Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-08
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

| About 60 tannery employees went on
a strike at Cheboygan for higher
wages.
Matthias Vantyne, aged 70, committed
suicide at Kalamazoo because of family
troubles.
| Oscar Westland was instantly killed
at Narenta in attempting to board q
train in full motion.
| Fire destroyed the residence of DR..
David A. West at Lexington. Loss
81, 900; insurance 1000.
Branch county Patrons of Hus-
bandry hold their annual picnic at
Coldwater on August %.
Two frame barns belonging to Cal
Hosner near Lawton, were burned to
the ground. Loss $1,000.
Hay is so scarce at Hart that farmers
use sailed pea vines, procured at the
canning factory, for fodder.
! Mrs. w. j. White, of Mt Morris, at
tempted suicide but was discovered by
her husband in time to save her life.
] The offices of the Daily News, the
| Times-Se ntinel and the Democrat were
burned at Manistee with loss of
$1,000, fully insured.
The residence of Il. A. Snyder was
burned at Chelsea together with its
contents. The fire caught from gas
oline stove. Loss $1,000.
| Fred Simpson and Horace Elliott, of
| Devil Lake, and j. McCool, Addison,
were arrested charged with selling
liquor without a license.
! Louis Sander, of Grand Rapids,
loaned 81, 900 to two horsemen, taking
several diamonds as security. The
diamonds proved to be paste.
Fred Simpson, Hold Elliott and Jack
McCrle were arrested at Manitou
Reach near Hudson, for selling intox-
eating liquors without license.
An East Marinette G ocery man,
/ Erick Starrin, on account of family
tn 5ies, committed suicideby swal.
lowing dose of ''rough-on-rats."
A Buffalo dispatch says Chas. II.
Baker, of Jackson, Mich, disappeared,
taking $4,000 belonging to Mrs. Baker.
They were only recently married.
The c. & G. t. railway pumping
house and engine burned at Vicksburg.
The fire department arrived too late
to save the building. Loss $4,000.
Mayor Starkweather, of West Supe-
rior, Wis, was lmpeached by the com
mon council on a charge of extorting
money from fremen and policemen.
Mrs. Eliza O'Brien, aged 20, jumped
from the Third street bridge into the
river at Bay City. Jerry Timick, of
Saginaw, jumped in and pulled her cut.
Emma Barley, aged years, was
run over by an electric car at Menom-
nee, and both legs and arms were cut
off and head crushed, death resulting.
The Sylvan Beach resort, at White
hall, has been purchased by Grand
Rapids parties for 500 10 They will
build "a, 900 hotel and improve the
grounds.
Minnie Abbott, aged 90, near Will
iamston, shot herself near the heart
with a 32-caliber ball, which passed
nearly through the body No Cause
known.
Bert jackson, aged Is, borrowed $50
bushels of oats from farmer near
: Owosso when the farmer was away.
/ Bert sold the oats, pocketed the cash
and skipped
Emancipation day was celebrated in
} splendid style by the colored people of
the state. Battle Creek, Jackson,
Grand Rapids and Saginaw were the
principal points.
The Mile Mining Co., at Iron
Mountain, has announced a raise of
| .,f 10
cent. Ore is being hustled from this
range at rapid rate.
Wellington r. Grace, a wellto-do
farmer, near Belleville. atte--ted sui
! eide by taking teaspoonful OF paris
green. Prompt medical aid saved his
life Family trouble.
w. c. Clark, publisher of the West
Bay City Independent, has fallen heir
to $50, 900 by the death of his uncle in
Scotland. lie will establish a daily
paper in West Bay City.
The Babcock Lumber Co., of Manis-
tee, cut wages % cents per day in its
single mill. All the men struck.
The company says they will get the
timber sawed at Stronach.
The dead body of George Henwood
was found under the rear platform of
Brechenser's grocery at Dowagiac. He
had committed suicide by taking car
bolic acid. No cause known.
Port Austin boys stretched a wire
across the street throwing and seri-
ously injuring two women. Geo. Me-
Kay, Roy Mcdonald and Alfred Brown
may be sent to reform school.
George Harmon, of Chebovgan, was
found dead in Jail where he was con-
fined for drunkenness. He had lived
on whisky for years and the sudden
stopping OF supplies killed him.
| While bathing in Flint river near
Otter Lake John Crawford was seized
with cramps. Herbert Smith jumped
to the rescue and was drowned, but
Crawford was helped out Mrs. Smith
saw her husband drown and IL insane.