Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-10-07
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


The state tax commission will. in
all probability have to reassess Bay
City property. According 10 Chair
man Hoyt the assessment was unfair.
Conductor Frank Cady, OF Grand
Trunk freight train, was run down
and killed In the Port Huron yards.
He lived at Battle Creek, was married
and 45.
After being tenantless since Aug.
"a, the Charlevoix jail is now enter
tanning Otto Christman and John Hall,
charged with stealing fish nets from
Lake Michigan.
Thomas Rathbun. the Oldest Odd
fellow in Michigan, celebrated his
ninety-fifth birthday at Quincy Sun
day, which was the occasion OF
family reunion.
The Eastern Michigan Edison Co.
Of Detroit has completed the purchase
of practically all water power rights
and turkey lake.
Bay City health officers say they
have traced the epidemic of scarlet
fever which caused 6S cases and two
deaths last week to the home OF
Charles Friebe, milk dealer.
Allan McFadden, a Flint fireman,
pulled the fire alarms on his of. duty
days TO see the other firemen hustle.
He was arrested, confessed, released,
and fired from his job as fireman.
James S. Macard, 81, decided he
had few years left to live and that
he wanted to die in his old home in
Dol 10 Il hi ..ll.l NJ
ing back and died few days later.
Edward Payne, %. burglar, was SEN
fenced from two and a half to five
years in the Ionia reformatory in Sag
NAV. No burglaries have been re-
ported since Payne has been put away.
Jackson officials have notified bill
lard hall and cigar store owners that
the law concerning students will be
strictly enforced They can't play
pool, buy cigarettes or smoke in pub
lie
Herbert Cross Is. of Wayne, has
been missing from his home for two
weeks. The boys father is team
ster His mother died some time ago.
Cross, ST., is anxious to locate his
son.
Paris township farmers patrolled a
swamp while Fred Thompson, an es-
capped inmate OF the asylum for the
criminally insane at Ionia, shivered
in it all day. He was finally cap
tured.
Roy Cole and James Munson OF Bay
City, returned 10 their room after a
spree, blew out the gas and went
to bed. Both are in the hospital and
Munson may die from asphyXiation.
Cole revived.
Three large barns owned by Andrew
Spring, of Jeddo, were destroyed by
fire last week. One of the barns
contained a quantity of wheat that
had just been threshed. The total
loss is $4,000.
John Freemyer, sent from Benton
Harbor to serve time in Jackson for
shooting a man, will probably be
freed by the confession of his former
pal, James Notter, that the latter Is
the guilty party
Dean Harry Hutchins was con-
firmed as acting president Of the Uni
versity of Michigan by the regents at
salary of $1,000 year, an increase
the dean of the law department.
Mystery still surrounds the disap-
pearance of Anna Stropagel, aged 10,
who left her home in Sturgis more
than a month ago, and from whom q
postal card written in Chicago and
mailed to her sister bore a threat of
suicide.
Mrs. Adeline Sutherland, late of
Saginaw, dead at the age of 81, was
a grandniece of the boy governor"
Stevens T. Mason, first executive of
this state. and the daughter OF one OF
the organizers of the Michigan Cen
trail railroad.
Lee j. Rivett. ex-convict jailed for
assisting James Cushway to escape
from Jackson prison, has been re-
leased, the law providing no way Of
furnishing him for the assistance he
rendered Cushway after the latter had
left the institution.
While on a visit to Saginaw Rev.
II. A. Drake, a student at Alma col
! lege, visited the court house and
| found two couples with marriage Ii
censes looking for minister. He
was on the Job and two knots and a
! fattened purse resulted.
| Joseph Gobie, a young St Joseph
| farmer, was struck by Pere Mar
quette train late Sunday and lay be
I side the track all night unconscious.
! When he was discovered the next
morning he was rushed to the hospi-
! tai, but he died en- route.
H. G. Ridgeway. night telegraph
operator, and c. G. Neff, night bag
gageman, are being held on suspicion
of being implicated in the robbing OF
\ a money drawer at the G. r. & |.
railway depot in Kalamazoo. Over
! 500 was taken from the till.
The National Croatian society is go
ing TO build college for their peo-
| pie only, and has decided to raise
! 100000 for that purpose. The Gro
atians decided this in convention at
Calumet and have reelected Paul
i Hadjic, of Chicago, as their president.
Raymond Remington, %. Of Battle
Creek, is dead Of suffocation, caused
\ by smoking cigarettes. The case is
declared UNIQUE, the valve of the
mans heart through which the blood