Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-03-21
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

Dexter.
One case of smallpox is reported at
Bay City
The bonded indebtedness of Pontiac
is S16l, 900.
Counterfeit dollars are being circu-
lated at st. Joseph.
The coal miners in the Saginaw dis
trict will ask for an increase in wages
The postofice at Kitche, Houghton
county, has been discontinued. Mail
to Venton.
A large party of Benton Harbor peo-
pie are making preparations to move
to Oklahoma.
Adrian is negotiating with an east
ern man for the removal of a shoe fac
tory to that city.
The Hancock & Calumet railroad
will change from narrow gauge to a
standard gauge road.
Flint may have another factory If
she puts forth the right kind of an ef-
fort. 1t is bookcase factory.
The ice men of Ann Arbor have COM
bined on d scale of prices and will cut
out Sunday morning deliveries.
The proposition to bond the village
of Augusta for water works, was lost
at the charter election on the 18th.
At the spring election Three Rivers
will vote on the proposition to bond
for SIS, 900 for public improvements.
= do hxyt haa
dleville Improvement association to
raise stock and start cutter factory.
The circuit court at Coldwater sus-
pended business on the 18th, owing to
the presence of smallpox in the village.
Marshall's new s25, 900 school build
ing, recently completed, was taken
possession of by teachers and pupils on
the 18th.
1t is reported that the Calumet e
Arizona Mining Co., at Houghton, will
place 100, 900 shares of stock on the
market at once.
The 4th interscholastic met under the
auspices of the Athletic association of
the u. of NJ. will be held at Ann Ar
Dor, May "a and 25.
Not a tram on the G. r. & /. or the
Pere Marquette railroads reached Pc
toskey on the l1th. The snow block
ade was the worst of the season in that
section.
Thirty-two girls employed in the
Schwabach garment factory, at Niles,
went on strike on the 18th. They
haven't received any salary for several
weeks.
Recently Jackson barber shaved a
man who said he had chickenpoX The
barber now has smallpox, and a gen
eral vaccination at Jackson has been
ordered.
At meeting of the moneyed people
at st. Joseph recently it was decided
to build theater to cost between S35,-
600 and $50 900 Work will be COM
menced at once.
The planning mill, mophadle factory
and a quantity of lumber, owned by
NJ. A. Agen, of Ludington, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the
18th. Loss 81, 500
From II, midnight, on the 9th, un-
til -, midnight, on the 10th, 2,037 cars
were run through the ST. Clair tunnel
at Port Huron. The best previous rec
ord was 1853 cars.
On total assessment of S12, 900,
Farmingtons township treasurer only
returned 50 cents uncollected, and that
was on property which had paid no
taxes for three years.
1t is said that the old roadbed of the
Coldwater, Manchester e Northern
railroad, which was graded from Mar
shall to Olivet some years ago, will be
utilized for an electric line.
The Caledonia State bank, capital
lied at $50, 900, which was to have
started March l. has thrown up the
sponge and the charter already Sc
cured from Lansing has been returned.
As a result of terrific blizzard
throughout western Michigan on the
18th, trains on nearly all the railroads
were stalled. The storm was consid-
cred one of the most disastrous one in
years.
Chas A. Johnson, cashier of the
/ It lTbl NdllOnal Dduk, dI Mics, was ar
rested at Column bus on the 18th. He is
BADLY broken in health, much enact
ated and very nervous, but expressed a
willingness to return to Niles.
A murder was committed at the
Wayne county house on the night of
the 18th. Two inmates named VIM.
Harris and John MacMahou quarreled,
when the former pulled jackknife
and stabbed the latter several times,
caused his death few minutes later.
The people at Harrison are scared
over smallpox The disease has not
yet appeared there but there are sew
eral cases at the neighboring village
of Clare, Public gatherings have been
prohibited and general vaccination
ordered The March term of the cir
cult court has also been adjourned
until April %.
Rev. ID. Cochin, pastor of the Con-
gregational church at Traverse City,
has been nominated for alderman by
the Republicans He is vigorously OPP
posing the brewery project in that
place and one of the aldermen told him
he was pumping more wind than gos-
pei He may cut some ice as mem