Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-05-22
STATE NEWS CONDENSED,

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The Lansing Wheelbarrow company
has purchased 10-acre site for fac
tory at Memphis, Tenn, and will erect
plant there.
John Ulyea. wife and six children,
Of Iron Mountain, are poisoned from
eating wild mushrooms. One child Is
not expected to live.
An engineer at the Tecumseh salt
works says that he has cured his ca
tarrh by snuffing up through his nose
brine from the watts.
The Gladstone opera house block, de.
,troyed a year ago by fire, is being re-
built at cost of $4,000. 1t is in the
business center of the city.
1t is stated that the Michigan Cen
trial railroad vii. soon he operating the
Michigan branch of the Three / rail
way from South Bend to Benton Har-
Dor.
Ten-year-old Lennie Peirce, Of Cam
len, hammered torpedo which he
had found on the railroad track. II
went off and Lennie's face and hands
were badly torn.
Martin Closterhouse, the 7-year-old
son of farmer living about six miles
west of Grand Rapids, was thrown
from a wagon in runaway and his
neck was broken.
Rev. j. X. Andrews. formerly pastor
Of the First Baptist church of Lansing,
has been adjudged insane and taken to
the asylum at Kalamazoo at the ex-
pense of the county.
/ Charles +, Cooper, of Traverse City,
was caught in the shafting at his job
printing Office and whrled around sew
eral times. His head was badly cut,
but he will recover.
The body of Everett Jefferson. aged
years, the deaf and dumb boy who
disappeared two weeks ago from Trav-
erse City. was found Wednesday morn
ing in Boardman lake.
Henry A. Fleming and Miss Hanna
Pluchak of Daggart were married in
Menominee by Justice Vanderburg.
This makes the Tooth marriage per-
formed by this justice.
The Detroit Hoe Co. has filed articles
Of association with q capital stock OF
$4,000, divided into 5000 shares of
the par value of $40 each. The entire
stock has been paid in.
Anna Kitchmar, an employee mt the
home of Mr.. II. b. Gillett. of Benton
| Harbor, drank a teaspoonful OF car
bolic acid by mistake and nearly died
from the effects of the poison
Orson Rice. farmer 81 years old.
living mile and half from Bear
Lake, committed suicide Monday by
taking strychnine. Rice was unmar-
ried. He had been in iii health.
Mrs. Ford Hayhoe, of near Dams
vile, was kicked in the face by horse
| Thursday. Her nose was broken and
she was picked up for dead. Although
still alive her condition is critical.
The Menominee Woman's club made
such n fuss over the plan to permit
the oriental dance at the coming coun-
| ty fair that the board of managers
have wiped that feature off the slate.
The Peoples Telephone Company. of
Jackson, an Everett Moore property,
has been sold to Grand Rapids cap
italists interested in the Independent
Telephone Company in the latter city.
On account of the recent scandals in
the city terminating i'm the revolving
discovery of Il number of criminal acts
! by children. the police force of Bay
City was given n radical shake-up sat.
urday.
The Toledo & Monroe road now has
| through service from Toledo to the
Monitor piers. Heretofore passengers
have been obliged TO transfer. to do
which walk of nearly mile was
necessary.
High prices for meat have forced
many Gladstone people TO give UP
using 1t. One market reports that its
sales have decreased nearly one-half.
| The other markets report falling off
| of business
Miss Almira Ives. who for more than
| 80 years was n resident Of Michigan,
is dead at the age of about ~ years.
| Miss Ives was Il sister of Rev. T. |.
Ives of Auburn, y. i. the well known
| churchmau.
Lansing relatives have learned that
the remains of Fred G. Clemmer. the
| former pOstoifice clerk of that city.
who was killed i'm the Snowslide at
Telluride, Colo, Feb. 2S, have just
! been recovered.
a Flint dispatch: "1he delegates
! from Gaines to the county convention
TO choose delegates to the sixth district
congressional convention consists OF
the three poStmaSters in that town and
| three other fellows"
Jack Mckinney. of Flint. was as.
saulted by three footpads ut Durand
| Wednesday and was roughly handled
receiving three bad scalp wounds. As.
sistance arrived and the assailants fed
without getting anything
Mrs. :. y. Parrish. of White Pigeon.
an aged lady. while visiting her daugh-
| fer. Mrs. w l.. Kittell. i'm Benton
! Harbor. accidentally fell down the eel.
lar stairs. breaking her arm and it is
feared she is fatally injured
Tie president has issued procla.
! nation granting Il certain portion OF
| tie military reservation at Fort Brady
Mich. formerly occupied as military
cemetery, TO the municipal corporation
OF Sault Ste. Marie for public use
rwcnty-three thousand acres OF cut
over lands in Menominee county has
| .r.t o IN decided TO William Kent. oi
Chicago, by the Klrby-Carpentcr I.um
| Der Co, OF Menominee. consideration
not given. This practically cleans M
/ the Kirby-Carpcnter land in Mpnom