Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-10-28
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Nickle-in- the-slot gambling machines
have been banished by Grand Rapids
police.
ate, but farmers inside the proposed
limits object.
Mrs. Chas. O'Brien, the wife of ID. i,
G.. r. e. W. brakeman, suicided at Ionia
with carbolic acid.
Mrs. Mary Cottrell Featherstone, Of
Flint, celebrated her Tooth birthday
anniversary last year.
The Grand Rapids Gas Co. will dedi-
cate its new ZOO, 00O-foot gas tank by
holding a banquet in it.
M. S. Struble, of Shepherd, brother
of the late Bank Cashier Struble, lost
his $4,000 residence by fire.
Muskegon's revenue from the water
works plant is only 50, 900 per year; the
interest on waterworks bonds is SIS, 000
Daniel Meagher, of Port Austin, was
thrown out of his wagon and both
arms were broken and his head badly
! bruised.
Mrs. O. M. Fox near Thornville, La
peer county, has given birth to a girl
which weighs but two pounds at the
age of one week.
A Shreveport, La, dispatch says Mr..
Rose, of Saginaw, was burned to death
in hotel. Mrs. Rose was also burned,
but will recover.
John c. Hamilton was arrested at
| 70, ft.-o
boys, aged - and Is, who were found
on the street drunk.
At the November election Port HUI
ron citizens will vote on issuing $50, 900
worth of per cent bonds to purchase
the electric lighting plant
About 500 feet of sheds and buildings
on the Branch county fair grounds
at Coldwater were burned by incen-
diaries, causing a heavy loss.
Chester Hall, farmer near Dams
vile, has slept for over year, only
staying awake long enough when
aroused to take nourishment.
Fire destroyed the barns of Oscar
Elliason, near Calumet. Loss, $4,000,
including "a valuable horses and 600
bushels grain. Partially insured.
Hon. Bella w. jerks, ex-state senator
and ex-member of the state board of
education, died at his home at ST. Clair
after lingering illness with dropsy.
Three barns belonging to Sylvetus
! Lamb in Rollin. Lenawee county, were
destroyed by fire, together with the
contents, which included three horses.
Another incendiary fire of destruc-
tive proportions occurred about a mile
from Flint. DIR. Il. T.. Miller lost 81, 900
worth of barns and personal property.
John Bagnall fell down stairs at his
home near Menominee, and struck on
the sharp corner of a washboard,
which pierced his left breast, causing
death.
John Bloomstrom, eX-sergeant of
police, and one of the most prominent
| Swedes of Ironwood, was instantly
killed by fall of ground at the New
port mine.
A new Office has been created by the
u. of NJ regents, assistant tary of
the university, and Geo. ID. Wilcox, of
Detroit, appointed to the Office at a
salary of $3.50.
Grand Rapids common council has
ordered the issue of S125, 900 bonds for
municipal electric lighting plant.
The bonds were authorized by popular
vote last spring.
Falling rock in the Cleveland lake
mine at Ishpeming caught Gust Sar-
l1ola, Gust Murtena and Gust Carlson,
instantly killing Murtena and fatally
injuring Carlson.
1t is said that Peter Bons, the brutal
slayer of Pearl Morrison at Crystal
Falls, is dying in Marquette prison
from an incurable disease. The con fine
ment is telling on him.
The executive com mittee of the State
Dairymen's ASSOCIATION met at Lansing
and decided to hold the annual conven-
ton at Ypsilanti, commencing the first
Tuesday in February, next.
Capitalists have been investigating
at Grand Haven for location for a
| to be run in connection with the new
Detroit e. Lima Northern railroad.
Grand Rapids street railway system
is not paying dividends on its stock nor
! interest on its bonds and there is talk
of forcing sale unless more liberal
arrangements can be made with the city
The bell in St. Mary's Catholic
church tower, at Muskegon, burst its
iron support and fell crashing through
five floors. The church warden, Geo.
Wynne, was ringing for o'clock mass
when the accident oc ,urred. He stood
under the bell, but stepped aside just
in time. About 200 people were in the
church, and il the bell had ncs been
lodged on the second floor several
would have been killed. The bell and
mountings weighed 2,10o pounds.
Officers of the grand lodge f. e A. NJ.
of Michigan conferred the third degree
before large number OF local Masons
at Bay City.