Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-09-22
NEWS OF MICHIGAN.

q and hand down a number of opin.
ions. The regular October term will
open Oct. 4.
The annual meeting of the churches
or the Saginaw Presbytery, including
several counties in that section, was
held in Saginaw.
Hon. John Henes. OF Menominee,
has given the city for park purposes
another tract of land adjoining the
park that bears his name.
Over 200 soldiers and sailors were
IN Lansing In attendance at the forty
hinth annual reunion OF the Ingham
county Sailors and Soldiers sssocia-
ton.
The car shops OF the Duluth. South
Shore d Atlantic Ry. Co., one passen-
ger coach and much equipment were
destroyed by fire at Marquette, caus-
ing a loss of $4,000.
Postmasters of the state. in conven.
ton, at Kalamazoo, decided to urge
parcels post law on congress. They
also favored reduction of the rate
on fourth class mail matter from 16
cents TO II cents
What promises to be one of the
most exciting circuit court terms in
the history of BeRzie county, opened
at honor. The trial of two ex-county
treasurers on criminal charges makes
the docket unique.
Inc Farmers Telephone Company
or Dundee and Azalia filed articles OF
incorporation with the secretary OF
state The new company is capital.
lied at $4,000 Dundee is mentioned
as the principal Office of the new com.
pany.
Inc body OF ar unknown woman,
believed to have drowned herself, was
taken from the lake below Holland
harpor by the life saving patrol. She
was about So years old and was seen
earlier in the day acting strangely
near the piers.
The authorities believe that George
Locke, OF Warsaw, Ind, who was
FOUND dead, half block from the
business section Of Benton Harbor,
MS face buried in the sand, was the
victim of foul play, and have started
an investigation
Fire which swept through the sad
dlery department of Morley Bros
wholesale house at Saginaw, did $15..
600 damage. Six hours of hard work
by the fire department saved the en-.
tire building, occupying two blocks,
from destruction.
one hundred of Jackson's represeu.
tative business and professional men
were rendered banquet at the local
Y. M. c. A. A discussion of the edu-
cational work of the institution was
held and plans were laid for the
work OF the coming season.
Grand Trunk passenger train No. /,
known as the Chicago Express, was
derailed at Vicksburg, "A miles west
Of Battle Creek. Five cars went into
the ditch. but no one is reported in
jured. A broken wheel of q tourist
car caused the accident.
Joseph Bowers, laborer, drowned
himself in the Black river, at Port
Huron. He waded in, found the water
cold and returned to the bank. Then
he started over again and waded until
the water closed over him. He was
out OF work and respondent. and
leaves widow and large family.
Lightning struck the home of FIR.
Wiley, Catholic priest, at Maple Val
ley parish two miles east of Coral,
and destroyed 1t, causing loss of 3d.
500. Both ends of barn owned by
Frank Johnson were knocked out by
lightning. The building did not catch
fire.
Howard McCarty 10, OF Ovid, who
has lodged the police of the country
since last May, is in the county jail
at st. Johns, charged with commit
ting a serious offense against Miss
Laura Bartlett on the night of May %.
He went under the name of Howard
Wilson.
The attempt of the city of Saginaw
to secure certain street car line ex-
tensions in exchange for extending
the time of the present franchises has
been given a severe blow by the dec
laration OF Mayor George w. Stewart
that he would not be in favor of ex-
tending the franchises so years.
While her husband slept Mrs. J. ].
Burpee, 81 years old. of Kalamazoo,
and mother of three children, one a
girl IL years old, secured his revol-
yer and going into the kitchen blew
out her brains. For some time she
had been insane to the extent of be-
lieving that her friends were endeav-
oring to do her harm.
For the second time within a few
months William Mclaughlin, firebug,
escaped from the Traverse City
asylum. Mclaughlin was sent there
after he had burned several buildings
and threatened Prosecutor Weimer.
Later he escaped and was recaptured
in Chicago by Sheriff Campbell. He
is considered a dangerous person.
Struck by lightning, a sawmill of
the Sagola Lumber Co, at Sagola,
Dickinson county, was destroyed by
fire; loss $4,000. At Big Bay, Mar
quette county, the second mysterious
fire in a week destroyed a barn and
IA horses owned by the Lake Inde-
pendence Lumber Co. The first blaze
burned the planning mill and much
lumber.
The 62d annual Calhoun fair and
race meet opened at Marshall with ex-
cellent weather and the largest crowd
on record for the first day. Every
department was more than filled. The