Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-08
BRIEF STATE NEWS

audit the village books.
The Kalamazoo river has risen two
feet since Sunday end 20 houses on
the east side OF the city are surround
i ed by water.
The Northern Lumber Co., owning
10000 acres of land and capitalized
dustries up north with headquarters
at Marquette.
Two hours before a house on one
OF A. b. Cullen's farms in Richfield
was burned 10 the ground from de-
fective chimney the insurance policy
OF $500 on 1t, went into effect.
Although local Seventh Day Adven-
lists will have nothing to say in re-
gard to the matter, 1t is rumored the
general conference in session in Wash
ington is contemplating further trans
ferS.
In the case of Glen Morse, of Owes
so, vs. the Grand Trunk railway, TO
recover damages for the death OF his
little son. struck by Grand Trunk
train year ago, the jury rendered
verdict for $4,000.
Muskegon is to have new indus
try never before attempted anywhere
else. A saw. mill will be built to take
care of the driftwood along the shore
and launch will patrol the section
to pick up the wood.
James Monk, I7-year-old youth
who has been working in a Saginaw
mill, has been complaining of ear
ache and dizziness, caused by the
noises in the mill, and has finally be-
come violently insane.
Secretary E. G. Cotton, of the Y M.
c. A. at Battle Creek, has rendered his
resignation. He took up the work here
when the association was practically
broken UP, and now 1t owns build
ing valued at 100000.
BY the death of bachelor uncle III
California. b. l.. Prior and Mrs. Har-
vey Doolittle, of Tekonsha, receive
$4,000 each. The estate was valued
at 100000, and was divided between
40 nephews and nieces.
1t is estimated the cost OF the new
artillery equipment viii amount to
$4,000. New khaki uniforms have peen
ordered for the national guard, which
are to be ready for them before the
encanpmert at Ludington.
Five men boarded a Pacific express
on the Michigan Central at little sta.
ton east of Albion at o'clock in the
morning and robbed the sleeping pas
sengers of their valuables. One hobo
has been arrested on suspicion.
Harvey, the 14-year-old son of a
Leelanau county farmer, was fatally
shot while pushing off in a boat with
a double-barreled shotgun, which was
discharged. He nearly bled to death
before he could get to assistance.
George Rice, of Battle Creek. a
crippled street car employee, tied a
strap to a beam in the barn and was
going TO hang himself when discovered
by the police. He lost both legs in d
wreck last year, and is respondent.
BY pouring gasoline, which she sup
posed to be kerosene, on the fire, Mrs
Ed. Sargent, Of Fenton, was frightfully
burned. Neighbors extinguished the
flames, but her recovery is not be-
lieved to be possible. She is q years
old.
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 Greek promises TO be
as noted for cress as Kalamazoo IL
for celery.
The protest of a large number of
Muskegon business men for a better
federal building than that proposed
in the contract let for S4S,350, has re-
suited in the canceling of the old con
tract and the awarding of new one
for s54,731.
Robert Mcdonald, aged As years,
while fishing in the river with seine,
at st. Johns, stepped into a hole and
was drowned. His two sons anu
neighbor, who were with him, wit
messed the disaster, but were unable TO
rescue him.
Lutte Gordon. aged %, OF Chase,
with her babe in her arms and her
little brother by her side. was struck
by Pere Marquette freight engine
and instantly killed She had stopped
TO pick up the little boys cap. The
baby was slightly injured.
The fact that Mrs. Mary Stockdale,
late of Flint, saw fit to leave her es-
tate of 100000 to charitable institu-
tons instead of to her heirs-at-law is
responsible for the loss of $4,000 to
the state of Michigan through the
rulings of the inheritance law.
In the libel case of the Pentwater
Land and Improvement Co. VS.. Rev. w.
+. Jameson, of Hart, for an attack
made on the transactions of the com.
pany, the jury disagreed The utter
ances of the minister attracted gen
eral attention throughout the state,
and the company claimed their bust
ness had been injured.
Robert Mount, of Niles, went to his
old home at Lockport, N. Y, last De
cember and closed his visit with din.
ner party which wound up in a grand
carousal during which time he was
afterward told he had been married
while intoxicated to Mrs. Hattie
ROUGH, widow aged AZ. He is now
asking for a divorce from her.
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
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