Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-06-21
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

81, 3ss. % for the famine sufferers in
India.
Surveyors for the new Detroit and
Toledo street railroad have struck
Flat Rock.
Col Eli II. Sutton will resume his
seat with the board of regents of the
university.
The bootblacls of Port Huron have
organized a trust, and shines are now
10 cents straight.
The eth annual reunion of the Cass
County Pioneer society will be held at
Cassopolis on June 20.
According to the government wheat
report the condition of spring wheat is
s7.3; winter wheat, 81.
The leach house and bark mill of the
tannery at Manistee was destroyed by
fire on the l4th. Loss, $3.50
The valuation for the township of
Ash, Monroe county, is 81 ,02s, ls5,
raise over last year of $685. 60.
Recent heavy rains have seriously in
jured corn and potato crops in the vi
cinity of Flat Rock. Many are plant
ing over.
Bad Axe carried off the honors in the
field day exercises between the Bad
Axe, Cass City and Vassar high schools
recently.
During the recent heavy rain storms
a number of acres of corn, potatoes and
beans were washed out in the vicinity
of Brighton.
The annual night shirt parade at the
M. A. c., at Lansing, was participated
in by over 90 students and was a "howl-
ing" success.
The council in the village of Tekon-
sha has nearly doubled the tax levy for
the ensuing year, with the intention of
crawling the principal streets of the
place.
Dan Martin, a farmer aged about IS,
residence near Parkville, went out to
feed his sheep on the evening of the
10th and was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
Jennie Moe, aged Is, of Gagetown,
was taken to the industrial school at
Adrian until 81 years old, for attempt
ing to take money from cash drawers
in the village stores.
The acreage of mint in southwestern
Michigan this season is much smaller
than for several years past, and as
result the price will undoubtedly take
an upward turn next fall.
AS the season advances wheat looks
worse and worse in Calhoun county.
! Thousands of acres will never be cut
and the best fields will not yield more
than 10 bushels to the acre.
A Vassar man has pullet which he
thinks is going to be record breaker
in the egg producing line She has
just begun TO lay. and the six eggs SO
far produced weigh two pounds.
Rains IN the upper peninsula have
brought some encouragement to lum-
bermen and work on the drives has
been resumed, after being suspended
on account of low water in the rivers
1t is claimed that this is the year for
the 17-year locusts. The 17-year To-
Gusts were here in 1S40, 1866 and 1883,
and will appear again this year unless
all previous experiences go for naught.
Beatrice Cavanagh, aged II, the
daughter of James Cavanagh, a tele-
graph operator, of Detroit, was given
corrosive sublimate by mistake for
medicine, and is in serious condition.
1t took John SchwanbeclS, of Grand
Rapids, SO years 10 get tired of living,
but when he finally did so he went
right out and bought some poison and
swallowed it, He died the next morn
ing.
The question of bonding the village
of Algonac for $50, 900 for electric lights
and water werks, was carried by a
large majority and the enterprising
citizens are highly elated over their
victory.
Dan Martin, a farmer aged about 35,
residence near Parkville, went out To
feed his sheep on the 10th and was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed. His body was found about
midnight.
The sparrow killing industry is as
Stunning great proportions in Branch
and Calhoun counties. From Jan. /,
i'oVs W uHt lbvD, Guilty
paid for II, O44 sparrow heads at two
cents each.
Gilbert Gould, a Cass county farmer,
has plowed up his wheat and sowed
the ground TO tobacco. He says he can
not depend on wheat as staple crop
any more, md thinks tobacco is the
coming crop to take its place in this
climate.
Gov. Pingree has reappointed Frank
NJ. Van Horn. of Benton Harbor a
member of the state BARRIERS commits
sion for three years. Under the law
Il. NJ. Fillmore, of Lansing, will be-
come president of the board, Charles
Reiger, of Detroit, treasurer, and Van
Horn secretary.
Six shafts of the Calumet & Hecla
mine are still idle, keeping 1000 men
out of work A party of miners de-
scended shaft No. on the 18th and
found the air very foul. Shaft No.
will not be opened for week yet in
order that the fires may be given