Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-09-08
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


damage to the furniture and dry goods
stock OF George w. Karpus at Bay
City.
The proposed new charter for Port
Huron, which provides for government
by five commissioners, will be sub
mitted to vote Saturday, Nov. g.
Marcus Carr. a laborer Of Caro-,
aged 40. committed suicide by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. He was de-
spondent over poor health. He leaves
a widow and three children.
FIR. p. w. DUNCAN, chaplain Of the
M. N. G.. delivered the address of the
day at the first annual picnic OF post
l., Michigan Knights OF the Grip, at
Lake Nipissing, Sunday afternoon.
The annual report OF Game and
Forest Warden Pierce. filed with the
public domain commission, shows that
Michigans loss from forest fires this
year, was less than in any other state
The Young Mems Business associa-
ton has announced that a stationery
and portable gas concern, coming from
Texas, and employing about 400 men,
will be added to Port Hurons indus
tries.
Beginning Sept. LIST all engineers
employed by the Ann Arbor railroad
will receive an increase in wages and
a reduction In working hours. A con-
ference, held in Toledo, decided on
the move.
j. j. Hubbell, chief engineer for the
Manistee & Northern railroad, has
made application to the public domain
commission for a right of way across
state lands in Kalkaska and Grand
Traverse counties
Upwards of 5000 people attended
the Firemen's field day celebration,
in Chesaning. A parade a mile long,
headed by Sodney Adams, full
blooded Chippewa Indian, preceded a
program of sports.
Word was received from Chairman
Glasgow, of the state railway commits
sion, that the hearing on the electric
light situation in Saginaw which was
to have started Sept. s, has been post
poned for two months.
Wallace & Orr, lesses of Bayport,
a summer resort on Saginaw bay, are
contemplating extensive improve
ments to the place for next season. 1t
is planned to make the resort one OF
the finest in the Thumb section.
The offices Of probate clerk and
probate Judge, in Marshall, will here
after net annual salaries of $500 and
$1,000, respectively, an increase or
500 and $500, due to the increase
of the population Of Calhoun county.
Lloyd Jones, aged 10, was playing
around a grain elevator in Vernon
when he fell into a big wheat bin
and nearly suffocated. He was sucked
10 feet into the bin. Edwin Whelan
jumped in after him and rescued
him.
The monthly report of State Treas
urer Sleeper shows that there was
1901, 1880 in the general fund at the
close of business Aug. 81. This makes
1t unnecessary to borrow money be-
fore taxes are paid, the first of next
year.
Henry Zordel, a fruit raiser was
struck by Big Four train and killed
with his team while driving over a
crossing south of Benton Harbor. His
body was found stretched along the
pilot of the engine. The wagon was
demolished.
The Seventh Day Adventists of
Southern Michigan ended their camp
meeting at Battle Greek with an at
tack on Christian Science and spirit
ualism, reelected their old officers
and practically decided to return to
Battle Creek in 1911.
Guerdon Dimmick, the M. c. stu
dent in the first district of Montana,
who lives in Owosso, writes home
that he fought the fire for nine days
with his shirt burned from his back,
his hair and face badly burned and
without much sleep. He is on his way
home now.
Mike B. Sunich, a timberman in the
Calumet & Hecla mine, fell into the
Red Jacket shaft and saved himself
from death by grabbing a wire cable,
$50 feet below the opening. He was
rescued and taken to the hospital
badly shaken up, but uninjured save
for his burned hands.
Francesca Spadafore, an Italian,
keeper of a confectionery store in
Pontiac, has received a black hand
letter from Madriz, Spain, threatening
his life If he does not send 1900
francs at once TO given address.
The letter was turned over to the
Italian consul in Detroit.
Arrangements have been made by
the board of health with Mr.. Ivan c..
Wild. Of the dairy division of the
United States department of agricul-
ture, for a milk exhibit and contest
in Detroit this fall to raise the stan
dard of the milk sold in Detroit. The
board of commerce, through its execu-
| tive board, has agreed to take general
charge of the milk show and to con-
| duct 1t with the aid and cooperation Of
the United States dairy department
and the Detroit board of health.
Rev. ]. ]. Anderson, a Negro OF the
| Palestine Baptist Helping Hand
church of Chicago, is in the central
police station at Saginaw, charged
with getting money under false pre-
| tehses. He is 20 years old and has
been asking aims for a missionary
| school in Cairo. Ill. He had four
checks for $35 given by Bay City,
SAGINAW and Grand Ranida uaalthv