Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-19
THE TWO PENINSULAS.

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men in the woods.
Fred Smith, aged 10, was fatally shot
by his brother Tom, aged II, while
they were hunting near Sturgis.
Burglars blew open the safe in
August Kleeman's grocery at Bay City,
and We're rewarded by finding $500.
Albert Clark, of Wyandotte, was in
stantly killed by being shot by Chas.
Davis at Flat Rock. Coroner's jury
says ii was accidental.
The Shaw Electric Crane Co., of Mus
kegon has just completed four large
cranes for an immense manufacturing
plant at Mariopol, Russia.
The state fish commission has bought
| five acres on Mill Creek, near Grand
| Rapids, for black bass hatchery. 1t
will be the only one of the kind in the
country.
Gov. Rich has appointed Edward w.
Lowe, of Grand Rapids, member of
the Macllinac Island state park com
mission to succeed Thomas w. Ferry
| deceased.
| The football teams of the University
of Michigan and the University of Min
nesota fought hard battle at Mime
apolis for the championship of the
west Michigan won by score of
6 to 4.
The Cleveland Cliffs Co., at Glad
stone, has made sales of pig iron since
election sufficient to warrant running
its furnace TO its full capacity. For
some time it has been turning out only
| about 100 tons daily.
Col. a. T. Bliss, of Saginaw, says the
demand for lumber is increasing, and
sellers are able to make better terms
than they could month ago. Shingles
have advanced 30 cents per / 1000 and
are moving oriskly.
tGov. Rich has appointed Gen. d. b.
Anger, of Charlotte, state bank com
missioner, to fill out II. c. Sherwood's
uneXpired term. Gen. Anger was a
national bank examiner-at-large under
Harrison. For four years he has been
deputy auditor-general.
The four copper mines at Houghton
which have been idle fer some-tiffaS
are soon to be consolidated and worked
on a large scale on eastern and Euro
pean capital Employment will be
given to over 500 men. A mill site has
been secured on Portage lake.
Peter thinner, farmer near Port
Huron, was hauling cornstoclls for
fodder when his team started forward
suddenly, throwing him to the ground.
His head struck on the sharp corn
stubble, bursting blood vessel and
causing death in short time.
Frank Rockefeller visited James Nc
Naughton, superintendent of the
Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain. lie is
about To visit the Gogebic and Vermil-
lion mines to arrange for the resump-
ton Of work, giving employment to
| l.50O men. 1t is believed work will
also be resumed at John ID. Rocllefel-
lcr's mines
The Cincinnati saw mill, owned by
Mrs. II. +. Carpenter and Mrs. Il. p.
Wodon and valued ut $50, 900. and the
Salisbury brewery, owned Jacob Knob
! LAUGH & Son and valued at $50, 900, both
located just north of Bay City, were
burned by supposed incendary fire.
! Davison's shipyard and Wilson's hoop
mill were saved by the wind shifting.
Gov. Rich has paroled Benjamin II.
Hicks. sent up four years and six
months from Grand Rapids for taking
! liberties with little girl. Hicks is
now 64 years old. Elmer Northrop,
sent from Van Buren, county IL years
! ago for rape. is also paroled. He was
a stupid. illi.crate boy of Is when the
crime was committed
Samuel Nixson, aged s. was Gre
mated in his shantv. about three miles
east of Britton. An old wornout stove
is supposed to have been the cause of
the fire. Mrs. Nixson and her brother,
! Henry Prentiss. were in another house
only - rods away and knew nothing
of the fire until an hour later. Two
Of Armour's box cars and several small
buildings were destroyed.
Henry Schmid, aged IA, and several
other boys were shooting quail near
Flat Rock. Schmid carried his gun
under his arm with the muzzle point
ing forward, and in front of him walked
Charles Hood, aged s. by some acct
dent one of the party behind Schmid
struck his gun, which went off and
shot the Hood boy in the leg, infiicting
such a terrible wound that he bled To
death before the boys could carry him
| home.
One of the most stirring and touch
! ing incidents of the Methodist central
missionary meeting at Detroit was the
! farewell to bishops Thoburn and
/ lIartzell. who leave at once for their
work n India and Africa respectively.
Inere was cheering amid tears and
applause. evoScd 10y the climax to
! bishop IIartzell's pltrio;ic eulogy to
the stars AMI strips when he unfolded
AN American flag made for him by his
rcd mother AMI his sisters, and draped
| IL over the front Of the altar and spoke
! OF the thoughts which came to him as
he realized that he WIS leaving Amer
lea for the dark continent.