Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-02-09
STATE GOSSIP.


st. Joseph has voted $1,000 for a
new school building
The State Dairymen's convention
will meet in Detroit next year.
The beet sugar factory at Bay City
so far has received $4,000 from the
state as bounty.
Montcalm was the first county to
come to the auditor-general with its
taxes for 1898.
The annual convention of the State
Bar "a ISOLATION will be held at Jackson
on June 90 and II.
The balance in the state treasury
January 81 was 81 ,2s5, 666.s0, or $780,
SIS. 90 more than last year
The Village OF st. Johns will spend
SO, 500 on an airlft to double the ca
pacity OF the water works.
A $500, 900 beet sugar plant may be
built al st. Louis. New York capital.
lists are becoming interested.
A fine new union depot will be built
at Grand Rapids if all the roads run
ming into that city will use it.
About quarter of the wheat grow
ing on clay lands in Tuscola county
has been killed by severe weather.
JAS Westfall, OF Pennington, al
leges that he was assaulted by officers
of the law, and has caused their ar
rest.
VIM. S. Brown, of Chicago, left Slo,-
900 to Albion college two years ago.
His estate is now ready to pay over
Sc, 900.
About SIS. coo has been subscribed
for the erection OF cement manufac-
turing plant at Mosberyille, IIillsdale
county.
BY the drowning of Albert King at
Port Huron Il damage suit may result.
1t is claimed no sign was placed on the
dangerous hole left by ice cutters,
Samuel Blitho, OF Jackson, who
pleaded guilty to larceny of $i2 worth
of whisky was sentenced to four years
and six months in the state prison.
Saginaw will ask the legislature for
permission TO adopt the stone road sys-
tenn and issue $500 600 in bonds to ex-
tend stone roads in Saginaw county.
Within four weeks, four mothers liv-
ing in radius of four miles Of the ham
let of Montgomery, Hills iale county,
have each gwen birth to twin babies.
St. Joseph will experience a build
| ing boom shortly, as "A result of the
Compound Door Factory company To-
eating there 1t is estinrted % houses
viii be built.
A Jackson youngster swallowed a
| brass chain six inches long, which he
! pulled of from the collar of an over
coat, and at last accounts the child
was getting along nicely.
BY the quick working of the ali
well, Fireman VIM. j. Minnie was
thrown from the tender and two trucks
passed over his hoa',
Port Huron is awakening from It's
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and its indus
tries will probably be increased in tho
near future. A chance has been Of
fered to secure six new manufactur.
ing institutions.
John T. Murphy, the veteran fruit
grower of st. Joseph, gives it as his
opinion that the recent cold snap has
not injured peach buds in the least
Notwithstanding unquiet rumors to
the opposite effect.
Geo. Lyons, farmer of Exeter
township, Wayne county, lost his barn
and contents by fire. Twenty hogs,
three horses and four cows were Gre
mated. Loss, 300; insurance, $3.50.
! Cause OF fire unknown
Recently one Of the most popular
young ladies of Brighton laid her false
teeth upon the shelf upon retiring
The next morning they were missing
and the young lady is confident it was
! the deed of a peslSy rat
From the number of rooms already
engaged at the leading hotels in Jack
son for candidates, indications are that
there will be a lively contest for the
nomination for supreme justice by Re-
| publicans February 2sth.
Romulus was visited by fire recently
that threatened to wipe out the bust
ness portion of the town. A strong
bucket brigade confined the flames to
the Reichwage block, which was
totally destroyed. Loss, SO, 900.
The state fair board have signed a
contract to hold the next fair at Grand
Rapids the last week in September.
Eugene Fifield, of Bay City, was made
general superintendent, and III. Il.
Dewey, of Grand Blanc, succeeds Ere
mont Skeels as superintendent OF
booths and privileges
The supreme court has granted an
order directing the Wayne circuit
court to show cause why mandamus
should not issue to compel 1t to quash
the capias recently issued against o. A.
| Wright, of Detroit. in the damage case
recently commenced against him by
Kittie Shingelmeyer of the same place.
BY head-on collision of two passen.
ger trains on the c. & G.. L. Ry. at I'm.
lay City, three persons were killed out
right and seven injured. Both engin-
GERS had orders to pass at that place,
and it is thought that one of them
mistook freight on the siding for the