Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-01
IN THE STATE.

quette, leaving eight children mother
less.
Work has just started in Blissfield
on the masonry OF the new 100000
sugar factory of the Continental Sugar
Co., of Cleveland.
Rev. f. b. Bacon, of Grand Rapids,
aged rs, member of the Michigan
Methodist conference for many years,
is dead at the home of his son here.
Farmers in Prescott have been COM
PEELED to seed their farms for the sec
ond time, the first having been
drowned by the heavy and continuous
rains
Two hours before house on one
of A. B. Cullen's farms in Richfield
was burned TO the ground from a de-
fective chimney, the insurance policy
of $500 on it, went into effect
Referee in Bankruptcy Joslyn is be-
ing overwhelmed with claims from
creditors of Charles ID. Stewart, of
Owosso and his private bank, which
failed The liabilities will approximate
100000.
While working in a we'll on a farm
near Pickford, William ONeil, aged
SO, years, was buried by a cavern. A
rescuing party which tried to dig him
out were forced to leave on account
of a second cave-in.
Muskegon is to have a new indus
try never before attempted anywhere
else. A saw mill will be built to take
care of the driftwood along the shore
and a launch will patrol the section
to pick up the wood.
The locked-out striking machinists
of the Grand Trunk shops in Fl. Ora
tiot have been ordered by Master Me-
chanic McGrath to return to work, and
So are said TO have decided TO go back
despite the Machinists' union.
Patrick Ready, civil war veteran
on his way to the rational old soldiers
home at Washington, was held up by
the Canadian authorities at Cape Vim
cent and sent back to Kingston, where
he is in charge of the United States
consul.
Parties in Battle Creek are engaged
in a novel but profitable industry. IL
is the shipping of water cress to Chi
cago, Detroit. Cincinnati Toledo and
Buffalo. Battle Creek promises to be
as noted for cress as Kalamazoo is
for celery.
Isaac Moss, 12-year-old boy living
in Muskegon Heights, went TO the gar
ret of neighbours home where he
found an old civil war musket. He
was dragging ii across the floor, when
it was discharged. The boy died short
ly after in the Hackley hospital.
The nineteenth annual reunion of
the Seventh Michigan Infantry will be
held at Saginaw on June 13. J. w.
Holmes, member of the legislature
from Gratiot county, was a member
of this regiment, and is president of
the regimental organization at present
Ralph Squ;res, the 13-year-old son
of John Squires, of Kunkle, died from
lockjaw at the home of his uncle, Will
lam Squires, near Morenci. He was Wis
iting there and ten DAYS ago was
kicked by a horse, his left leg being
broken. A few days ago lockjaw de-
veloked.
Damage suits for amounts aggre-
eating $4,000 against the Benton Har
bor & st. Joseph Gas Co, growing out
of the fire which destroyed several
store buildings in Benton Harbor last
fall. have been settled on the payment
Of a substantial sum, said to be $780,
600, to the plaintiffs.
The proposition to bond for $4,000
for a new city hall was defeated at
Owosso, 2SS to 1928. Only taxpayers
were permitted to vote, and A. c. Men
ton, secretary of the state socialist
party, and a non-taXpayer, offered his
ballot, and will make a test case of
the refusal to accept it.
William Bickel, aged 81 years, of
Standish, was kicked in the abdomen
by an unruly horse, and when two doc
tors were summoned it was found
necessary 10 perform an operation. He
was taken to the hospital, was too
weak to undergo an operation, and
died two hours after his arrival.
Col. Frank ]. Kellogg. of Battle
Creek, commander-in-chief of the Sons
of Veterans of Michigan, is making
preparations for the holding of the
twenty-seventh annual state encamp-
ment at Traverse City, June 20 and Il.
Under his administration the member
shin in the state has doubled the past
year.
Mrs. Rose Recktenwald Wilson and
her four children, of Kalamazoo. left
Snyder. Okla, the day before the cy.
clone that wrecked the village. AS II
was they were caught In a tornado
and were obliged to take refuge in a
farm house, from where they saw
many things flying through the air.
just being out of the edge of the
storm.
The ink works of the Big Four
Printing Ink Co., of Chicago, have
been removed to Battle Creek, and
are occupying the building of the
Homer Fence Co. Three mills are
now running, and the fourth one is
being installed. Three more mills are
on their way to Battle Creek from Chi
cago, which will give them a seven
mill capacity.
For II years, with crippled spine and
one hand gone, G.. Blackirk, of Carson
City, has managed large farm, milk
ing eight cows, blowing and doing other
hard manual labor. Finally his mind
commenced to fail. and the other day
he became violently insane, drove his
family from the house and was finally
restrained nv officers who brought him