Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1909-05-27
STATE BRIEFS.

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and Mrs. Frank Harris, OF Chapin'
drank a bottle of carbolc acid he
found and will die
| Fruit growers in Holland and vicin-
| ity are jubilant over the bright pros
poets for bountiful harvest. The
trees are laden with buds.
The first colored patroiman in Bat
tie Greek began his duties Sunday on
the main downtown corner. me
trouble which was threatened by white
citizens failed to materialize.
John Mawrovitz, the 10-year-old
Port Huron boy who was charged
with burning a barn in addition TO
committing several other crimes sew
eral months ago, has disappeared
from home.
Ex-Rep. j. H. McCallum, OF MANS
tique, has been appointed to position
in the auditor generals department at
Lansing. He goes on the pay roll or
the commonwealth as examiner OF
state lands.
Since Carl Decker, 16 years old, left
his mothers home in Kalamazoo on
May and went up town to look for
work, not a trace of his whereabouts
nearly frantic with anxiety.
Thomas Wilson. Port Huron, while
on his way home with an armful OF
groceries, was shot in the right arm
by an unknown man, who escaped
from Wilson after long chase. The
wound will not prove serious.
Mrs Otto Ottersky, aged &c, of Sag
NAV, was found dead in bed, she hav-
ing evidently gotten carbolic acid
bottle by mistake when looking for
headache medicine, during the night.
She is survived by husband and two
children.
Penned in by flames that made the
only ordinary means of exit tunnel
of roaring fire, Paula, the 7-year-old
daughter of Martin 'Nowicki, OF De-
troit, was burned TO death in blaze
that started from the explosion OF
gasoline stove.
Ole Olson, employed on the Sum-
mer Diggins railroad, was run over
by a car at Cadillac and his right leg
cut off at the knee. Olson was max
ing repairs under the car and the
crew, not knowing where he was, sig.
nailed the engineer to back up.
Mrs. William Shakespeare, of Kala-
! maZoo, was awakened Monday night
: by a burglar flashing a light in her
, face. He told her if she made a sound
, he would blow her head off. The bur-
) glar took two children's banks, con-
|, tanning $40 a woman's gold watch and
. | a revolver.
: Suit has been started in circuit court
by Mrs. Edward A. Stewart against
y the Detroit United Railway for $40.
i 600 damages because of the death OF
. Edward A. Stewart June "a 1908.
! Stewart was the victim of a collision
, between a limis~ GOAL car east
0 The Flint postoffice officials are won
!, dering what to do with a letter which
|, arrived there recently, addressed to
t THE Leading Saloon as since the
/. advent of the local option law, on May
|, both the leaders and followers in
the sale of intoxicating liquors have
been out of commission.
e Three men, convicted of crimes
/ against young girls, were sentenced
e in the circuit court at Port Huron
: Saturday. Edward Lafferty, OF St
\ Clair, goes TO prison for one to ten
: years; Elmer pullman, OF Capac, for
S two to fifteen years, and Otto Schroe-
i der of China township, for six months
t to one year.
4 William and Mark Hubbard, broth
! ers who have police records, were ar
rested in Ionia after exchanging sew
i. eral shots with Gene Blackmore and
/, Earl Alexander, Pere Marquette watch
men. They were proving around the
: depot, and when the officers attempted
: to arrest them opened fire. No one was
!, hurt in the battle.
3 Rep. John o. Maxey, of Ontonagon
!. county. leader in the movement for the
) adoption of the reforestation bill,
which recently passed both houses of
the legislature, says that he is pleased
with the result of his labors He says
: the new law will increase the price of
! waste lands in Michigan from 81 to
, IS and $40 per acre.
An exhibition of GOODNESS was given
, by Basil Cleveland, a 15-yearold high
: school lad, of Muskegon, when three
: of his fingers were severed by buzz
saw at the Hackley Manual Training
} school. The boy did not utter a cry,
, but calmly pulled lever TO stop the
| saw and brushed the severed fingers
, on the saw table onto the floor.
} A stabbing ARRAY among some
J tramps occurred at Ann Arbor Satur-
! day morning, with the result that
John Kelly, one OF their number, lies
in the Homeopathic hospital, seri
ously wounded. knife cut under his
left arm, on a level with his heart,
is the most serious of the three cuts
, he received. This incision extended
into the pleural cavity William Mil
Ter, the hobo identified by Kelly as
his assailant, is held at the county
jail for the crime.
Failing to find the cooperation
which 1t has expected. the Ann Arbor
Railway company has about decided
not to straighten its road through the
city, and that means that the hope OF
the citizens regarding certain grade
separations will fail Of fulfillment. The
railway company had expected to ex-
pend about $4,000 in new bridges and
Strengthening the crooked course OF its
road, but the property owners IL is