Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-07
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

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The bootblacSs of Calumet have or
ganized a union.
The state house at Lansing will be
lighted by electricity
Marsh fires in Calhoun county have
done considerable damage.
Petoskey has granted year fran
chise for street railway system.
The long continued drouth in the
lower peninsula was broken on Sept. l.
Frank Ives, of Grand Rapids, the
champion billiardist of the world, is
dead.
Fifty thousand packages of fruit
were handled at Benton Harbor on
Aug. %.
One of the largest steam grist mills
in the state will be erected at Pontiac
this fall
The balance in the state treasury at
the close of business Aug. 81 was
81, 1854. 1916 40.
A firm at Lake Ann, Benzie county,
are building a cold storage warehouse
for handling farm products
At Horton on Aug 2sth l, 800 bushels
of wheat were threshed in one day and
the machine moved four times.
Forest fires are burning in Houghton
and Ontonagon counties. 1t is not
thought they will do much damage.
Turtle lake, near Union City, is be-
ing drained so that the mari which
abounds its banks and bottom can be
used. 1t is said that the mari is of the
finest quality
About 200 applicants will take the
examination for clerical positions in
the pension Office. The examination
will be held in Lansing some time be-
tween Sept. Is and 20
The annual report of the superin-
tendent of schools, shows that the
total cost of conducting the schools of
Lansing for the last school year was
$40, s23 %. or SIS 81 per pupil.
Arthur Ganong, alias Frank Temple,
the alleged Royal Oak burglar, who
was shot at A. w. Wicoxs house, was
recently arraigned, waived examina-
ton and was bound over for trial in
SO, 900 bail
The Portland Water Co. has agreed
to accept $50, 900 for the plant and an
election will be held to decide the
question. The company wanted s45,-
600 originally. The proposition will
undoubtedly carry.
The largest advertising poster ever
printed in the world was recently
turned out by the Cox Duplex Printing
company, Of Battle Creek. The poster
was a mile in length, and was posted
between the street car tracks.
Gov. Pingree has appointed r. NJ
Kellogg, of Three Rivers; +. b. Will
Jams, of Kalamazoo, and o. c. Howe,
of Lansing, delegates to the national
irrigation congress, which will meet
at Misoula, Mont, Sept. 25 to 27
The ninth victim TO sacrifice their
life by the explosion of kerosene in
Detroit died on Sept. 1. The victim
was an old man named Frank Pequig-
not. The oil was purchased from the
Standard Oil company on July 20.
David Turn bull, laborer employed
Oll AhC Adi III VI bpCuCtT 1ldTh. near
Wayne, was arrested by United
States officer on the Goth on the charge
of sending obscene letters through the
mail. Wayne young ladies received
the letters.
Joseph L. Stamp, an ex. policeman
living in Grand Rapids, shot himself
in the left lung on Sept. /, but claims
the shooting was accidental He was
a widower and lived alone. He saws
he was cleaning his revolver when it
was discharged. 1t is feared the wound
is fatal.
st. Clair and vicinity is suffering
with one of the worst drouths ever
known. Corn and other crops are dry
ing up in the fields, and the grass so
shriveled that on many farms the stock
require feeding. In some places the
grasshoppers are destroying what little
is left from the drouth
The board of state auditors refuses
to pay 5000 to Mrs. Betsy j. Haight,
widow of the Jackson prison keeper.
who was poisoned by Convict Latimer.
The legislature authorized it by Joint
resolution, but the auditors want the
supreme court to act upon the right of
the legislature to make such requests.
Entomologist Petit, at the agricul-
tural, says the green worm supposed
to be doing so much damage to sugar
beets at Three Rivers and other places
in the state, is the garden web worm,
the natural food of which is the COM
mon pig weed or lambs quarter 1t is
not expected that the damage will be
serious, but the affected fields should
be promptly sprayed with paris green
and the pest will disappear.
The Copper Range railroads agent
who has charge of building the track
near Houghton, has gone to Tennessee
to hire 200 Negroes, it being impossible
to secure white labor in needed force.