Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-11

The reunion of the Seventh Michi- |
gan Infantry was To have been held at
| Lapeer this month, but IL has been
deferred until August FL and %, the
dates of the reunion of the veterans of
Lapeer county.
John III. Roberts, of Grand Rapids,
has been commissioned by Chief Fer
now. of the forestry division of the
| Atlanta Explosion to- take charge of
the forestry exhibit from the northern
states, and to prepare IL.
The formal opening of the new De-
| troit railway at Detroit, was a great
event as it marked the beginning of
three-cent fares. Mayor Pingree was
motorman of the first car and was
cheered along the whole line.
About one-fourth of a crop of hay
will be realized in portions of Lapeer
county. Wheat will not yield over five
bushels to the acre. Pastures are all
dried up and corn, oats and potatoes
are suffering for want OF rain.
The second session of the University
of Michigan summer school opened
with good atten dance, which Prof.
T.. A. Lyman, who has charge of the
arrangements for the school, claims
will far exceed that of last year.
Ouartermaster-Ge Kidd filed
his official bond and accompanied by
Brig Gen. Hawley and Assistant
observation-disclosures Avery, went
to Island lake to arrange for the APP
preaching encampment of the M. n. u.
Someone threw a big cannon fire.
cracker into Bursch's saloon at Sagi-
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plosion, which tore the top of the bar
of and extinguished all the lights IN
the room. The alleged joker escaped.
Editor VI. L. Brown, of the Battle
Creek Moon, and Justice Henry, of
Battle Creek, swore that while fishing
on Gardner or Massasauga lake, they
saw a huge sea serpent with head as
big as bushel basket and whiskers
: two feet long.
The Lewis Dawes murder case at
Grand Rapids, has fiattened out, and
the prisoners, William Mead, Bessie
, Mead, Nellie Drum and Douglas lib
bits, were all discharged. chemical
analysis of the stomach revealed nc
traces of poison.
; Menominee has a full fedged mys
terry. A water logged skiff was picked
, up in the river. In it was found
handkerchief, a coat, half hlleC
whisky bottle and n meerschaum pipe
TO whom these articles belong is puz
zling the authorities.
(, Arrangements are being made fol
4 one of the biggest Sunday school ant
temperance rallies ever held In south
ern Michigan at Holcombs grove
t Athens, July 10, 20, 2l. Every Sunda'
n school and temperance organization IL
!. four counties are invited.
The report of the state salt inspecto
h shows the quantity of salt inspccte'
o in June as follows Manistee, 0,3'4
r Mason, 63,5 Lay, 51,92l; Saginaw
80. 200 ST. Clair. 44,32l; losco, 10, 79h
Huron, ;, i09: Midland, 2,693; making
|. total tor June of $50, l72 barrels
- John &. Bodewig, one of the allege
Battle Creek train wreckers, was re
leased on bail. and was rearrested I'm
1t mediately on attempted jail denver
,, and again released on bail. Soon ate
S. he was again arrested on the charg
of interfering with U. ). mail car.
"a The body of Thomas Brown, of Mi
20 waukee, was found 1loating near TN
W beach on lake Michigan, near Ludint
ton. north of Lincoln Harbor. la
coat. waistcoat and boots were on
Oh log POO feet away. 44-caliber r.
L volver with one empty shell, wa
<, found. There was a bullet hole ovt
- the heart.
at A Wayne county farmer who has ha
ne some experience in the dehornlng
ld cattle. SAYS he has found way 10
o. comp ish the same result without III
-. crueltv. When the calf is about
1 Al. Wis Ia
- and are then soft and tender. At thi
- time he rubs them for a minute or tvs
with crystallized potash. and the horl
e never grow any more. The calf is n
d, hurt in the least
by The friends of Del Swartz, who w
ne sent from t. Joseph county to Jac
son prison for the murder of Johnso
ne have had detectives searching I
an Henry A. Cowan, whom they believe
ed TO be the murderer Cowan w
cir caught at last at Cambridge. Ill, al
brought To Centerville, but 1T nc
ed seems that he can prove clear ALL
.ss since being placed in Jail he has h
at a severe attack of heart failure, FRI
ny which the physician says it is doubtf
if he RECEIVERS.
& The executive committee OF I
xet great tent nnights of Maccabess
nd decided that Valley City tent,
oss Grand Rapids, must strike from its
cords all reference to the mass me-
ing. at which resolutions were adopt
on condemning Commander Boynton
wn his removal of Great Record keeI
Ear Boughton, and is also required
MS apologize and pass resolutions I
pressing loyalty to the present office
be- The tent will probably appeal to
an great camp itself, waiting for
der next review.
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