Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-06-13
MlCHIoAN HAPPENINGS.


Edward Buno, aged IA, was drowned
at Gladstone, while bathing.
Chas. Stromberg was drowned in
the river at Menominee while boating.
Bay City wants to secure Rider &
Hodges iron works from Racine, Wis.
VIM. Barber, farmer of Summit,
Jackson county, suicided by taking
morphine.
Mrs. Wilson Dougan, aged 60 years,
dropped dead while engaged in prayer
at Jonesville.
Dennis Kane. proprietor of the Stur-
gis Marble works, was killed by sun
stroke at Burr Oak.
Turtle catching is new industry
about Bangor. They bring 10 cents
per pound at Chicago.
Mrs. Mary Friedland, John and
Victor Swanson were injured in run
away accident at Manistee.
The 3-year-old child of William
Couch came very near dying as the re-
suit of massasauga's bite.
Albert Monroe, married man,
dropped dead on the street at Kalama-
700, while riding his bicycle.
Michigan grand lodge, I. o. o. F.,
has chosen Lansing as the place for
the next meeting, October 3.
An old red mill built by the Paddocks
over so years at Concord was burned
by incendiaries. Loss $1,000.
! The Greek play, "Antigone," was
successfully given by the sophomore
Greek students at Olivet college.
James Harrington, of Ishpeming,
was instantly killed while helping to
lower the Barnum mine smokestack
DR.. Samuel Bell has been appoin ted
superintendent of the upper peninsula
insane asylum, which will open Sept l..
Allie Hoppin, of Bangor, says he
saved his peach crop during the May
frosts by building fires around his
orchard.
Abbie Moore secured a judgement for
81, 500 against Kalamazoo for injuries
received by stepping into hole in the
sidewalk.
Chas. ii. Springsteen fell down a
hatchway of the steamer City of Louis
vile at st. Joseph and died from the
effects of the fail.
The new church of the Holy Cross,
erected at Saginaw at a cost of SIS. 00o
by the French Catholics, was dedicated
by Bishop Richter.
Some unknown person scattered
blue vitriol in various watering troughs
for horses at Niles. The poison was
! discovered in time.
Ed Downey, of Owosso, while at
tempting to board a freight train at
Mt. Pleasant, fell under the cars. His
right foot was cut off.
Hundreds of settlers have been at
tracted to Chippewa county as a result
of her voters deciding to spend $780,
600 in securing good roads.
Fire in the lumber yard of the j. Z.
Greilick company at Traverse City
burned half a million feet of lumber
and the dock. Loss $4,000.
The we'll known black pacing horse,
at the Comstock track, Grand Rapids.
The animal is valued at 1000.
Conrad Heinserling, near Carleton,
| lost his barn, four horses, a large
amount of hay and farm machinery by
an incendiary fire. Loss 1000.
BY the death of her grandmother
Mrs. Theodore Grinnell, of Port
Huron, was left fortune of SEQ, 900.
She has gone to Maine to take posses
sion.
John Claypool, sentenced from De-
troit in 1893 for five years for burglary,
was pardoned from Jackson by Gov.
Rich because he Is dying of consump'
, ton.
VIM. Holmes, an underground
worker in No. shaft of the North
| Tamarack mine, at Calumet, was in.
stantly killed by falling 500 feet down
the shaft
| The largest fire Three Rivers has
had in years destroyed the two-story
| five-store block of Isaac Null. The
loss is S12,50O on the building and
Sl1 900 on the contents.
The East Shore Manufacturing plant
at Manistee, which has been idle since
1892, has been sold to a syndicate, and
operations will begin as soon as proper
machinery can be put in.
The Canadian patrol steamer Petre,
captured the tug Grace Ruelle and
! crew, of Detroit, and locked the crew
up at Amherstburg on charge OF
dumping garbage in Canadian waters.
State Game Warden Osborn report,
that during May he and his deputie.
made 90 arrests, convicted SO violators
collected fines and costs to the amount
of 1852. 60, and investigated ia alleged
violations.
The State Medical society held il
thirtieth annual meeting at Bay City
with 400 members in ate ndance.
reception was rendered the doctors a.
the residence of Hon. 5. o. Fisher, al
West Bay City.
The state board of agriculture at it,
June meeting decided that each stu
dent at Agricultural college must per
form at least two and a half hours
farm work each day. Many of tn,
boys have shirked the manual labor
heretofore, substituting Laboratory
and class work.
dispatch from Chihuahua, Mexico
says T.. X. Flowers and John L. Ben
ton. two wealthy young American
from Michigan, left there on an over
| land til, 81 Harmoeilla across th,