Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-08
THE TWO PENINSULAS.

Gold has deem discovered at Rothbury.
At Hastings Geo. Landid's drug store
was ruined by fire.
Jos. Kissiclx's barn and stored crops
burned near Negaunee.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is
spreading. at South Haven.
st. Mark Episcopal church at Grand
Rapidscelebra its Goth anniversary.
Holly farmers disposed of 10000
bushels of cucumbers at the pickle fac
tory this season.
Forman Il. Phelps, aged GO, commit
ted suicide by drowning in Nolan's
pond, near Romeo
Tecumseh celery-growers will lose
money this year, the plants being seri-
ously affected with rust.
Thos johnson, aged 20, fell into the
hold of the steamer Atlantis at Port
Huron and was fatally injured.
Harry Noble was found dead in his
brother,s,+Anshop at Battle Creek. He
had taken Corrosive sublimate.
Miss Maggie Wilson shot and killed
a 125-pound alligator which the owner
had become tired of at Coldwater.
About 10 union tailors, on strike at
Adrian since May, to get pay for EEK
tras," have decided to return to work
\, Judge Burlingame, of Grand Rapids,
refuses to issue naturalization papers
to foreigners who cannot read the
English language.
Tenth district, comprising 16 counties
and 80 corps, held their annual conven-
ton at Traverse City
While temporarily insane VIM. Sipe,
throat with razor. He leaves a
widow and six children.
L. ii. Stafford e Co.. of Muskegon,
have shipped consignment of office
desks to Constantinople some of them
for use in the Ottoman bank.
+. & p. NJ. and Lake Shore freis hts
backed into each other at ''Y, +" near
Monroe, demolishing both cabooses,
five cars and considerable freight.
At special election at Grand Haven
the proposition to bond the city for
$40, 900 TO build its own electric light
plant was carried by a majority of II.
While hunting near Twin Lakes,
Alva Try, aged 16, was instantly killed
by the accidently discharge of his gun,
the ramrod going clear through his
head.
The Superior Iron Co., at lshpeming,
has begun to remove 90 dwellings from
the territory over which the Lake SUI
perior & Ishpeming railway will be ex-
tended
The three-year-old son of A. ID. G..
Thurston, of Sturgis took a large dose
of morphine pills which he found. 1t
took two doctors and a stomach pump
TO save his life.
Expert accountants have found a
shortage of 81 700 due the city of West
Bay City. caused by errors in keeping
accounts. One ex-officer is held re-
sponsible for 5000.
The bridge war between Menominee
and Marinette has been settled by ar
bitration in favor of Menominee, and
Marinette will have TO build 96 feet
more than she wanted To.
Capt. Henry H. Hunt, of Co. ID, at
Jackson, has received a commission
from Gov. Rich promoting him TO be
junior major of the First regiment,
Michigan National Guards.
The Excelsior furnace at Ishpeming
will close down indefinitely. No sale
for iron is the reason given. About
10000 tons of pig iron are in stock.
Fifty men were employed.
City Clerk Farrow, of Sturgis, while
in the act of striking n blow with an
ak, caught it in clothesline. The aS
came down upon his head cutting a
large cash in his forehead and scalp.
The night before his wedding day
Eugene Nerbcr. of Albion, drew all his
money, about $50, with which to start
housekeeping. lie foolishly displayed il
before h, went TO bed and the next day