Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-02-11
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

into handsome schoOl Duilulng.
Adam Friend. 90, was crushed to
death by falling tree while chop
ping In the woods near Camden.
The Oceana county agricultural so
ciety has decided to mortgage its fair
ground In a sum not to exceed ST.
500.
James Holbrook, 81, lost both legs
by being rum over by an Ann Arbor
freight train. He will probably re-
cover
Miss Fannie Joynes, 20, OF Syracuse.
N. Y. chorus girl in the Royal Chef
Co., fell 80 feet through an open shaft
in Traverse City. She may die.
Miss Title Levy. %, from Racine,
Wis, was caught in the elevator
shafting of Flint factory and her
right leg broken in three places and
badly crushed.
West Branch is in darkness as re-
suit OF the councils cut in the bllls
OF the Rifle River Electric Co. The
manager of the company has ceased
furnishing light.
A West Branch girl Cora Embury,
II years Of age, is being sought by
her parents. She left home sudden
ly a week ago and nothing has been
heard of her since.
Taking advantage or the mild
weather of the last week, many far
mers are doing their spring plowlng.
The oldest inhabitants cannot remem-
Dor OF similar happening.
Mrs. Lucy Crandall. OF Flint. was
ny nj Cd hnr husband
Horton Crandall, who left his home
30 years ago and his wife has not
seen nor heard from him since.
W. H. White. OF Boyne City, whose
name was mentioned in connection
with the Republican nomination FOR
regent of the University OF Michigan,
announces that he will not be candi-
date.
Mrs. Kate Chapel has started suit
for 81 900 damages against Muske-
gon furniture dealer, alleging trespass.
She says that the man took COOK
stove containing her dinner out OF
her home.
Edward Edmund, 90. and Peter
Miller, %. arrested on being caught
in a Bay City grocery, are said by the
police to have admitted robbing
clothing store last week OF $1,000
worth OF goods.
AS soon as William Mcclure finishes
serving time In Detroit for his numer-
Gus coal swindles he will be brought
TO Flint to face similar charges. He
is said to have conducted operations
on an extensive scale.
Holding a young woman's photo in
his hand Howard Mccarthy, 20, OF
Ovid. was found unconscious from an
overdose of morphine. Mccarthy was
well dressed, but had no money. He
lodged at the Ionia jail.
George Clouse, the Capac farmer,
who threatened young boy with
death If he refused to pray and who
at the time was suffering from insan-
ity brought on by religion, has been
taken to the Pontiac asylum.
Mrs. Rebecca Loomis. the Oldest
inhabitant of Bloomingdale, celebra-
ted her ninety-second birthday Mon
day. She has lived in that vicinity
So years and the affair was made the
occasion of village celebration.
T. A. Lawler, assistant attorney-gen-
eral, has been commissioned major
and Judge advocate on Gov. Warmers
staff with the National Guard. Mai.
LAWYER has been legal adviser OF the
military department for some time.
Miss Becky Heiss, aged 40, daughter
OF Scofield farmer, is dead from in
juries received when she was gored
by a mad bull, while trying to cross
field. The family dog savagely at
tackled the bull to protect his mistress.
George Peek, 5-year-old child, may
lose the sight of his right eye as the
result of an accident in school Wed
nesday. The little fellow was playing
with a pen, when in some manner he
stuck the point of the pen in his eye.
Judge Lewis Mcqueen, OF Frankfort,
KY, who is staying at the Battle Creek
sanitarium, predicts that Kentucky
will go dry" In few years, SO force
full Is the sweep OF the "anti-booze'
movement in the south.
Two governors. II. r. Glenn, OF
North Carolina, and Gov. Buchtel, OF
Colorado, are booked for Battle
Creeks 1909 Chautauqua program. So
is James Watson. Populist Rev. John
Wesley HILL Of New York, and 9TH
ers.
Grand Rapids police are trying to
learn who assaulted Isaac Klinger, an
aged war veteran, who died from his
wounds, Saturday When he was
found in the Soldiers home basement
the money he was known to have had
on his person when he left his room
was missing.
Mrs. Olive Wood, recently SEN
fenced to from six months TO fifteen
years at Jackson. for assisting In
killing her daughters infant. will
have to serve time in Detroit. She
will be re-sentenced because there
are no accommodations in Jackson
for women prisoners.
At meeting of the Seventh Dis
trict Dental Society, held in Port HUI
ron. the Identification of bodies by
the teeth was taken up. DR.. G. w.
Bowbeer, of st. Clair. exhibited the
teeth of the late "Gid" Browning at
the meeting and told how the ashes
found I'm the stove of the Rattle Run
NJ. f. church were proven to be those
of Browning, owing 10 crown pin,
which he had used in fixing the teeth
Of the slain man only few weeks be-
fore his death.