Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-08
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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city.
Allegan farmers have formed com
Dlnation against blacksmiths who
raised prices. Will open cooperative
shop.
| A severe cold wave reached the 500
Thursday night sending the mercury
down to 23 below 1t was the coolest
night this winter.
George Hartshorn, n Grand Trunk
employe OF Durand was fatally injured
az Grand Haven by heavy pulley
railing and crushing his skull
Judge Francis, of Bay City, holds
that witnesses To Il will may sign y
at different times. DR.. Lewis Pies
hers $4,000 estate was at issue.
The Michigan Bee-Keepers elected
the following officers: President. w
}. Hutchinson, Flint; vlce-president,
Gilmore NJ. Hunt, of Bell Branch.
Thinking one of her younger boy
| pupils was deathly sick, Coldwater
teacher dismissed whole room TO avoid
contagion Found out lad had smoked
| fathers pipe.
John Cunning, middle-aged man
employed as night watch by the Union
Pump Works, Battle Creek, was found
dead in his chair Monday forenoon at
MS place OF duty IL is thought death
was caused by apoplexy.
John A. Gibson. the Pontiac carpen.
ter who jumped into the river at De-
troit. has been sent to the asylum.
where he was confined several years
ago. He has hallucination that he
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Herbert W. Manly, of Jackson, who
confessed to taking county funds from
the abstract office, in which he is EN-,
ployed as clerk, and using them in
gambling, was discharged in police
court. He repaid the money.
II. \. Ormsby. civil engineer of the
Cleveland Cliffs Co. and son of
Bishop Williams, of Marquette, broke
through the ice while crossing to
Grand Island, and was in the water
nearly an hour before being rescued.
Mrs. Arthur Bennett, a graduate of
the University of Michigan and form
erly principal of the high school at
Galien, sailing but recently for the
island or Bahrein TO engage in mis-
sionary work, died January II Oh
~ pHOlu lever.
The Meyerburg Terra Gotta & Brick
Co. capitalized at $4,000, 900, announces
that it will enlarge its plant, which is
situated about five miles from Battle
Creek from a capacity of 100000 to
$4,000 bricks daily, and will employ
from $50 to 200 men.
The Michigan Power Co. has been
incorporated with capital of $780,
600 TO operate the dams now owned by
the Platt Power a. Heat Co. at Lans-
ing, Diamondale, Grand Ledge and
Eagle and further develop the water
power at those places.
James Henry, caught by a wire at
the bottom of the shaft in Hanuy
Bros. s mine. Bay City, was raised
head downward by the cage 100 feet,
fearing he would fall every minute.
When the cage stopped. miners res
cued him with difficulty.
The mangled body found on the
Grand Trunk tracks near here was
identified as that of William Stevens,
Of Missouri, on his way TO Duplain,
Clinton county, TO visit relatives. He
changed cars at Durand, and the con.
ductor thought he acted queer.
Peter j. Wood" convicted Satur.
day of attempting to murder Lax
Feathan, his father-in-law, in Alpena,
was sentenced to not less than TWEEN
ty-five, nor more than fifty years in
Marquette prison. He took the SEN
tence coolly and thanked the court and |
jail officers for their courtesy.
While his aged mother was cele.
in,
William ID. Rowan was almost instant |
ly killed at Buffalo by a sledge ham.
mer falling on his head. Friends and
relatives had gathered at the home of I
his mother when the accident was |
announced by a telegram. Rowan was
81 years old
According to a special canvass of |
the state labor commissioner, Gil |
Michigan stores employ ten or more
persons, and a total of 1904 persons.
The average is $3.50 and of 1887 sales
women. $122. Male bookkeepers aver
age $2.19 and female bookkeepers $1.G1.
Ten hours day is the average. Chill
dren under 1G years employed number
500.
J. Il. and William G. Price, brothers,
have just been reunited in Flint, hav-
ing been separated since the close of
the civil war. A few days ago William,
whose home is in Pennsylvania. came
to Flint from Spokane, Wash. on bust
ness, and by mere chance j. Z. Price of
Otisville heard his name, looked him
up. and the two will make their home
together in the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Church, of
Ithaca, have celebrated the sixty-sixth
OF their marriage. They
came to Gratlot county over half a
century ago, being among the first
settlers. Mr.. Church VIII be go years
old in July and his wife Is 50. Nj
Church was Gratiot's first county
treasurer and ofiiciated at the first
funeral held in the county.
writ Of replevin served on the
sheriff by the coroner was an unusual
in Monroe. The sheriff was
in possession of $4,000 worth of prop
erty under a writ of attachment in
favor of several creditors of the
Patrick Hirsch Construction Co. The
goods attached consisted partly of
of rails for which the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail-
road has q bill for freight charges.