Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-11-21
BETWEEN THE LAKES.

many of the forced and swamp fires
raging in Michigan.
A new Catholic church has been ded.
icated at Black River. Alger, Smith
a. Go. donated the site.
John Boyer fell from the roof of Wag-
ner's new brick at Kalamazoo and
soon died of his injuries.
Mrs. Edgar Tyler, of Jasper, at
tempted to commit suicide by cutting
her throat. She may recover.
The log Jam in the Manistee river
include ID, 900, 900 feet of timber
David l.. Pearson, a farmer living
near New Buffalo, has gone insane on
account of the recent earthquake.
Charles Williams. well-to-do farmer,
ended his life by hanging himself
! from a beam in his barn near Yale.
| Norman Holmes shot a pure white
'red" squirrel near Fowlerville, and
Editor Peak has it among his curios.
| Joseph Besner, near Iron River, was
shot by a set gun which had been set
for deer, and will die from his injuries.
Rev. p. r. Rowe, of Sault Ste. Marie,
will be consecreated Bishop OF Alaska
In st. Georges Episcopal church, New
York, Nov. 80.
While helping unload the steamer Col
orado at Port Huron James Wers was
fatally injured by barrel of flour
rolling on him.
Warren NJ. Wright, of Ishpeming,
has been appointed chief bookkeeper
in the state treasury to succeed Will
Evans, resigned.
Firedamp caused an explosion at the
Winning colliery at Blackwell, in the
county of Derby. England. Seven per-
sons were killed.
Men are boring for coal about six
miles from East Jordan. They struck
four-foot vein and will begin active
mining operations
killed Eben Ireland, aged Is, while
hunting near Benton Harbor. Stretch
is likely to go insane.
Grand Rapids furniture workers will
demand that on January l wages be
restored to what they received previous
to the recent hard times.
Kalamazoo's common council voted
to issue bonds to pay for the electric
light plant. These are the only bonds
standing against that city.
A small force of men were put at
work at the Norway mine at Norway,
which has been idle five years, prepar-
ing for the resumption of mining.
Andrew Dumon, of Tekonsha, while
returning home from Coldwater, was
waylaid by three men, pulled from his
buggy and his pockets rifled of $lSO.
The Negaunee brewery, has been
removed To Duluth, but the plant at
Negaunee will be used for starch
factory and potato whisky distillery.
The secretary's books at the Michi-
gan University show the registration
To have reached the total of 1850.
This is gain of 1853 over the same time
last year.
The recent heavy freeze caught
many farmers in Manistee county with
their late potatoes yet undug, and the
loss is variously estimated from H. 600
to Is, 900 bushels.
Foreign capitalists propose establish
ing one of the largest glass manufac-
turing establishments in the world, a
plant of 200 pots capacity, at Delray, a
suburb of Detroit.
Jason Carpenter, aged IS, near STAN
dish, received divorce on the grounds
of cruelty. In less than 10 minutes he
had made application for a license to
take another bride aged 80.
The 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Wrege, of Saginaw, while at
play, in stepping backward fell into
pail of boiling water and was fatally
scalded.
Bradley Matison, the oldest business
man of Pontiac. has just made his first
visit To Detroit in 20 years. He knew
Detroit as a poorly built old French
town, and was hardly prepared to find
a splendid city.
Erastus and Dodson Webster were
sentenced in the Livingston circuit
court by Judge Stearns +. Smith to
two years at Marquette prison for
blowing up the residence Of Geo. l..
Hull, in Hamburg.
Receiver Stone. of the defunct Cen
trail Michigan Savings bank, at Lam
sing, has notified the stockholders
that they must put up the par value of
the stock held by them to make good
the claims of depositors.
mark" Milks, proprietor of lunch
counter, Jesse Thomas and Clayton
Sherwood, prominent young men of
Kalkaska, have all been arrested,
charged with having criminally as
saulted girl IA years old.
The recent dismissal of Prof. Gorton
from the Agricultural college presi-
dency is creating great deal of dis
content throughout the state, espe-
cially since it has become known that
he was not given hearing.
Capt. Spear has had City Marshal
Mitchell arrested at Adrian for tearing
down rail fence which the city claims
was on the highway. Spear says the
fence stooo there over 40 years, and
that established his property line.
Previous to the recent earthquake
Coldwater lake had risen four inches.
Since that time it has been falling
rapidly. On the other hand, creeks
and rivers near Bronson and Tekonsha
| that were nearly dry are gradually