Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-05-24
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.


class of 81 this term.
Electric cars have commenced run
ming from Detroit to ST. Clair.
The thermometer registered los de-
grees at Kalamazoo on the 18th.
Mt. Clemens will raise S37, 900 for the
expenses of the next fiscal year.
Olivets prospects for an electric light
plant and water works are excellent.
Heavy rains have quenched the fires
at Fisher. The losses foot up $500, 900.
The annual reunion of the Goth Mich
igan infantry will be held at Williams
ton or June ii.
Cut worms have done considerable
damage to fruit trees in the vicinity of
Niles, but the danger is said to be
about over.
Maple Rapids has raised the neces-
sary S25,0 to secure the construction
of the Lansing, st. Johns 81 st. Louis
electric road.
Six business men of Battle Creek re-
Gently returned from "A 10 days fishing
trip in northern Michigan, bringing
with them 700 trout.
An epidemic of clandestine and quiet
weddings is sweeping through Adrian,
which threatens TO blast the entire
crop of young widows and old maids
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Pioneer and Historical society will be
held in the senate chamber, Lansing,
Tuesday and Wednesday, June and 6.
A new electric lighting and power
company has been organized at Plain
well, its capital being $4,000 This
and the old company are to consolidate.
A case of dog eat dog" occurred at
Lake Linden, the other day, when
canine was noticed by several towns
men carrying bologna sausage from
prominent market.
Miss Estella Long teacher in the
high school at Albion, has resigned her
position TO accept the position of SUI
perintendent of the boys school at
Montevideo, Uruguay.
The family of Edin Tucker, of Trav-
erse City, were victims of tyrotoXicon
poisoning resulting from milk used at
dinner 1t was a close call, but it is
believed there will be no fatalities.
Capt Jack O'Connell, of Escanaba,
claims To have invented rifle that
will fire l2l cartridges in 81 seconds.
The record is 400 per minute He will
not allow anyone to get near enough
to examine the rifle.
Sheep shearing has commenced and
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the market. The man with the hoe is
not an uncommon sight, but the man
with the sheep shears is most in de-
mand since warm weather arrived.
w. ii. S. Banks. wealthy soldier 50
years old, was remarked at Allegan on
the 10th. His bride is Is. and they
were married a year ago in Wisconsin,
but as her parents had not given their
consent an attorney advised that they
be remarked
During "A heavy thunder storm on the
18th lightning struck the barn of A.
Alexander, located near Mayville, kill
ing one horse. Two other horses were
standing on either side of the one
killed, and three men, sitting near by.
was uninjured
There is a complaint that many fish
ermen in the state take home specl1led
trout under the regulation six inches
in length. 1t is poor encouragement
for the honest sportSmen 10 have these
fish taken when they are only three
and four inches long.
DR. Nuili. charged with carrying
concealed weapons and threatening TO
Lhoot, has been arrested. Yuill lives
at Yale and i, Il prominent physician,
but drink ruined him. He was arrested
some time ago charged with living un-
lawfully with Olive Wiley. and it was
her mother whom he threatened to
shoot.
Mrs. Tracy DeFrance, wife of Stone
wall DeFrance, the forger, who was
convicted in Kalamazoo seven years
ago, and who is now serving a 13-year
term in Jackson, was in Kalamazoo on
the 18th. She said that she expected
that DeFrance would be pardoned in
side Of two weeks, but declined to say
on what grounds.
A dispatch from Kalkaska tells of a
case of wholesale poisoning there. A.
f. Holmes, a farmer living near there,
is i'll but will probably recover. His
wife is in critical condition, and II.
ii. Swane, the hired man, is dead A
man named Hudson is under arrest on
suspicion. The family became sick
after dinner on the 18th.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia. ton
sillitis, bronchitis and influenza in the
order named caused the most sickness
in Michigan during the past week.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis was reported
at 6 places, smallpox at ., diphtheria
at %, typhoid fever at 4, whooping-
cough at 20, scarlet fever at 76, measles
at l27 and consumption at 1GO.
For the first nine months of the state
tax commissions existence its expenses
have been 500, 506-47. At this rate the
total expense for the year will be up
wards of $40, 900. The sum of $40, 713 90
has been expended under the head OF
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