Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-20
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

consolidated.
1t will be Aug. before Mt. Clemens
can have free mail delivery.
1t is reported that wall paper fac
tory will locate at Watervliet.
The contract for st. Joseph's new
SEQ, 900 brick school has been let.
The Michigan Central car shops at
jackson are now running 10 hours a
day.
Ninety-seven kids faced the judges
of the baby show at Jackson the other
night.
Frank Hamilton, convicted of bur-
glary at Grand Rapids, got IL years at
Jackson.
Tekonsha has been without a saloon
for 10 years. Now woman wants to
open one.
The Michigan fish commission has
stocked Sycamore river with 10000
brook trout.
Linden has but one bank now, the
two formerly existing there having
consolidated.
The West Bay City Coal Co. will sink
another shaft in Frankenlust township
this summer
The Reed house at Ludington has
been destroyed by fire. Total loss,
S12, 500; partially insured.
Newberry is going to have another
hotel, work on the construction of
which will begin Immediately.
The village of Laurium, Houghton
county, will bond for a S35, 900 sewer
system to be put in this summer.
A building boom is in sight for
Royal Oak Several fine residences
will be built during the coming sum-
mer.
The annual conclave of the northern
Michigan X. o. Z. NJ. and L. o. L. M.
association will be held at Cadillac,
June 0.
Options have been secured on 1000
acres of coal lands in the vicinity of
Chesaning, and prospecting will begin
at once.
Thieves broke into the Michigan
Central depot at Mason, but secured
only 50 worth of revenue stamps for
their trouble.
Dowagiac has a military company
which will try to secure admission to
the state national guard when the lat
ter is reorganized.
Ground will shortly be broken for
the Dulcenia home for INDECENT wo-
men at Marshall. When completed, it
will accommodate % old women.
Four young Burr Oak boys went
fishing one night recently and returned
the next morning with IA bushels of
fine bass, pickerel, perch, sunfish and
cells
Sanilac county is to have another
paper, which will begin publication at
Peck about May l. T. G. Graham,
Carsonville lawyey will be the pub
Usher.
Railroad Commissioner Osborn re-
ports the January earnings of Michi-
gan railroads to have been 81, 419, $40,
an increase of IL per cent over Janu-
airy, 1898.
The new sandstone department
building for Red Jacket was recently
completed at cost of S25,O00 1t is
one of the finest fire engine houses in
Michigan.
Mayor Lonnecker, of Jackson, has
notified the clergymen of that city
l,of hn hA los 1ax
to the letter if so prominent citizens
will request him to do so.
High water has carried away the
Van Every mill dam at Franklin.
Barrels of pickerel and carp were
found the next day; some were hung
in bushes and picket fences.
Evidently when the Methodists built
their old church edifice there was
shortage in the cornerstone market, as
none was found in the building that
was just torn down at Chelsea.
Walter Chaffee, aged 70, farmer
living four miles southwest of Colon,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head. He was an old pioneer
and had been i'll for long time.
George Smiths dwelling house at
Beaverton was struck by lightning the
other night, and Louis Smith, aged 10,
was badly burned about the face,
breast and down one leg. He may re-
cover.
A vein of coal has been discovered
on M. A. Horrock's property just east
of Lyons. Ohio parties have leased all
the land in the immediate vicinity and
preparations are being made to exploit
the find.
1t is estimated that fully so per cent
of the wheat crop in the vicinity of
Marshall will be failure this season.
The expected warm April rains did not
show up and the wheat has steadily
refrigerated.
Jerry Taylor, sent to Ionia from
Oakland county, in June, 1897, for five
years for burglary, scaled the wall by
means of gas pipe. He was captured
an hour later, the bloodhounds run
ming him to earth.
A farmer brought in some wheat to
be ground at the grist mill at Cope
mish, and in one of the bags was
found a portion of die for molding
counterfeit silver dollars The matter