Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-11-08
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

to pay for sparrow bounties during the
past year.
The strike at the Corunna coal mine
has been settled and the miners have
returned to work.
Scores Of horses in the vicinity of st.
Joseph have caught the deadly pink
eye and many are dying.
G. II. Nash, of Palmyra, is cutting
from the field on his farm a second crop
of oats from the same sowing.
Scarlet fever is prevalent at Royal
Oak, principally among children, but
no fatalities are yet reported.
Albion's new postofiice was opened
to the public on the Sd. 1t is said TO
be the finest second-class Office in the
state
Five Dowie converts, members of the
Christian Catholic church, were inn
mersed in the st. Clair river at Port
Huron ON the 2sth.
Up to Nov there had been received
by the state treasurer S944. "A for the
Galveston sufferers, in response to
Gov. Pingree's proclamation appealing
for aid
The large plant of the Initial Toe
Pad Co., at Three Rivers, was totally
destroyed by fire on the night of Oct
30, and over 30 hands are thrown out
of employment. Loss, S35, 900.
Jas. II. Brumm, convicted murderer
of Mollie Flagler, of Dimondale, has
been sentenced TO Ionia prison for the
remainder of his life. His attorney
viii appeal to the supreme court
The Swedish United Sons of Amer
lea, the home Office of which is at Man
istee, has been licensed to do business
under the fraternal laws of Michigan
by Insurance Commissioner Stevens.
Safe-cracllers made an unsuccessful
attempt to blow open the safe in the
Belleville bank on the night of Oct 30.
They left town on a hand car which
they stole from the Wabash section
house.
Both contending forces for an cleo
trio line from Ann Arbor to Jackson
are building their road-beds, the
Hawkes-Angus people grading on
private right of way west of Ann
Arbor.
Rev. j. J. Axtell of Royal Oak, has
disposed of his barber shop and will
now devote his time TO the optical bus
mess claiming to be full-aedged
optician - he will travel about the
country.
L. n. olmstead, of Muir, thinks he
is ace high as a potato-raiser, and if his
figures are correct he probably is. He
says he has dug 61s bushels of the tub
ers from little less than two acres Of
ground.
\ Thos Pentland, ST., an aged farmer
ring six miles south of Newberry,
1ile in drunken stupor on the 4th,
OF his wife and missed his son. Mrs.
entlanF recoyer. Domestic trou-
BILE wasx .,se
The fact that the reports for the
past week show that typhoid fever is
present at 191 places in Michigan has
induced the state board of health to is
sue warning regarding fruitful
source of contagion.
Extensive mari beds, located two
miles north of Schoolcraft, will be
worked. A plant for making Portland
cement will be erected. The company
win spend S4OO, 900 in buildings and
machinery, it is said.
According to Labor Commissioner
Cox the coal mining industry in Mich
igan is in a healthy state. There are
20 mines in operation. For the nine
months covered by this bulletin 613, 4OS
tons of coal were produced at cost
of Ss3s, 039
Chas. r, Mains, one of the leading
actors in the famous Mains Hubert
case. which created a sensation at Bat
tie Creek year or two ago, and who
was debarred by the supreme court,
has left that city, and is said to have
located in Chicago.
Henry Il. Proctor, of Grand Rapids,
county treasurer of Kent county, sui
cided by the laudanum route on the
night Of Oct 81. He was the Republi
can nominee for state senator in the
18th district, and his death caused
much excitement in political circles.
Hubbardston people pledged SIS, 900
for the proposed electric railroad from
st. Johns to Crystal, and thought they
were doing exceedingly well. The pro-
moters of the road have announced
that they want s15, 900 from them, how
ever, but whether they get it is an
other thing.
The state treasury balance at the
close Of October was SSH, 450.17 A
big hole in this will be made Nov. 10,
when the semi-annual apportionment
of primary school money will be made
among the varied counties. This will
be the largest semi-annual apportion-
ment ever made the rate being S1.50
per capita, making the rate for the
year S2.l5.
All the stories of strawbe rries and
raspberries being picked in the past
few days are discounted by report
from Marquette 10 the effect that
boy of that city found lot of trailing
arbutus in bloom I'm the woods near
that city on Oct. %. May flowers in
OctObcr-and the latter part of the