Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-02
BRIEF MICHIGAN NEWS.


by fire, causing a loss OF $1,000.
Natal Ragni, single, aged 2S. fell
down a shaft at the Traders mine.
Iron Mountain, and was instantly
killed.
George Selman was killed in the
woods near Prescott while loading
logs on cars. He leaves a widow and
two children.
Farmers and milk dealers around
Rochester are delighted with the new
rate for carrying milk, which the SUI
preme court ruled the ID. u. r.
would have to put into effect.
James Clark, of Coldwater, aged rs,
Civil war veteran, cut his throat
with a iackknife in the attempt TO
Kill himself. His wife found him In
a critical condition on the floor.
There is a project on at Muskegon
to erect new 100000 Y. M. c. A.
building. L. E. Buell., state secretary
says that large amount of money
has been pledged for the building.
Laingsburg is considering PROPOSE
ton to have it's streets lighted by
electricity. Job Naldrett agrees TO
light 40 corners for 5000 per year, and
the proposal is meeting with favor.
The local optionists of Grand
Traverse county at a meeting Sunday
admitted themselves outwitted by the
supervisors, and decided not TO ask
the submission of the question until
1911.
Arthur Roth, the consumptive whose
pitiful case aroused sympathy all over
the state through being kicked con-
secutively out of his boarding house
and then out of Saginaw, died last
week.
While attempting to steal a ride
from Toledo to Detroit, Harold
Young, 16, a messenger boy, whose
home is at Bradford, Pa, was In
stantly killed by Lake Shore pas
senger train No. 1924.
An unknown man was struck and
instantly Killed by a Chicago & North
western passenger train at Negaunee.
The body was dragged along the
track for half a mile, crushed and
mangled beyond recognition.
Oliver S. Hibler, of Leonard. was
appointed receiver of the bank OF
Leonard, one of the institutions which
closed it's doors when NJ. Lee Hagle,
its cashier, disappeared. Creditors
will get 20 cents on the dollar
Thirty-two cases of smallpox were
reported in Flint last week. and the
disease seems to have spread to every
part of the city. Manufacturers and
employers have been notified to obey
the vaccination law to the letter.
Thomas Rowley, As, of Port Huron,
was arrested Friday night for striking
his wife, When the police arrived
the woman was unconscious. Fifteen
minutes later Thomas Holbrook, 81,
was arrested on a similar charge.
Part OF an old gypsum mine on the
Butterworth road, Grand Rapids,
caved in under half dozen houses
and the frightened Polish residents
scurried to shelter, leaving their be-
longings behind. No one was injured
Engineer Graney was slightly in
jured and his locomotive badly dam
aged when Pere Marquette train
ran into a handcar loaded with steel
rails at Traverse City. The section
men leaped from the handcar and
saved themselves.
A new trial has been asked for
George e. Hamilton, the Iron River,
Wis, man who was convicted OF an
attempt on the life of Sheriff Angus
Beck, of Houghton, by sending the
latter an internal machine. Hamilton
is now serving a life sentence in Mar
quette prison for the crime.
Because the girls didn't appear for
supper, going to downtown restau-
rants instead, the boys of Hope col
lege at Holland went through their
rooms and tore things up. The faculty
at once investigated the matter and
one young man, whose name is with
held, may have to suffer for his share
in the work.
Eleven Grand Rapids merchants,
whose names are withheld have been
arrested on a charge brought by the
Ponce de Leon Water Co. The firm
alleges that the merchants have been
using its bottles to deliver milk, gaso-
line and other liquids, in violation Of
the state law which prohibits the use
of the bottles for anything but water
Judge Knappen, of Grand Rapids,
denied a decree in the divorce suit
brought by Rev. Eli Wigle, Metho-
dist minister who is now without a
pastorate, against his wife, Mary, on
the grounds Of cruelty. The Judge
took occasion to deliver scathing
lecture, accusing the minister OF fall
ing to practice the charity he
preached
Market hunters who planned TO
smuggle 500 cartridges to Milwaukee
from upper Michigan by shipping
them in a burial casket as dead
man were outwitted by keen-nosed
hunting dog, who made so much fuss
about the coffin that officers became
suspicious, and taking off the lid, dis
covered the game birds occupying the
place OF the corpse.
BY vote OF the council Eaton Rap
ids is to have it's main street lighted
in modernized fashion. Electric
arches are being built across the
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