Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-04-07

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Mrs. samuel Borrow. of Grand Rap.
lbs. died while water from the Hood
was rising In her room.
The beekcepers of northern Mich.
gan closed n successful meeting AT
traverse City Thursday.
Mrs. Haight. East Tawas. aged "a
Years, died from breaking her hip at
the Methodist parsonage.
Oscar Teller, aged Il. was killed In
the paper mill ut Cheboygan by be.
ll'S caught in the machinery.
Mr. ana Mrs. 4. b. Parker, Blrmlng-
nam, aged 81 and - years, celebrated
Their Goth wedding anniversary.
burglars in Garrison tool, Si5 from
4 hardware store. So from the post.
once, and aorSc ana carriage.
The making Of maple sugar has be-
I gun m BeTien county. and the out
look j. for an exceedingly small crop.
Miners and operators were to con.
Nene IN Saginaw Thursday. but thu
hood conditions prevented a meeting.
The 5000 wanted for the compile.
| tlon OF Improvements at the North
| vile fish hatchery has been allowed.
Tho supreme court handed down a
| unanimous opinion to this effect.
Ihere are many similar cases III the
/ state.
.ionesvillc business men have organ.
| lied To push the industrial interests OF
! the village. and Quincy proposes TO do
! likewise
The Nenomincc River Sugar Co.
VIII give 5000 pounds of graduated
sugar to farmers showing best results
| from beets.
When Richard Skews, Ncgaunee, re
turned from The west he found his
wife had begun divorce proceedings,
alleging dcsertion.
fhe duck hunting season on the
Monroe marshes was formally opened
Thursday. and ducks are more nu
nerous than ever before.
The case OF Harry Fairbanks
charged with the murder OF Arba Mar
Tin, M Lawrence. oct. 81. last, ended
with a verdict OF not guilty.
The Grand Trunk railway has sub
mtted a proposition TO the state fair
locating committee, to purchase the
Ole fair grounds in Jackson.
Professor Adams, in the hearing
held i'm Detroit said that -. railroads
of the state are really worth $4,000.
600 more than assessed by the state
tax commission.
The state board Of health has issued
bulletin inspired by the floods in
lower Michigan cities and towns,
strongly urging the boiling Of all
drinking water.
The socialists of Grand Rapids want
the primary law for Grand Rapids de
clared unconstitutional and have com.
menced proceedings in the supreme
court 10 thai end.
Winifred tUnoworth, sent up from
tdrian ,.Dsa two years for stealing Il
horse am pi.ssy in august, !9ol, was
prison saturday morning.
Michael O'Brien, Of Parma. aged 10
was KILLED by the caying in Of a gravel
bank in a pit at BlComcvlic. He was
working op Michigan Central steam
shovel 4 widow survives.
4 gasoline launch containing -four
men who We're measuring the hight OF
The water AZ Saginaw Thursday struck
against bridge ANA was overturned
Adam Raupp. AGED u, WAS drowned
The damage to railroad tracks in
the Saginaw valley from the floods il
worse than was at first supposed. As
the wafer rcccdes il is found that
miles Of ruLdbCd have been washed
out.
While returning from giving an Ell.
tcrtainmcut in COPYRIGHT, Ont, some
Epworth i.caguerS had 4 long fight
with tue lee. which nearly prevented
them from making the 81. Clair land
ing
John Jones. aged p years. of Zen
ton HarbOr. brakeman on the Pere
Marquette railway, was dragged 500
feet under the wheels 1t was ueces.
sary 10 amputate both legs. His death
is feared.
Under Instructions from Cleveland,
James II. Rough superintendent Of
mines for Tie Cleveland Cliffs G
went TO Ir5nwood Thursday, to close
Ashland nine. Seven hundred men
are affected
Mrs. Emma Hopkins. mother Of the
14.ycar-old Owosso boy who was SEM
TO the reform school for drunkenness.
has begun $1,000 damage suit against
three local saloonkecpers for selling
liquor to him.
The fruit farmers OF Berrien county
will establish fruit handling associ
alton. such as is maintained by Kent
county peach growers at Grand Rap
ids. to take care Of their product with
out commission men.
Harry James. Of Ann Arbor, at
tempted 10 cross the river in cucb
boat when an eddy capsizcd the boat
lie chung to Il until he reached shall
lower wafer near shore, but In trying
10 save the boat stepped into deer
hole and disappeared. Men attempted
to rescue him IN vain. He leaves .
wife and two children.
one of the conditions of locating the
million-dolllr sugar factory at Owosso
was that the city should furnish 1,0)t
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