Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-12-24

The 5-months-old baby OF Mrs. Fred
Burnham, OF Marcellus. was accident
ally smothered by the he'd clothes dur
Ing the night. The mother awoke 10
find her child dead.
Amos Baker. who died recently IL
California left all his property TO the
city OF Adrian for public library. II
VIII be used TO build an addition 10
the present structure.
A stock company has been organized
nj Cheboygan with $4,000 capita TO
erect plant for the manufacture OF
ethyl alcohol and charcoal out Of the
big sawdust mountain.
Henry Westerman, an employe OF
the Muskegon stock yards, mistook
hve-gallon can Of gasoline for kero-
sene and poured the duid under the
boiler. He will recover.
An unknown laborer. 20 years old.
was killed on the Grand Trunk West
ern railway by the work train. which
backed against him. crushing his head.
while he WIS shOveling.
\ warrant is out for William Pitts.
OF Grand Rapids. accused Of de serting
| his little son in Kalamazoo. lie is
said to hive deserted his children twice
before In Grand Rapids.
Some upper peninsula hunters are
advocating that the game law be re-
vised so that dogs may be used In hunt
! ing deer, believing this would decrease
the number of deer slaughtered
John w. Ford has never been out
side Of HIlsdale county in 81 years.
| except one night In 1886, He's Il bach
| a
same sunday suit" for - years.
Lanterns and oil lamps are used by
the Three Rivers officials. since the re-
cent fight with the lighting company
reduced the town To darkness. This
shouldn't be made light of. however.
A West Branch youth determined to
try smoke!CsS powder I'm u cheap gun.
When the smoke cleared away there
was nothing LETT but the boy and the
butt Of the gun No other damage done.
Says the Grand Rapids Herald: "If
Roman Jarvis. of Benton Harbor.
has really turned Spiritualist as report
ed. it's only because be wants TO com.
municate with the Popullst party's
ghost"
John Brown Of Lapeer. pleaded
J guilty Of stealing horses and was held
70 the circuit court. He had the nerve
| to work the animals on hay presses In
the ncighborhood where they were
stolen.
Portland city fathers recently pur-
chased a new fire bell weighing 30i
pounds at cost Of Sl20 The same day
the Portland. Mich. bell was shipped.
an exact duplicate was sent to Port
! land, Me.
Mayor Maybury OF Detroit. whose
name is given in Postmaster General
Bristow's report as beneficiary OF
| the post box contract by which the
government was swindled says be
| fees mortified
The stock oSxthe Negaunee Cooper
| ative store, Closed asst week. was sold
at auction The stockholders have
sunk over $4,000 in the store. one
woman losing $4,000 II never was on
"A paying basis
Dinner for almost 800 persons was
served In the Michigan asylum for the
! insane. Kalamazoo. Thursday. II re-
CURED 100 pounds OF turkey, three
barrels Of cranberries and 400 pounds
Of mncemeat
| Napoleon Schrivier. OF Jackson
threw a pet eat into the coal stove
closing the door on II. The tortured fe-
line attem.ted to dig its way out
through the mica. but failed. and was
| burned to ashes.
Big Ben" the sea lion that escaped
from the Chicago Lincoln park zoo
three weeks ago. put into st. Joseph
J harbor While preparations were he.
! ing made fof the beasts capture. il put
out In the lake. going south.
While playing with drum stick.
George Perrett's three-year-old son. in
| Marshall. fell and drove the stick into
one eye. penetrating the brain.
Strange to say. the eye-ball was not
injured. but the brain injury may
prove serious.
Henry Hazlet. so years old. wan.
dered away from the county house in
Monroe and started across country to
| see his wife, who Is an inmate OF the
Wayne county house at Eloise, but
fell into the Raisin river. where bis
body was found
On December the state will begin
the presentation Of it's evidence In the
suit OF the railroads TO defeat the nd
vaiorcm tax law The testimony viii
ncy General Blair viii devote almost
his entire time TO the matter while the
case is on
Melvin Sykes. a Munlsing man. was
shot by an unknown bunter and seri.
ously wounded On discovering il was
man instead of deer he had hit
the nimrod ran away and his identity
is not suspected The bullet struck
Sykes IN the thigh making hole as
large AZ mans fist
Sutton & Mickey. who received a
$4,000 bonus from the village OF Nor
rice for establishing an electric light
plant there, but quit because IL didn't
pay refused to give the town it.
! money. on the ground that bonuses
/ are illegal. The case is now before
JuGce Smith Of OwosSo aud will 90
10 the supreme court no matter which
| side wins