Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-11-29

with an electric street car service.
The increase in assessment values at
Kalamazoo has lowered the tax rate
81. 81 below that of 1899.
The little steambarge Myrtle M.
Ross foundered in Lake. St Clair on
the oist. Her crew of six was saved.
The Michigan Central bridge across
the St. Joseph river at Niles was COM
pleted on the 2lst. The bridge cost
over 500, 900.
1lWithin five days time poultry buyers
of Hudson bought and shipped over
100 tons of turkeys, which represented
a cash outlay of over 500,
Two Ionia boys, aged and 8, were
buried alive on the 2lst. They were
victims of cave-in while playing
around sand bank.
At the present term of the Gladwin
county circuit court there are three
criminal cases on the docket, while
Van Buren, county has nine on her
hands
OF the ,957 patients admitted to the
University hospital of the u. of M. dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1900,
,635 or SO. "a per cent were natives of
the U. S.
1t is said that the Carnegie interests
will purchase the Newport and the
Ashland mines, giving them control of
90 per cent of the output of the Goge-
bic iron range.
A movement is on foot among the
beet raisers of Caro- to get them to
agree to contribute 10 cents per ton on
their crop for the betterment of the
roads in the vicinity.
The great success of the big beet
sugar plant at Caro- makes il necessary
for the company TO double its capacity
next season In one day farmers de-
livered 800 loads of beets.
Berrien county now ranks as seventh
in population in the state. 1t is past
Calhoun, Lenawee and Washtenaw,
while Houghton has advanced from
almost nowhere to fourth place.
There are more than 1000 applica-
tions, it is said, for the appointments
as deputy oil inspectors in the % dis
tricts. This Office pays well and does
not interfere with other business.
While Tightening the cargo of the
stranded steamer Isaac Ellwood in
Mud Lake on the 25th, the forward
boiler of the lighter Stewart blew up,
killing three men and iniuring several
others
Returns from 81 counties of the state
have been received by the secretary of
state From the returns received it is
estimated that the constitutional
was carried by vote of
10 to l.
Smallpox is now prevalent at 10
places IN Michigan. Littlefeld town
ship, Emmett county, and Allendale
township, Ottawa county, are the lat
est places to report cases of this dreaded
disease
-.s,s1 -ity coulicif on this 10 tn
granted franchise TO Detroit parties
for an electric railroad system through
that city. connecting Detroit and To-
ledo. The line must be in operation
by July l next.
Mrs Tom Beech, Of Brooklyn, the
only woman in jackson county who
took out a deer license, recently re-
turned home from the northern part of
the state with two deer which were
killed by herself
Geo. Braidwood, of Flint, who was
convicted in the circuit court recently
OF taking improper liberties with
deaf and dumb girl 10 years OF age on
Sept. 4, was sentenced to five years at
Jackson on the 23d
The tax rate at Flint this year is
only 81 SO per 81 900, which is the
cheapest in many years. The total
rate for the year is only about 81. rs,
while in Caro- it will not be far Fl ON
double that amount.
In his next message TO the lcgisla-
turc it is understood that Gov. PIN.
gree will recommend the appropria
tion of $50, 900 for a monument at
Chickamauga, in honor of Michigan
soldiers buried there
There IS Baptist church near Hes
pesia having 20 mem bers - mostly
women The women unaided are
building comfortable seven-room par
sonage, and have it nearly completed.
With their own hands they have painted
both the church building and parson-
age.
Enoch Larltins, colored, who was
serving life sentence in the jackson
prison for the murder Of an old lady In
Monroe county, for which Larkins and
his wife were convicted. died of con-
sumption at the prison hospital on the
Goth, aged 80
The upper peninsula seems 10 be in
for siege of smallpox. A majority of
its counties have already reported
cases Marquette county has been hit
pretty hard There are 30 or more
cases within it's confines. OF this mum.
Der Marquette city has 10 At Negau
nee there are five and at Ishpeming
one.
Cassopols furniture m erchants show
that even the worm will turn They
announce, owing TO the large business
IN,