Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-27
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.
Alma is to have a new bank.

its capital stock from $4,000 to $15,-
900.
Subscription books for the Pingree
memorial are being distributed in De-
troit.
The berry yield in the vicinity of
Watervleit will be very light this sea
son.
Sunday, June l6, was a dry" day
at Houghton, for the first time in more
than o years.
Former Secretary Of State Justus s.
Stearns Is TO make Grand Rapids his
home after September /.
The fund for the Pingree memorial
to be erected in Detroit grows and ii
is hoped will reach 100000.
Striking machinists at the f. & p.
Nj. shops, at Muskegon, TO the mum
Der of a. have gone back to work.
Rev. DR.. w. III. Rees, NJ. T.. pastor at
Adrian, receives notice from the bishop
that he will be transferred to Pittsburg
July 1.
Mark Hrschburg, n Morceni tailor,
mourns the death of n Russian uncle,
a nobleman, who leaves to his nephew
$4,000
John Manchester. Il resident of OF
terburn Flint township. is charged with
attempted assault on his little Swear
old step-daughter.
A disastrous fire in the Peters Lum-
Der & Single Co. Benton Harbor Sat
urday evening destroyed property val
ued ut $4,000
Col. Eli Sutton. who accompanied
Ex-Governor Pingree on his African
| trip. has returned to Detroit, where he
will practice law.
Five new outbreaks of smallpox
were reported tor the state board of
health on the 18th, and one outbreak
was reported ended
severe electrical storm passed over
Allegan county on the night of the
10th, and considerable damage was
done in many places.
All kinds of building material are
being dispatched to the Champion
stamp mill site. Work on the new mill
will be hurried forward.
Miss Laura Burdick, OF Sturgis. has
started for Honolulu where she will be
married to Ill. NJ. Stevens. a civil en-
ginecr in the Hawaiian islands.
Rural free delivery service ordered
established at Kent City, Kent county,
| Mich. \ route was also ordered estab-
lished at Marshall, Calhoun county.
The prosecuting attorney and police
officers of Port Huron have com
| menced a crusade for better oh
servance of the liquor law of the state.
Miss Myrtle Mudridge. the young
woman from Sanilac Center who dis
| appeared from the Hotel Detroit. de
troit. about June 1, was found in Mt.
Clemens Saturday.
The machinists' strike in Saginaw
valley was settled on the night of the
goth. Although the men did not get all
they contended for, they are jubilant
over the outcome.
Mrs. Cooper, of Permissible, SIX
! niles from Wayne, was found jcad
| Monday morning with n scalp w0un |
and an indentation in her forehead.
Foul play is suspected.
Nellie Foster, a pretty 20-year-old
milliner who was out of work, grew
respondent and tried to drown herself
but her condition is serious.
Dan Smith, who lives near Orville,
is the oldest man in the state He was
born January u, 1871, at Portland.
Ne. He goes to Saginaw regularly and
draws n pension for military services.
Three bodies, supposed to have be-
longed TO the crew of the Baltimore,
are held at East Tawas awaiting iden-
| tification. They are embalmed, and will
be held a few days longer. Any partic-
| ulars can be obtained of the marine re-
porter.
The Germans of Albion are looking
forward with great expectations to the
state encampment of the society
! known as the Deutscher Landwehr Tn
tersteutzung Nerein. which will be held
July 4, . and 6. There are fourteen
companies in the state.
Two of the largest timbers ever
shipped have arrived in Grand Haven
from Washington. They are yellow fir.
| 40 by 40 inches and 56 feet long,
weighing II tons each and costing 3d.
600. They are to he used as anchor
posts on a large steel dredge.
Tie bodies OF Beatrice and James
Bailey, the two children who were poi
soned a few weeks ago. supposedly by
their mother, Mrs. Sarah Quimby of
Ithaca, have been eXhumed. Since her
confession the mother has made state
ments discriminating her husband
1t is expected that the attendance
at the second National Social and Po-
litical conference. which begins a five
days session in Detroit next Friday,
will reach the 1000 mark or nearly
double the number present at the con-
ference held in Buffalo two years ago.
Ernest Hartwick. of Oxford, is az
flicted with an affair of the heart,
caused by young lady refusing to ac-
cept his hand and future prospects. so
he hied himself off to Chicago, leaving
note under his pillow at home stat
ing that he would never return alive.
His parents have asked the Windy
City police to look after him.
This from the Carson City Gazette:
The street car system at Lansing