Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-05-01
AROUND THE STATE.

Inc Waterloo Rural Ielepnone 10
will build a line from Stockbridge TO
Howell
The Peoples Savings Bank. of Tra-
verse City. capital 100000 has filed ar
ticles of association.
The third annual reunion of the
Thirty first Michigan Infantry Will be
held in Jackson, May 10.
The charter of the Genesee County
Savings Bank, of Flint, has been re-
newed for period of thirty years.
Farmers are to raise tomatoes for
the Adrian Canning Co, for which
they will be paid at the rate OF 81 per
ton.
A new grange has been formed in
Tekonsha with eighty members and
one i'm Athens with twenty-four mem
bers.
s. f. Hubbard. n Branch county
farmer, - years of age, recently, pur-
chased some medicine for his own use
for the first time in his life.
F. ID. Bennett recently purchased
the east portion of the well known
Hurd house block at Jackson, and pro-
poses to transform it into an office
building.
Richard Bailey. Flint hackman.
while cleaning his hack. found a roll
of bills amounting to SD. He has the
money, no owner putting in CLAIM
yet for ii.
Indications are that there will be
some effort made the coming week TO
adjust the differences between the
Bay City coal mine operators and coal
miners, and end the strike.
John Dow has been constable OF
Sugar island, Chippewa Co, for TWEEN
ty-fve years. but never until last week
has had an opportunity to perform an
official act in his capacity as such.
A boy living near Hart injured his
eye and his parents took him TO
Christian Scientist for treatment.
When they finally took him to reg
ular physician it was too late to save
the eye.
Clay +. Call has been appointed
prosecuting attorney for Emmett conn
~ to succeed NJ. +. Guinon, who re-
signed on account of charges made in
connection with the county seat fight
in the board of supervisors.
The roller mill Mt Weston, owned by
Brewer Il Van Sickle, burned Friday
night. Insurance had just run out,
making Il loss TO the owner of $1,000.
This makes the fourth mill TO burn on
the same ground. Cause of fire un-
known.
VIM. Craw, private in the Sixth
and Fourteenth United States infan-
tries in China and the Philippines, who
has just returned to Lansing. says
that he has seen troopers fill Filipinos
with water till they 'swelled up like
barrels"
George O. Putnam. of Lansing. has
pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court to
the charge of taking indecent liber-
ties with a young girl in this city sew
eral days ago. He is Il degenerate,
Is years of age. Sentence withheld
temporarily.
Henry l.. Edwards. of Jackson. Is
president Of the Ontario Prospecting
Co.. which has been drilling for gas
at Vine Creek, near Canandaigua, y.
y. 1t is believed the workmen have
now struck a smart flow and the work
will be pushed
Battle Greek has been having an cpl
demic OF diphtheria during the last six
weeks. Thirty to forty cases have been
reported and at least eight deaths have
ensued. Most OF them have been chill
dren. but one or two grown persons
have passed away.
Mrs. Asa Dunn was granted a decree
of divorce from her husband. Asa
Dunn, Grand Trunk railroad dis
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couple were secretly married in Du
rand about two years ago, the fact not
being made public for several months.
Fifty-six Italian laborers were ar
rested at the Union depot at Sault Ste
Marie on the arrival OF the Canadian
Pacific local train by the United
States immigrant agent. The men had
been hired in Canada to work on the
Eastern Minnesota railway, and were
destined for Duluth.
The programme for the Northwest
ern Chautauqua assembly for this
summer includes Ellen III. Stone. the
missionary. and IA debate between Con
gresham Champ Clark, Of Missouri
representing the Democrats. and Con
gresham lands. OF Indiana. repre-
senting the Republicans.
The invitation of the common coun.
Gil OF Detroit to the Spanish War Vet
Grams Association to hold its first an
nual reunion in that city has been ac
cepted, and the soldiers Of '9S will
gather Sept 4. and 6. President
Roosevelt will in all probability he one
of the celebrities in attendance.
The total amount of fish planted this
season in Michigan waters is as fol
lows: Whitefsh. 2lT, 100000; lake trout
IT,. 10000; brook trout, 1,12J,000: loch
leven trout, 125,00O; steel head trout
10000 Two hundred thousand Mon
tana grayling fry are TO he received
and planted in Michigan waters. which
will bring the total plant up TO $751;.
100000.
The naval appropriation bill reported
TO the house directs the secretary OF
the navy TO appoint a board OF naval
officers Ia investigate the different
points on The great lakes as 10 their
availability for a naval training sta.
ton. and report their findings to con
gress. The bill carried an appropria
ton of 100000 for the naval militia OF
the whole country.
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