Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-23
STATE GOSSIP.

Electric ears are now running be-
tween p ymouth and Worthwhile.
Traverse City will have new in
dustry in the shape of another iron
foundry.
The annual encampment of the
Michigan c. A. r. VIII be he'd at Pc
toskey. June 81 and %.
One dead and several injured, as the
result OF sawmill roof falling, is re-
ported from Ludington.
There is movement on foot looking
toward the consolidation of Oscoda and
Montmorency counties
The st. Andrews Catholic school at
Grand Rapids has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000: insured.
The capacity of the S3oo,OO0 sugar
beet factory to be erected at Benton
Haroor will be 400 tons per day.
The Wabash railroad, in its change
of time, has sidetrackcd Belleville
There is now only one train a day
each way.
The right of way and franchises for
a new electric road from Jackson To
Adrian has been secured for almost the
entire line.
Albert Ieysler. of Burkettville, who
murdered his wife and stepdaughter
recently. has committed suicide by
taking Paris green.
The st. Johns Manufacturing Co.
has changed its name to the st. Johns
Table Co., and reduced its capital from
$500, 600 to 100000.
Large numbers of wild ducks have
been gathered on the ice in Thunder
Bay which were frozen to death dur
ing the cold weather.
Thirty-three damage suits, aggregat-
ing claims for $500, 900, is on the docket
for the March term of the circuit court
of Washtenaw county.
Andrew Carnegie has leased the
Michigan Iron Mining company's prop
erty on the Menominee range and will
work it on large scale.
Stewards big Touring mills, located
northeast of Ionia. have been destroyed
by fire. The loss will aggregate S.
900, with partial insurance.
Saranac people are raising a fund to
pay the expense of driving a test shaft
to see if there is coal in paying guam
titles underlying the village.
Geo. Dent, of Lapeer, lost 1000 BUSH
els of potatoes by the recent cold snap.
He had been offered soc per bushel for
them before he opened the pit.
A consolidation of the Bank of Sagi-
nav and the American Commercial and
Savings bank has been effected. The
former succeeds to the business.
Menominee people are circulating
remonstrance against the passage of
bill by the legislature to establish a
state normal school at Marquette.
Ionia county fruit growers have
formed horticultural society to swap
ideas and protect themselves against
INSCRIPTIONS commission merchants.
Ingham county people are keeping
their mental balance very well of late.
There has been but one of them sent
to --:.--e---sa asylum for seSeralmoptbft
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sandstone buildings in the vicinity of
the Red Jacket mine near Calumet, and
a $50, 900 hotel is to be built at Calu-
met
Isaac Anderson, of Saginaw, claims
he has invented plan whereby cleo
tricity can be generated with oxygen,
and the same will revolutionize the
cost
Essexville people are all worked up
over the move by the Bay county rep
resentatives to detach z part of the
village and throw it into Hampton
township.
Congressman Geo. Spalding, of Mon
roe, whose term of Office expires March
3, has secured the appointment of post
master at Monroe with a salary of ST.
200 per year.
One result of the recent cold weather
will be big demand for glass fruit
jars to replace those broken by the
frost, Judging from reports from all
parts of the state.
1t has been so cold at Grand Rapids
that grave diggers had to give up their
jobs, as the ground was frozen so
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mite would bulge it.
Bogus quarters and half-dollars are
being circulated quite extensively at
Grand Rapids. Both bear the date of
1898, and are excellent specimens of
the counterfeiters' art.
A movement has been started at
Hastings looking towards the building
of a fine new opera house, and the
chances for the success of the project
are at present first class.
Marshal Frank Dolan, of Mt. Glenn
ems, was badly slashed by knife in
the hands of Phineas Phillip, an in
sane person. Phillip imagined Dolan
was conspiring against him.
VIM Conltlin, of Battle Creek, aged
&C, committed suicide by shooting at
Charlotte. An hour later his father
died in the Kalamazoo asylum, where
he had been confined several years.
The children of VIM. ellis, farmer
living near Port Huron, have been de-
clared state charges. 1t is alleged that
they have been neglected by their
father and forced to live in hencoop.
Tired out with teaching. Miss Fannie
Harding of Orio, opened her mouth to
vawn with a result that her law be-