Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-08-20

10 conduct TIN. health food factory In
owosso has arrived from Charlotte.
The Michigan Central will build a
new station at Nashville, a site hav-
Ing already been selected. The building
Will be 34x6S feet Of gray pressed
brick. with slate roof.
AFTER several attempts, which were
frustrated. the Niles city council has
passed an ordnance granting saloon
keepers special privileges during car.
nival week. August 1922.
Albert Keeer. farmer Of Chesaning.
undertook TO drive across the track
In front of an approaching express
train with the usual consequences.
Death was Instantaneous.
\ Newton man undertook TO con-
duet excavations in one of his ears,
with match. The match broke off In
his ear. and IN endeavoring to get i
OUT he nearly ruptured the drum.
Ovid's roller mills closed for one
week to enable the proprietor TO put In
new machinery, which Will enable him
10 double his output For the last few
weeks the has been run night ana day.
Mrs. Jacob Jones, of Benton Harbor.
died of hiccoughs Tuesday night, and
post mortem examination revealed
the fact that one of her kidneys was
eight times its normal size.
Since the Reviewand Herald decided
to remove from Battle Greek to Wash
ington, number of local adventists
who invested in the company, have de-
cided TO withdraw their money.
Gibson c. Norris. prominent and re-
spected farmer of Berrien county, died
OF lockjaw, caused by n wound In one
of his fingers inflicted by toy pistol
that grandchild handed to him.
The ST Joe district again claims
the honor of producing the first grapes
of the season. Eight baskets were
shipped TO Chicago Thursday night and
received with the usual ceremony.
Another fierce storm swept Berrien
county Saturday. doing great damage
in all parts. The greatest loss Is re-
ported from Royaton township, where
lightning struck in many places.
Five cases Of sickness in Brooklyn
for the past week unidentified. have
been decided to be smallpox, and EN-
ployes. many OF whom have been ex-
posed, are leaving in consequence.
John Hackel. the Sanford farmer
whose skull was crushed In runaway
accident July 2S. is recovering. One
piece OF skull. three by four inches, and
another, two by enc. were removed.
Three Indians. Jack Robinson. Jack
Green and Mike Cone, filled up on fire
water In Hart and then got into
three-cornered fight. When they were
disentangled Robinson had bad knife
stab between the ribs. and may die.
The other two are In jail.
John Adams. the colored circus en-
poye. drew 90 days in Detroit for
slashing Orlo simmons with razor
while In Bay City. Simmons has no
home. but he was anxious TO rejon the
Wallace circus. so the charge of at
tempted murder was dropped.
VIM. Green. an Owosso painter, has
withdrawn his application in Co. II.
Third Infantry. NJ. y. G.. He says the
members Of the painters union have
told him that II he becomes soldier
he will have to quit the union. and that
that would mean loss Of work.
After writing verses on "The Drudg.
cry of Living" Benjamin W.. son OF
the proprietor Of the Oakland Hotel,
Chicago. aged Do. sent bullet through
his brain. He had been stopping al
Edgemore. summer resort near South
Haven. resting from his studies.
Charles Hall and his wife. Lulu La.
Tisco. acrobats and Diavolo. Wild
"looped the loop" with the Wallace
circus. left the show at Bay City and
came TO Flint They say that the price
Of the attraction has been cut In half
and their salaries likewise sliced.
A stranger who wouldn't accept any.
thing worth less than S25. induced
Grand Rapids housewives to surrender
81. 900 worth Of feather beds to him
while he converted them into high
grade mattresses for next to nothing.
The police are hunting for the fellow.
A, woman, name unknown. was
robbed OF $40, and man giving the
name Of J. C. Hosburg lost S205 at
the Michigan Central station in Jack
son "Wednesday morning just before
departure of the grocers' excursion to
Grand Rapids. Pickpockets were busy.
Mrs. Alfred Wright. the pretty young
wife of a Woodruff township farmer,
eloped several weeks ago with the
hired man and now she is back feeling
so bad that she tried to kill herself
Monday night with arsenic. Vigorous
action with a stomach pump saved her
life.
DIR. G.. w. Dumply, state veterinary
surgeon. has gone 70 Kansas and Ne
braska in the interest of Detroit
chemical manufacturing establish
ment 10 test hog cholera remedy. At
Lincoln. Neb.. he will inoculate large
number Of hogs to test the value Of
the lymph.
G.. X. Steinmiller. retired lumber
dealer. of Riga. was drowned yester-
day afternoon in the Raisin river by
his boat capSizing. He stood up in mis-
boat and was waving his hat to salute
passing car. Next thing he knew
the boat was over. His two companions
swan ashore.
Or, Hal e. Wyman, member of
the state board of corrections and
charities. In report Of his inspection
OF the Jackson priS n. says that one OF
the most urgent reforms nj the state
prison Is the Kidding Of the dining room
and kitchen OF flies. To this cause DIR.
Wyman attributes most OF the typhoid