Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-05-30
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Ham e No haye a starch faetory.

There are seVefal cases OF small poA
in Tuscola county.
South Haven is to have free mail de-
livery service on July ].
The Central Michigan band tourna-
ment will be held at Lansing, June 5.
Bert Hurlbert, aged 20, of Detroit,
suicided by the laudanum route at
jackson on the cath. Disappointment
in love is supposed TO have prompted
the deed.
Owosso's mayor has announced that
he will close up every business place in
that city on Sunday. Restaurants and
cigars store proprietors and confec-
TONERS complain bitterly.
The annual reunion of the 9th Mich
igan cavalry will be held in Ionia,
July A. A fine program is being pre-
pared, including a description of the
battle of Monterey Gap, July 4, 1868.
The 13-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Geo. Landon, who reside just outside
the limits of Algonac was struck by a
Rapid railway car on the 10th, and re-
ceived injuries which caused his death
a little later.
Thos. smith, aged 27, of Sturgis, sui
cided at Mishawal<a Ind. on the night
of the 21st. His wife left him some
time ago. and this is supposed to have
prompted the deed.
The April report OF State Salt In
spector Dunwell is as follows: Manis-
tee county, 1IG. POI barrels; Mason, Co.
31s; St Clair ,146; Saginaw, 37,sl5;
Bay, 29,905; Wayne, 20, zoo; Iosco, Else;
Midland, l,s50 total, 379,273.
Because his father pawned his
mothers shoes for drink, Earl c. Trues-
dell, aged Il, a postal messenger at
Saginaw. secured an old shotgun
and shot his father between the eyes.
The wound is serious but not fatal.
The village of McBain claims to have
the most efficient fire department for
village of its size in the state In two
minutes and 20 seconds after an alarm
was turned in the fremen had "A stream
of water playing on the flames The
fire was eNtinguished with small loss
A franchise has been granted TO the
new electric railway company which is
to operate a line from Muskegon to
Ludington. Right of way is being Sc
cured along the route and there seems
TO be no question but that it will be
built at an early date. The people of
the enterprise
1t is said that scourge of curl leaf
throughout the western Michigan
fruit belt, is threatened. The grow
ers and owners of peach orchards for
miles around report that the prolonged
cold and wet weather is causing great
damage, and that unless change is
experienced soon, the loss will run
high in every section.
Mrs Sarah Quimby, wife of farmer
living five miles south of st. Louis,
gave her two children, girl and
boy, a fatal dose of morphine on the
4 10th, and then tried to suicide by the
same method, but failed The chill.
dren she killed were those by her first
husband She must now answer to
the charge of murder.
Railroad Commissioner Osborn's
power to grant or refuse applications
from suburban street railways for
grade crossings over steam railroad
tracks is curtailed by a bill which
passed the house on the 21st. 1t vests
the power in the state crossing board.
The bill also provides for general
law for incorporation or reincorpora-
ton of suburban railways.
The Monroe Traction Co. commenced
grading at Monroe on the Goth with
100 men and 10 teams 1t is now be-
lieved that they will rot experience
any further trouble from abutting
property owners. However, the priv
ate right of way at the point of the L.
;, a NJ. 5. Ry. crossing has not been
secured and it is still a question as to
how the crossing will be made.
In smash-up on the Pere Mar
quette at Sparta on the night of the
23d, more than a score of women of
the Order of the Evening Star, who
were in "A special ear, were seriously
injured All of the injured were from
Grand Rapids and had been to Sparta
doing degree work. The ear was side
tracked and an engine running to meet
il crashed into the end of the ear.
The home of Glenn 5. Allen at Kala-
mazoo was robbed of $500 worth of
jewelry on the night of the 25th. The
work was all done upstairs, entrance
being gained through window over
rear porch. The articles stolen in
cluded gold watches, pear necklace,
diamond rings, pins, etc. The Allen
home is popular gathering place of
fashionable young society and the rob-
berry was committed while a merry
party was going on below.
Undoubtedly one of the smoothest
rascals ever liberated from the state
prison is John r. Davis, who was pa
rolled by Gov. Pingree just at the close
of his administration. Davis within
month from the date Of his release
broke his parole and skipped. Re-
Gently the prison officials learned that
he was in st. Louis, Mo, and secured
his arrest, and Deputy Warden North
rup went TO st. Louis and brought him
back, arriving at the prison on the
21st.
John L. Stephens whose body was