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

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Charles j. Moore, a berry picker,
was murdered at Hartman station
sunday night Moore's head was hor-
rlbly crashed with some blunt instru-
uient ana his body was thrown on the
! lflg -Four track to cover ND the muir
der.
Hendrix Ten Braak and wife. OF
Grand kanids, are 20 and GO years
Ola respectively, and have lived 10.
+ Sether in PEACE and harmony for
\ many years until about a year ago
NOW the AGED wife is suing for di-
/ vorce.
man named IIoyt has pitched 4
/ tent at Tie Verona naI dam near Bat,
ne creek and Is trapping mud turtles,
/ which he SHIPS 10 Philadelphia. The
/ ldrtloH weigh from ten To forty pounds.
Tor which lie receives seven cents a
! pound.
Three Rivers people have organized
VITA a capital stock OF S120.0O0, ANA
! expect 10 he ready for the manufac-
lure OF peat fuel early in the fad.
lhey nave options on several hundred
acres Of low lands where the peat viii
be du.'
The fire company at Mason made
$50 the other day. A monkey escaped
from circus which was showing
there, and took refuge at the top of a
tall tree. The boys turned the hose
on the monk and it came back to
captivity
Tonine Dunkswine. aged %. was
accidentally shot with revolver held
by Henry Junke. Junke exhibited an
old revolver but didn't know it was
loaded. The bullet penetrated Dunk
swine's breast Death WAS almost in
Simultaneous
Lightning struck the factory of the
Traverse City Canning Co.. ripped off
the flagstaff and shattered the tower
in short but severe storm winch
broke the intense heat Wednesday af
terncon. The 100 employees were bad
ly frightened
While Ezra Grover. wife and child
were coming home from North Lake,
one of their horses was killed by
lightning. Mrs. Grover was severely
shocked but not injured. The wagon
was filed with feather pillows, which
probably saved them.
The second cargo of white pine lum-
Der ever shipped into Menominee was
received there this week Billions OF
feet have left the port in the past
thirty or forty years, but the tide has
turned and from now on most of that
used will have to be shipped in.
There has just been organized at
Kalamazoo the Lee Piano" company.
with capital of $1.O00,00 for the
purpose OF manufacturing book and
writing paper The mill will be erect
ed at Nicksburg village about
lively. miles south of Kalamazoo.
The notable increase in the Michi-
gan earnings of The railroads contin-
ues. the increase for the first five
months over the same period last year
being over II per cent. For May, the
earnings were S4.2G4. 929O7. an in
crease of 500, l1t.14 over May of last
year
The state board OF auditors informs
r. J Navin. of the Jackson prison
board that it has no authority to pay
the expenses OF the prison board and
warden for an inspection OF southern
and eastern pententiaries preliminary
to awarding the contract for the new
cell block
There is man at Sebewaing who
Is OH the pension roll at So per
month. but refuses to accept his quar-
terly check. claiming he was paid for
his services during the war and can
get along without the help of Uncle
sam now That man ought To have
Il gold medal
Farmers around Galesburg are jub-
liant over the wheat crop now being
laR eStpd While the straw is only
medium in respect To- growth. the
quality Of the berry and the we'll
filled beads promise yield in decided
contrast L. that OF last year. o.. IN
fact. 10 that of any recent season.
The rule Of extremes has prevailed
in the berry market at Galesburg this
season For many years and UP to the
last. there was Il surplus production
that reduced the profit to producers
to nothing This year berries of all
kinds have been So scarce as to he
considered an actual treat This is
owing - the simultaneous retirement
Of once enthusiastic fruit growers.
A new bunco game is being worked
on unwary merchants throughout the
country. A man enters the store. dis
plays wat purports to he a govern
ment badge and credentials showing
himself 10 be one Of the secret service
men in search Of counterfeit money.
He looks over the cash drawer and in
variably finds five or six counterfeit"
pieces, which he "confiscates."
Ray sheets was packing apples I'm
the Milford cvapOiator last fall and
put some notes in several of the crates
requesting the finder TO let him know
the final destination of the apples.
He has recently received replies from
several places. among them one from
Rotterdam, Holland. The writer is
young man of that city who wants to
exchange views of local scenery.
Edward Hall, alias George Hubbard,
who sawed his way out of the Jail
and took Mabel Baldwin Mead with
him, has been arrested with the
woman in Saginaw. The couple had
taken refuge with a sister of Halls.
Otis Baldwin, Mabel's brother, has
confessed that he bought the saw used
in removing tho fail bars and tied N