Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-02-15


state will be saved many lawsuits and
a large expenditure of money.
The state school for the blind is again
in quarantine, Is cases of measles hav-
ing developed there in "a hours time.
None of the victims are very sick.
Quartermaster-Gener Atkinson says
there will be an encampment Of the
Michigan National Guard this year,
but the date has not yet been fixed.
BY the premature explosion of
charge of giant powder in the Volun-
teer mine, near Negaunee, on the sth,
one man was killed and another badly
injured.
Part of the brick work on one of the
turrets of the new Masonic temple at
Muskegon fell on the night of the eth.
No one was injured and the loss is not
serious.
hatchery, visited Washington recently
for the purpose of securing CONSOLE
dation of the Worthwhile and Detroit
hatcheries
A collection of old and rare coins
were recently found in a wood pile near
Dalton. 1t is supposed they were hid
den there by robbers who later could
not find them.
On Feb. 26 the village of Dowagiac
will vote on the proposition of bonding
for S12, 900 to aid the Eastern & North
western railroad from Toledo TO Ben
ton Harbor.
The controversy in the state board of
veterinary examiners over the registra-
ton of graduates of the Ontario Veter-
mary college has been settled in favor
of the graduates
The big Phoenix Touring mill dam
| just south of Worthwhile went out on
the sth with the big freshet, doing sew
eral thousand dollars worth of damage.
1t will he rebuilt.
Sparows come high to the taxpayers
of Isabella county. In the one town
ship of Coe sparrow bounty orders
have been paid TO the amount of 81, 694
/ in the six months.
Philip j. Mogk. of Detroit charged
with an attempt TO influence the Nye
| jury was convicted and sentenced to
| pay $50 fine and serve six months in
prison on the 10th.
The contract for the new normal
school building at Mt. Pleasant has
been awarded a Port Huron contractor
for S24, 753. The structure is to be
completed by Sept. Is.
A cash bonus of 50, 800 was subscribed
by citizens of Benton Harbor at mass
meeting on the 9th, which secures the
rebuilding of the fruit package factory
recently destroyed by fire.
Numerous horses around Grand
| Blanc, Genesee county, have been
strickened with some disease the exact
nature of which is not yet known, and
a good many deaths have been reRorted>
The balance IN the state treasury at
81, O6s, 379.s5. This has been exceeded
but once in the history of the state, in
1887, when the balance was only a few
thousand dollars greater.
The new northern normal school at
Marquette is to have $50, 600 dormi-
tory built by j. NJ. Longyear and j. C..
Aver. the former Of Marquette and the
latter of Boston, the same men who
gave the 90 acre site for the school. 1t
will board 100 pupils.
Agents of the Benton Harbor sugar
factory who are canvassing Van Buren,
county for contracts are Offering Is cts.
per ton extra for beets if the state pays
/ tho hnunfv Of ono cant rNa,. Mound and
will also allow farmers to ship in the
beets any time after they are ripe.
Geo. Nye, recently convicted in De
troit on the charge of perjury, has,
through his attorneys, applied to the
supreme court for an order admitting
him to bail, pending the disposition of
his case which is about to be taken to
the higher court on a writ of error.
Mrs. Marie Butterfeld Sanderson.
who was acquitted at the December
term of the circuit court on the charge
of the murder of her aged husband, Il.
:. Sanderson, 10y feeding him pulver-
lied glass, left Battle Creek on the 9TH
for Chicago, where she will take M
her residence.
As result of an open switch on the
Detroit & Lima Northern at Detroit, a
passenger train ran into long line OF
freight cars on the eth and John Pugh
the fireman, had his spine broken and
his left hip crushed. When the coils
ion occurred Mr.. Pugh was shoveling
coal into the fire pit.
The total amount of beets received
at the Michigan factories up to Feb.
was 21O,971 tons. from which an ag
gregate of 30,1O6,11 pounds of sugar
was manufactured. If the beet sugar
bounty law of 1897 is constitutional
the state will have to pay total o.
1901 .061.1 10 for sugar manufactured NJ
to that date.
The undertaken at Suttons Bay /,
apparently just as much of believer
in advertising as men in other lines OF
business. and has adopted some Of Their
methods in setting his wares befor,
the public. In recent issue of tn,
local paper he says: I'VE have just re
ceived a large invoice of new fame,