Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-07-14
STATE NEWS NOTES.

Durand Oddfellows will build IN
opera house
The Lansing Paint y Wall Paper
Co. has assigned.
Firemen's ronrnameut AZ the 500
will he IA biz event.
4 Mason man has pear tree. half
pears and half blossoms
The two state banks AT Sault ste.
Marie have been consolidated.
Students at the Normal summer
school number soo; largest in history.
BrIgbton-Thc animal Spirituallsl
camp meeting has "peaod at Island
Lake.
The proposition TO bond for $4,000
10 extend the water system was passed
li2 10 Ii.
The upper peninsula Knights Tenn
plarS have decided to hold their NEXT
convention at Detroit
Cadilac--The new $1,000 Catholic
church at Jennings was dedicated by
Bishop Richter. of Grand Rapids.
ID. GoldwoOd very juysteriously dis
appeared from his home ID plainwell
Il week ago and no trace ot him can
De found.
The proposition to iond Lincoln
township for the purpose OF building
new town hall was earried at a spe-
cinl election
The proposition was defeated 10
bond for 10000 for new Napier
bridge at ST Joseph 10 replace the I'M
poltant one swept away by ice last
winter.
Ivan LckmOnd and Herbert Bailey,
who confessed 20 stoning Q Michigan
Central train at Henderson, have
pleaded guilty, and arc in jail unable
to get bail
Lightning stiurK the home of John
Sullivan in Beaver township. Several
windows and a ned We're demolished,
hut none Of the inmates suffered from
the shock.
The cnrolmcn, at the Northern
NOrlnal's summer school has already
IN attendance In excess of 1870 com
pared with -, the highest previous
registration.
VIM. Armstrong, aged 81. of Plain.
well, veteran Of the civil war, has
just welded his fifth bride. Mrs. Al
fred Teachout who is the mother OF
eight children.
Prosecuting Attorney Freeman Of
Munising. who was shot by James
Tyncr, an insane man whom he had
once sent 70 the asylum, may now re-
cover from his wound
The trout fishing this season has
been about the poorest on record, and
as q result there is movement on
foot among snOrtsmen To petition tho
legislature 10 close the trout streams
FOR year Or two.
4 bite received from a cow. while re
was visiting in Pennsylvania. has
caused rabies 10 develop In Martin
Quinn. formerly Of Owosso, and he is
now at the Pasteur institute, New
York. receiving treatment.
A water spout, accompanied by ter
rifle wind, passed over Clinton, Okla
homa. late mt night, doing great dam
age. killing six persons. and wound
ing many others. Reports from many
quarters tell Of great loss by food.
IL
ance has asked the circuit court for
receivers for the Monroe X Lcnawce
County Farmers Mutual Fire InSur-
ance Co. and the Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance Co.. OF Schoolcraft. Delta
and Mcnomipee counties, both of
which have dCfanlted in the payment
Of losses.
Commissioner AtwOOd's report of the
aggregate Michigan earnings Of al
road companies for the month Of Nav
is S4121. 14j, a decrease OF S243. 1876
over May Of 1903. The aggregate
Michigan earnings for the iirst i've
months OF 1901 were S1s.721 1871 This
is a decrease OF S1.l11.l1O. or .OlG per
cent from the same period last year
The two men who tortured aged
Henry Angel at his home In Palmyra
for tie purpose Of robbery. were ar
rested nj the Wabash depot. They
gave the names Of Frank and Del
clark. brothers. aged 20 and 80 wears.
aud residing at London and Toronto.
Canada They confessed 10 the bur
glary and viii plead guilty when ar
raiguod.
Probably thc largest crop Of straw
berries grown from an equal amount
Of ground IN Michigan this year was
gathered hy Mrs. August Wogncr. OF
Troy township. From IS square rods
of land sac picked AMI sold 900 quarts.
besideS canning three bushels and sup
plying the family table with all that
was wanted. The total yield was Ga
quarts
&. g. Rel. one Of the most promi-
uent men ~ Benton llarbor, has ap-
pealed 10 Mayor Gillette Tor protection.
alleging That ihc saloonkeepers whom
he has prosecuted for violation or the
sunday closing law have hired chi
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