Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-08-07
STATE News coNpnNsEp.

| uHt Oil tuesday ana wednesday,, Au-
! gust 26 and 81
The American Telephone & Tele
graph Co. is running line through
| Washtenaw county, stringing six
large copper wires.
Thomas Conklin, Grand Rapids
carpet layer. reported to the police
that he had been robbed of $3.50 which
he had sewed in the lining of his
vest.
Of1cer Ben Smith. of Luther, while
trying TO arrest William Van Blarden,
was shot In the breast. Blarden, who
was drunk. fed into the woods. but
| was arrested later.
The bondsmen of VIM. Pickard. OF
Ann Arbor, who is awaiting trial at
the Circuit Court for brutally resisting
an officer. have surrendered him and
he has been sent to Jail.
James Russell. editor of the Mining
Journal, is said TO be slated TO sue
ceed George Freeman as warden of
the Marquette prison. The change
VIII take place October l.
An extremely valuable quarry of
onto limestone equal to Bedford for
( building purposes. has been discovered
on land owned by eX-Leutenant-Gov-
ernor Buttars, near CharlevoiX.
Lenawee County leads al the rest in
tie state in two items. the amount In
vested IN farm buildings and the value
OF live stock The former amounts to
S6,339. 100 and the latter $2,791 ,376.
VIII Hamilton. Il Battle Creek gro
nln1Hn1 n al "a
prre food law by selling oleomargine
without having the proper Sign posted.
lie paid Il fine of $50 and so costs.
Karl 4. Strand of Saginaw. was
struck IN the eve Saturday afternoon
by a lying cbiscl, which cut the upper
lid in two. pierced the eyeball and
fractured the skull back of the eye.
Resolutions censurlng Andrew Car
negie and protesting against the accep-
tance of his offer TO establish library
III Escanaba have been adopted by the
Trades and Labor Council Of that city.
A new industry has been started
around Menominee. 1t is the harvest
ing Of moss, which is used for packing
purposes ny the nurseries. One man
is getting-out 100 tons for shipment in
the fall.
The MILL town site and timber
lands of the Sturgeon Pine Lumber
Co, at Cbassell. recently sold at re-
celvers sale. have been acquired for
$4,000 by c. ii. Worcester q Co, of
Chicago.
Three large power drills at the
Vivian mine. two miles from Iron
Mountain. were blown up with dynam-
tie by unknown persons. The loss is
5000. Air pipes were destroyed fort
night ago.
Miss Lolita Miller, of Holland Mich,
aged aAut Ii years. was drowned at
Jackson. NSs.. while fishing She was
visiting Tier sister, Mrs Frank Vogel.
The remains will be taken to Muskegon
for interment
A large posse of Iron Mountain men
is hunting through the woods for the
tramp murderers of Conductor Young
ut Monico Junction, July L. There is
n reward of $1,000 for the capture of
one of them.
Contracts are now being let for the
construction OF the pulp and paper
mills which the Munising Paper Co.
Will build at Munising, and the con
tractors will be actively ut work with
in three weeks.
Since April about $500 worth OF
sheep have been killed in TekoDsha
township by dogs. Tie fund from the
license of dogs amounts to $3.50. so
that the damage done exceeds the fund
10y $50 already.
Joseph 4. Whittier. now 50 years
old, and who went to Saginaw i'm 1886.
says. II have sold mill culls at 50 and
$50 per thousand feet that were far
better than the mills culls that to-day
readily bring S14."
More than 1900 acres of land were
sold by Land Commissioner Wildey
at public auction and private sale last
week. The price was $4,000 The
price paid, which averaged over So per
acre, is considered high.
Arthur ]. Eddy, son of Jerome Ed
dy. of Flint. now resident of Chi
cago. is one Of six persons TO be dec
Grated with the Red Eagle Of the third
class by the German emperor as a re
suit of the visit of Prince Henry to
this country.
Mrs. Cora Beebe's better half got
drunk and butted his head against
Benton Harbor policeman's club, much
to the damage of his head. and she Is
now suing the saloonkeeper who sold
him liquor for $4,000. They had been
notified not TO do so.
The Michigan National Guard will
he carried 10 Manistee for the annual
encampment. beginning August IL. by
seven special trains. The company
commanders will provide subsistence
for the troops on the way, as no stops
for meals will be made.
Mrs Tod Kincaid. of Owosso. and
her daughter Miss Alice McIIurdy. en-
Joy the distinction Of being the last
persons ont Of the Campanile at Venice
before II fell. They explored the tower
thoroughly and left but three or four
minutes before the historic pile fell.
The 3-year-old daughter of John
Khoury, of Iron Mountain. got hold
Of some matches. and. going into the
yard. started fire. The little ones
clothes caught fire. and she was burn.
cd so terribly that II Is thought she
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