Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-08-25
STATE NEWS NOTES.

| STATE NEWS NOTES.
The village Of McBain will spend
$1,000 on improvements this year
The Iouave companies at Jackson
and Kalamazoo have gone To the
Worlds Fair.
Port Huron hotelkeepers have. been
ordered by the labor commissioners TO
get older boys for hell-boys.
Delta county b 70 negotiate a loan
of $4,000 for the purpose of settling
several pressing obligations.
Detroit has been selected as the place
for the next national gathering of the
Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.
/ Hold-ups are so common in Detroit
! that the morning salutaticn among
friends is: Were you held up last
lnght?'
Tekonsha is building new cement
walks on the principal thoroughfarc
out OF the money received for liquo:
! licenses.
Mancelona is making great prepa-
rationS for the northern Michigan odd
fellows convention, which IS to be held
Aug. - and II.
Edward f. Benson escaped from the
! Coldwater jail Saturday evening by
prying up the boiler plate floor Of the
corridor with a bar from the railing.
by vote of 1916 to j,535. the
Michigan grand lodge of the \. Q. L.
| w. voted Thursday afternoon to adopt
the supreme lodge plan of advanced
rates.
The secretary of states office is now
! engaged in preparing the notices of
/ the coming election which are TO be
sent 10 the sheriffs of the eighty -four
counties.
A st. Joseph connty man was ar
rested at the request of his wife and
placed under bonds not TO hurt her.
Later in the day the woman furnished
the bonds.
Mormon elders have again begun
| PROSECUTING in Branch county and they
have succeeded in making number of
converts-mostly among the female
contingent.
The thiriy-ninth annual reunion of
the Twenty-third Regiment Michigan
Volunteer Infantry, will be held ut
treeland. Saginaw county, Tuesday,
September Is.
The total number Of deaths reported
/ In Michigan for July was 2.510. or 80
more than the number registered for
June. The number was 143 less than
for July, 1903.
Battle Creek. Mich, company No II.
uniform rank, Knights Of Pythias. was
awarded first prize 500 in class b
in the drill contest held in Louisville
Ky, Last week.
jacob Schabcr. almost totally blind
and somewhat deaf, was killed by a
Michigan Central passenger train of
the Saginaw division, at Jackson, sat
urday afternoon
Lightning struck a flock of sheep be-
longing TO Fred Stoll. farmer, living
! 10 miles northwest of Monroe, while
they were standing under a tree, kill
ing them instantly.
Homer Scott. the boy who forged or.
ders OIL an Ortonville man and cashrd
them at store in that village. was
sentenced 10 90 days in the Detroit
house of correction.
james Eavcs. OF Saginaw. was driy-
Ing With his daughter, when the road
slid away from under them rciiug
them down III ombankment. Mr.. caves
had three ribs broken.
Benjamin Hclmore. Marquette
young man Of 20 was literally ground
10 pieces under the wheels of train
Monday night, He attempted TO board
II While it WAS in motion
Fairgroye will try 10 worry along
for 4 " lille longer without saloons. AZ
II special election the application Of
Byron Alley. Of Bay City, for liquor
license was turned down
Depostors in the Montagues' insol-
vent Exchange hank, OF Caro-. are now
receiving cash dividend OF 10 per
cent. less the taxes paid on the real
estate held by the trustee
Adolphus Rivard is OF years old and
his wife. whom he married year ago.
Is 60. She is seeking divorce from
her nonagenarian spouse. claiming that
he doesn't support her properly.
Nicholas A. Causley. a lineman EN-
plOyed by the Bay city Gas & Electric
Co. came in contact with live wire
and hung suspended in the air. unable
to II 90. Before the current was turned
off and he was rescued ny fellow en-
ployes both his legs were burned TO the
bone.
Frank Judd of Forest township,
found Il vicious bull running In tile
road near his farm. Knowing that the
animal was ugly AMI liable TO do dam
age, he drove him into his pasture lot.
a short time afterward he found n
valuable yearling colt standing i'm a
corner OF the fence with its abdomen
torn by the bulls horns.