Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-19
THE BELDING BANNER
ssLDIHe, :. MICHIGAN.
BelDlNe,
AROUND THE STATE.

What is known as the Philippine ex-
tradition bill was signed by the presf
dent aud is now n law.
The monthly crop report says that
there was very little freezing ana
thawing. and consequently no damage
to wheat.
The pages at the capitol at Lansing
have beer soliciting funds for the past
few DAYS to enable them To organize
a baseball team.
John Hart. farm hand. was FOUND
dead I'm his bed In Madison township
Sunday morning under circumstances
which lead to a suspicion OF murder
Miss Ida Newland. Of Traverse City,
Is said to be the only woman in the
state who conducts chattel ana ab-
stract business wholly under her own
name.
Grand Rapids has five national
banks. four savings banks ana one
trust company, with an aggregate cap
ital Of 81. $4,000 and total deposits
exceeding S20OO0,000.
Charles II. Dickinson, n private In
company l., Twenty-siNth uhlted
States infantry. died in the Philippines
November 20 of cholera. He had lved
in Hastings and Kalamazoo.
Tho Cleveland Cliffs brook trout
hatchery near Munisins is completed
and is in good working order. Several
thousand trout fry have been received
and more are on the way
smallpox scare resulted in over
| two hundred cases of vaccination III
MendOn. and it has since developed
that the patients quarantined had the
Cuban itch and German measles.
The Saginaw river is four feet high
er than lis usual at this time of year.
Saginaw ice dealers have cut very
little ice and are apprehensive as TO
their ability TO secure full crop.
Duncan Mclean. of Wisner, is miss
ing from home. He had with him
check for $4O0 drawn on Tuscola
county bank, ana it IL thought posi-
BILE that he Went north to buy land.
DIR. +. ID. Woodworth, Of Onondaga,
former county clerk, is TO be prosccut-
ed on the criminal side of the court
for lis failure to account for funds en-
trusted to him as register in ch1ncery.
John Kansier. a laborer at the DEM
ger Furniture factory, in Monroe, got
caught ina fy wheel and nearly every
rib In histbody was broken. lie was
internally injured. lie will probably
die
Walter Bass, who came TO Jackson
from CasSopOlis last summer, is under
arrest He is charged with having
broken up a pump valued at S1,OO0 foi
the purpose of selling the pieces as
junk.
A slight earthquake tremor was fell
in Allegan. Monday night. The dis
turbance was sufficient TO shake pie
lures on the walls and rattle doors
windows and dishes. 1t lasted but ;
few seconds
Lenawee county has 81 voting ma
chimes. Adrian has five, Hudson three
Tecumseh two. Fairfield two, Seneci
J two, and all the others one each. NJ
other county i'm Michigan is so thor
! Oughly equipped.
James III. Galloway, of the Gal!owa,
Home Mission. Jackson. is charge
: with assault upon Mabel Anderson
aged IL The girls mother, Mrs. Alic
= Anderson. is charged by her with as
y sisting in the crime.
The trial Of John Bromish. murder
!. or of Leroy Lester, closed Saturda
. night. The jury was out one and
half hours. The verdict was murde
in the first degree. Bromish was sci
: fenced to Jackson fer life.
Gov. Bliss has pardoned George !
, Hinchey. the former Livingston count
: game warden. sent to Jackson. Febrl
= airy /. 1902. for assault with intent
u y do great bodily harm. He is 20 yeal
!, old and critically III.
!, , With the mother lying dead of t.
= phoid fever, the little 5-year-old son {
'e Mrs. Thomas Campbell, Of Chesanin
&c wandered into the yard, and at
d O'Clock at night his body was found
&, a cistern into which he had fallen.
n Murder in the first degree, said Il
er Jury IN the case of Neal Sinclair, Il
woodSman who September Is shot al
killed Henry Reyes at Eckerma
Chippewa county, as the result Of
= saloon row. Sinclair claimed he VI
drunk.
Gov. Bliss has paroled Hillla
Campbeu. sent from Saginaw. Novei
- Der Ia. 1870 W bat' Nt''i' ~ ~ y -
for criminal assault, and Patrick
Ryan. sent from Wayne count
a November u, 1900, for three years
x forgery.
" A murder and suicide took pla
some time Monday morning at BE
w Mnlera place in Detroit. In n chant
on the third floor Of this resort /
yer ward Knaplan, a young man fr'
as Chicago. lay dying OH the bed with
bullet wound above the heart Ed
III Martin. an inmate Of the place,
80, dead on the floor with bul
Inc through her left temple, the 3S-call
Y revolver that had caused both wour
lying beside her.
Ella Carr Toby, aged II, Is SUI
her husband for divorce. She a
Toby were students in the Galesbl
high school when they eloped a
were married by South Bend mil
/ ter. They have an infant daught
She alleges non-support.
Miss Baxter. one OF Lawton's M
. .---.t- ..d bandGonln VOtiuY lad