Belding banner., 1909-07-22
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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Wiesies. of Kalamazoo. drank from a
saucer of fly poison and died.
Three stolen horses and buggies
have been recovered and man named
Smith arrested as the thief by Allegan
county officers.
The new postoffice building at Flint
was opened Wednesday. 1t was a
simple opening, no program having
been arranged
| Acting Warden Wenger may put
about 20 convicts on leased farm to
Use milk and vegetables for the
Jackson prison.
| Recent mad dog scares at Kalama-
zoo have led to general order by
which all unmuzzled dogs are gath
cred in by policemen.
| Fearing she was a burden TO her
family, Mrs. David McMartin, of Plain
we'll a farmers wife and church mem
ber, ate rat poison.
| First Lieut.. Payson ID. Foster, OF
Lansing, has been placed In command
of the first detachment signal corps,
Michigan National Guard.
Two little girls playing along the
beach near Bay City Thursday found
| a gold watch which had been lost by
Adna G. Lewis about a year ago.
Levi Snyder, Holland cripple. has
arranged to have his body given TO
an indianapolis medical college in the
interest of science after his death.
f. w. Gray, %, from Peoria, H.,
but employed in Flint factory, was
drowned when the canoe in which he
was riding was overturned by a
launch.
The explosion of an overloaded
shotgun while hunting near Ypsilan-
! ii so mangled Noah Hayes's left
| hand that it had TO be amputated at
the wrist.
II haven't 5000 to my name" de-
clared Mrs. Carrie Nation, in Owosso,
when asked concerning the report
| that her hatchet raids against liquor
and tobacco had netted her a quarter
| million.
The safety valve, placed in the
Grand Rapids reservoir after the
| flood OF 1900, saved the city like ex-
perience early Wednesday morning.
The water was two feet above the
high mark, but the valve carried off
the surplus.
Harrison +. Strong, aged so, a
Michigan Central conductor. is in the
county jail in Jackson and will be ex-
amined to decide as to his sanity. The
man became violent at his home, 1t
is alleged, and threatened members
of his family.
D. f. Schrodt, farmer from Mt.
Carmel, H., who was a patient at
Battle Creek sanitarium, took his own
life Saturday night by drinking car
bolic acid. Dependency because of
his illness is believed to have been
the cause of the act.
Mother Mary Anthony, formerly SUI
perioress of st. Francis orphan home
in Detroit, was elected reverend moth
er general of the sisters of st. Joseph,
of the Detroit diocese, at the general
chapter recently held at Nazareth
academy, near Kalamazoo
Peter Brinker, the man who broke
from the line of prisoners at the Kent
county jail, and escaped, after scaling
the wall in he full view of the guards,
July G, has been captured in a hobo
camp near Holland. He says that he
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since the escape.
Mrs. Ella Mccoy, now of Minneapolis,
has appealed from the probate of the
will of her sister, Mrs. Sara Wilder,
of Battle Creek. The instrument
leaves Mrs. Mccoy $50 out of $780,
900 estate, and the Minneapolis wo-
man declares she advanced $4,000 to
the dead woman in the last few years
of her life.
Two people were killed and nine
others injured in a head-on collision
between a Chicago, Kalamazoo &
Saginaw passenger train and a south
| bound freight train a mile and half
north of Schultz station shortly after
| 8 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
wreck is believed to have been the
result of misunderstanding of or
ders.
Seventy per cent of the divorce
suits heard and pending in Washte-
nav county circuit court have come
from Ypsilanti. 1t appears that the at
mosphere of Ypsilanti is not conducive
to domestic happiness, as almost
every conceivable cause for applica-
tion for freedom, from incompat bility
to extreme cruelty, is advanced by the
contestants.
A party of Grand Rapids capitalists,
who for several weeks have been 60
ing over the wilds along the Board
man river, near Traverse City, have
announced that they were investigat-
ing the tract with view OF locating
a mammoth hotel and bathhouse. The
numerous springs in that region are
said to possess mineral qualities which
will cure rheumatism.
Louis Sanderhoof, trustee for the
bankrupt Dudley Butter Co, of Owos-
so, and L. F.. Dudley, will make his
sem final report in the case in the
United States court in Bay City, but
1t is probable that a suit will be
necessary before the matter can be
settled. Dudley carries large life in
surance and this Sanderhoof is trying
to secure for the creditors
The streets of Ionia are being
sprinkled with beer solution, rather
weak, perhaps. but still beer. Over
400 barrels of the fluid, the leftover