Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-15
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

The Branch County Agricultural so
ciety has started 10 raise $4,000 10
equip the new fair grounds.
Frank Frantz, pioneer of ogemaw
county. was instantly killed by fall
ing tree while cutting timber.
Tie Pere Marquette depot at Hem
lock was destroyed by fire Saturday
morning, together with it's contents.
Eighteen patients from the Pom
tiac asylum have been transferred to
the new psycopathic ward in the U.
of Nj. hospital.
Asa Bookwalter was instantly killed
by the explosion of his gun while
hunting Saturday He kept general
store six miles south of Tustin.
A large black bear was shot east of
Turner by John Perrin, well-known
hunter. The bear weighed over 800
pounds and the carcass was shipped TO
Detroit.
Fire broke ont in the Prince OF
Wales, Negaunee. mine Friday even
ing. Three hundred men in the mine
at the time escaped through another
shaft
ne youngest VI HCI OAhEl II Viii
dren~being 20 years of age, Mrs. T.
Goodsell of Mayfleld, has given birth
to a baby girl which weighed two
pounds.
Clark Van Vlerah school teacher OF
Onondaga township who was fined $40
with costs Of $50 for whipping Howard
Miller. a pupil, has appealed TO the
circuit court
Sportsmen are advocating the estab-
lishment of a game preserve OF 20 TO
80 square miles in Chippewa, Luce and
Mackinac counties, TO perpetuate the
supply Of deer
The first train between Lawton and
Kalamazoo was run over the Kalama-
700, Lake Shore & Chicago electric line
on Thursday. The road is nearly com
pleted to Paw Paw
Mrs John ID. Cannerdy, of Port HUI
ron, whose husband was killed by n
Rapid Railway car Saturday night, will
start $4,000 damage suit against
the railway company
Battle Greek is the first city to or
ganizc a good roads club. The Bust
ness Mems association will build their
first road TO Bellevue. Farmers have
pledged 500 days team work,
The presiding elders of the seven
districts of the Michigan NJ. +. confer
ence have voted to accept the invita-
ton of Cadillac 10 hold the next con
ference there in September.
While Dr. and Mrs. J. f. Handy was
spending the winter in Buffalo for the
benefit OF Mrs Handy's health, their
only child, Miss Edna, died suddenly
in Watrousville of rheumatism.
Mrs. Jos. hatcher. prominent resi-
dent of Pentwater. was thrown out OF
her buggy Friday evening, her horse
running away She was thrown
against a tree and instantly killed.
Walton Lester, aged II, went TO get
a pail of water from a spring in which
a barrel had been sunk. He did not
return and was found drowned in the
barrel, having fallen in head first.
The State Egg Dealers association
failed to effect a combine 10 divide the
state. c. c. Hubbell of Marlette, was
elected president, and w. A. Ross of
Port Huron. secretary and treasurer.
Alonzo O'DeH. an Indiana man who
disappeared a Grand Rapids. and was
believed to have been murdered, has
been located in Ross. His relatives
We're trying 10 collect his life insu"-
ance.
A high school building of brick and
stone. TO accommodate 800 students,
will replace the one burned recently
In Calumet The Calumet & Hecla
Mining Co. viii erect il on The com
panys location.
Miss Abbie Weller. stamp clerk at
the Grand Rapids postoffice, has lost
her eyesight, and physicians say that
her eyes were poisoned by some dis
ease infection carried by money she
had handled while at work.
An increase of $4,000 pupils in the
total enrolment in the public schools
of the state is believed by Deputy
Superintendent of Public instruction
| w. Fl. French to be the result OF the
new compulsory education law.
Because a jury was convinced that
Mrs. Flora Mercer, of Jackson. was
not given proper assistance IN alight.
ing from Cincinnati Northern train.
at Alvordton, o. December "a, 1902.
a verdict of 81 600 for damages sus-
/
The final chapter in the famous
Grand Rapids water deal scandal
which has been in the limelight almost
FIVE years was reached Saturday when
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ward
filed petition in the superior court
asking leave TO nolle pros the remain.
ing cases.
| Byron Litchard has been kept in
! Jail all winter by Miss Olive Stevens.
of Ionia, who secured his arrest on
/ capias in q breach of promise suit
She has worked in a restaurant to
raise the $3.50 per week TO pay his
| board. I.itchard has been divorced
since his Incarceration, and Miss Stcv.
| ems now ask his release. II is under
stood they will be married after all
A midnight fire in Elmira which
| started i'm the building occupied as
/ Webb & Lidbecl's saloon and John
/ Burke's tavern also destroyed the gen.
| eral store OF w. A. Gabrian, and bar.
| Der shop of r. NJ. BiakesNy, and two
men were burned 10 death in their