for
killing his wife.
A new counterfeit S. silver certifi-
cate. bearing the Indian head, series
1899, has appeared In Michigan, and
the secret service has issued warn
ing to the public.
A small boy found Henry Goepfort,
aged 79. in dying condition in two
back rooms of a house in Bay City.
Running out for help, he returned to
find the old man dead
Coming to Cadillac expecting to
marry John Raabe, Mrs. Belle Dor
sey. with her four young children, is
stranded far from their Indiana home.
Raabe failed to appear
Harry Ulrich donated a valuable
water power rights to the Little Mus
kegon Power Co, while other resi-
dents OF Mecosta county received pay
ment for similar rights.
The first sale of state tax lands
ever held away from the capital took
place at Muskegon Thursday when
the public domain commission sold
Muskegon county lands.
F. Bruce Smith. Saginaw's blind
newspaper man, has been appointed
by Gov. Warner a member of the
board OF the state employment insti-
tute for the blind In Saginaw.
George Brown aged 46, a wealthy
stock farmer, blew out the gas in his
room at a Port Huron hotel when he
retired and was found nearly asphyxi-
ated the next afternoon. He cannot
live.
Drug store local option whisky was
given a black eye when a Pontiac
doctor ordered bottle and specified
that it must be good whisky, not
the diluted and covered with-carame
kind
The 17-months-old son of G. Fl.
Ramboy of Saginaw, fell out Of
swing. caught his head in the rope
and was strangled to death. His
mother found the body hanging from
the swing.
The combined efforts OF the
Women's League and the Women
Athletic Association OF the u. of M.
have resulted in the securing Of $4,000
to apply on the Sleepy Hollow ath-
letic field mortgage.
Bishop Charles Williams, Of Detroit,
made an eloquent plea for religion as
a course in universities in University
hall. He advocated a department OF
religion analogous TO the departments
OF law and engineering.
Lee Hunt, aged II, a Battle Creek
cripple. has disappeared from home
and left note saying his life was
useless and he could bear 1t no
longer 1t is feared he has drowned
himself in Goguac lake.
Mrs. W. B. Scott, Of Bay City, who
was found hung up by the wrists Sun
day, has charged her husband with
the deed. According to his statement
to the police. Mrs. Scott has left home
and gone to live with a daughter.
Michigan university students will
hear DR.. Frederick A. Cook tell of his
discovery OF the north pole as a con-
tract has been signed with the ex-
plorer to appear here at the highest
price ever paid for a single attraction
on the course given annually by the
Studeris' Lecture association, this
being its seth season.
In the state crop report the total
number of bushels of wheat raised in
the state is estimated at 12,000,0 900.
The average yield per acre was 10
bushels The total yield OF rye is fixed
at 100000 bushels, oats at 100000
bushels, corn at 100000 bushels,
beans at G,0000o0 bushels and sugar
beets at 5000 tons.
Twenty petitions from the same
number of voting precincts In the
county were filed with the Cadillac
county Clerk. asking the supervisors
for submission of county prohibition
next spring. There were 1900 names
signed representing about half the
voters of the county The matter will
be disposed Of at next weeks meet
ing of the supervisors.
The question whether the Soldiers
home management may deduct por
tion OF the pension received by the
inmates is being brought to an issue
by the attorney-general's department
through an application TO the Kent
county court to dissolve the injunc-
ton which prohibits the mmandant
deducting all above $12 month from
the pension OF the veterans.
The amount of cash brought into
Ann Arbor by the students is far in
advance this year over any previous
year for some time. The dull times