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Belleville has no taiior and wants one to lócate there. Work on the uew sewer system at St. Johns will be begun next week. Considerable building is going on at Belleville. There are at present being constructed in the vilbge five dwelliug houses aud a large addition to the Masonio hall. The safe of the Maple Rapids Milling company was blown open and about IS in small changesecured. The burglarsgained au entrance by forcing open a wiudow. X. A. Oleson has returned to his home at St. Johns after an absence of about 10 years, during seven years of which time not a word had been heard from him and bis family had given him up for dead. Burglars entered the barn of Daniel Dadkins, a Genesee township farmer, and carried away 10 bushels of beans, a quantity of eorn, a grain seeder, a w-heel eultivatoi and a bag of cloverseed. The thieves were tracked three miles and then the trail was lost. Sarah A. Archambeau has filed a declaratiou in a suit for damages against the city of West Bay City. She wants $15,000 for injuries alleged to have been received by a fall upon a sidewalk on Xorth Union street Oct. 3, 1893, by which she was injured so that she gave premature birth to a child. Louis Kosebush of Linwood has brought suit at Bay city against the Michigan Central for $1,000 damages, claimed to have been sustained by a train running into and injuring a horse which was afterward killed. He says he found the horse caught in a cattleguard, and r?.n back and signalled the engineer to stop, but he failed to do so, and the locomotive struck the animal.