Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-26


The Calumet & Hecla Mining Co. has
just declared its fifth dividend of S.
per share for the fiscal year. This
brings the aggregate disbursements of
the company up To SAC, 10000.
The Cleveland Cliffs Co., at Glad
stone, has made sales of pig iron since
election sufficient to warrant running
it's furnace to its full capacity. For
some time il has been turning out only
about 100 tons daily.
The jackson council voted unani-
mously to give the old Purifier build
ings to the George L. Smith Milling
Machinery Co., of Cleveland, rent free,
for IL years The company agrees to
employ rs to 200 daily.
A party of Is prospectors who left
Grand Rapids under the leadership of
John Towse last spring and went to
the Alaska gold fields, have returned.
They are not very enthusiastic over
the results of their trip.
The body of W. w. Ingram, of Chi
cago, was found in the woods near
Michigamme. He had been hunting
and was found lying alongside deer
whichahS mad shot. Both were covered
by snow near three feet deep.
Grover Manchester and his father
went hVnting near Standish. The
father ard gun and on investiga-
ton II d his son with the entire top
of hi rid blown away The breech
pin I Senetrated the brain.
S. w. Tyler & Sons single mill and
salt Aoeil at Crow island was the scene
of a big fire. The salt block and drill
room were completely destroyed, but
the firemen succeeded in saving the
mill. The loss is about $4,000.
The returning board of the Michigan
l.. A. w. has declared the following
officers elected: Chief consul, Edward
n. Hines, of Detroit; vice-consul, +. f.
Kemp, of Grand Rapids; secretary
treasurer l.. A. Caro-, of Grand Rapids.
Miles Mumstead went hunting with
party of ladies at Summit City. He
climbed a tree so as to scare a squirrel
out for the ladies to shoot at. He got
he will never go hunting with women
again.
r.. c. Sweet, of Niles, received let
ter informing him that his father in
Brooklyn, n. Y, had died, leaving him
fortune of SAT, 900 and a lot of real
estate. Sweet left home years ago,
had never returned and was surprised
at the windfall.
Fire broke out in the laundry room
at the Michigan home for predetermined
and epileptic, at Lapeer, and 500 dam
ages was done. Supt. Polglase has a
well organized fire company which
prevented heavy loss and probably
averted catastrophe.
Safe-cracbers blew open the safe in
the ticket Office of the Big Four rail-
road at Niles, but got only 5 cents.
This makes the seventh time that office
has teen entered and the fifth time
ts=afe has been blown open. The
aAHaS<spast9 ,ep- will. ret ex"eed $40
- Tanner Terpining, farmer livil
= six miles south of Brown City, VIII
. hunting met with serious accide
~ which may prove fatal. The breec
&c pin of his gun blew out, striking hi
in the forehead, tearing out piece
= his skull and exposing the brain. !
- cannot recover.
- Jason f. Hammond, superintendent
elect of public instruction, announce
that his deputy will be ID. f. McClur
of Shelby, his chief competitor for Il
nomination. One of Supt. Hammond
a clerical force will be Miss Violet Mod
of Midland. The others have not Y
J. been decided upon.
:. Mrs. Il. L. Woods caught burgl
r. going through her room at Bait
/ Creek. She did not scream b
promptly made grab at him. TIL,
she called for help and her son 7
: sponded. He chased the fellow dow
p" the street in his night shirt and thre
him down and held him until an offic
= arrived.
The craze for dancing has disrupt,
two homes near White Feather. Nh
. Susan Budd is the wife of your
L farmer. Tom Gilmore is anoth
farmer. Mrs. Gilmore and Mr.. Buc
- cared nothing for country dances, b
! their respective spouses did, and it
said, they soon danced into each othel
heart and then skipped together.
George Stearns and Palmer kellogg
!, inmates of the Soldiers Home at Graz
Rapids, roomed together Kellogg w
an early riser and this habit disturb
y Stearns and led to frequent quarrel
II A fight was the natural result. Ke
/ logg struck Stearns with chair. M
Stearns very seriously stabbed Kellog
three times with pair of shears
y Cornelius Meertens, wealthy co
} tractor at Holland, never tasted .liqu
. until Labor Day, when he got o
with the boys" Since then he h
been on protracted spree, abusing h
/ family and driving them out of I'll
d house. He lived alone then for wee
n and tasted no food in that time II
s family caused his arrest and he w
sentenced to 20 days in Jail in hop
d that he would sober up and come to h
d senses again.
e Mrs. August Fralicl, of Oak Harbo