Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-10-20
STATE GOSSIP.


left no will.
Every man in the 35th Michigan at
Camp Meade is being vaccinated.
Surveyors have begun operations at
Utica on the proposed Detroit-Romeo
electric railroad.
Lawton voted Isl to 80 in favor of
bonding the village for $4,000 for an
electric lighting plant.
The fusionists of Ogemaw county
nominated Mrs. Merrie Hoover Abbott,
LII b., for prosecuting attorney.
The surgeons say the health of the
31st Michigan. at Knoxville, is better
now than il has been for months
An extra freight collided with a
local freight on the F. & j. NJ. at
Evart, demolishing eight cars, but IN
juring no one.
Edward Arnold, aged %, had his arm
completely torn off by getting caught
in the shafting at the Passolt soap fac~
Creditors of the Tawas State Saving
bank, of East Tawas, have located
Cashier +. +. French in Detroit. He
WV NSCho dkO
VIM. Kingsbury, carpenter, while
hanging a window in the courthouse
at Kalamazoo, fell from the second
story to the ground and was killed.
Isaac Ellsworth, the Clinton county
horse thief, who so cleverly escaped
from jackson prison, was recaptured
near Lapeer and returned to prison.
Three barns on the farm of Mrs. ID.
III. Strahle, east of Owosso, burned
with all contents. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, SO, 200. Origin of fire unknown
Fire damaged one of the warehouses
of the Challenge Cornplanter Co., at
Grand Haven, to the extent of 81, 900.
Fully insured. 1t was of incendiary
origin.
Twenty-one members of Co A, Ann
Arbor, 3lst Michigan, who were stu.
dents of the U of NJ, united in a pull
for their discharge, and were success
full in the effort.
William Kulp, George Wagner and
Joe Gregory, the alleged Richland
bank robbers, were bound over to the
Kalamazoo circuit court. Bail was
fixed at $40, 900 each.
While at work in the third level of
the North Tamaracl mine, at Calumet,
John Zolka was killed by the prema.
ture explosion of blast. His head
was entirely severed from his body
The legislature will be asked to an
prove of plan to connect the main
h,,tl1ip,rc of hn Miphi.ro,, 4
colony farm with an electric railway
The distance between the two is abou,
two miles.
Two houses owned by b f. Cotherin
of Flint, were destroyed by fire Loss
So, 500. The fire was undoubtedly of
incendiary origin, and some villain
stuck knife in the hose while the
firemen were at work.
Farmers in the northern portion of
Berrien and Cass counties are bothered
by wolves. The providers have been
devastating fiocks OF sheep, and pigs
and poultry have been devoured. One
farmer lost IL sheep in one night.
The state fair board has balanced ac-
counts, and the record showed total re-
eeipts, 500, GOO; expenses, sis, 100; bal
ance, s2,559 OF the receipts, slO,5o9
were taken in at the gate. This gives
the fair association a surplus, some.
thing IL has not had before in years.
The boy killed at Wheeler by Byron
Parrish who was captured at Morrice
with the boys bicycle in his possession.
was identified as Dell Lloyd, aged Ia.
lie was on his way to his home Mt
Watrousville after visiting his uncle at
St. Louis Parrish confessed the muir
der. but says he was drunk.
The state convention of the Young
Women's Christian association held al
Olivet was well attended. The reports
Of the workers made favorable show
ing. Officers elected: President, Miss
Elsie Z. West, of Detroit; vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. c. III. Kimble. Kalamazoo;
secretary, May Dewing, kalamazoo.