Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-08-24
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Sl,OOO septic tank is Delng IN
stalled to purify the water at Epworth
Heights, Ludington.
w. ]. Galbraith is named Houghton
county representative TO the state
board OF equalization.
Menominee county plans bond Is
sue OF $4,000 and an expense OF $lOS,-
900 for good roads at once.
The directors of the Kalamazoo Y.
NJ. c. A. have awarded the contract
for the proposed 100000 building.
The Michigan Retail Hardware Deal
ers' association will hold their annual
convention in Grand Rapids, Feb. 20
22.
DR.. Benford of Chicago paid VIM.
Aubrey neat sum for having saved
his life when his sailboat capsized
in Higgins lake
The postoffice department has pur-
chased the necessary site for the erec-
ton of new $11 900 postoffice build
ing in Albion, Mich.
Beulah Wright, wife OF Charles F.
Wright, and a bride Of two weeks,
died Wednesday night at st. Mary's
hospital. Grand Rapids.
The loss of $4,000 in money and OF
his crops and farm buildings by fire
drove Adolph Pohl, of West Branch,
insane and he drowned himself
Rene verhege, 10. Of Essexville,
waded inta deep hole while in bath
ing and was drowned. His body was
recovered short time afterwards,
but efforts to revive him were futile.
Ex-Gov. F. NJ. Warner has entered
his appearance in the suit started
against him in Pontiac by the City
National bank of Lansing and has
employed Patrick II. Kelly, to defend
him.
ID. S. Crandall of Oshtemo, aged 90
was nearly burned to death in his
bed when lightning fired it as he slept
Partly stunned by the shock, he man
aged to crawl to safety, then col
lapsed
The official enrolment at the u. of
NJ. summer school is given out as
1850, the largest number that has
ever attended the summer session. OF
these a large number are POSTCARD
yates.
Said to be crazed by dope. Carl II.
hurry, 2S of Dayton, Ohio, ran amuck
in an Office building in Kalamazoo
and after an exciting chase through
the corridors was arrested by the po-
lice on the eighth floor.
Jefferson Clark, 60 years old, of Hol-
land, met almost instant death when
he fell into a separator Of a threshing
machine which was in operation. The
cogs of the machine tore his right leg
from his body and he was otherwise
mutilated.
William W. Wheeler, a member OF
Troop f, Second Michigan cavalry,
who served with distinction through
out the civil war, is dead at his farm
near Grand Rapids. He was Y years
Of age and was one of the earliest
settlers in that section.
A large crowd attended the annual
reunion of the Barry county soldiers
and sailors at Hastings. Death has
removed during the past year three
times as many veterans as during any
previous year, and faces familiar at
many past reunions were missed.
John c. Byland formerly the cash
Ter of the Redwood Deposit bank in
the authorities in all parts of the
country have been searching since the
bank closed its doors a year ago, was
| arrested in Detroit Friday and taken
back for trial
A. j. Sawyer, Sr., rs, dean of the
Washtenaw county bar, died Friday
morning after a long illness. He suf-
! fered general breakdown with kid
ney trouble and other complications.
| The work done by Mr.. Sawyer in the
/ defense of ex-State Treasurer G!aZer
broke his health past recuperation.
| In a recent letter to a member of
| the Knights of the Modern Macca-
| bees, c. A. Palmer, state insurance
commissioner of Michigan. writes as
| follows: IL am thoroughly convinced
| that the proposed adjustment by the
knights of the Modern Maccabees is
the proper method to meet the exist
| ing situation"
Frank Morganrath a geolOgist OF
! Greenland declares that he can 10
| cate a copper-bearing lode on the so
called north range" of Ontonagon, a
formation hitherto believed to be bar.
rem OF red metal In 1905 Mr. Morgan.
rath revealed the location or the so
called Lake lode, on which several
mines are now being opened
Celia 7-year-old daughter of Law
renee olga, was hiding or playing in
gravel pit, Filler City, while the
workmen were at dinner, and one
side caved in upon her Upon re.
turning to work the men saw the
girls hair showing above the gravel
and dug her out quickly. but 1t was
too late She had been smothered.
"By late fall in 1912, Wayne county
will have the best roads of any county
in the United States" says highway
commissioner, when 10 trunk lines will
be completed to the boundaries of the
county adjoining The parts of these
county roads that have not yet been
built will be of concrete. Much oil
those already built are OF concrete,
but the first were of macadam.
Cass City expects to entertain large
crows this week, at the twenty-second
annual fair of the Tuscola, Huron
and Sanilac District Fair association
Business men have contributed gen.
| II 80 10.