Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-12-30
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.


lumber operator. died suddenly at hi
daughters home at Saginaw. He
thought to be worth more tina
100000.
Fire destroyed two frame building
In the business section of Cadilla
with loss of 81 600. The interiors O
the blocks wero wrecked and the cor
tents destroyed.
Casimir Bucholski, OF Freesoil, over
come with grief at the death of hi.
VIE, dropped dead as her body was
being lowered into the grave at Mt
Carmel cemetery.
Caught in railroad track freq
John Wedge. SO, was held while a
train bore down and ground him to
pieces near the village of Cathro, nine
miles from Alpena.
Lieven Kok, a concrete contractor
or Grand Rapids, tried to replenish
fire for thawing gravel in a street
with gasoline. Kok is in the hospital.
perhaps fatally burned.
Another attempt to break into the
Deerfield State bank was foiled by
the night Waterman, who frightened
the yeggmen away after a desperate
effort to force the door
A passenger train on the G.. r. g. |.
ran into northbound train at
Cooper station, wrecking the pas
senger engine and injur!ng Engineer
John Lewis, OF Kalamazoo.
w. w. Gunner, millionaire nhilan-
thropist and manufactures who has
been for years identified with Grand
Rapids and Cadillac interests. is dead
at his home in Jacksonville, Fla.
The fraternity and sorority mem
bers OF the Grand Rapids high school
societies have retained attorneys to
night the edict of the board of educa-
ton that the societies must be abol-
ished.
Announcement is made at Lansing
or the engagement of Clerk Paul III.
King, of the Michigan house o. rep.
resentatives. 10 Miss Sarah A. Bid.
well, daughter of Jas. H. Bidwe!l of
Lapeer.
Robert Ely, of Marshall, while
killed a black fox, the first
killed in this part of the state for
years. He was offered $500 for The
pelt by John Lee, a fur buyer. but
turned it down.
clean-out was made in the Cal |
houn County Agricultural society, and
new officers elected because the mem
6ers thought the profits of the last |
lair was not enough. n. X Bentley |
is the new president.
James ~ Marion and Joseph st. |
Peter, OF Saginaw, have been granted |
patent on device for locating sunk
IN ships. 1t consists of buoy to be |
placed on the vessel in such po-
'itlon that in case the vessel sinks
he buoy is released and rises to the
OPP.
The thieves who entered the Office
>f an Ann Arbor lumber firm Sc
'ured only two lead dollars and a 10
'ent postage stamp for their trouble
md in their haste to depart they left
'ehind valuable knife which had
'een used to pry open the cash
rawer.
Carrying a Christmas tree to his
amily to be erected for Chris, mas
We, Frederick Kern, So, Of Ann Ar
or. was struck by Michigan Cen
raj train and instantly killed on his
wn farm. When his body was found
e still clutched pieces of the tree
n his hand.
A Muskegon minister, his wife and
heir three young children, decided
hen their house caught fire, that they
idn't need the fire department They
ormed a bucket brigade, the wife anu
hildren carrying water TO the father.
nd the flames were extinguished with
My 5000 damage.
Mrs. Louisa Morey, OF Adrian, of
HON much has been published In
lie state papers regarding her pioneer
re, celebrated her one-hundredth
hristmas. One of the presents she
,ceived was 100 gold dollars from a
lend OF her youth. said friend being
DIV resident of Pittsburg.
The Joliet Iron G. Bri iSe &C. mas
zen enjoined from razing the Farwell
'ment plant until the county taxes
lie on the property are paid The ,
ant has never been operated since
was built because OF scarcity OF
w material, and the ill-advised ven.
re has cost the Illinois company and
cal capitalists several thousand dol
RS.
Constable Burchfeld. Lansing. be. +
me angry because. he alleged. Jus- :
,e Fraser told him no Odd.FeIlow ;
uld be chosen for the jury to try !
I'm Richards. charged with assault ;
d battery on his wife, and an. !,
aled to the prosecutor for an /,
inion. The latter told him to GO !,
cad and choose Odd-Fellows II
cessary. The reason for the al.
sed barring Of the lodge members
the justice is not known, as Rich.
Dis does not belong to the lodge. n
Owing to the discharge OF two con. il
ctors for the alleged Knocking Il
wn" Of fares. there is likely to he Il
strike on the Jackson city lines OF q
= NJ. U. r. IL the discharged men G,
, not reinstated. Several midnight
settings of the men have been held
,ently, that OF last night being adj
sssed by Editor Reeves of the
FEET Railwaymens Journal. The b.
IN claim that the crowds on cars at a
les make II possible for a conduc. Ia