Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-25
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

the department that the class in jour
nalism at the u. of M. this year Will
be large.
In attempting to save young wo-
man who had ventured out beyond
her depth in the surf at Venice, CAL,
John III. Ridgway, aged As, of Detroit,
lost his life.
Thomas Harrison, 60 years old, is
dead at his home in Mason. He had
been resident OF Michigan since
foster daughter
Joseph Shimon, of Humboldt was
shot from ambush while on his way
to the American mine, Tuesday, and
will probably die. Three suspects
have been arrested.
Mrs. John Knoll, living five miles
from Holland, was so badly burned
in gasoline stove explosion that she
died few hours later. She was NIL
ing the reservoir when it let go.
David Lauder, aged 70, a pioneer
citizen of Port Huron. dropped dead
after proudly displaying a string OF
fish he had just caught. He leaves
widow, three daughters and two
sons.
Leon Andton's motor crashed into
the plate glass front of N. f. Roby's
drug store, in Coldwater, when he
lost control of it. and pushed the
glass back two inches without break
ing it.
The Robert Gage Coal Mining Co.
has abandoned its shaft near Owosso.
A three-foot vein of good coal was
found at 100 feet, but crumbling slate
above made 1t useless to attempt to
mine it.
Daniel Douglass, son of Houghton
real estate dealer, was instantly killed
when his auto upset in a ditch. 10
miles north. Three other members
of the party escaped with severe
bruises.
Lansing police are OF the opinion
that the fire in the storeroom OF
George Deck, a few days ago, was
set by his enemies and they claim
to have enough evidence to warrant
an arrest.
Walter Scott. of Lansing 10 years
old, found torpedo while walking
along the railroad tracks. placed it
on the rail and hit it with piece
of cement. Doctors think he will
lose one hand.
The alarm that the plant of the
Summers Fiber Co., at Port Huron,
was on fire was spread by a passing
steamboat. which footed its whistle
and attracted attention of employees.
Loss $4,000.
Claud b. Kellogg, OF Kalamazoo, q
years old, drank carbolic acid in the
presence of his wife, and died a few
hours later Kellogg had quarreled
with his wife because she had chided
him for drinking.
Running away from his home In Po-
land two months ago to avoid joining
the Russian army, only to meet death
in the Flint river, is the fate that has
befallen Pawel Ocha, 20 years old,
who was drowned Wednesday.
In a fit Of melancholy induced by
fear that she might share the fate
of her sister, an asylum inmate, Miss
Arvilia Dockstetter, of Livingston,
committed suicide by taking strych-
nine at the home Of her brother.
Walter Powley, aged II, is In the
hospital as the result of a bullet in
lis abdomen from gun fired by his
brother. Willie, aged 10. The boys
were playing Indian in vacant build
ing and did not know the gun was
loaded.
Sparks from a passing locomotive
started blaze which burned the Rich
vile elevators, 100000 bushels OF
grain, and three car loads of soft
coal. Employees were at dinner when
the fire started. The loss will be at
least $4,000.
Mrs. Joseph Cedarette, 46, Of Sag
NAV, became so excited over the
marriage of her daughter, Edith May,
to Alexander Hamlin. of Montreal,
that she succumbed to heart disease
at the wedding breakfast and died
shortly afterwards.
Herman Keranan, of Hubbell,
brought nine potatoes from Finland
three years ago and expects to har-
vest crop of 800 bushels this year.
The Finnish tubers are smaller than
the American potato, and he has not
found bug on them.
John Ford, of Owosso, sat up six
nights with his 3-year-old daughter,
and then, supposing she was better,
left her to go to work on an ice
wagon. The child was suddenly taken
worse and died before her father
could return to the house
Mrs o. Bendeikson's reward for the
honesty of little girl who returned
her pocketbook containing $500 in
cash and a $1,000 check, to store
keeper, after finding il in an alley,
was ST. Mrs. Bendeikson is the wife
OF farmer living near Lansing.
The largest attendance in the last
| 10 years marked the sixteenth annual
encampment at Hastings of ex-sol
| diers and sailors of Barry county.
Officers of the reunion association for
| the ensuing year are: Frank Pierce,
president: l. N. Winters, secretary,
and Friend Soules, treasurer.
John Russell, %, machinist en-
| ployed by the New Way Motor Co.,
rocked canoe in which he and
Duane Smith were padding on the
| Grand River at Lansing Smith