Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-21
AROUND THE STATE.

turned to yos-.
Labor Is very scarce at Niles. and
the factories are unable 10 get as many
men as they want.
The increase In Battle Creeks popu-
iation has made IT necessary 10 have
a larger police force.
There are but - Jewish families in
Lansing, but they formed an organiZa-
ton for the purpose of establishing
Sabbath school.
French coins worth So were found
In an old hustle by young woman
who was sorting rags In the Water
yliet paper mill
The Southern Michigan Hotel. In
Ooldwater, has been closed for lack
OF business by the proprietor, Roy s.
Judd, of Saginaw.
The Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
held a conference at Fern Sunday and
decided to demand S500.000 from the
government under the treaty of 1913.
Cornelius Murphy. an old resident
who lived in the Northwestern Hotel.
in Bessemer. fell downstairs Sunday
night and broke his neck. He died in
stantly.
A tramp stopped at a farm house in
Hager township and asked for food
and the privilege of sleeping in the
barn. AS he made the request he
dropped dead.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting of
the Michigan Pioneer & Historical So
ciety will be held in the senate cham
Der at Lansing Wednesday and Thurs
day, June 3 and 4.
Bernard Fingleton and Mrs. Jennie
Flood, charged with the murder of
John London on Il farm in Ada town
ship. were Saturday held to the Grand
Rapids Circuit Court for trial.
A new scheme has been adopted by
the Benton Harbor pharmacists for
lodging the grand jury's order They
sell whisky in 10-cent packages, but
the buyer must not drink the stuff on
the premises.
Farmers in the vicinity of Grand
Rapids, and, in fact throughout south
western Michigan, are daily complain
ing about the scarcity of farm help
and the high wages necessary to retain
the laborers they already have.
AS a result of the recent floods in
Battle Creek, houses on Shepard street
are being raised on walls from four to
six feet above the ground. When next
years high water arrives Battle
Creek will have a little Venice"
Fire Thursday night destroyed the
lumber sheds of Dewing x Sons, Kala-
mazoo. with a loss of $4,000. Piles and
carloads of lumber worth $4,000 in
all, were about the sheds, but were
saved by the hard work of the firemen.
When Mrs. Carl Blume, OF Ionia,
who weighs 200 pounds, stepped out
on platform at the rear of her rooms
IN the second story of the LiTerton
block the boards gave way and she
fell Is feet. She was seriously in
jured
Detroit coal dealers are inclined to
hold pessimistic views on the coal
situation, and say that while it will
probably not reach the acute stage it
did during the strike, the supply for
next winter will fall far short Of the
demand
The aldermanic representatives of
Bay City and West Bay City have
reached an amicable arrangement as
10 consolidation. city charter has
been approved and n committee sent
TO Lansing to have it given legislative
approval.
II. G.. Young, a blacksmith in the
Wolverine mine, i'm Calumet, and his
wife and three children. were made
seriously i'll by eating canned rhubarb.
Mr.. loung's presence Of mind in treat
ing himself and the others with an
pmatic saved thpir liVpg
Albert Kewayosh full-blooded
Chippewa Indian from the Sarnia res
ervation, has rented farm near Al
pena and will pick and buy berries
during the summer. He will take n
course in medicine at the L. of NJ.
when he has secured the funds.
A resident of Grand Haven, whose
naIae is kept a secret. claims to have
a machine that will take gold out Of
the lake shore sands. This man also
says that there Is S2J,000,0O0 in gold
i'm minute particles on the shore be-
tween Grand Haven and st. Joe.
Eugene 4. Wallin. who died in New
Boston, Va. Thursday, was formerly
publisher of the Dawson Index. and
left for tile south about n year ago.
IlG was uDoul ~ ANhio vi hSt anu 10
survived by his widow and three chill
dren. He was a soldier of the civil
war and n member of the order OF
Elks.
Friday morning fire destroyed n con-
siderable portion of the Pere Mar
quette railway trestle crossing the
marsh at the head OF Muskegon lake.
The bridge is down for several hun
dred feet. and mails to the Pentwater
and Big Rapids branch will be delayed
a day or so. The work of rebuilding
the burned section began al once.
Charles Mcclellan. of Grand Rapids.
director Of the Mcclellan banks in
Auburn and kalamazoo. and, it Is al
legged. q heavy borrower from the bank
funds for use in his business enter
prses, has made a proposition to pay
his share OF the creditors claims. The
liabilities OF the two banks are thought
TO be coo, and the assets $4,000.
John Hendrickson, teamster I'm the
employ of the Columbian Transfer
Co. of Grand Rapids, was instantly
killed Saturday while driving into the
company's barn on top of a load Of