Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-08-26

Five new cases OF typhoid fever
were added TO the list wednesday,
making the number sick, 27.
Mrs. Belinda Rayner, aged 76, OF
Vicksburg, in fit OF dependency,
drowned herself in a cistern.
Mary Lenery, a Menominee 5-year-
old, ate spoiled sardines she found in
can In the yard. She is dead.
Saginaw city council has voted $500
TO build tuberculosis shack on the
grounds OF the detention hospital.
Pere Marquette train No. !. bound
north, was delayed at Gardendale one
hour Thursday when the engine
broke down.
At secret meeting OF the dry
leaders of Kalamazoo il was decided
TO give the "wets" another fight in
the spring.
Norman Eldred, the aged patient
who disappeared from Otter Lake
sanitarium. near Flint, has been To-
Gated in Saranac.
Stepping off Grand Rapids street
car before it had come to a stand
still, Mrs. Marcia Madden, 35, was
| thrown to the pavement and fatally
injured
Shooting at a mark at Walled Lake,
some one OF three young men camp
ing there accidentally shot and killed
| one of their companions, George Kidd,
of Worthwhile.
During the temporary absence from
the house of Mrs. Ernest Eleanor, of
Port Huron, her infant son drank car
bolic acid from bottle left within
| reach, and died.
Sewer workmen found a wooden
box containing two human skeletons
at a street corner in Flint. The
| bodies had apparently been buried
many years ago, probably on a farm.
Nine men left Cadillac Wednesday
| to join the navy. They were Max
| Souzer, S. Wheelock, +. r. Flodquist,
| L. F. Daley, c. A. Cass, A. Nicholson,
E. Duvall. Charles Laney and r. E.
Peters.
A furious storm struck the northern
half OF Detroit Thursday afternoon,
and in 20 minutes damage was done
| to trolley and telephone lines which
will cost several thousand dollars to
| repair
| Ex-State Senator John w. Carve
| link of Graafschap has resigned his
| position on the school board which
| he has held for 90 consecutive years.
Last winter he slipped and fell on
an icy walk. He is now so.
f. w. Clark Of Philadelphia. it is
reported, will construct an electric
! line between Bay City and Caro-. 1t
| is understood that the line will alb
sorb the Flint & Saginaw road and
connect with Detroit by way of Caro-
Mrs. Jane Mallow, OF Athens, was
burned by an explosion of turpentine
in her pantry. In the dark she over
| turned bottle and then lighted a
match. Her hair was burned off and
her body badly scorched. She cannot
live.
The twenty-seventh annual session
! Of the Grand Chapter of the Colored
/ Royal Arch Masons. Knights Templar
and Order of Eastern Star, was held
in Benton Harbor last week. Detroit
was chosen as the place for the 1910
meeting.
Grand Rapids is growing. During
the past three years 1921 houses
were built there, at which rate. allow
ing five persons to a family, the new
population is about as many as live
in each of several fourth class cities
in Michigan.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
five big barns on the Gunnison farm
five miles from Grass Lake, Sunday
afternoon. The buildings were filled
with the seasons crops of hay and
oats, but the live stock sheltered in
them were saved.
Additions to Pontiac factory con
Germs will compel the employment oil
900 more mechanics next year, anC
the fact that there are at present
fewer than 40 vacant houses in the
city has given Pontiac the mos
puzzling problem of its history
Fire. probably caused by spontane
Gus combustion, destroyed three
barns on the farm of William Clifford
near Emmett, Sunday. Over 100 tons
of hay and many farm Implement
were burned and the loss will amount
to $4,000, with partial insurance.
1t is now believed that the myste
rious fire which destroyed the plan
Of the Freeman Lumber Co, in En-
| COunNys was ln'
work of an incendiary. The mill
which was closed for the summer, wal
valued at $1,000 and will be rebuilt
at once.
All efforts to locate William Alexan
der, aged 60. and his 9-year-old son
John, who disappeared after startini
from their farm, nine miles south, [,
Flint TO attend the circus, Aug. 6, hav,
so far failed, and many people nov
believe that they went for boat rid
and were drowned.
Thirteen foreign countries, and 4
states and territories and the Distric
OF Columbia, furnished students a
the session OF the u. Of NJ. summe
school, which closed last week.
Great many of the students were GU
siders 112 other colleges which col
duct summer schools being repr,
sented
: Justice James NJ. Smith, of Has
! ings, has a broken arm and sever
! bruises as the result of being jerke
from his horse and dragged by tn
COW which he was leading on 3,
foot chain. After circling about I'll
Smith was wrapped in the chain tn
COW ran home, with the justice bumI