Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-10-14
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Uncle Sam will soon let a $40, 600 con-
tract for fitting up the old Fort Brady
reservation at the 500 as "A park.
James Slocum, OF the Star Island
house ut st. Clair Flats, was fined 1925
| for selling liquor without a license.
Frank Miller's barn burned near
Dundee with 20 tons of hay, 700 BUSH
els of oats and $500 worth of machinery.
Three large barns on the Golden
stock farm near Hart burned and q
mans bones were found in the debris.
Andrew Jones, aged 25, railroad
boilermaker, out of a job, died from a
heavy dose of strychnine, taken after a
spree ut jackson.
r. Lee Root, superintendent of the
Bay de Noe Lumber Co., at MAMMA,
was knocked down and crushed to
death by "A tram car.
The new railroad from Van Buren,,
Grayling, will open up large terri
tory for Grand Rapids wholesalers.
John Ellison, who killed his father
last spring to avenge the wrongs of his
dead mother, was found guilty by the
Kent circuit court and sent To jackson
for life.
The large refrigerator Of A. f. A.
Kolhaus burned ut Calumet with loss
of $1,000. A tramp was seen coming
out of shed with his clothing on fire,
and he was fatally burned.
At least q dozen active candidates
are after the probate judgeship in Mar
quette county, to succeed the late
Peter Pas DC. 1t is believed by many
that Gov. Pingree will appoint ex-State
Treasurer lIambitzer.
Richard Dennis, aged 10, attempted
to cross the Michigan Central bridge
over the Kalamazoo river at Battle
Creek, but was knocked into the river
by the North Shore limited train and
was picked up dead.
City Attorney Beach. of Saginaw,
has returned from the Rainy lake gold
region IN Ontario, and reports that the
Clearwater mine, owned by Saginaw
men, is employing II men steadily and
finding thick veins of ore, which assay
$40 to the ton.
Thos McGraw, who for nearly 40
years was prominent in the CONNER
cial affairs of Detroit was run down
by street car near his residence, 1855
Woodward avenue. He sustained IA Sc
we're fracture of the skull and died of
his injuries within As hours.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Woodward, of
Flint, have celebrated the sixtieth an
niversary of their marriage at their
home. Both were born in New York,
Mr. Woodward in Geneva county in
1912, and Miss Elizabeth LaRoue in
Cayuga county in 1917.
In his latest bulletin Food Commits
siouer Grosyenor reports seven arrests
in Detroit and one in Jackson, for sell
ing colored olcomargarine. OF 90
cheese factories, 16, and OF - creamer-
les, II were in good condition. OF 80
food samples examined only eight
were pure.
At midnight three barns on the adj
joining farms OF S. c. Dewey, G.. NJ.
Wood and =. l.. Varnum, near Vassar,
burned with their contents of hay and
grain. Two of the barns were "a mile
apart and there is no doubt of incen-
diarism. The leases aggregate SIC, 900,
with small insurance.
VIII Glasson, aged II, fell down the
Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet 81
llecla mine, 1900 feet and was killed
instantly. lie was stationed at the
second pump, about 250 feet from the
surface, and trying to catch the rope,
was struck by the skip and knocked
whirllng down the shaft
The forest fires in northern Michigan
and the field fires throughout the state
are at last under control. Heavy rains
of a warm, refreshing nature have
fallen in all parts of the lower PENN
sula after three to five mouths
drouth. Beyond extinguishing the
fires, which had already caused hun
dreds of thousands of dollars loss, the
rains have been of incalculable benefit
to farmers in enabling them to do their
fall seeding.
map of the Grand Rapids, Kali
kaska 81 Southeastern railroad from
the c. 81 w. NJ. line at Barker Creek,
Kalkaska county, TO Lake City, Mis-
saukee county, was received at the
railroad commissioners Office and the
crossing board will meet to consider it.
Thomas Hefferan, of Grand Rapids, is
president of the new company. The
present object is to reach tract of
timber near Lake City, but 1t is pro-
posed eventually TO extend the line to
Alpena.
Amasa Sprague and Mary Amin, of
Hanover, have completed nearly 81
years of married life. Mr.. Sprague
was born in Cayuga county, N. Y,
March 80, 1917. Mrs. Sprague was
born in Geneva county, N. Y, in 1918.
They were married in New York in
1886 and 10 years later they removed
to Hanover, where they have since
continuously resided. Both are hale,
hearty and well preserved. Four
children were born to them, two of
whom are living.
George w. Moore and wife, of Rom
ulus have LIBERATED the sixtieth an