Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-29

surance order with oO,OOO members,
met at Detroit in biennial session.
Through the concerted efforts of
Christian Endeavor people and Good
Templars, the only saloon in Munger
township, Bay county. has been closed.
Kewacodouqua, of Walpole island,
died at the age OF 100 She remem-
bered instances of the war of 1912.
Hundreds of Indians attended the
j funeral
A. Haywood, near Grand Haven. has
twelve acres of corn where each stalk
will average eleven feet high, not
withstanding the drouth of SO long
standing.
Mrs j. ID. Van Duyn, an old resident
of Manchester was killed by Lake
Shore train. Mrs. Van Duyn had be-
come deranged and she had wandered
away from home.
Oscar, the three-year-old son of VIM
+. Winkelmann, was choked to death
! at Bay City by attempting to swallow
piece of crab apple which became
j lodged in his throat.
The grangers from southern Michi-
gan. northern Ohio and Indiana met
at the Baw Beese park, near Hillsdale,
fer their annual reunion and the at
tendance was very large.
| The crew of the schooner Wanderer,
which ran into Sand Beach barbor for
shelter, reports the loss of Capt Alex
ander Spence and John Body, a sea-
man, in Lake Huron in heavy gale.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
| hae Tot srcn
der the pure food laws w Il. Scatter
good, of Ithaca; John /. Brock. of Jack
son, and John II. Bennett, of Muskegon.
John Walker and Allan Durance h;xl
a fight while threshing near Yale, and
DURANGO struck Walker a terrific blow
on the heao with a club, fracturing
the skull, and he is in a critical con-
dition.
The vacancy of The Office Of judge of
probate of Mackinac county, occa-
stoned by the recent demise of Judge
James Gallagher was filled by Gov.
Rich appointing Charles Common, of ST.
Ignace.
Frank Austin, mate on Menominee
tug picked up what looked like an
empty dynamite shell and began tear
ing it to pieces. The explosion tore
off two fingers and a thumb and ruined
one of his eyes.
A horse belonging to NJ. Matielos, 81
South Haven, valued at Sl75 ran away.
One of the shafts of buggy standing
near by penetrated the ANIMALS breast
over foot 1t plunged down 5O-foot
embankment and expired.
c. Ii. Lambert, OF Elkhart, Ind mar
ried Miss lena Russell, at Niles. At
the time he had $1,000 and said he
intended to embark in business. After
a week Lambert disappeared and the
young bride is frantic. Foul play is
suspected.
James L. Edison, aged 81, senior
partner of the well-known wholesale
dry goods firm of Edison, Moore Il Co
Detroit, died from paralysis, which
was the result of a partial sunstroke
received while fishing at Orchard lake
during the summer.
George w. Arnold, near st. Johns,
thinks he has struck it rich on his
farm. lie exhibited a sample load of
soft coal, which appears to be of the
best quality The vein which runs
through his land is said to be very
rich and almost inexhaustible.
The steamer Burlington, owned by
L. Grant Grummond, of Detroit, was
burned to the water edge in Meldrum
bay, near the Grand Manitoulin island
The crew of 12 men was taken off by
the tug James Story. She was rated
at ST., 900 and had S6, 900 insurance.
The Tivola hotel was raided at Ian
sing and seven women arrested as dis
orderlies and prostitutes. A door haC
been cut between the Tivola and the
Oak Hall saloon and the girls there
met men. The hotel proprietor claims
to have been ignorant of these doings
The packing house and contents o
Inglefritz IL Son, at Monroe, was de
stoyed by fire, causing loss of So, 900
on which there was an insurance o
but So ,O00 Agricultural implement
and considerable grain stored in thu
cellars was ruined. 1t was incendiary
There are 90 life convicts in tn,
prison at jackson. OF thes esq are il
/ for murder and eight for criminal as
: sault. Joseph Duquette Is the oldes
time-server, having been received 3
years ago for numbering his two-year
old child. Bartholomew Sands is tn
oldest lifer, being So. He came T.
prison "a years ago. He is in tn
: prison hospital.
Within the month the common coun
Gil of Pontiac passed Sabbath obsery
S ance ordina noes which have teen ia
S reaching in their grasp. All bushes
and reireshment places of every kin
were forced to close. The resultin
, puritanical Sabbaths have evidentl
not been appreciated and enjoyed b
all citizens, as the council has re
scinded those ordinances.
A Grand Haven correspondent say
Kalamazoo must look out for her ce
e err laurels. Muskegon and Ottaw
u counties are after her. Grand Have
e claims to raise the finest and larges
celery in the country. This year tn
growers have opened up a new marke
$ in New York City and the America
Express Co., is shipping from one I
two tons daily TO that point.
George Loyst and family had ma
) row escape from A,ing cremated i
their own house at Al-ena. About
a. m the structure was discovered O