Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-13
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Inc Kalamazoo anu the WOiNerlnc
paper companies of Kalamazoo will be
combined.
A starch mill and brick and tile
factory will locate at Harbor Beach,
Huron county, this year.
There are 80 widows living on one
street in Quincy. How is that for
town of / 400 populationP
Mecosta county farmers are con-
racting to raise sugar beets for the
sugar factory at Kalamazoo.
George Cotton, of Sandstone, has
Poland China sow which is the mother
of 81 pigs, all alive and squealing.
A fine new Touring mill is to be
built at Charlotte this summer, which
will fill long-felt want in that city.
Portland's idle creamery will be put
in operation this year If half the 81, 500
necessary for refitting it can be raised
by private subscription.
REM Grover, who lives near Leon
ard, arose the other night and swal-
lowed some corrosive sublimate, which
he mistook for another medicine. He
died.
The farmers of Millburg and vicin-
ity, in Berrien county, have organized
a stock company with $4,000 capital to
build and operate a creamery at Mill
burg.
Chas Adrensen, Of Norway, followed
his runaway wife to Ironwood, and
finding her there, shot her and then
himself. He is dead, but she will re-
cover.
The business portion of Cadillac has
been visited 10y $4,000 fire, and four
buildings was reduced TO ashes Most
of the stock in the different stores was
saved
The 31st Michigan volunteer regi-
ment, now in Cuba, have received or
ders to muster out. The officers be-
lieve the regiment will be in the u. S.
by April 18th.
A building boom of large proper
tions is in sight at Houghton. Several
new and handsome stone and brick
business blocks will be constructed
this summer.
On farm near Millbrook, Mecosta
county, is hog with a shell on its
back like that of a turtle. The shell
begins over the front shoulders and
ends at the hips
Jackson Keller, an old man of 20
years hailing from Alma, was struck
by train while walking on the track
near Owosso and had both his legs cut
off. He died soon afterward.
Farmers in northern Oakland county
most unfavorable for years, but hope
that the roots may be in better condi-
ton than the tops would indicate.
There is no need of n fish chute in
the dam that crosses the River Raisin
at Dundee, as the high water a short
time ago tore a hole in the dam large
enough for warship to pass through.
During March the revenue stamps
affixed t6 doehments fled with the reg
lister of deeds at Houghton were valued
at $4,000. Houghton claims to be the
banner county for March in this re-
spect.
Lyman Gilmore, of Ridgeway, who
is past so years of age and has been
totally blind for the past 10 years, has
lately recovered his sight, and can
now distinguish objects some distance
away.
The contract for building the Cop
per Range railroad through the Onton-
agon district, has been let to G. E.
Loss, of Chicago, and as soon as the
snow is off work will be commenced in
earnest
At Stevensville there exists several
cases of scarlet fever, several bad cases
of diphtheria and the measles prevails
in half of the homes of the village
Schools and churches are closed for the
present.
Mrs. Joseph Kay, who had her hus-
band arrested at Jackson on a charge
of adultery has withdrew the COM
plant. The couple have kissed and
made up and are again living together
at Lansing.
The village of White Pigeon, Con-
stantine and Centreville are soon to
be connected by new telephone line
with an exchange in each of the three
places The line will be an indepen-
dent one.
Rogers City is the largest place IN
the state to discover 1.-THE finest mari
beds in the country" right within half
a mile of the county court house, and
wants some one to locate cement
factory there.
The common council at Pontiac has
granted 30-year franchise to the men
who propose to build an electric rail
road from Orion to that city, and has
given them 10 days in which to accept
the franchise.
The dam at the Clare roller mills on
the Tobacco river was recently carried
away by the water forming an eddy
below while being drawn through the
wasteway. The dam was built last
season at a cost of S3, 600.
Phineas T. Binns, citizen of b uch
anan for the past so years, undertook
to wash the skylight in his living
rooms over store building, when the
staging gave way and he fell to the
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