Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-09
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.

Bancroft is dry; saloonkeepers could
not get satisfactory bondsmen.
'Uncle" Harve Hobson, aged rs, and
Miss Lucy Ellison, aged 60, were mar
ried at GAINESVILLE.
Game Warden Hampton has presented
the Soldiers Home at Grand Rapids
with two deer for the 200"
Phillip Patterson, aged So years, fell
under a moving train on the +. N L. M,
at Flint and was crushed to death.
Zachariah Taylor, farmer near
Vassar, was arr ested on charge OF
assault upon Emma Miner, aged 10.
John Morriarity and Frank Conley,
aped IA wears, were drowned in the
River Rouge at Detroit while bathing.
? Two linemen working on the Nj. c.
railroad near Athens, were poisoned
by eating canned beef, but will re-
cover.
Henry Fisher, aged s, was drowned
at Bay City. He was padding about
on large plank and fell into the
water.
Estv & Calkin's sawmill was burned
at Pinconning. Loss 1900; partially
insured. A lamp in the engine room
exploded.
Students of the Michigan mining
school are getting little experience
by working in the Champion mines
side by side with the grimy ore-diggers.
George II. Baugh and his wife of
only nine weeks were drowned off the
foot of Twenty-fourth street, Detroit.
Their boat upset while they were
rowing.
West Bay City aldermen sought to
keep the Salvation Army off the street
by an arbitrary ordinance. The sol
diers kept right on, and Judge Max
we'll has declared the ordinance un'
constitutional.
Alex Robertson, of Silver Lake, has
been missing since last September.
He was 70 years old and demented.
Boys fishing in the lake few days
ago fshed up his body.
Bertha Schwab, aged 90, attempted
suicide at Traverse City. She took
half an ounce of laudanum and left a
letter saying, tired of life" She was
pumped out and may live.
A man apparently about 80 years ole
was found dead on the Lake Shor,
tracks at Sturgis. He was frightfully
mangled. In diary the address
III. III. Thomas, Ogden, Ia, )" appeared
An unknown tramp who was refused
J food at +. +. Armstrong;, at Niles
5 tried to assault Miss Myrtle Arm
: strong, but she seized a revolver anC
, fred at the fellow. lie was slight.
! wounded and fled.
' Three young men left Chelsea in
, wagon for trip overland to California
They are Ransom Armstrong, Yves
Armstrong and a young man name'
e Beckwith. They go by way of Chicag
and will sleep in their wagon.
> John Sweedyke and Abram ID
: Meester, each 16 years of age, wer
e drowned while bathing in Grand rive
near the d., G. ii. NJ. bridge a
a Grand Rapids. They could not swim
: and ventured beyond their depth.
Z Mary Liebolt, better known as Jessi
v Lewis, awaiting trial in the circui
: court, Ionia, on charge of keeping
house of ill-repute, committed suicid
tneRr Lyons by taking arsenic. Sh
preferred death to standing trial.
Miss Mary st. Dennis, an estimabl
n young lady of Is years, who has bee
> residing with her grandparents a
s Monroe, left her home, and a note wa
: found on the bureau, stating she coul
= no longer endure the false stories tina
were being circulated about her an
had decided to drown herself. Oh
bore splendid reputation.
Julia Curtis, % years old, daughte
= OF prominent farmer near Travers
n City, left home 20 gather trailing al
of butus in the woods and did not return
1t Men searched for her all night, an
l. found her body i'm n swamp "A baske
y by her side contained two-ounee DO
tie Of laudanum.