Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-03-03
MICHIGAN NEWS NOTES.


Muskegon faces water famine.
Isabella county poor house has -
inmates.
Negaunee will have a $4,000 Carne-
gle library.
Bellevue will have an 100000 ce-
ment plant.
Vesper is n new postoffiee in Mcnom-
inee county.
a sugar beet factory is advocated
for the 500
Merchants complain of dull season
at ST. Joseph.
Government cable VIII Ice laid TO
Beaver Island.
Lack of coal caused Buchanan
schools to close.
Coal famine at st. Johns and price
of eatablcs advancing.
A Lake Odessa man had 80 tumors
removed from his neck.
Commerce schools are closed be-
cause of a fuel famine.
Diphtncm caustd the closing OF
schools at Grand Marals.
Stambough will have SIT 500
school building in the spring.
A Lansing man stole n blanket to
cover horse and was arrested.
While doing homework, Mrs. Alzina
Jennings. of stanton, dropped dead.
A Port Huron youth stole $50 from
his mothers pillow while she slept.
MormOns will hold a semi-annual
conference mt Battle Creek Feb. %.
John Rooms, Gladwin, has crushed
arm as a result of being wound up In
betting.
VIII Van Fleet, OF Palmyra, had the
end of his thumb bitten off by hog
he was ringing.
Jessie Crichton, a st. Joseph nurse.
will 60 to Japan TO care for wounded
and sick soldiers.
! James Osborn, of Camden, who is
blind, was burned TO death in his home
where he lived alone.
Gulls and wild ducks have become
tanned by starvation. and eat with
chickens at St. Joseph.
John A, Hartman, for many years
county clerk and register of deeds for
Antrim county, is dead. He leaves a
widow and two daughters.
The 2-year-old child OF Mr.. and Mrs.
William Barnett, of Lansing. is In a
critical condition as the result OF hav-
ing drunk a quantity OF concentrated
I've
The scarcity of coal last winter
stimulated the business in Michigan
SO that during the past year more
] ha hnaYt pnftaI tn thfG OF 70 Ia q,
ever before.
Neighbors who broke into the Ira
verse City home of +. r. Van Valken-
burg. who lives alone, found him help
less in bed partially pG.alyzed and
nearly frozen.
Quail and partridge are practically
extinct in Craving vicinity owing TO
the severity of the weather. Dead
birds are found in the woods, but no
live ones are seen.
Richard Jacleett and John Gardner,
giving their address at Michigan City,
Ind, were apDrehended in a Monroe
saloon, having a quantity of silver
ware on their persons.
Mrs. Richard Budd, of Durand. aged
-. is dead at the home of her daugh-
h~A - A+A'hiAll tAF-V 'Alt " tl0 htNNA AANl be
her S2year-old husband. and an effort
IS now being made TO find him and in
form him Of her death.
Reports from Lake Superior are that
there is more ice ON that body Of
water than for many years past. 4
person could make his way over the
Ice from Marquette to Sault Ste. Ma
RE. $50 miles down the lake shore.
Tie pitiahle condition of sick girl
i'm the Holiness Sect" settlement
south Of Dansvile. is being investi-
gated by the authorities. 1t is claimed
that no physician has been allowed
the patient, prayers being relied up
on.
Starting for the home of nearby
ucighbor with her infant child, appar-
emily we'll and healthy. in her arms,
Mrs. George Leslie, of Muskegon. was
shocked to find upon removing the
shawl that the little one had died In
her arms.
At the funeral Of Edrick Scott, who
died at his home in Trowbridge last
week OF dropsy and heart disease. at
the age of GS years. there were % OF
his nephews present Six of that num-
her acted as pallbearers. lie leaves y
widow and one brother.
Antoine Solem, a wealthy farmer of
Sutton's Bay, has been missing for n
week. He started for Traverse City
with the intention of buying hogs and
had a considerable sum of money with
him. His friends fear he became lost
in the snow and persisted.
For the first time in a quarter of a
century the boats OF the Detroit, Belle
Isle & Windsor Ferry Co have BEEN
compelled to abandon the work of pro-
viding regular and frequent service
between Detroit and Windsor at the
foot of Woodward avenue
The state military board has decided
that the next encampnent of the state
militia will be held i'm Michigan. The
hoard are sore on, the government
camp in Kentucky, the general sentl-
ment being that the maneuvers there