Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-22
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

Pontiac is in the midst of Sunday
blue laws craze.
The grand lodge of Michigan of the
Sons of st. George met at Marquette.
Will Longtime, aged %, was killed
on numbering road near Lake Linden.
Rowland Douglass, aged IA, was
drowned at Portage Lake near Hough-
ton.
Geo. Owen, of Nadeau, charged with
rape, sawed his way out of Jail at Me-
nominee.
Lenawee and Hillsdale county farm
ers hold their annual picnic at DEVILS
lake, Aug. 20.
Mrs. Emily Hardness, of Dalhousie,
Ont, was instantly killed in a run
away at Blissheld.
A loss of So, 500 was sustained by the
burning of Eli an Miller's barn and
crops near Greenville.
FIR. Bruck was sentenced to pay $500
for slandering Eugene Provost from
his pulpit at Tawas City.
Peter McLain was fatally injured by
being caught in the cogs of a moving
traction engine near Hudson.
Nathan Sanborn, aged rs, prosperous
! farmer near Sturgis, quarrelled with
his family and suicided with laudanum
Juan De Gonzalez, a Grand Rapids
barber, was drowned at Holland by
his boat being capized by ferry tug.
Albert Ruehle, gardener of Detroit,
was found dead with his shotgun by
the side. AMay have been accident or
suicide.
Frank Bauer, a prominent brewer of
| Waterloo, Ont, was locked up at Mt.
Clemens because of insanity from
drink. He died in the cell.
None of the 100. 600 acres of Agricul-
tural college lands were sold at the
recent auction; as the minimum price
placed upon them was too high.
Several hundred men employed in
the mills of the Metropolitan Lumber
Co. at Iron Mountain, have struck for
more wages, and the mills are idle.
VIII Lille, aged 9, was drowned in
Muskegon lake. He came very near
CARRYING down his brother and a boy
named Morse who tried to save him.
Mrs. Ellen Beebe was 10 ;ked up at
Flint on the charge of forcing her
l3-year-old daughter to maintain init
mate relations with an unknown man.
Farmers in the immediate vicinity of
Galesburg are seriously alarmed for
fear of total loss of crops. None of
the recent rains have come their way.
The soldiers and sailors of the
) Seventh and Twenty-second Michigan
infantry of Lapeer county will hold
their annual reunion in Lapeer, Aug.
81 and %.
While trying to scare hen vermin
away Chas Price, near Hudson, sci
fire to his barns, which were consumed
, together with stacks, etc, including
coo bushels of wheat
The Northeastern Normal school, al
( Standish has been very successful hav
ing about 60 students from Bay, Glad
win, Arenac, Ogemaw, losco, Saginaw
= and Alpena counties.
2John Pearman, of Marcellus, threw
: himself from the third. story window
, of the Calf house at Niles and was ia
tally injured. lie was losing his sigh
and said he preferred death.
Detroit's new directory shows tina
the metropolis of Michigan is still
4 growing as it's population has increased
21,s43 and now reaches toward TIN
half million mark thus-352, 73l.
! The sensational ThayerMcEuer
n SANDER suit at Leslie, in W hich Sheriff
d McEuen sued Thaver for accusing hin
a of criminal conduct with Mrs. Thayer
e resulted in Thayer being fined Sl95.
Chas. and John Arnce and Il. l.. Mar
. tin planted potatoes on shares at Glad
win. Arrow resulted over the division
and Charles drew revolver and sho
Martin i'm the back. but he will recover
e The jury in the case of young Georg
r Cheseboro, charged with the murde
V of Mrs. Pierce, brought in verdict O
d guilty in the first degree at Gran
S Haven. The jury was out seven hours
y y The huge water power canal at Saul
!. Ste. Marie has been sold to Philadel
~ phia syndicate for $4,000 The neN
owners will build extensive docks o
the water front and will use 100 acre
/, for mill sites. 1t is said that 5000
d horse power will be developed. bi
Il pulp mill will be erected at once.
Detroit was visited by the frs
le cyclone i'm 20 years which stayed onl
T. two minutes, but when II had gone
~ United PRESBYTERIAN church, in cours
of construction, was almost in ruins
several houses and barns had bee
= somewhat damaged, one man ha
=. been killed and two men were badl
injured.