Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-22
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

| Oceana county farmers have 5000
acres OF beans growing.
The Sebewaing Sugar Co. has start
cd the canvass for the 1902 acreage
The Grand Rapids water boodllng
cases will not be tried till September.
| Sebewaing. for the first time in her
history. will be lighted with electricity
| this week.
Thirteen saloonkeepers are under ar
rest at Owosso on the charge OF sell
Ing liquor illegally.
Inmates OF st. Joseph questionable
resorts have been ordered to leave
town within 10 days or go TO jail.
Mrs. Arthur Bailey. aged "a. OF
Adrian township. was SO badly burned
by Kerosene oil explosion that she
died.
Roy l. Taylor OF Mt. Pleasant, has
received notice Of his appointment to
the position Of second lieutenant in the
regular army.
Charles Richie. an inmate OF the
northern asylum. eluded the vigilance
OF n brother and hanged himself from
tree in the woods.
The annual camp OF Seventh Day
T, Adventists has commenced in Lansing.
There are 400 tents up. Ten thousand
strangers are expected
While walking on the railroad track
in Saginaw Wednesday night. William
g. Dalke was struck by 4 switch en-
CINE and instantly killed.
Alfred Erns, held in jail in Standish
on charge OF horse stealing, escaped
by way OF skeleton keys. His mother
struggled them i'm to him.
or the persons Of school age in Mich
igan Detroit has 01.1II1; Bay City,
$3.50; Grand Rapids. 21.3T1; Jackson,
G,I51, and Saginaw, 14lo0.
The Bloomingdale Cheese Factory
received over 27.Oo0 pounds of milk
during the month OF May and paid the
patrons for the same S1.GI2.
The agitation over the smallpox
scare in Three Rivers has about sub
sided ana all the patients will shortly
be released from quarantine.
Harry Lanham. Of st. Joseph was
shot just below the heart while rowing
on the river. 1t is believed the shot
was fired by n careless hunter.
No more wooden sidewalks can he
built in the fire limits of Tekonsha,
under the terms Of new ordinance
recently passed by the council.
Holly is still endcavoring TO secure
good water supply and has just closed
Il contract with Ohio parties to put
down an eight-inch deep well.
The Schoolhouse ut MattawaI. which
burned n week ago. will be rebuilt i'm
medately. 1t is believed the fire was
caused by spontaneous combustion.
G.. +. Raymond. OF Grand Rapids,
has recovered n watch stolen from him
two years ago. 1t was found on the
person of q crook arrested for burglary
in London. Eng
The Battle Creek council has lum
Der purchase scandal 1t is alleged that
overcharges and short deliveries
have been made. fleeing the city out
of 81 800 TO $1,000. ~
The Thornapple drain. as surveyed
by Commissioners Sewers. OF Charlotte,
was approved by the jury. 1t will cost
so OoC. and those interested will carry
it TO Il higher court
Owing to the continued dry weather.
the water i'm the st. Joseph river is
so low that the Niles Board & Paper
Co. have shut down their plant, throw
ing about 100 men out.
4. Il. CumminS. eX-register Of deeds
OF IIillsdale county. has been arrested
on q charge Of forging n mortgage
upon II farm in Camden township
while register of deeds.
Frightened at the belize that burg
I,,.. g.
place, 1I-year-old Peter Hogg dropped
dead Friday morning. in room over
his brothers drug store.
William English. OF Albion. middle
aged man. a painter by trace, was ar
rested, charged with assault upon The
wife of a Mr.. Whitman. employed nj
the malleablc iron works.
Edwin McClane. of Eau Claire Wis.
and Lou Hooker. Of Lake City. Mich.
were married az st. Joseph Tuesday
midnight They thus escaped prosecu-
ton for Illegal cohabitation.
Albert Ryan, who shot his wife at
Litchfeld Il short time ago. was cap
tured in Butler, Branch county. We'd
nesday night Immediately after his
capture he shot himself dead.
Miss Eva Rosenfield. Detroit girl
is now considerable Of heroine nc
Arverne beach, near New York. for the
rescue of Or. Julius Rosenburg from
death by drowning in the ocean.
The aggregate values Of real estate
and personal property. as equalized by
county boards this year. are as fol
lows: Real estate. 500. S7S.:iS3: person
al. $311 ,g01.442; total. S1.235, SCOOPS.
lightning struck the house Of VIM.
Knott in West Niles. Monday tearing
off portion Of the roof and doing con.
siderable other damage. The occu-
pants of the house had Il close call.
As yet Encke's comet which has
been observed by some Of the astron
omers in the west. has not been seen
by those ut the university Observatory.
although they have been looking FOR H.
The state encampment at ManiStpe
is over. the soldiers have all returned
on belated trains tired hungry and
sleepy. Some speak highly Of the To-
cation and all agree that soldering is
work.
One OF the largest rattlesnakes seen
fou some vcorS wnS EiIlod I't.iJnv L..