Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
NEWS FOR MICHIGANDERS.

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be erected at Atlanta.
Hon. James Shearer, prominent cit
zen, died at Bay City, aged 70.
Alpena county supervisors voted to
reduce the salaries of all county officers.
Litchfield has an epidemic of typhoid
fever. Two members of the Wilson
family died.
Ben Christensen was sent to Jail 80
days at Menominee for hugging ladies
on the street.
Mrs. A. Chafiin was burned to death
near Willow. Flames from the stove
ignited her dress.
An apple tree in the graveyard at
Avoca grows apples which have blood
red meat and juice.
William Drew's 6-year-old son was
burned to death at Grand Rapids while
playing with matches.
Mrs. Sally Dewey, of Thetford, Gen
esee county, is 100 years old and is in
apparently good health.
Warren has an alarming diphtheria
scourge. Two of o. b. Stevens have
died and two more are i'll.
Sam Cliff, aged 40, gang sawyer of
Bay City, disappeared over two weeks
ago and foul play is feared.
Joseph Rowe, aged 90, was killed
while working in the Jackson mine at
Negaunee. About three tons of earth
fell upon him.
Two +. & p. M. freight trains col
lided near Holly. No one was injured
but both engines and several cars were
badly wrecked.
Twenty survivors of the Third Mich
igan cavalry met in reunion at Ithaca.
Il. V. Quackenbush, of Plymouth, was
elected president.
Mrs. Green, wife of Pearl Green,
died of typhoid fever at st. Louis,
while the funeral services of her hus
band were being held.
Capt. James Davidson, of Bay City,
has purchased ., 200, 900 feet of Norway
pine logs from the Holland e. Emery
Lumber Co., for S23, 900.
Nearly 600 Saginaw and Bay City
business men took an excursion to
Alpena at the expense of the new De-
troit e. Maclinaw railroad
The reunion of the Eleventh Michi-
gan volunteer cavalry was held at
Hastings. The city was gayly deco
rated in honor of the event.
Branch county supervisors have re-
duced the salary of Judge of probate
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to 5000; prosecutor 5000 to $500.
The West Michigan Furniture Co..
whose factory burned at Holland, will
soon resume operations in the idle fac
tory of the Holland Bending Co.
To relieve the crowded school build
ings at Battle Creek big barn has
been prepared for so children The
attendance is 245 more than in 1895.
William Westhoek, a carpenter work
ing at moving heavy building at Hol-
land, had his skull crushed by n re-
bounding timber. He leaves family.
Benjamin Sprowl. aged 50, was IA
tally injured by c. e G.. Il. freight
train at Flint He was wheeling a
barrow ON the track when the train
struck him.
The infant child of John Claft died
at Alpena and the parents and neigh
bors claim death was the result Of it's
being scalded by the nurse, Mrs. Vitte
who was washing it.
DIR. w. II. Smith, owner of the Niles
city hospital, was arrested for not re-
porting case of scarlet fever. 1t is
alleged that many children were ex-
posed by his neglect.
The 2-year-old son of Joseph Reed,
of Pleasant Valley, near st. Louis, was
scalded TO death by falling in a pail of
boiling water. The mother has be-
come insane from grief
Joseph Hoboff, aged 80, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
head at Grand Rapids, when his wife
found him dead she tried to shoot her.
self, but was prevented.
Chas. II. Bremen, custodian of the
city hall at Grand Rapids, and past sc
years ago, has begun suit for divorce
from his wife, whom he married in
Saginaw Is years ago, after obtaining
n divorce from his first wife.