Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-03-05
AROUND THE STATE.

Circuit Court Commissioner Albert
ID. Reecc. of Jackson. has smallpox
Harley, of Manistee, is preparing
bill TO abolish the tax commission
Burglars took $500 worth of cutlery
from Book X Sons hardware STORE |
in Battle Creek, Tuesday night.
Black knot has attacked many OF
the fruit trees in FLINT. ana measures
are being taken TO get rid OF IL.
y. Morrell, miner, was fatally IN
iured in the Milic mine, Iron Noun
tain, by falling rock which struck
his back.
William Finch. charged with wife
desertion and theft, has been arrested
in Grand Rapids and will be taken to
ST. Joseph.
Monroe is under water again, anu
/ there is imminent danger that the Hood
/ which threatened the city three weeks
4 ago may come.
The right arm of Walter Shook, of
Mendon. aged Il, was cut off and his
head badly cut by pieces OF a broken
buZZsaw He may recover.
Charles Gibbs. of Perry, while in Dr.
De Camps Office. drank n glass OF
poison, thinking it was water. Ills
life was saved with difficulty.
c. l.. Hanson, manager of the Men
ominee pop factory, recently eXtln'
guished n fire in the factory with
siphon bottles full of soda water
The Sons of st. George at Iron Noun
tain have bought fifty-four acres OF
land west OF that city, which VIII ne
converted into u park for picnic pur"
poses.
There is smallpox in the family or
William Colby. in Resort township. a
little daughter came down with IL
, while in school, thus exposing nearly
the entire district.
Edward Fox. single man % years
old. employed as a miner in the Chap
! peli- Fordney coal mine, near Saginaw
was buried by falling slate thursday
and died of his injuries.
, Mrs. Albert j. Senff, a well-known
florist of Menominee, holse-Whlppeu
, A. Hansen. Of Marinette, on the
streets, raining blows upon him III
: he He'd. She says he owes her $40 foi
house rent.
The government has approved the
attorney generals selection of Thos
. f.. Barkworth, of Jackson. and QUO
= Kirchner. of Detroit. to assist the
4 state in its litigation with the Mlchi
: gan Central.
i. Clyde A r. Leavitt, of Bellairc
II Mich. a Cornell student. is among th'
r new cases of typhoid fever II
# Ithaca. " Y. The state health OF
# fcer saws contaminated water caused
+ the epidemic.
N The now courthouse in Paw Paw
is has been dedicated with appropriat
Is ceremonies and banquet was hel'
r i'm the Dickman House in the evening
n The first term OF court III the new
building is open.
Mrs. Smith Radcliffe and her l.
year-old son were driving over LAX
l., Shore crossing. three miles west
ed Brooklyn. when train struck then
IL Both were horribly mangled, and the
or may not recover
ID Rep. Neal estimates that the iur
=. kets of legislative committees nav
~ saved the state many thousands @
~ dollars, and the saving in the case 9
~ III the upper peninsula trip Is fixed
ot his mind at 100000.
a. The Stephenson Co. will spen
at 100000 establishing water powt
,c- plants on the Escanaba river. I'll
power generated will be transmitte
TO Escanaha 10y wire and sold TO di
fcrent manufacturing plants.
Is Crawling health officials believe
AZ an ounce of prevention. Two or thr'
re- cases of diphtheria and several
NY measles caused schools TO he closed al
M extra precautions taken 10 prevent !
lis spread. No new cases have been 7
ny ported
.t,e DR.. John T. Woods Of Fulton,
l M looking for Annie Rothschild, 2S yea
W. old. who. with Mrs Clara Cawkil
,,' and May Rothschld, her sisters, a
=, said to be heirs of a miser uncle In Il
u remia, who died recently, leavii
100000.
stray bullet from some hunter
IA. Gun mangled three fingers of one
INF George Pease's children. and o
70 finger of another. while they we
lin playing in the yard Of their Re
of CITY home. No clue to the carelc
ion hunter has been found.
the The state board of health autho
ev- ties want GOV. Bliss to issue proc
,ful nation calling upon Michigan citize
OF | TO muZZle their dogs. Inc request
lei this effect made some months n
int, pas gone unheeded. aud the danger
OF believed To be great.
Henry ST Germainc. Of Bay CT
went 10 Saulsberry. Ky. TO look
no his father. who had been engaged
numbering in that state, and who h
- been missing for week. He sci
." 20 word that his father is dead.
~. Germaine leaves a widow and
iou children
the Rev. Father lrmin. in making
tbe parochial visits. found the dead he
an of Mrs. Lena Muskautz Of Muskeg
out SO years old. lying In the snow beh
adj. her home. Mrs. Muskautz was
I'd. centric and had been living alone.
M. seems that she was overcome by we
ness while shovell!ng snow.
Residents OF Monroe cannot unC
stand why there should be the hue
mix cry raised by the railroads that {
foil cannot get ears to move their freil
son. ON the Michigan Central tracks in
n,Iv city there Is a string Of empty ,