Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-28
STATE GOSSIP.

The I'd Michigan infantry VIII nolu
its annual reunion at Hillsdale, Oct. Is.
The Michigan school for the deaf
opened at Flint on the 2lst with 275
pupils.
The annual fair of the Midland
County Agricultural society will be
held Oct. 4-6.
An alleged wild woman is said to
make her home in the woods near
Traverse City.
Bishop Foley confirmed class OF 60
at it. Johns Catholic church, Benton
Harbor, on the 25th.
Cars are now running over the new
Detroit, Rochester, Romeo a. Lake
Orion Electric railway.
The new machinery in the Rapid
Railways power house at New Balti-
more will cost $780, 600.
The f. & p. M. Ry. vas consolidated
with the d., G.. r a. w. and the C. q
| w. M. railways on the 21st.
George Starr and Harry Williams,
awaiting trial for burglary, escaped
from the Monroe Jail on the 2lst.
Horse thieves are working in Wash
tenaw county and farmers are talking
of forming vigilance committee.
The 34th annual reunion of the goth
Michigan infantry will be held at
Chelsea, Oct. 18th. Out of about 1,100
originally in this regiment 400 are now
living.
The little village of Coloma has made
its main street into fine boulevard.
The street is very wide and in the CEN
ter is row of fine old maple trees
with driveway on each side.
The vote for water works at a special
election in Leslie resulted in sweep
stake for the boomers. The ballot
stood 222 for and 62 against. two
thirds vote was necessary to carry.
Kalamazoo is going to have floral
parade in connection with her street
fair, but as the flowers that bloom in
the spring don't also bloom in the fall,
the decorations are to be made of paper.
, Dr. ID. Milton Greene, one of the best
known physicians of Grand Rapids,
has been arrested on the charge OF
criminal assaulting his 9-year-old
daughter Feeling against the pris'
oner runs high.
David Watlin, farmer of near Ian
sing, was fined 500 for killing and
:. selling for food cow that was suffer
ing with cancer on its jaw. The
meat inspector discovered the carcass
before any of it had been eaten.
The low price of wheat together
9 with the difficulty experienced b,
.. farmers on account of the dryness o
o the ground, and the poor crop OF tn
n past season, has sharply reduced tn
o amount of acreage of new sown wheat
d Gen. r. A. Alger has been invited t.
be one of the guests on the occasion
the splendid banquet to be tendere'
at the White House by President Nc
d Kinley TO Admiral Dewey on Oct
n The general has signified that he will
t. accept
II The union men of Grand Rapids ar
If contemplating building a home O
Is their own. They had surplus @
lie 5000 from tina Labor Day receipts, an
p propose to use it as a nucleus of
,e building fund for the erection of
20 labor temple.
"a Sportsmen in different parts of tn
* state say quail were never more pier
is tiful than they are this year. Ever
m wheat field and wood pasture is allv
is with them and the young birds ar
now full grown. The coming seaso
of shooting will be the best in years.
The October term of the Washtena
n, county circuit court will be recor
We breaker There are 104 cases on ii
or docket Twenty-one are criminal, i
re Guiding eight cases from Ypsilanti Il
ed violation of the liquor law last Four'
OF of July. Fourteen dissatisfied ma
n ried persons want divorces.
er One of the features of the fair
~ Reed City was the work of hypno
GU ist. who placed an assistant under
w influence and buried him. The ma
III. was under ground for 4S hours. Viii
d, he was in the grave some miscreal
Gu dropped a stone down the SxS-inch a
fiue and the mans nose was broken.
The decision in the case of Shadfo
:. VS.. The Ann Arbor Street Railway,
- which he obtained verdict for 81, 0C
- was sustained by the supreme coul
dv ne company dPPSoiSN ''N' W."
~ verdict and got soaked for $1,000, a
~ then took the case to the SUPPER
- court. Shadford was knocked off
ON platform wagon.
al. J. Ullerg, a farmer residing ne
-, Niles. sold several cattle to butch
,ol, and took the money home with hi
az The first night he became brighten
at the thought of robbery, got up a
hid the money in crevice in the woe
shed. The next morning his dog "
inn. dead and the money gone. 1t is thong
Il thieves were watching the house a
the saw Mr.. Ullery hide the money.
cen The entire cucumber crops III the
IAN trict northeast of Benton Harbor, r
,ow resenting over 100000 bushels
xed small pickles per season for the p
had 10 years, has in the last 10 days be-
Is" completely destroyed by fore
had small red bug. The new pest, althou
sa- much smaller, belongs to the lady |
al. family The total loss to growers