Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-12-07
STATE GOSSIP.

Beers.
The postofiice at Five Lakes was
broken into on the 26th and about 500
taken.
There is a poultry dealer at Otsego
whose name, appropriately enough Is
CaclSler.
Romeo can secure stave factory If
suitable building is donated for the
purpose.
Diphtheria seems to be epidemic in
Florence and Northwest townships,
Hillsdale county.
Wreclers made two attempts to
wreck trains on the Michigan Central
near Mason recently.
Geo. Kerns, a Dalton saloon keeper,
has paid fine of $50 for keeping his
place open on Sunday.
Four carloads of stock were shipped
from Bad Axe, Huron county, to east
ern markets on the 25th.
The annual reunion of the veterans
of the 9th Michigan cavalry will be
held at Ionia on December27.
A cement factory to cost 5000, 900 is
projected for Homer Lake, where plenty
of mari of good quality exists.
5Horses around Vienna, Genesee
county. are dying of some disease, the
symptoms of which battles the farmers.
The first hard snow storm of the sea-
son in the upper peninsula started on
the Sd. Sleighs were out at Marquette
on that date.
Rails on the Grand Rapids, Belden ~
Saginaw railway have all been laid,
brt regular trains will probably not be
running until Jan. /.
1t costs Calhoun county $3.50 per
week to care for her paupers, double
the amount paid by any other county
in southern Michigan.
How many people know that Jackson.
now one of the leading cities of the
state. was once called Jacksonburg?
The burg was dropped in 1898.
Lowell people seem to be very fond
of dogs. The dog warden collected sos
in four days last week. and covered but
a small portion of the village at that.
Mary Vicl1ery. aged 90, an inmate of
the Jackson county house, set her
clothes on fire with her pipe and be-
fore help came she was incinerated.
Farmers in the vicinity of South
Haven are sore because their sugar beet
crop did not pan out and small acreage
will be planted with beet seed next
season.
Two deaths from diphtheria was re-
ported at Lansing on the Goth. There
is one other case in the city, and the
school in close proximity TO that case
has been closed.
Arrangements are almost completed
for the establishmenk of a daily rural
delivery of mail south from Quincy into
Algansee. This will wipe out several
country postoffices.
The Kalamazoo Minstrel alliance or
the eth drafted resolutions petition
ing congress against the seating Of
Congressman Roberts. of Utah, on the
grounds of polygamy.
/ ne docket IOT inc DcCSHlDtI lcIll
of the circuit court in Wexford county
contains seven criminal cases, an unus
ually large number for that ordinarily
law-abiding community.
Wife beating seems to be a cheal
form of amusement (?) in Hillsdal,
county An Allen township man who
was found guilty of that offense wa
let off with only 20 days in Jail.
Hillsdale county brags that sh,
stands third on the list of counties o
the state for the number and strength
of her Sunday schools, being eXcelle'
only by Kalamazoo and Calhoun.
OF the 200 heirs of the estate of TIL
late Jacob Baker, of Germany, which
it is alleged. amounts to $50, 900, 00o
principally in real estate in Philadel
phia. IL or 10 are living in IIurol
county.
Secretary Gage, of Washington, o.
the eth forwarded to eX-Congressmal
Stephenson at Menominee a draft TO
81. 200 in payment for the lot at tina
place, on which the public building
to be located.
: After session lasting since Nov. 1;
the grand jury at Bay City, finished il
work on the Goth, returning three il
dictments to the circuit judge and sui
hitting typewriter report of its dc
ings, covering II pages.
Cary Durham. of Lawton, who my
teriously disappeared at Minneapolis
, has returned very i'll. He says h
started for the depot and then remen
, bered nothing until he found himse
on "A train near San Francisco.
1 Gen. Israel c. Smith was Instant
[ killed while quail shooting just east {
S Grand Rapids on the eth. lie was g
t ing through thiclIet and il is SUI
5 posed that he stumbled. his gun di
e charging the full charge in the bac
G of his head.
# The first death to result from small
pox occurred in st. Joseph on the cot
the victim being George Spellman,
young married man, 80 years of ag
c Spellman had partially recovered fro
" the disease. and when in the act of tai
e ing a bath fell dead.
II A Frenchman living near Manistiql