Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-19
STATE GOSSIP.

The Gen. VIM. Humphrey, Of Adrian,
is dead.
The copper speculation fever shows
no sign of abatement at Marquette.
Bay City is to have hospital which
will be run by the Sister of Charity.
A new electric road from Grand Rap
ids to Kalamazoo is being considered.
An epidemic of grip is raging at
Grand Rapids, 1000 persons being i'll.
Chicken thieves are operating among
the farmers in the vicinity of Royal
Oak.
The common council OF i'owlerville
has ordered the closing of all gambling
rooms.
The burned buildings ut West Branch
will be replaced by new brick block
at once.
Levi X. Pierson, prominent lawyer
and politician of Hudson, is dead; aged
70 years.
Hiram Dclano, aged 20, of Harris
vile, died from injuries received from
IN fsest on the ice -
Nine fishermen driftcd around for 10
days on cake of ice at st. Ignacc be-
fore being rescued
The Shiawasscc Poultry association
will hold it's first annual show at
Owosso early mex. month.
Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Moore, of Bay
City, recently celebrated the 5oth an
niversary of their marriage
After three hours the jury in the
Chas. r. Mains perjury case at Mar
shall returned n verdict Of not guilty.
The stub line Of the Flint & Pere
Marquette from Palms TO Sand Beach
will be widened to standard gauge
carly in the spring.
Mayor Brant, of Benton Harbor, is
taking steps to test the city treasurer's
right TO collect a l per cent fee on
state and county taxes.
John Wilson, convicted at Flint of
robbing the f. & p. N. depot at Grand
Blanc, has been sentenced TO a year
and half in Jackson prison.
1t is thought that by the arrest of
Andrew X. Conover at Port Huron, one
of the worst gangs of bank swindlers
in the country has been rounded up
VIM. Fisher, aged 60 years, of Hast
ings township, was found dead in a
near by stream, whether it was a case
of murder or suicide is yet unknown.
An Allen oil dealer collects the in
dividual oil cans and fills them from
his tank just outside the corporation
limits, thus avoiding the $40 license
imposed on peddlers.
Allan ID. Black, father of Judge G..
b. Black, of Lansing, is dead. He
leaves a widow with whom he had
lived with for 65 years. Deceased was
% years old.
A carload Of sugar bcets was shipped
from Bay Port, Huron Co., to the Bay
City beet sugar factory, yielded IL per
cent sugar, the largest per cent ever
sent to that factory.
A letter mailed at Mendon, Jan. 8,
1898, to party at Leonidas, six miles
distant, was delivered Jan, s, 1899,
having lain in the postoflice just one
year and four days.
A Business Mems League has been
formed at Lansing. The object of the
league is for the purpose of pushing
| legislation in behalf of the mercantile
interests of the state.
City Attorney Butterfeld, Ann Ar
Dor, has asked for an injunction to re-
train the d., Y. & A. A. Ry. from run
ming cars faster than eight miles an
hour within the city limits.
DIR. l.. l.. Houghton, state geologist,
has rendered his resignation to the
board of geological survey, but he was
induced TO remain in Office until the
completion of volume of the reports,
which is now in course OF preparation.
Bert RACER, farm hand, employed
by Peter Kalambach, of near Sylvan,
invited neighboring friend TO spend
the evening with him. During the
hours which were spent at the Kalam.
bach residence the friend showed SO
much attention to the daughter that
RACER became jealous, whereupon he
secured revolved and put bullet
| throu0h his own head