Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-05
MICHIGAN NEWS IN BRIEF.

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There was heavy thunder shower
In Standish Wednesday night with a
grand electrical display.
The Hamilton copper mine In On
/ tonagon county, Is to be reopened, aft
er many years of idleness.
Night Waterman VIII Daniels was
killed ar Cassopo!is Monday night by
! falling roof. loaded with ice
Deputy Game Warden Hayes found
eight Marion milliners with plumage
in stock. Mr.. Hayes swore out war
rants.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Egger, OF Negaupee, last
week. making the fourteenth child, all
living. The mother Is only 36 years
old
Charles II. Chapman, who has just
been appointed game warden, denies
that any agreement has been made un-
der which Gov. Bliss is to name his
deputies.
There is a man In Van Buren, county
who is 81 years old and has never at
tended but one wedding. and that was
his own, and he has never ridden on
a railroad train.
There is n county seat fight on In
Newaygo county. The question of re-
moving the county seat from Newaygo
to White Cloud will be voted on at
the election next spring.
Royal Colwell and Bert Farrer, OF
Niles, were arrested Monday on sus-
picion of having held up and shot Ed
! ward Saturday NIGHT Stew
art cannot identify them.
Charles Fisher, farm hand living
near Richland, who came to Kalamd-
zoo to see the sights, got in with
tough crowd and was Knocked down
in the streets and robbed o. $45.
Gilbert g. Gabrion, lately OF Elmira,
shot himself through the heart with a
rifle mt the residence Of his son. Chas.
s. Gabrion, sheriff of Antrim county.
Deceased was veteran of the civil
war.
The manufacturing department OF
the Jackson plant Of ne National Bis
cult Co, VIII be smut down February
/, and the business continued as a dis
tributing depot for the goods OF the
trust.
Miss Nellie VanAntwerp, aged 81,
the beautiful daughter of eX-Ald. Il.
w. NanAntwerp, OF Dowagiac, Is dead
Of diphtheria. She was to have been
married Jan. 30 to William Schlees, of
Grand Rapids.
Rev. Richard Osborne, of Hillsdale,
aged So years. hanged himself in his
barn. 1t Is believed he was mentally
unbalanced. He had worried over a
failure to sell his farm. He had lived
here for so years.
The wire fence dealers ought to have
the biggest years trade on record the
coming summer. All over the state the
farmers are using their rail fences for
fuel and will replace them In the spring
with the wire kind.
new course In forest botany Is TO
be given at the University of Michigan
during the remainder of the school
year. 1t is a two-hour course, mostly
ield work, and is to take the place Of
the course in systematic botany.
Plumbers are kept busy cleaning out
beet pulp in water pipes in dwelling
houses all ove1 Saginaw. Every stream
but one emptying into the Saginaw
river Is said to be polluted by sugar
factories and chemical works and the
last one viii he in the same condition
IN the completion Of a sugar plant
which Is now In course of erection.
The Lincoln school house In Temp
liins was totally destroyed by fire early
saturday morning. The fine library
and organ we're also burned. The VI.
u. church society also used the build
ing, which was the largest school
house In the township. II will be re-
built at once. 1t Is suspected that the
FIRE was started by tramps.
DR. Roy Griswold. of Bay City, sent
to Tonia reformatory for two years for
manslaughtcr i'm connection with the
death of Agnes Eberstein, Of Battle
, Creek. was received and assigned TO
/ the medical department. His skill as
physician and surgeon will make his
, services valuable TO the state Lndcr
The direction of DR.. III. \. Haynes, the
prison physician.
with shock that shook Marquette
and that was felt in the copper coun
try a hundred miles away, the separa
ting plant at the powder works explod
!, cd Monday morning at ) o'clock. Night
+ work was suspended temporarily sew
: eral weeks ago and for that reason nc
= loss OF life was caused.
j. Herbert K. Rice, chief shipping CLERK
for Ball. Barnhart & Putnam. of Grand
!. Rapids. who had been defraudlng his
/ firm by shipping large quantities o
/. goods that we're not entered on the
0 books. has pleaded guilty. IT. spoil
g were afterward divided betwoe. Rics
h and the grocers to whom the good.
were shipped.