Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-03-08
MICHIGAN NEWS.

building with 100 rooms on a blum
90 feet above the river at Berrien
Springs.
Grass Lake now has electric lights
from its own plant which was installed
for $4,000, or $500 inside of the appro-
priation.
The ID. & c. steamer City of Detroit
opened the season of 1906 on March
>, sailing from Detroit for Cleveland
at 3 a. m.
A wealthy widow, whose identity is
withheld, offers Grand Rapids As acres
OF land as site for tuberculosis
sanitarium
The fifth district Republican con-
gressional committee unanimously
agreed upon making a nomination un-
der the new primary law
Gov. Warner has appointed Warren
A. Hunt OF Big Rapids agent or state
board OF corrections and charities for
Mecosta county. vice William Ladner,
deceased.
VIM. A. McCool, of Traverse City,
has patented a process OF manufactur-
Ing dried milk which can be handled
like flour. Will keep In any climate
and is easily soluble in water.
While walking across the railroad
tracks, Mrs. Lille Keyes, Of Sherwood.
a deaf woman. was run over by the
westbound express and instantly
killed. She was So years of age.
Port Huron waterworks Is seriously
crippled by the breaking down Of the
big engine. No water can be pumped
above the first floor Of buildings. IL
will be repaired in few days.
The homecoming of Ernest Gross.
to Ann Arbor. who went west five
years ago TO make his fortune. was a
sad one, as he had recently lost his
sight in a mine accident in California.
William Maher, OF Kalamazoo, who
recently cut his throat in a second
attempt at suicide, says that he has
no desire 70 die, but is seized with an
uncomfortable determination 10 end
his life
4 street car line from Sturgis to
Klinger Lake, and from there on to
Three Rivers. is the ambition OF G..
A. Freeland The project contemplates
the organization of a $4,000 stock
company.
VIM. Hartford. Of the 500. walked
into a channel cut in the ice by In
dians to permit the passage of their
boats in st. Mary's river, and was
drowned. He leaves a widow and four
children.
Every rib in Herbert Brady's body
was fractured when he was caught be-
,oir urh
backwards down hill against water
tank. His home is at Washington, Ma
comb county.
A mail pouch intended for William
ston postofflce was run over by train
and a small wooden box containing
pair of spectalles addressed TO Lafay-
cite King was crushed but the spec
tacles were if,ry
Woodworking firms here already
complain of shortage of timber owing
to the lack of snow this winter TO get
snow 1t has been so warm that it was
too soft TO work well.
Uncle Dan" Whipple celebrated his
l06th birthday anniversary in his
home in Traverse City. He has been
suffering from a severe cold this
winter and longs for spring SO he
can get back into the country.
Police Justice Benefits court, in
Port Huron, was suddenly interrupted
by news of the visit of stork at the
Bennett house. Courts adjourned"
said the justice as he grabbed his hat
and started home to see the boy.
Judge Miner. of Owosso. has ruled
that members of the recent grand
jury cannot be paid for Sundays and
half holidays, and those who have no.
already done so are asked TO refund
nine days pay thus declared illegal.
Fred Tourge. of Cassopois. went to
a dance after being laid up with blood
poisoning in one leg. His leg became
so swollen that he tainted and his
trousers had TO be ripped to get them
off. The doctor says he Will be Grip
pied for life.
j. Henry Wright, a well-to-do farmer
living near Caro-, has gone TO New
York 10 marry the French girl, Berthe
Claiche. who is on trial for the murder
of Emile Gerdron, who had forced her
to a life of shame. That is, he expects
to marry her If she is acquitted.
Theodore Roosevelt Foster Is the
youngest of II sons of the Foster fam
lily. OF Haslett. and President Roose-
welt has sent his photograph to the
babe by Mrs. Laura Haslett, we'll
TODD woman of the place, who visited
the president in company with Con-
gresham Sam W. Smith.
Wolves continue to slaughter deer
in the woods, especially where the
snow is deep. 4 returning landlooker
tells Of finding eight deer carcasses
on a l0-acre tract. Some or the ami
mails merely had their throats bitten.
indicating that the wolves had killed
them merely for the lust of slaughter.
Workmen excavating in the rear OF
a Lansing store found an iron safe
and Immediately had visions of untold
wealth. The door was hastily pounded
open, but there was only paper bear
ing the name of ID. f. Holder Twelve
years ago Mr.. Holder occupied this
store and on buying a new safe was
unable TO dispose of the old one even
for junk, so he dug hole and rolled
IL in
Maple syrup Is scarce article this
spring because of the lack of freez