Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-04-12
AROUND THE STATE.

Trainmen of the Grand Trunk will
ask for an increase in wages within
the next two months.
| y. b. Bradley. of Bay City. will do
nate a handsome building size for Y.
NJ. G. A. II $4,000 Is raised
Closing of the Pere Marquette shops
| In, Saginaw leads to a suspicion that
they may be moved To Detroit.
Josiah Hathaway, aged 81 years.
walked from Whitmanville 10 Dow
agiac. a distance of five miles.
William Lands, a 1l-year-old Sag
NAV boy, found purse containing
| 800 and returned II to the owner.
Mrs. Elihu Ferril fell down stairs
! In Hillsdalc county and received III
| juries from which she died. She was
50 years old.
Miss Jennie Bowman, whose father
was elected treasurer OF Flint. TOOK
| active part in campaign ana helped
| him win out
\ herd of deer on the track NJ
Houghton blocked train for 10 min
utes. They had been drf'en from the
woods by wolves.
DR.. John w. Finch, aged 20, resi-
| utnl vi Aut idu lOl nan ~ tNhAui
| dead. He was past grand master of
the grand lodge of Masons.
A brush fire spread beyond the con
| troll of Albert Soules, of Leonidas, and
I in fighting 1t he became exhausted and
| fell dead in fence corner.
Mayor d. ID. Aitken, of Flint, is au-
thority for the statement that the De-
troit, Flint River & Saginaw Valley
railroad will assuredly be built.
The Grand Rapids & Muskegon Wa
| ter Power Electric Co. is preparing TO
! put in second 5000 horse power dam
al Crc;on, Newaygo county, 10 cost
| 100000.
David Bigelow aged &C, one-armed
veteran of Standish, brooded over be-
ing fined $50 for whipping an obstrep-
erous boy who annoyed him, and died
Of melancholia.
Edwin F. Swan. for IL years steward
| of the Michigan School for the Deaf,
died very Unexpectedly at 2:30 this
morning after an illness of FIVE days
from pneumonia.
One weeks misfortune for Charles
| Weaver, of West Branch Little daugh-
| ter burned 10 death while visiting at
Vassar: grandmother. a pioneer, aged
%, died; Weaver fell and broke his
! arm.
The United States experiment sta
ton mt Agricultural college will be
! able to considerably extend its re-
search work, with appropriation by
congress Of SIS 900, 10 he used IL six
i years.
Mark Oviatt was whiting 4 shinelc
when his sharp knife slipped and
struck his right eye, slashing out over
/ half OF the eyeball. The boy was nearly
crazed by the pain until doctors admin
istered opiates.
Saloons established in Port Huron
residence districts must in future have
the approval of the majority of prop
erty owners within 500 feet of their
location, and the applicants must be
| approved as of good character.
Potterville will be dry this year BY
a vote of 6 TO the village council vot-
! ed not to accept the bond 70 Joseph
Geisen on the ground that one OF the
sureties did not own sufficient property
in the village to qualify on the bond.
Charles r. Sigh. of Grand Rapids,
who ran ISL votes behind Mayor Sweet
in the mayoral election, will ask for
a recount. His hackers are said to have
| wagered $500 that he would beat
| Sweet, and he will try 10 save their
! money.
Pontlac's new liquor ordinance pro
vides that all applicants for licenses
must make satisfactory showing OF
good character, and the consent of
majority of the property owners with
in 500 feet must be secured before a
new place can be opened.
War is declared on correspondence
school trained nurses" Miss Rose Gift
ford secretary of the State Nurses as
ISOLATION. says. To protect legitimate
nurses from those who are graduated
by mail, she says the association de-
sires a registration law passed.
Ex-Congressman Henry w. Seymour.
of Sault Ste. Marie, died in Washing
ton this morning. Death came sudden
ly, the supposed cause being heart
trouble. Seymour was pioneer lum
herman and owned the first raft Of
logs towed on the great lakes. He
served in both houses OF the Michigan
legislature in the eighties.
Last year the township of Mayfield
spent $500 in opening new road ana
for abutments for bridge across a
creek on the new highway At a town
meeting the question of new bridge
was voted down by large majority
and Mayfeld now has good, new
road. but it cannot be used for want
OF bridge
Mrs. Sarah Whipple. Of Monroe, has
settled her suit against the Michigan
Central railroad for $1,000 after it has
been twice TO the supreme court and
sent back for a new trial The case
arose from the ierailng of a Michigan
Central passenger train south of vi
emma November 9. 1899, in which she
alleged she sustained permanent iniu-
ries.
The announcement Of the marriage of
Carlotta Medaris to Ralph c. Diggins.
L. of NJ student in Detroit. has
brought out the fact that several years
ago the young lady was secretly mar
ried TO Stewart Sims also an engineer
ing student. The wedding was never
announced and was later followed by a
divorce, also suppressed arg Kept
I To-