Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-16
AROUND THE STATE.

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Wen was destroyed hy fire Friday
night
The North Adams council has let
the contract for the village lighting
plant.
\ cement plant will be built ON
RlacA Lake. about seven miles from
Onaway.
The Gratict coanty Jail is much too
small. ana eight new cells are being
Installed.
The Review mt Eaton Papids has
changed hands, W. G. Whitney being
the new owner
Newbcrry will have cooperage
plant which will give employment TO
about fifty men.
The first Michigan peaches of the
season were shipped by a st. Joseph
grower this week.
The chemical works ut Mancelona
were DAMAGED by fire Wednesday to
the extent Of $4,000.
Harry Shafcr has been brought
from Berlin. Ont. 10 Hastings. Mich,
on charge of burglary
Stephenson is to have new indus
try. A pickle factory will be erected
there AT a cost of $4,000.
Tho dates OF the annual fair of the
Genesac County Agricultural society
mt Flint, are September % to - in
elusive.
/ A carload of -four. contributed by
Michigan millers, was shipped from
Lansing Monday to the food sufferers
at Kansas City.
The cornice of Richard Carmau's
house at Potterville is occupied by Il
swarm of bees. They are putting a
/ their supply If honey.
In Sanilac and neighboring counties
| 5000 acres of beets for the CroSwelI
sugar factory are growing. and most
of them are in fine condition.
Just forty years ago Wednesday
Senator r. A. Alger was severely
wounded in the battle OF Boonsboro.
Md. well-known engagement in the
civil war.
James Wilson. OF Athena. who
pleaded guilty TO the charge of
forgery. was sentenced Nv Judge En-
erck to fifteen months in the prison
ut Jackson
The electr:. light plant at Brown
City will be purchased by the village
and run hereafter under municipal
control. IT will be enlarged and inn
proved ut once.
Frank Van GordCr. of Iron Noun
/ tain. who killed John ealcherton We'd
ncsday with shot aimed at Sheriff
/ Lawrence. has been released from Jail
on $1,000 bail
Parole is recommended by the state
board of pardons for Paul Nelson, who
was convicted in Calhoun county OF
shooting at an officer and sentenced
to ten years in Ionia
heavy wind blew down the fence
of the Jail yard al Grand Rapids the
other day, and the prisoners are hav-
ing a rest from their duties at the
stone pile until it is rebuilt.
Clyde Sanford. of Albion. charged
with cruelty TO animals pleaded guilty
and paid IL fine and costs amounting To
$37 lie had allowed horse with
Il broken leg 10 stand for sixteen hours
without care.
Employees on Charles Deerham's
beet farm, near Owosso. demand S175
instead OF $50 a day and the dis
charge of the proprietor himself as
I their boss. on the ground that he is
slave driver"
7 Ironwood may lose its military COM
pany The report Of the regular army
officer who recently inspected tho
state troops was unfavorable, and the
company may be dropped by the state
military board.
The Sawyer-Goodman Lumber cUm
pany. of Marinctte. Wis has bought
two sections of timber land on the
east branch of the Ontonagon river
/ from W. A. Jameson rhe purchase
/ price was $1,000
\ man. supposed ~ he IL. III. Da-
/ wilson. OF Chicago, was drowned in
! the river at South Haven Monday.
Witnesses of the scene say he was
pushed oil the dock by IN unknown
man in Il scuille.
James Crawford. of Gjlien. who at
4 tempted 20 commit suicide nearly 4
month ago by shooting himself through
7 the head. is dead from the effects of
/ the wound. Had lie lived he would AZ
ways have been blind.
John Peck. of Mendon. probably
/ holds the thre'hing record OF the state
] III punt VI NtHlN VI HtlN ltts llN - 90
! years old. has followed the business
/ for sixty years. has new outfit ana
proposes to keep at IT,
About four miles southeast of
l Schoolcraft is "a big peat bog. and
Schoolcraft, Grand Rapids and Fond
du Lac capitalists mr., organizing
company to build plant to prepare
the peat for the market.
Unknown parties blew up Justice Il.
/ II. Millcr'S residence i'm Iron Mountain
Friday night The entire side Of the
building was blown out. Hundreds of
dollars worth of brc-a-brac were de-
stroyed. No one was injured.
Frank Belill was arrested in Birch
Run and taken to the county jail at
Saginaw Monday. charged with biting
off the nose of Samuel Becker at Tay-
mouth in April, 1901. Following the
fight in which the deed was committed
Belill escaped to Canada. but returned
for visit
An idea of the Importance of the
potato industry in the Grand Traverse
region may be had from the fact that