Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-09-21
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF

Luther Howell, postmaster at Oak
ley, paid $40 fine for fishing with
worms.
Gordon French, co, OF Petoskey,
ended his life by cutting his throat
With a butcher knife.
The Cook Development Co. will
build another dam on the An Sable
river within very short time.
The Baraga council OF the Knights
OF Columbus has been organized at
Iron Mountain with 80 members.
Edward Auge, IS, of Calumet. was
killed by the accidental discharge or
shotgun, while on a hunting trip.
Little interest was manifested in
the annual school board election in
Ann Arbor. The total number OF
votes cast was only $50.
The Pere Marquette telegraphers
at Grand Rapids have won their hight
for nine-hour day schedule and a
slight increase in wages.
Seventy-one Chinese students are
to be sent to the United States to
be educated this year OF this num-
Der Is will attend the u. OF Nj.
While handling steel rafters at the
new power dam in Allegan, William
Wagner, 30, was electrocuted by bring
ing rafter in contact with high
tension wire near at hand.
Owkners of Lawton vineyards who
have waited for raise in price find
hot h Il eread hxy
the recent rains, and il is expected
that prices will raise.
John NJ Memamy of Grand Rapids
has been appointed inspector OF boil
ers in locomotive boiler adistrict No
IA, located at Detroit, under the in
terstate commerce commission.
The committee of the imperial
council OF the Mystic Shrine of the
United States was in Petoskey to
look over proposed sites for the ma
tional convention city.
The "fyIess city" campaigners
closed in Grand Rapids with 32.420,-
100000 flies killed during the Ia days,
says one estimator The campaign
will be renewed in the spring
Mayor Bennett has announced that
if he can prevent the moving pictures
for which Beulah Binford has posed,
they will not be allowed at any of
the picture houses in Lansing.
Secretary A. c. Carton of the pub
lie domain commission has appointed
five people TO attend the National
Conservation congress TO be held in
Kansas City the last OF the month.
The suit of criminal libel brought
by Gov. Osborn against Francis l..
Baldwin, editor o. the Escanaba
Journal, will be tried at the current
session of the circuit court in Mar
quette.
Russell Moore. chairman of the
Michigan State Fire Prevention As
sociation, asserts that the moving
picture theaters in Flint are firetraps.
Dynamite was also found in two hard
ware stores.
John McAuliffe will be tried before
Judge Richard c. Flanagan at Mar
quette at the September term, on the
accusation that he entered the saloon
OF James Gaffney in Negaunee and
shot him dead
Postal savings banks have been or
dered to begin business Oct. 13 at
Hermansville, Norway, Bessemer,
Kearsarge, St Charles, Gaylord. Mum
Using. Michigamme, Iron River On
tonagon, Sebewaing
James Wilson, secretary of agricul-
ture, was strongly condemned by the
members of the NJ y. conference at
Kalamazoo for accepting an invita-
ton to preside over the coming con-
vention Of the brewers.
The fall meeting OF the Saginaw
Presbytery came to a close with an
address by Rev. z. II. Pence, of the
Fort Street Presbyterian church. De-
troit. Rev. j. Ambrose Dunkle, OF
Saginaw, was elected moderator.
Bishop Quayle. OF Oklahoma, and
President Dickie. of Albion college,
addressed the Michigan Methodist
conference at Kalamazoo A resolu-
ton to have the conference held in
the spring was voted down.
Z. l.. Ewing, traffic manager of the
Grand Rapids Lumbermen's associa-
ton on behalf OF a national organiza.
ton, has petitioned the interstate
W lilNtSllBdlt
the weighing of cars by railroads.
Signor Giuseppe Bartolotta. tenor;
J. Anton Daley, pianist Miss Don
otta lie Sens. soprano. a pupil of
Signor Bartolotta, all of Detroit, will
give a concert Sept "a in the In
dustrial school for boys at Lansing.
Circuit Judge limerick fined the
Detroit & Mackinac Railway Co. and
the Lobdell & Churchill Co. of Ona-
way 800 for contempt of court
They violated an injunction by re-
moving rails on a logging switch to
Millersburg
William H. Marleton. of Port
Huron. has been placed under ar
rest following the death of his seven
weeks-old son. II is alleged that be-
cause the child cried too much, he
placed a pillow over it and It's death
resulted from suffocation.
Postal savings banks have been
ordered established in the following
third-class postofiices in Michigan TO
begin Oct. IA: Blissfeld. Newberry.
Vulcan. River Rouge, Manton, Gray
ling. Corunna, Elsie. Freeland. Ma
son, Flushing, Morenci, Elk Rapids,
al IL.