Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

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on the Goth.
There is a smallpox scare at Hart and
the schools will be closed to await de-
velopmeDts.
Owosso business men have raised
BIO, 900 to be used To induce factories
to locate in that city.
The quarantine placed on about so
citizens of Standish on account of
black diphtheria has been raised.
The ice companies at jackson have
formed "A combine, and as a result the
price of that commodity will go up.
On the Goth, at Iron Mountain, Aug.
Johnson, Swede, was attacked and
stabbed by five men. He cannot live.
JAS. A. Moore, member of the city
council of Traverse. City, committed
suicide by shooting himself on the lst.
He was respondent
Thos. Flavcn, contractor of Port
Huron, has mysteriously disappeared,
and his friends are az a loss to account
for his whereabouts
The village council of Centreville
on the End passed an ordinance prohib-
iting the sale of Intoxicating liquors in
this village after May l.
The +. & p. NJ. Ry Co. on the 9th
filed a $50, 600, 900 mortgage in the cir
cult court at st. Joseph in favor of the
Farmers Loan & Trust Co., of New
York.
1t is said that the Pere Marquette
coil ,ea ic %, f.. A.
fiat two-cent per mile rate, and cut
out mileage and all privileged trans
portation.
Cornelius DeBryam, of Kalamazoo,
is dead as the result of the cat bite re-
ceived week ago. DeBryam was one
of the pioneer celery growers, and was
over 80 years of age.
Notwithstanding the presence of the
legislature and it's blighting influence
on the surplus, Michigan started bust
ness on the 1st with a balance of So
7s9, 73o 25 in its strong box.
Samuel Il. Collins, member of the
state house of representatives from
jackson in ls99-19o0, died in that city
on the 1st. For years he had been one
VI JdCkSOn lOTenOSl clIlZeHS.
The members of the Carpenters and
Joiners' union at Port Huron, $50 in
all, are on a strike. They want 25
cents an hour, with nine hours work
and pay day on Saturday night
The Champion Copper Co. at Hough-,
ton has let the contract for 50 seven
room houses; 40 at the mine and IL at
the mills site to Parker & Hamil, Han
cock.
Ora Passage and NJ. \. Patterson
were seriously injured by the explosion
of "a l5-horse power gas engine at the
Hamilton rifle factory at Plymouth on
the 1st. 1t is thought both men will
recover.
VIM. Westbrook. Chas. Van Zandt
and Norman T. Bisbing, the three
Pennington burglars, have been bound
over to the circuit court for trial on
the charge of assault with intent to
commit murder. @r
Bank Examiner Selden says that the
first dividend TO be declared in the case
of the First National bank of Niles,
will exceed 10 per cent. He intimates
it will be 25 per cent, and that it may
be paid in a couple of weeks
Ex-senator r. ID. Graham, who owns
large fruit farms near Grand Rapids,
says that fruit prospects are very fiat
tering at the present time. Peach
trees are especially promising, the buds
coming through the winter uninjured.
Two rural mail routes have been es-
tablished at Holland, one along the
south side of Black lake and south to
Laketown and Fillmore in Allegan
county; the second running east and
north through townships Holland and
Olive.
John Vosberg, aged 10, of Grand
was sent home from school with a note
from his teacher, reprimanding him.
His mother insisted on showing the
note to his father, and while she was
absent the lad shot himself, dying on
the End.
The National bank of Ionia, in pro-
cess of formation to succeed the pri-
vate bank of Webber Bros, will be in
operation by May 1st. The capital
stock will be $50, 900, and a strong fea-
ture is the fact that the stock will be
limited to 1000 to any one man.
The Port Huron canal commission
and the board of estm ties held Joint
meeting on the Sd to discuss the canal
project The board of estimates agreed
to provide for the 500, 900 bonds neces-
sary for the construction of the canal.
The contract will, in all probability,
be awarded to the Standard Construc-
ton Co., of Cleveland.
David Henning, the millionaire who
died at Battle Creek on the LIST, was
known one time as the Chicago Apple
King" Henning learned the cooper
trade in Detroit and started shop in
Ann Arbor. Finding himself over
stocked with unstable barrels he filed
them with apples and the sale of these
started him on the road to wealth.
The Houghton county street railway
earned a profit despite the unusual ex.
penses of the winter season, and the
fact that only the Portage lake end of
the line is in operation. The company
will reach Calumet in June. and will
construct an excellent system of city
lines, covering Red Jacket, Laurium