Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-14
STATE NEWS NOTES.

STATE NEWS NOTES.
Escanab2's treasury Is empty.
Edwards Center has case Of small
poy.
Menomince fishermen are taking a
Three Whitehall men captured -
coons.
MuIlikcn, Eaton county, has incor
porated.
Escanaba has creamery with
$1,000 capital.
David Kalipignokohoakimo. is city
clerk Of Rapid River
Centervillc lights were put out OF
service by the flood.
Dowagiac voted down a proposition
90 build a $4,000 city hall,
There are five victims of smallpox
IN the Battle Creek hospital
The postoftjcc nj Emerald. Mecosta
county, has been discontinued
There were 7S3 boy and 517 cir!
babies born in Saginaw in 1908.
4 concert for flood sufferers in
Grand Rapids nctted about $1,000.
For selling liquor TO a minor ST.
Johns saloon man got two years.
The Owosso canning factory has
sold its output of tomatoes for 1901.
Benton IIarbor girls basketball team
claim the title of state champions.
-Four streams near Big Rapids have
been planted with 10000 brook trout.
United States authorities threaten
boom companies obstructing Saginaw
river.
Thirty-one thousand plants have
been purchased FOR the Saginaw forest
farm.
twenty-five tbousand American citi-
Zens call Michigan University Alma
Mater.
Hunters killed three wildcats. n
lynx and wolf during March in Baraga
county.
bikes are proposed to prevent II
repetition of the recent flood i'm Grand
Rapids.
Natty tennis flannel Uniforms will
adorn the Battle Creek policemen this
summer.
\ Port Huron officer suggests the
whipping post for men neglectlnS their
families.
JAMES Jones" bogus check artist
worked three MuskCgon merchants for
SO each.
Charles Bennett OF Eaton Rapids.
had his nose broken by a colt he was
breaking.
The two-ycar-old daughter Of Will
lam Barnett, of Lansing. died from
drinking I've.
Battle Creek will build $4,000
tilternc plant 10 cleanse water from
Goguac lake.
George Lyons. OF Flushing. lost So
900 worth of lumber. IL fioated down
the Flint river.
Twenty-Five men who voted for Ere
mont have formed an organization in
lngham county.
The bonding of EsseXville for a
water works system was lost by a
vote Of los 70 101.
Mrs. Yctta Himclhoch. 60 years old.
of Bay City. while writing n letter TO
her son. fell dead
A Kalamazoo man asks for divorce
from his wife because she refused to
cook trout for him.
There have bccB 1i3 consecutive
days of sleighing in Luzerne. The
snow is now mostly gone.
j. G. Nen. of Millington. 50 years
old. served in the civil and Mexican
wars hut gets no pension.
Mrs. John Harcmil, of Manistique.
is suffering from blood poisoning
caused hy silver in her arm.
\ Saginaw man when pulled out
OF the river half dead refused to
touch liquor. saying Inc never drank.
The 7-ycar-old daughter of Mr.
Gregg. Of North Lake. was kicked in
the face by Il horse and seriously in
iured.
Delta county farmers bring suits
against the lumber company for log
Jams. causing the river TO overflow
and miuring crops.
The supreme court denies McGarry's
appeal for new trial. so his convic-
ton In connection with the Grand
Rapids water scandal stands. lie is
now i'm Florida
The 1-year-old daughter of Mrs Jno
Murray was found drowned in tub
OF water left on the kitchen floor while
tic mother went into the back yard TO
hang out some clothes. The child had
been left IN another room. and how II
managed 10 get TO ana into the tub is
mystery.
Indications point TO the building OF
more summer cottages on the shores
of Oakland county's many pretty lakes
this spring aud summer than ever be-
fore. The approach Of warm weather
is bringing many inquiries for sjtes
Building promises 10 he especially no.
tive at Orchard, Cass. Pine. Orion and
sylvan lakes.