Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-02-21
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

Marshall is soon to have additional
free rural mail delivery routes.
The Belding Shoe company filed a
chattle mortgage to secure creditors on
the 18th.
There are 81 prisoners in the county
Jail at Marshall, the largest number
on record.
There is considerable talk at Pontiac
at present ABOUT erecting two opera
houses there.
Orion is talking electric street lights
TO take the place of the kerosene lamps
in use at present
Cadillac is TO have a tannery. The
Rice Leather Co., of Petoskey, will es-
tablish one there.
Two smallpox CAGES were discovered
at Saginaw on the 14th, many people
have been exposed
The Pingree contempt case will be
submitted on briefs without argument
in the supreme court.
Five st. Joseph people were near
deaths door on the nth, as a result of
of using condensed milk that contained
poison.
A Capac farmer who raised chicory
last year realized 81, 1882 from 90 acres
and this year he is going to plant so
acres to the coffee substitute.
The poultry and pet stock fanciers
of Alpena county have formed an or
ganization for mutual benefit and the
holding of annual exhibitions.
The attendance at the farmers in
stitute in Coldwater was record
breaker EX-Gov. Luce was present
at every session and took an active
part.
Eaton county grangers are making
contracts with Altoona county farmers
for raising field peas for seed. They
claim that insects will not permit tn cir
being raised in Eaton.
a new gas company has been organ
lied at Port Huron, which proposes to
furnish its patrons with gas at 90 cents
per ] 900 feet for lighting purposes,
and 40 cents for fuel purposes,
Andrew Carnegie, the steel king, has
offered to build public library build
ing at Grand Rapids to cost 500, 900 TO
$50, 900, providing the city will donate
the site and give $40, 600 year to sup
port it.
Fifteen ST. Joseph citizens has of
fered to put up a SIS, 900 electric light
plant and furnish arc lights to the city
at the rate SO per year, and at the end
of three years to turn the plant over TO
the city.
demented woman confined in a cell
in the court house at Grayling, set fire
to the building on the 14th, which
burned to the ground, causing loss
of about $4,000 over and above the
insurance.
The clergy of Niles are a unit in the
crusade inaugurated for the passage of
laws prohibiting the sale of marriage
Iicepses on Sunday. They assert that
it is an abominable practice and dis
grace to Berrien county.
Ex-Gov Pingree, his son Hazen S.
Jr., and Col. L. Il. sutton. left New
York for England on the 18th. The
governor S going abroad on business
to South Africa on a like mission.
A wreck occurred on the Grand
T9vzk near Richmond on the nth,
owing TO carelessness on the part of
a freight engineer, who fell asleep at
his post No one was killed but the
property loss will reach about IS, 600.
The authorities of Berrien county
are trying to find Clarence Wagner,
aged 20. who courted Mrs Mary Schaus
of Coloma, and, it is alleged, skipped
out with $3.50 of her money. The story
leaked out on the 14th when it was
learned that Wagner could not be
found
Surveying for the proposed Eastern
& Northwestern road, to run from To-
ledo to Benton Harbor, via Dowagiac,
is in progress at Sister Lakes. A Sec
ton of about 10 miles of the road is
now built from Dowagiac TO Sister
Lakes. for which the ties are now be-
ing purchased.
The farmers of Midland township,
Midland Co., have organized the Mid
land Township Development Co., with
j. T.. Sayre as president and treasurer
and Frank III. Olmstead as secretary.
They VIII begin prospecting for coal
at once and expect to strike paying
vein of coal at 800 feet.
Great Record Keeper Emma f.
Bower of the l.. o. T. NJ, has com.
pleted her annual report for 1900. Ii
shows disbursement of S2s9, O42. As
and a balance on hand of $40, 423. SO.
The membership on Jan. was 57,411,
an increase of 1880 during the year,
The deaths in 1900 were 25s. The
total disbursements in deaths and dis
abilities since organization, was 81 ),
112, 113.60.
Gov. Nash on the 18th ordered out Il
companies of state troops TO stop the
Jeffries- Rubin fight in Cincinnati
A moo of 200 men and women, armed
. with axes, revolvers aud shotguns, or