Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-07-17

water should be filtered before using.
ms swimmers do not tend to make 1t
seem drinkable raw.
Mrs. Sarah McLaren. OF Ionia,
sprinkled gasoline on thee carpet Her
small grandson struck match. and
there was an explosion. Her clothes
caught fire and she rolled on the grass
10 eNtlnguish ii. but was very badly
burned.
Thomas IT, Wlnnett general freight
anu passenger agent of the Detroit e.
Macklnaw railway at Bay City, has
been stricken with smallpox In mild
form. He was taken sick last Friday
bur the case was not diagnosed until
Wednesday.
flre Friday morning destroyed the
staDles OF the Rouse Ice Cream Co. OF
Benton Harhor. Three horses were
burned. James Johnson, an employe,
VINO did noble work in saving horses.
was terribly burned. 1t is thought ho-
Does caused the fire.
Jas. Cleary. Grand Rapids char
acter, has been arrested on suspicion
or knowing more than he tells OF the
murder OF William Reynolds. who was
round dead in an alley near Kents liv-
cry stable. Cleary was the last man
seen with Reynolds.
Judge Wisner refuses to dissolve the
temporary injunction obtained by the
Detroit United Railway 10 prevent the
city of Flint from interfering with the
company's traffic for refusing to lay
4 double track on Saginaw street as
ordered by tic council
The 225X225-foot. two story barn IN
Fennville. owned by Peppermint
Todd. Of Kalamazoo, was burned
Thursday night. 1t was the biggest
barn in America. The fire was caused
by spontaneous combustion In the hay
NOW. Loss. $4,000; half insured.
The famous poker check suit of Rep
resentative John X. Gordon. of Mar
quette. against the Lansing State Saw
lngs Bank. involving the legality of
check given in liquidation of poker
debt has been appealed TO the SUI
preme Court. Gordon won in the court
below.
Some one entered Jno. +. O'Rourkes
orchard, short distance west of Bear
Lake at night. and ruined 1G1 fruit
trees, cutting some down and hacking
around others. As president of the
village Mr. O'Rourke has been active
in efforts to suppress Illegal whisky
selling.
Alfred Jurva. OF Houghton, n sur
face. man at Quincy shaft No. .. was
dashed to death by falling down the
shaft Tuesday. He was climbing the
ladder in the shaft house when II fell
back. Jurva was about 10 years old |
and is survived by widow and five
children.
The Ray City game wardens have |
OF the 1900 ponds OF under /
sized pickcrel which was seized last |
week. Ten packages of 100 pounds !
each were shipped to the Industrial !
school for boys at Lansing and the rest |
distributed among the charitable insti- |
buttons OF the city.
The biggest catch OF fish made in |
that vicinity was brought to Kalama-
zoo Monday by w. w. Boardman and |
J. W. Jewell. 1t consisted of 170 |
small-mouth black bass. the largest OF |
which weighed five and half pounds. |
The fish were caught in Christie's lake,
In Van Buren, county.
Tuesdays storm caused destruc- |
ton Of property along the valley OF |
the Ann Arhor railroad that is con-
estimated at 100000. The /
city Of Ann Arbor has suffered $4,000 |
in the destruction Of seven culverts |
and the tearing up Of streets by the
food.
Twelve alleged violators OF the state |
liquor law were recently cited to APP !
pear in court i'm Saginaw. and now q
deputy United States marshal is after |
10 of them for having no federal IL
dense. Ore witness, Jas. Hopcroft. |
was fined $25 Ivy Recorder Snow for
refusing 10 testify.
Grand Trunk employees in Durand |
who have been IN Chicago taking the
place of striking freight handlers have
returned and report that large num-
Der Of Italians have been secured for
the strikers jobs The new hands are
well protected and many of them are
lodged in sleeping cars.
President Roosevelt has issued q |
formal order placing Mai James W |
Long, OF Grand Rapids. on the retired !
list OF tine army MS captain. Maj. Long |
has served nine years and five months,
md will. az the end of seven months.
be entitled to 90 per cent addition !
to his pay rs captain of Infantry.
The Wayne county physician says.
'Frank G.. Andrews Of Detroit, is not ,
fit to be In court He is sick man.
Last night he had congestion OF one
lung and q temperature of 100 80 de-
Crcss. A had cold has gone on from
bad TO worse. and now Andrews has
got to watch ont or he Will be in
serious condition"
Torpedo canes in use on the Fourth. 1
II proves. did $500 damage to plate
glass windows in Kalamazoo. When
three or four pellets were exploded at
once the business end OF the cane
would break, scattering bits of iron In
every direction. In one instance bow /
had toe shot off and dozen or more
received wounds I'm the legs.
Adjt.-Gen Smith. OF Illinois, advises
Adit. Gen Brown that Gov. Yates and |
several members Of his staff expect to
he at the cncampment Of the Michigan
Guard ut Manistee, Aug. Is.