Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-05-04
STATE GOSSIP.

The 3lst Michigan will be mustered
but at Savannah, May nth.
The cash balance in the state treas
ury May was Sl,44s, l44.5i
Over 200 new buildings will be
erected at Cadillac this summer.
Rockland, ontonago county, has
new bank, capitalized at $780, OO
A fine new high school is to be built
at Houghton, at a cost of $50, 600.
Forest Fires are doing considerable
damage in the vicinity of Rogers City.
Marquette is elated over the signing
Of the normal school bill by the gov
ernor
VIM. f. Ginger, rs years old, was
struck by train and killed near
Shelby.
A new $50, 900 church is to be built
1T Sault Ste Marie this summer by
the Presbyterians.
A campaign against the bicycle girl
and her short skirts has been inaugur-
Ated at Grand Rapids.
Fire destroyed the ormsby hotel and
Thos. Goodell's residence at Ecorse.
The loss is estimated at So, 600.
Eaton county farmers have pledged
themselves TO raise / 900 acres of sugar
teets for the Kalamazoo factory.
Grand Haven experienced the worst
storm in years on April 20. Hail stones
As large as eggs fell, and did much
damage.
A curiosity in the shape of snow
white coon was found recently near
Mendon and is now on exhibition in
that village.
Capitalists are negotiating for the
right of way for new electric street
ear line to the agricultural college
from Lansing.
The MAY calendar of the Bay county
circuit court has only so cases listed
for trial, the smallest number in the
history of the court.
Eva Doherty, who was deserted by
Geo. Taylor, Chicago travelling man,
at Grand Rapids, committed suicide by
the laudanum route.
Saginaw county supervisors have been
empowered To designate what roads
shall be improved and the amounts to
be expended on each.
Many dead fish line the shores of the
mill ponds along the Kalamazoo river,
due, it is thought, to the great depth
of the ice last winter.
The sawmill of NJ. ii. Eymer at
Turner was destroyed by fire, causing
loss OF 81, 600 partially insured. 1t
will be rebuilt at once.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of
Milan is a failure, and many of the
farmers are blowing up their fields.
Many potatoes in pits were also found
to be frozen. .----.--.,~-
Tin n wow and Wixon nobody was
hurt, but eight freight cars were badly
smashed. 1t was caused by a coupling
pin breaking.
Railroad Commissioner Osborn's force
is now busily engaged in spreading the
taxes for 1898 against the railroad com
panies of Michigan under the provisions
of the Merriman law.
Millington has a 14-year-old boy who
is quite heavy weight. He stands
six feet and one inch in his bare feet,
has chest measurement of So inches
and weighs 432 pounds.
The Saginaw Valley Fire & Marine
Insurance Co. has sold its business to
the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. The
purchaser assumes all risks and liabili.
ties of the home company.
Mr.. Seheppe, farmer near Freedom,
had three cows poisoned recently. A
neighbor is suspected. An examina-
tion of the stomach of one of the ami
mails showed it contained arsenic.
Attorney General Oren has given
superintendent of Public instruction
Hammond an opinion declaring that
any district may adopt free text books
as the laws has not been repealed.
The divorce mania seems to be
spreading in this state, and the num-
Der of such cases on the calendars of
the various circuit courts shows a
heavy increase for the spring terms.
Geo Greer, farmer of near Glad
win, was killed by bolt of lightning
recently and his son Albert, was rem
dered unconscious by the same bolt
and did not recover from the shock for
two hours.
Local and rural telephone lines con-
Meeting Munith, Henrietta, Waterloo,
Stockbridge and Chelsea and the
greater number of the farmers in the
surrounding country have been com
pleted
The May calendar of the Oakland
county circuit court contains total of
9S cases, of which seven are criminal,
10 jury civil, Is nop-jury civil, and G7
are chancery cases OF the GO chancery
cases. Al are for divorce.
1t is probable that honey will be
pretty valuable article this season, as
beelSeepers are discovering that their
bees suffered severely from the ex-
treme cold weather of the past winter.
Many beexeepers in the southwestern
part of the state lost nearly all their
colonies
Philip Umphrey, of Coloma, awol1e
the other other morning and found his
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