Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-07-08

BY vote OF 10 to /. the Saginaw
council forbade the purchase OF Ohf
coal by the local water board
Sam David, Syrian merchant OF
Spruce, blew off his right hand while
exploding cannon firecrackers.
A huge swarm of bees sauntering
about the down town streets OF Kala
mazoo stopped business for an hour
Flint city council will call special
election on the proposition TO bond
the city for 100000 for improve
ments.
T. A. Ely, of Gratiot county, has
succeeded Horatio S. Earle, OF Detroit,
in active charge of the state highway
commission.
Because of stringent pure food or
dinance, some dairymen will stop
shipping milk into Pontiac, and will
send ii to Detroit instead.
Grand Rapids police are unable TO
| find n reason for the attempt OF an
unknown man to shoot Fred Strenlow,
furniture employee, in his home
After four years chase. Melville f.
Myers has been arrested in Chicago
for the desertion of his crippled wife
and four small children in Flint.
The $240 back pay for services in
the civil war sought by David Sly for
40 years, reached Traverse City from
Washington the day after his death.
A 12-mile railroad is being con-
structed from Dickinson county into
Marquette county, 10 tap a timber
| tract containing close TO 20,00O,OOO
| feet.
Travelling state officials will hereaf.
| ter be expected to turn in receipts
| for all expense money spent while on
| trips about the state on public bust
| ness.
Upper peninsula farmers report
much damage, especially to the hay
crop, being done by visitation OF
grasshoppers. Oats are also being
damaged.
Game Warden Pierce is investigat-
ing complaints that the Wisconsin
warden has seized fish shipments inn
properly marked by upper peninsula
fishermen.
BY the premature explosion of
cannon he was firing, 10-year-old Glen
vi OMOSSO, Hdu dh Cdi AOi "A
off and was terribly burned about the
head and body.
The dog which bit y-year-old Harry
Parsons, of Grand Rapids, in the face
has been killed, although not suffer
ing from rabies. The lad will be dis
figured for life.
The Ypsilanti Normal college sum
mer enrolment for the first week has
reached 1,2S5. which at the usual rate
of later enrollments will mean a prob
able total of 1900.
In a collision in the Jog off Thunder
bay island Tuesday morning, the
steamer w. P. Thew was rammed by
the big steel steamer Livingstone and
sank in 80 minutes.
Bernard Clark, of Niles, arrested
for shooting through window at his
sweetheart because she had another
caller, has been bound over for trial
in the circuit court.
Harry G.. Weaver, of Muskegon, for
mer Annapolis cadet. but expelled
year ago for hazing. resucued 15-year-
old Fern Bailey from drowning in the
lake and is local hero.
Florence NJ Brazmaier was married
for the seventh time and William H.
Flood started his third experience in
matrimony when they stand before
the preacher in Grand Rapids, We'd
nesday.
A. $50 reward is offered by Sheriff
Wagenseil, of Port Huron, for the cap
ture of Joe Mcdonald. who escaped
from a deputy while being taken TO
Ionia to serve term for attempted
highway robbery.
Although A. c. Harger was given
the highest standing in the civil SER
vice examination for appointment as
postmaster at Orchard Lake. the place
has gone 10 Thomas o. Drouillard,
second on the list.
A drunken farm hand employed by
William Morris, in New Haven town
ship, drove the family into the second
floor of the house where they barri.
caded themselves while the drink
crazed man was smashing furniture
and dishes below. The sheriff was
telephoned for, and arrested the cele-
brant.
The Detroit naval reserves will
leave August s on their annual cruise
on the Don Juan de Austria. The boat
will proceed directly to Thunder bay,
where it will join the reserve boats
from other states. The squadron will
then cruise to South Manitou island,
Lake Michigan, where about four
days will be spent in drills. On the
last day a sham battle will be fought
on the island The feet will break
up at Mackinac island, the Detroit
reserves arriving home August is.
Several lives and bad freight
wreck were averted by the presence
OF mind of Mrs. w. s. Adkins, wife
of the Michigan Central telegraph OPP
orator at Morgan, when the big mill
dam was carried away by the high
water and the railroad bridge weak
ened by the rush of water from the
pond. Adkins tried unsuccessfully to
hold the westbound freight train at
Nashville, but was unsuccessful Mrs.
Adkins heard the whistle and rushing
from her home she tagged the train
with strip of red mosquito netting,