Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-10-11
MicHloAn NEWS ITEMS.


in 100 places.
There are two cases of typhoid fever
at the jackson prison.
Battle Creek talks Of bonding for
$3.50, 900 for new sewers and paving.
Rural free mail delivery will be es-
tablished at IIarbor Beach, Oct. Is.
The INLAY City Fair association
cleared over $1,000 after paying all
bills.
According to the 1900 census Muske-
gon has population of 24,563, gain
of sos i'm 10 years.
The crop of muslmelons in the vicin-
ity of Grand Rapids this year has been
the largest on record.
The grand jury cases will be called
November II and the jury has been
excused until that date.
St Joe has reduced her police force,
and as a consequence burglars are hold
ing high reyel i'm the fruit city.
An Eaton Rapids lady has success
fully raised sweet potatoes and pea
nuts III her yard the past summer.
About $4,000 acres of state lands will
be offered for sale by Land Commits
sioner French Nov. s. at public auction
Strawberries were for sale on the
market at Grand Rapids, Oct. /. They
were second growth berries, and sold
for 40 cents per quart
Axtell, the Royal Oak preacher
pugilist-fa barber, has again been
invited to occupy pulpit-this time
the Baptists want him.
Rural free mail delivery is to be es-
tablished at Emmett, st. Clair county,
Oct. -. Length of route, 24}5 miles;
population served, Gas.
Last summer farmer living near
Chesaning planted one bushel of beans,
and this fall he sold the beans raised
from that seed for S67.s3.
Rural mail delivery has been ordered
established at Orchard Lake. Service
will begin October Is, and the route to
be covered measures "a miles.
About 100 subscribers of the Michi-
gan Telephone company at MI Glenn
ems have ordered their phones out be-
cause the rates We're raised Oct ].
The farmers and stockowners around
St Johns are very much alarmed at
the cholera which has made its APP
pearance among the swine in that Sec
ton.
Five valuable COWS belonging to a
Forest Hill farmer came in contact
with some paint, and the owner has
since been been kicking himself for his
carelessness.
A Marquette woman became so
frightened when She thought she heard
a burglar in the house that she jumped
out OF a second-story window and is
now in a hospital.
A cheese factory is to be established
at Catho, few miles ont of Alpena
next spring the farmers OF the vicin-
ity having guaranteed TO furnish the
milk from l2j cows
Two rural mail delivery routes have
been ordered established at Charlotte
on Oct IS. The length of the routes
will be - miles, and population of
LIS will be served.
Isaac Russell, who abducted a r.
year-old girl and was captured in
Oceana county, has pleaded guilty to
criminal assault and is awaiting sen
tence, which will be a heavy one.
a freight wreck occurred on the +.
& =. NJ. Ry. at Birch Run on the 9th.
and several freight cars were demol-
ished and the main line blocked for
several hours No lives were lost.
Nearly every farm in the vicinity of
Holly now bears a sign, NO Hunting
on These Premises and the farmers
promise 10 make it interesting for city
hunters who disobey he injunction.
A glib.tongued swindler has been
working the people of many upper
peninsula towns by claiming TO be an
agent for an accident insurance and
sick benefit company of Detroit and
selling policies in the same.
A wagon loaded with beans and
drawn by two horses tum bled off
platform 10 feet high al the elevator
at Alma one day last week, and strange
to say neither horses, driver, wagon
nor btdln were at al III JuiNNs
James Bingham, of Greenville, while
cleaning out a oO-foot we'll, was being
drawn out, and when within Is feet of
the top the chain broke and he fell TO
the bottom One leg was broken and
he is otherwise seriously injured
Mrs William Hospital, an old resi-
dent living northeast of New Boston,
was burned to death at her home on
the night of the 4th Her clothing
caught fire from lamp and She was
burned to a crisp before help came to
her.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Johnson, Of near Unadilla, had
been sick for several days. and the
mother finally decided she would take
it to doctors Office in the village.
When the doctor started to make an
examination he found that the child
was dead
The tax commissions mandamus pc
tition to compel Mr. Cady, OF Port HUI
ron, to surrender the assessment rolls
of that city, was denied by the supreme
court on the 4th The citys charter