Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-12-08
NEWS OF MICHIGAN.

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dies of the Modern Maccabees, in ses'
sion at Lansing, announced that ON
GERS of as Michigan hives will be in
stalled in Detroit in January.
Mrs. George Bangle, living near
Lake City, returned from a visit and
found her husband dead on the floor
Neuralgia of the heart was the cause
Bangle had been dead several days
The lumber men of the Saginaw
valley will seek an adjustment OF the
demurrage rates which went in ef
feet Nov. l. The shippers assert they
are not given enough time to unload
their cars.
Three men were drowned when the
tug General sank at the 500 while
going to the relief of the stranded
steamer Pollock. The tug collided
with the Athabasca in the gloom and
went down.
The Michigan Association of
Creamery Owners and Managers held
session in Grand Rapids. The as
ISOLATION was formed in Saginaw In
September and set of bylaws is
being drafted.
Theodore Bonney was convicted in
the circuit court at Marshall of vio-
lating the local option law. He was
sentenced TO 80 days in the Detroit
house of correction and fined 500
and $50 costs.
Leonard Rogner, the Richville ho-
| telkeeper, who was convicted of vio-
| lating the local option law, and who
| afterwards jumped his bail, returned
! home and was arrested while visiting
with his wife and children.
Friends of the missing Niles bank
| er, George A. Kimmel. have started
| movement TO get a convict in Au-
burn. N. Y, prison, pardon. He has
| been identified by some as Kimmel.
Others believe he is an imposter.
Two M. A. C. students will receive
notification of their suspension from
| college for the remainder OF the term
| because of not complying with the
| faculty regulations regarding the
| leaving of college at Thanksgiving
| time.
At a meeting of the state board OF
! auditors it was decided to remodel the
| old state block on Washington av-
| enue, occupied by the state labor com.
mission, dairy and food department,
state geological survey and state high
way commission.
Ella Smith of Benton Harbor, who
was arrested following the death OF
! his wife, who received fatal burns,
was dismissed Tuesday, when Prose
cutor Andrews said thorough inves-
tigation proved that the charge
against Smith was false.
Officials of automobile clubs of the
| state are cooperating with good
roads organizations in an effort to get
laws passed making 1t possible for
the state highway commission to re-
ceive part of the auto license funds
TO be used to improve roads.
| Dynamite and caps stored in a
steel-cased house at the plant of the
| Alabastine Co, southwest OF Grand
Rapids, exploded, one piece of the
building flying 200 feet and striking
| George Munsee, a laborer, in the alb
domen, killing him instantly.
Attorney General Kuhn furnished
the auditor generals department with
an opinion holding that the county
of Lapeer must bear the expense of
maintaining quarantine guard OF
state troops around the state home
for the feeble-minded at Lapeer.
Anna Constine was driving toward
her home, northwest of Owosso, when
her horse became frightened and
dashed into an Ann Arbor freight
train. The buggy was reduced to kind
ling. and she was thrown down an
embankment. She escaped unhurt.
A delegation of Three Rivers resi-
dents visited Gov. Warner to obtain
his favor toward making a military
company now organized in that com
munity a part of the Michigan ma
tional guard 1t is possible the organ
ization will be chartered as one OF
three machine companies which will
be organized Jan. /.
Game Warden Pierce has made the
suggestion that the deer hunting sea
son be heightened to at least six
weeks. The season opens Nov. 1C
. and closes Nov. 80, and he attributes
the great number of accidents to the
shortness of the season. The next
legislature will be asked to consider
a revision of the law.
The telephone system of train dis
patching III use OH the odSludW-l %
ledo system of the Pere Marquette
railroad is giving such satisfaction
that it may be extended to every
division within a short time. Con
versation between Saginaw and Tole
do is carried ION in an ordinary tone
of voice and the ticking of watch
held close TO the receiver in the loca
Office can be distinctly heard in the
office at the other end of the line
The system required an outlay oi
$4,000 for apparatus, wires, poles
and labor
The presence OF mind or william
Moseler, a 14-year-old boy, of Mus
kegon. saved team of horses from
drowning Moseler was riding or
Sixth street when ahead of him ht
noticed a pair of horses plunginl
down the roadway toward the Good
rich dock. He caught up with the
wagon and jumping to the back o
the rig, grasped the lines and gained
control of the horses when they wer,
less than 20 feet from the waters