Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-01
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.

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ing of grapes.
Fred. Church, 70, was drowned in
the mill pond here @hen the canvas
boat in which he was rowing capsized.
Howard Conklin, the s-year-old boy
who was bitten by a mad dog In Kin
derhook last week, has been taken TO
Ann Arbor for treatment.
John Cook, aged &c, has been COM
mitted to the Kalamazoo asylum,
being the sixth Barry county resident
adjudged insane in six weeks.
The Wesleyan Methodists of Hast
ings will build a $4,000 church. They
intend, it is said, TO make this place
the headquarters for their sect.
Rep. NJ. Livy Agens is reported as
being improved, he being able 10
recognize members of his family for
the first time since being taken ILL.,
Henry Rettke, employed by a lum-
Der company at Loomis, dropped dead
while working near a circular saw.
Heart failure was the cause. lie was
% years old.
Two prominent Menominee women
are i'll Of ptomaine poisoning, said TO
have resulted from eating diseased
veal. The two peddlers who sold the
meat are under arrest.
James Leary, 73, deaf and partly
blind. was robbed of SIS while feeding
his sheep at his farm near Morrison
lake. He was attacked s-om behind
thrown down and beaten.
There is a movement by the stu
dents from the upper peninsula to en-
list U. of NJ. students in the move
ment to teach the foreign element SO
prevalent in northern Michigan the
English language.
The largest fish said to have beer
caught in Newaygo lakes is muska
longe captured by Bert Mercer OF
Newaygo. The fish was 40 inches lone
and weighed 24h pounds. 1t was
taken from Pickerel lake.
An interurban transportation line
with automobiles instead of trolley
cars is assured for the cities of Mar
quette, Ishpeming and Negaunee as
the result of the organization OF thu
Marquette County Traction Co.
Mrs. James ]. Loucks, of Manis
tique, was acquitted of the charge oil
giving her husband poisoned liquor
but Edward Cruson, with whom the
woman is said to have eloped. was
held to the circuit court for trial.
According to figures compiled by
the Michigan Central railway, the
damages to bridges. rails, spikes ant
other equipment, because Of the drip
ping of brine from refrigerator cars
amounted to $145,000 in one year.
The Salvation Army jubilee meeting
at Stones theater in Flint attracted
large crowd Of representative citi
zens who contributed over $1,000 t.
assist the Army members in carrying
on the charitable plans which the!
| have started.
Mrs Arthur Cook and her 5-days-olC
| baby were carried from the burning
house in lockwood by her husband
and neighbors, jus. as the roof fel
in. All the contents of the house
were burned with a loss Of 81 500, ant
no insurance
The infant son of Mrs Myron But
Ter. of Standish. died Sunday morning
at / a. M. and at l p m. the house
buried to the ground. Mr.. Butte
carried the dead body of his child ou
of the burning house over TO one o
the neighbours.
The 6-year-old son of John Metzger
Ionia, accidentally fell into kettle o
| boiling sap. head foremost. The fathe
quickly pulled him out, but he wa
immersed long enough so that hi
face and body were terribly burne'
and he soon died.
Covered with mire and mud iron
having been rooted around by hogs
the body of Jacob Cameron, "a, wa
| found in the pigsty Of his farm nea
Grand Rapids Tuesday afternoon
Heart disease is supposed to hav
been the cause of death.
Mrs. Charles Sopher and tire
daughters were seriously burned in
fire which totally destroyed thei
home at Rapid City. One of the chi
dren had the hair burned from he
head. A physician holds slight hope
for the mothers recovery.
While working in the new Gran
Trunk locomotive shops in Battl
Creek. A. b. McCollum, coppersmith
was killed, when runaway car hit
locomotive, causing it to move ahead
and crush McCollum's head betweel
the cowcatcher and a cement wall.
Ida Keith, the 12-year-old girl VIII
has been held at the Detention hos
pital several days, will probably b
sent to the Children's home. Officer
have been unable to locate her PAL
ents, who came to Grand Rapids fror
Battle Creek last week and deserte
the child.
Mrs. Harriet Gale dropped dead /
a Pontiac street car from an attack @
heart disease. She was walking o
Oakland avenue when seized, and he
cries brought assistance. She was a:
sisted upon car which stopped at
physicians Office, but she died befor
the doctor reached her.
New York dispatches say detective
have been detailed to search 70
Latora s. Baker, formerly cashier {
the Northern National bank of Ri
Rapids, who has been legally dead 70
Is years. The search Is said to hav
been made at the instance Of Fran
Chickering, OF Grand Rapids. who ha
extensive lumber interests in Mich
gan. Chickering says Baker is aliv
and for several months has been a.
ISOLATED with a firm OF Wall stree
brokers under the alias OF Kaber I.
Toras, his real name with the letter
transposed.
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