Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-03

been. going on in the Menominee river,
and the Menomlnee Boom Co. has APP
pointed n committee to apprehend the
guilty parties and bring them to JUS
tice.
The state military board Is preparing
| to send out copies OF the new National
Guard rules and resolutions. In pamph-
let form. A number of important in
novations are contained in the new
rules.
A dog showing evidence of hydro
phobia is terrorizing the northeastern
part of Royal Oak. James Cary was
slightly bitten on the arm by the
brute and number OF sheep have been
| killed.
Postal inspectors have been working
| for three weeks on the mysterious dis
appearance of money package con-
| tanning $1,000. 1t was consigned by n
| Chicago bank TO Iron River, and was
stolen in transit.
| According to Grangevllle, Idaho,
paper. w. w. Stevens, who was di-
rector Of the defunct First National
| bank, OF Niles, and owes il $4,000, Is
an applicant in the Idaho town for an
electric lighting franchise.
| Under the shadow of the wall of the
| Jackson prison where he had previous
| ly served five years for similar
| oGense, Charles Mallet, attempted a
| crime against a 9-year-old girl Sunday
| morning. He was arrested.
A great eruption in the schools of
| Kalamazoo is reported-not because o.
any trouble with teachers or the board
of education, but because of measles.
One hundred and thirty-llve pupils are
said to be i'll Of the disease.
" III. Wells, the ex-veteran soldier,
| who undertook to cut and slash an of
! ficer last December. who attempted his
arrest. pleaded guilty to assault, and
was sentenced to 80 days in jail. He
had already been in Jail over three
| months.
James White. Of Gilbert. was run
| down by train on the Grand Rapids
| Il Indiana. uear Manton, and cut in
! two. He had last been seen in an in
| toXicated condition, and it is supposed
| that he lay down on the track and
went to sleep.
The state board of agriculture has
conferred the degree of master OF SCI
ence on Prof. j. ID. Towar. of the Agri
cultural College, who leaves the first
| of next month to take up his new work
ut the head of the Agricultural College
of South Australia.
Lucy, the eight-yearold daugh-
ter of VIM. Lynx. of Dawson
was playing around burning stump
in a swamp that was being burned
| over, when her dress caught fire and
4 Al, tNI Ia hnr
death three hours later.
Kalamazoo parties are interested In
| the Big Bay Lumber Co. with a CAPT
tai of 100000, just organized at Mar
| quette. They have purchased 15,00t
acres of land in Marquette county, 81
miles northwest of Marguette and an!
Der.
| Reports from points in southern and
! central Michigan show severe wind
sleet and snow storm ragged Sunday
night. While the damage done in any
one place was not large the aggregate
will amount TO many thousands oil
dollars. Telephone companies were
the worst sufferers.
The body Of Herman l[loz was taken
| from the river in st. Joseph Saturday
| by the life saving crew. The boy dis
| appeared Thanksgiving. after making
the rounds Of the saloons. On the head
was found Il severe confusion but a
the pockets contained SIS and n gold
watch, ii Is believed he fell into the
| stream.
Sheriff Stiles. of Menominee, Is now
on his way TO Mexico to get Archie V
Freeman, who Is wanted I'm this city
for forgery and embezzlement and fol
bail jumping. He was arrested i'm Next
co about month ago and has been
! languishing in dirty Mexican Jail ever
since, while the formalities for his
extradition were being completed.
| A westbound freight train on the Air
| Line division of the Michigan Central
| was wrecked near Vandalia Wednes-
day morning. A car in the middle OF
| the train, loaded with engine iron, col
| lapsed. and seven cars loaded with
merchandise and grain were hurled in.
to ditch. The road is tied up and
| the loss will amount to thousands OF
| dollars. No one was hurt.
The Pewabic mining property litiga-
| ton. growing out of q reorganization
scheme, has been terminated after Is
years. Thomas ii. Mason is allowed
| $57. 1872. Receiver Peter White gets
$4,000, and Is discharged. and Dlckin-
son. Warren e Warren. attorneys.
| S11.1SS. About 100000 remains in the
custody Of the court for distribution TO
stockholders and creditors.
1t is admitted in Benton Harbor
that the Graham x Morton Transpor-
tation Co. Will reorganize under the
laws Of Indiana to escape Michigan
taxation OF vessel property. Indiana
has a tonnage tax law, and the change
4 will save the Graham & Morton com.
pany several thousand dollars in taxes
each year. The Dunkley company. OF
South Haven, is already an Indiana
corporation.
Albert ID. Brooks. a farmer living
six miles southwest OF Kalamazoo
while crazed from the effects Of drink,
| gashed his throat with piece OF glass
and nearly severed the arteries OF his
wrist. He tainted from loss OF blood
but on reviying dragged himself to the