Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-01-17
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

on the afternoon OF the oth Whiie
skating Age, IL years
St Clair county supervisors talk OF
introducing a stone pile for the edihca-
ton of drunks and wife heaters.
Tate McMellon, aged 90, of Ridge
way, had his left hand caught in a corn
husker and so badly crushed that am
putation was necessary.
A reform crusade is worrying the |
sports at Pontiac. Three gambling |
places have been closed by the marshal
on orders from the aldermen.
Miss Jennie Atkinson, for four years
past stenographer to eX-Gov. Plngree,
has been provided with clerkship in !
the Office of the tax commission.
Ann Arbor thinks city hall would |
add dignity to the town, and prelimln-
ary steps looking to the erection OF
fine edifice were taken on the Sth.
Mary Featherstone, of Flint, claims
To have lived in three centuries. She
saws She was born in Ireland on De-
tober "a, 1897 She is in good health.
Alpheus Chapman, aged Go, while
shoveling snow on the Pere Marquette
tracks at Saginaw on the 10th, was
struck by train from Detroit and
killed.
w. III. Hudson, an s0.year-old farmer
, near Flint, was accidently shot while
taking loaded gun from his little
grandchild on the sth. He died in
few hours.
An unknown man, about 20 years OF
age, was killed by an eastbound pas
senger train at Webberville on the
10th. He was stealing a RIDE on the
blind baggage.
Willie, the 5-year-old son of VIM.
Rolph, proprietor of the Enterprise
laundry. Detroit, died on the 10th
| from fractured skull, sustained by
falling from an upstairs back porch.
Evangelists, who are conducting re-
vival meetings in Kalamazoo, visited
several of the principal saloons in that
city on the night of the 18th and held
short religious services at each place
visi ted.
Eastern capitalists on the 18th
formed syndicate to build an cleo
trio road from Battle Creek TO Detroit.
The capital of the company has been
placed at S4 900, 900 of stock and an
equal amount of bonds.
Orson b. Curtis, one of the best
known veterans of the civil war in De-
troit, statistical clerk of the customs
department and secretary of the De-
troit civil service board, died on the
10th, after lingering illness.
While returning home on the night
of the sth Mrs. Charles f. Engle, of
Detroit, was instantly killed by a
Michigan Central express train. 1t is
said that Mrs. Engel was to blame, as
she was walking on the track.
VIII L. White, of Grand Rapids,
former quartermaster-gener of the
Michigan National Guard, quit his
native city for good on the 18th, and
started for San Francisco where he
expects to cake his future home.
Martin NJ. Meredith, aged 65, a
freight CONDUCTOR on the Port Huron
. Sranch IF M rerc morq uvtte railway,
dtiveaauet q between car and pile
on the 10Th, aad died two hours after
ward.
The University of Michigan reopened
on the sth after the long holiday vaca-
ton, and perhaps it was the luakiest
vacation that ever happened, for it en-
abled the faculty to take the smallpox
epidemic in hand before it fairly got
started in Ann Arbor and stamp it out.
DAVIS Skeels, aged 70, of Whitehall,
dropped dead in his bakery, from
heart disease on the 18th. His aged
wife, seeing him fall, rushed out doors
to call help. On reaching the walk she
slipped and fell, cutting an ugly cash
in her head. Her recovery is doubtful.
After twice in the same day voting
down proposition to remove the
county seat from Paw Paw, the board
of supervisors of Van Buren, county
reversed their action and by vote of
16 TO voted to submit proposition to
the people at the April election next
spring.
1t is stated that Prof NJ. E. Cooley
branch of the state tax commission,
which has oeen at work for months
ascertaining the value of Michiga
railroads for taxation purposes, has
reached the final conclusion that the
valuation of all Michigan roads shall
be at S145, OO0, 900.
Charles T. Wright, the paroled lum-
herman, visited jackson on the 9TH to
get some things which he had left at
the prison. He has improved wonder
fully since he came out. He says SEN
timent is changing in his favor and
that all that is needed is to let the
thruth be known.
The Michigan military academy
opened its doors or the sth for the first
time since the rupture of a few weeks
ago. Col. Rogers announces the com
pletion of his faculty by the appoint
ment of Paul +. Greer to the depart
ment of history and 5. w. Reaves to
the department of mathematics
The Michigan Centrars new bridge,
which was recently completed at Niles
at a cost of $3.50, 900, and which spans
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