Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-11-14

The schooner Abbie l.. Andrews left
Buffalo Oct. IL bound for Detroit with
coal and nothing has been heard of her
since She was owned at Buffalo and
was valued at 5000.
Enos LarlSins, the colored man of
Dundee, who with his wife is charged
with the murder of Mrs Merrill to OBJ
tain possession of her property has
been sentenced to jackson prison for
life.
Guying Stage Driver Jack Kinney at
Fremont came near proving fatal for
one member of the Fremont football
team as Kinney fired n shot at the
! fellow which burned his cheek as it
passed
Kimberly, Clark & Co. will shortly
commence the construction of a large
paper mill on the Lower Quinnesec
| Falls, near Iron Mountain. 1t is said
that fully $500, 900 will be expended on
the plant.
The glass factory at Grand Haven
every month receives large quantities
of glass from Amsterdam To be fin
ished. The company is re :ognized as
one of the largest finishing works in
the country.
The citizens of Detroit have been
nobly generous in giving financial re-
lief to the families afflicted by the ter
rible disaster-the boiler explosion in
the journal building. Over $4,000
was raised within four days.
The drill house of well No. 3, of the
Eureka Lumber Co., at Manistee, was
! burned and before assistance could be
secured the gas within the house ex-
ploded and set the high derrick
thereon in flames. Loss, 800.
The fate of John Schwartz, an aged
German resident and pioneer of Mar
quette, who disappeared three weeks
ago, was settled by the discovery of
bis body hanging in an old slaughter
house near the electric light plant
The Red Jacket mining shaft in now
| down 4, 200 feet The mine is SO hot
the men are kept in perpetual perspir-
alton, while the dripping mineral
water drench's their clothing and
raises painful scores of their bodies
BY an explosion in the mixing house
of the Lake Superior Powder Co., near
| Marquette, Andrew Erickson was
instantly killed. John Tylling was
seriously hurt, but will probably re-
cover. The building was wrecked.
Leo, 1O-year-old son of John Francis,
committed suicide at Saugatuck with
shotgun. He pulled string at
tached to the trigger. The charge
entered under the chm, coming out at
the top of the head. No cause known.
The Northern Michigan Hardwood
Lum bermens association met at Trav-
erse City to discuss the depressed con-
dition of the trade, owing to Excess
sively low prices, and decided that the
only remedy was to restrict the out
put from so to 60 per cent.
The semi-annual apportionment of
primary school interest money, has
| been made, S577, 900 being distributed
among the several counties of the
state, the rate being 90 cents per CAPITA
of children of school age. The above
is the largest sum ever covered by a
single apportionment
VIM. T. Lamoreaux, known as the
bean king, from the fact that he
handled more beans annually than
any other man in the world, commit
ted suicide at Grand Rapids, by shoot
ing himself in the head. He suffered
stroke of apoplexy last summer, and
since then has had spells of melan-
choly.
Geo. Belts and Albert Kinney got
into a saloon row at Port Sanilac.
| Kinney got the worst of it that time,
but half an hour later he walked up
to Belts and shot him through the kid
neys with 3scaliber revolver Belts
cannot recover. Kinney soon after
surrendered himself.
Eliot X. Herdman, aged II, son of
| Prof W. j. Herdman, of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, left home last month
without any known cause and now in
! formation has been received that he
intended TO sail from New York TO
Cuba to fight with the Cubans but
missed the boat. His parents are now
searching for the runaway.
On complaint of Coroner Beckwith,
Mrs. Lena Cross was arrested at Sagi-
nav, charged with performing a GRIM
! inal operation on Nellie Blondheim. IA
young married woman who recently
died in Saginaw hospital. Mrs.
Blondheim made "A confession on her
deathbed, duplicating Mrs. Cross. The
dead woman was only recently married.
The Presbyterians of Adrian were
invited To inspect new $4,000 home
erected by the Hart family. All sup
posed it was to occupied by Chas.
Hart, but what was their pleasant
surprise when Judge Geddes, attorney
for the Samuel Hart estate, formally
presented it To the trustees of the
church as parsonage. 1t was be-
| uueSt of the deceased
The Michigan delegation to the
good roads parliament at Atlanta, Ga. ,
report that they gained much valu-
able information. In New Jersey, for
instance. some of the stone roads cost
from 81. 200 TO 81 900 a mile, but the in
crease in the value of property has
more than made up for this. They
recommend that a mass convention of
those who favor improved highways
be held in Michigan.
1t has been discovered that there
crept into the charter provided by the
last Legislature for fourth-claSs cities
a provision which deprived women liv-
ing in such cities of the right To vote
at school elections. 1t was not the in.
tention of the members of the munich
nal charter commits sion TINS Tn hmm BAL a