Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-15

the discovery of "a new counterfeit IS
ma ional bank note, series of 1882, on
the First National bank of Flint The
printing of the bill is badly blurred.
The Joint session of the prison boards
at Mackinac island reported 800 idle
convicts at Jackson, $50 at Ionia and
100 at Marquette. 1t was the sense of
the session that the contract labor sys-
was the best
Men were put at work clearing up
at the Arnold nine at Houghton, pre-
paratory to resuming work on a large
scale. The mine will be unwatered
and strongly worked as soon as it can
be put in shape.
Ishpeming held a firemen's tourna-
ment for the upper peninsula. Visit.
ing departments were present from
Michigamme, Negaunee, Republic,
LAM. lronwood, Marquette, Hancock
and Red Jacket.
Dingcnis Brandt, aged 60, while
handling wheat from stack to the
thresher at iceland slipped and fell
into the machine. Both legs were
taken off, one above and the other
close to the knee.
michael Kreig, "A laborer at Detroit,
was fatally shot by his son-in-law Vim.
Haas. The latter was enraged because
his wife refused to live with him, on
account of his abuse, and had returned
to her fathers house.
Simon and Edward Kastead tried to
protect two girls from burly Negro,
VIM Rose, at Kalamazoo. hose
pounced upon them with knife and
both were so badly cut about the arms
and body that they will be disabled
for life.
The forest fires which have been
rag ng on Beaver island since July
have not done any particular damage
TO the farmers, but destroyed valuable
timber owned by Chicago parties. The
hay crop on the island has been 10 fail
ure, but other crops are looking fair.
r. +. Wigent, while bathing off For
est Beach at Paw Paw struck on his
head in shallow water and failed to
come up. His wife, who had been
watching him from the bank, called
help and he was pulled out dead. 1t
is thought apoplexy and not drowning
caused his death.
Mabel Gray, the keeper of a ques-
tionable resort at Portland, was shot
by Mrs. n. Pine. The revolver shot
pierced her right shoulder, but the
wound is not serious Mrs Pine was
recently divorced from her husband
and supposed her husband was at the
Gray house. No arrests.
The peach crop about South Haven
is the largest it has been in the his
tory of the oil lest fruit-grower. 1t is
estimated that the crop will lee
| 20 %, 900 baskets, larger than has ever
been harvested before. In many in
stances the trees are breaking down
from the weight of the fruit.
The Port Huron-Lexingtop railroad
may vet be a success, although the
bonds couldn't be sold The workmen,
who have $4,000 due them, made a
proposition to wait six months for the
money provided the work can be re-
sumed and all labar paid esive1y week
600 of the S35, 900 necessary to complete
the road has been raised.
Miss Fannie Hunt, an esteemed
young lady near Stock bridge, was
on 20-foot ladder picking cherries
when hogs knocked it from under her
and she fell unconscious. An intelli-
gent dog with her seemed to realize
her position and made his master I'M
derstand that something had happened
and thus medical aid was summoned
in time TO save her life.
Lightning burned Brandt's building
at Durand occupied by c. f. Glover
and Mrs M. II. Glover, with stocks of
groceries, Loots and shoes and milli-
merry goods. Glovers family lived in
the upper part of the building and were
ba lily daled and it was with diff
GUILTY that they escaped. Nothing was
saved but the scant garments they had
on. The loss was So, 900.
L. A. Carten, dry goods dealer of
lonia, missed gloves and other articles
from his stock and made up his mind
that they had been taken by Mrs.
John Morton. He got a search war
rant and succeeded in finding part of
the missing goods. Mrs. Morton is
over 60 years of age, in good circurl-
stances and an old and respected resi-
dent and the news has created sem
sation.
A man visited Elsie few days ago
inquiring for a daughter of John
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years ago and his daughter was raised
by the family of Wesley Curtis and is
now Mrs Minnie Van Deusen. of Nc
Balm, Mich. The stranger said Pauld-
ing had left SO, 900 in property in New
York City for his daughter Many
believe the stranger was Paulding
himself
The report of Warden Chamberlain
on the jackson prison for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1895, has just been
presented TO the joint boards of con-
troll of the state penal institutions.
Total earnings, Sl25. s2s. 7G; disburse-
ments, Sl37, average number of
convicts, S63: earnings on contract
work, 81, ls3. AZ: total cost of food S26, :
500 "a; hospital expenses, not includ-
ing salary of physician, $40. 81; fuel,
lights and water, $40, 992.O3.
Annie Kerr was arrested at Muske-
gon by Deputy U. ). Marshal O'Don-
nell, charged with using the L. 5.
mails fraudulently. In answer to a
matrimonial advertisement she wrote
to w. II. Lucas. at Red Lodge, Mont,
stating that IL he would send her SEQ
for expenses she would go to him and
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