Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-02-13
MINOR MICHIGAN MATTERS.

an opera house.
The Pottersville bank has been or
ganized with 10 of the leading bust
ness men as stockholders.
The Boyne City Chemical Co, OF
Boyne City, capital 100000 has filed
articles for Incorporation.
w. b. Potter has been appointed
postmaster at Alembic, Isabella coun-
ty, vice G. b. Cornell, resigned.
recent attempt to start moth
ers club in Newaygo failed because
there are not enough old maids In the
town to make success OF 1t.
An earthquake and landslide Is re-
ported from the Olympic mountains,
Washington state. One Of the peaks
in the range slid into a valley.
Geo. A. owen, a barber of Benton
Harbor, is called upon to bury rich
uncle The will of the uncle provides
that the barber falls heir to fourth
of an $4,000 estate.
a Lansing woman telephoned to her
husband asking him to bring home
some bromo settler. The phone work
ed badly, and that night he went home
with yard of bologna.
The state military board has adopt
ed resolution authorizing the quar-
termaster general to issue 13 Krag-
Jorgensen rifles to each of the 40 COM
panies in the national guard.
1t is said that about fossrty men gain
n livelihood during the fall and winter
nioii'nS III o'.land county trapping
.le lesllNt and odoriferous skunk,
"hoSe 1dr is much in demand.
Brown, Genesee county farmer,
! while attempting to drive a vicious
boar into a pen, was attacked by the
brute and badly gored in the leg.
Eugene Brown, of Luther, started in
to demolish the village Jail with an
AK Sunday. and was soon behind the
bars himself, with good prospects or
spending considerable time in prison.
An unknown insane man is confined
in the Grand Haven jail. He was found
wandering in the country, nearly froz-
en-. From what can belearned he is be-
lieved to be William Killieline, of De
troit.
The appearance on the streets OF
MuSkegou of an Appleton, Wis, man
with smallpox, necessitated hurried
hunt for pest house. The council
met and leased Il two-story brick resi-
dencc.
Victor Westenberger resident of
Missaukee county, near Lake City, has
been arrested by Postofiice Inspector
w. +. Martin, charged with swindlinS
and using the mails for fraudulent
purposes.
Nellie Southgate. a clerks union or
ganlZer of Saginaw, has made seven
unsuccessful attempts to organize a
clerks union i'm Owosso. The local
clerks are satisfied with their wages
and treatment
Outside capitalists have made the
city an offer of $4,000 for the city
electric lighting plant. of Escanaba
which has been run ut big loss ever
since its installation, and the Offer
may be accepted.
"A fine summer resort hotel will he
built on Crystal Lake on the belt
line of the Ann Arbor railroad from
Buelah to Frankfort. The building
will cost $4,000 and will be ready for
business by June 10.
The Nashville high school building
was burned Wednesday morning. The
loss is estimated at $4,000; insured fol
!
will be made to conduct the school in
buildings around town.
Jacob Ragan, of Croton, Newaygo
county, caught n magnificent specimen
of black eagle in trap which he had
set for foxes last week The bird was
caught only by one claw, SO that II
Is practically uninjured.
Judge Davis finds that he has dis.
posed of 30 cases in Ionia and 1875 in
MOntcalm, total of Ala in the past
, year, nearly as many, by the way as
in Kent county, where two judges are
required to do the business
The mother of Henry Sampson, a
Michigan Indian boy indentured to the
Indian school at Carlisle Pa. is DYING
and wants to see her boy. Sheriff Kin
ney has guaranteed to return the boy
but the school authorities will not per
, NIT him TO leave.
In the Wexford Circuit Court tn,
cases against T.. G.. Snider and Franz
: Johnson. of Cadillac, for selling col
ored oleomargarne, came up for trial
J Judge Chittenden ordered the informa
) ton quashed on the ground that tn
t law is unconstitutional.
The nine-year-old daughter Of Her
man Gerbenski. of Lansing. wa
standing near the Michigan Contra
track. waiting for a freight train Il
: pass when timber fell from one o
the cars of the train. breaking he
back and causing death.
Erwin Eveleth. postmaster of Corun
ma. has begun suit to restrain Syme
and Sanderhoff Of OwoSso. from cut
ting timber on 100 acres OF land nea
Keiby. The timber was sold to the firm
OH condition it be cut at certain time
!. and the limit is said to have expired.
4 ON Thursday Of last week Mrs. 10
O seph Patelska, OF Buena Vista. lef
Il four small children at home while sh
l. went to a wedding In some way tn
I. clothing Of Valera, aged 3 years
|. caught fire and the child was burne
|, in horrible manner from the effect
l. of which she died.
n A Polish woman named Poplinsk
l. living in Leelanau county locked he
r. children i'm her house while she wer
4, to the barn. Returning. she found th
eldest, 3 years Of age, lying on tn