Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-25

August "a.
Jacob Teufel, OF Ann Arbor, delibe-.
ately threw himself in front of a motor
car on the Rapid railway between
Detroit and Mt. Clemens and was in.
stantly killed.
VIM. Robinson started to Lancer
with a load of baled hay. The load
caught fire from his pipe and he was
fortunate enough to save the horses
and himself.
Four Cinnamon were captured at
Detroit while being Struggled from
Canada. A sleeping car conductor and
porter were arrested for hiding them
from the officers.
At party at Bad Axe given by Mrs.
A. Haymarket two men began to quar-.
rel. bred l.. Harder tried to make
peace, but was fatally stabbed in the
stomach by Herbert Sheets.
Bishop Richter, of Grand Rapids.
assisted by Frs Hudon and Steffies. of
Manistee, laid the cornerstone OF the
new Catholic church at Frankfort
The editice will cost $4,000.
A stubborn fire in the Jackson paper
mill created great excitement among
the convicts in the state prison ada
cent The fire did $4,000 damage to
rags, jute and other material.
August Rollenhagen, aged II, was
hauling water in barrels near Ravenna.
Going down hill the barrels tumbled.
throwing him between the horses. He
was dragged 30 rods and killed.
The only fatality from forest fires
occurred hear Alden. Geo. Herenden.
sent his tive-year-old boy after the
cows. He became surrounded by the
tames and was roasted to death.
The barns and outbuildings on the
farm of Peter Gunlock, near Lenox.
were destroyed by fire. Two horses. a
lot of new agricultural implements
and 20 tons of hay were consumed.
The long continued drouth about
jackson was not disturbed by LIGHT
rains which fell in various parts of the
state and the question of supplying the
city with water is becoming serious.
Receiver Burt, of the r., "A. & NM.
railroad, has secured right of way for
a new route from Ann Arbor to Whit
more Lake. number of expensive
sinkholes, dangerous to life and TO
property, VIII be avoided.
Reuben Morningstar, of Shelby.
gave his 5-year-old boy an old revolt
yer to play with. 1t happened to be
loaded and was discharged, the ball
passing through the little fellows
head, causing immediate death.
Forest fires destroyed the mill of the
Phelps Lumber company, near Keno,
together with $500, 900 feet of lumber:
also the barn of Supervisor George Il.
Loucks, of Martiny township, Mecosta
county, together with its contents.
NJ ID. Degroat was instantly killed
and John Mobiles seriously injured by
the fall of scaffold at Wiekes Bros.
boiler shop at Saginaw. The men
were both colored and they were en-
gagged in whitewashing the interior.
oceana county fruit growers are
making terms with the transportation
companies to extend their markets for
fruit into Ohio, Indiana and southern
Michigan. Heretofore they have ship
ped mostly to Chicago and Milwaukee.
One-half the farmers around Gales
burg are hauling water from the Kala-
mazoo river for their stock and even
that resource promises to fail soon.
The Oldest inhabitant fails to remem-
Der condition of affairs approaching
the present.
A four-year-old daughter of Fred
Whitney, farmer near Bankers, died
from poisoned apples The vines in a
potato patch had been sprinkled with
paris green and the apples had fallen
off tree into the potato patch. An
girl is not expected to
live.
The Clark house burned at Cheboy- |
gan together with the barn, a span of |
horses, wagons and all the boarders' !!
clothes. Loss 81, 900; no insurance.
The fire is supposed TO have originated |
by children smoking cigarettes In the |
barn. The roof was burned off ID. c. |
Pelton's barn also.
Fire was discovered in the basement |
of +. X. Metcalf &c Company's large !
dry goods store at Adrian. The flames /
were confined to the basement, but
smoke and water destroyed the value
of nearly everything on the upper
floors. The stock is valued at $50, 600 /
and will probably be a total loss.
The drouth about Benton Harbor.
ST. Joseph, Niles and all through the
fruit belt was broken by the advent of
4 terrific rain storm accompanied by
heavy wind which blew a great deal of
fruit from the trees and blew many
trees down also. The two-story walls
Of new bank building at Decatur
we're demolished.
The Nyanza, upbound with coal,
with the northern liner, n ORTIZ
,rn King, downbound in fog a.
he foot of Sugar Island in st. Mary's
liver, near the 800" The Nyanza
vas cut down and was run into shoal
water, where she sank. The North
,rn King was apparently uninjured
The Nyanza is owned by the McBrier
'yndicate of Erie, and was valued at
$4,000.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
he Michigan State Pharmaceutical
association was held at the Light In.
antry armory, Detroit. The exhibits
we're presented at the Auditorium.
Druggists from all over the state
Ibout 500 in number-were present.
officers elected: President, George j.
Ward, Nj. d., st. Clair; vice presidents,
:. +. Phillips, Armada; s. p. Whit
marsh, Palmyra, and A. l.. Walker.