Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-01
THE TWO-PENINSULHS.

A reunion of Mexican veterans was
held at Orion.
JOS Kissiclxs barn and stored crops
burned near Negaunee.
The annual camp meeting of the
Seventh Day Adventists is being held
at Owosso.
The Truddel rifles, of Iron Mountain,
have let the contract for an armory to
cost 1000.
Dowagiac will have Y. NJ. c. A.
building, 81, 900 having been raised for
that purpose.
The first train over the new Monroe
and Toledo extension of +. e p. NJ. was
% carloads of cedar poles.
While duck shooting A. j. White, of
Scion, accidentally discharged a gun,
Sha.te3w 3 his right arm. r2
The grand lodge of Good Samaritans
and Daughters of Samaria was held at
Jackson with 25 delegates present.
Frank Clark, aged 30, attempted to
kis wife and father with an ak, near
Willow. He was arrested as insane.
Lyons authorities arrested William
Sloan and Lillian Shaw who have been
living together without being married.
Myron Rogers, farmer near Ithaca,
sold his farm and the built house on
wheels in which to move his family to
Texas.
Capt. Thomas ID. Walls, of Detroit,
master of the tug Dave and Nose died
at East Tawas from an overdose of
morphine.
James Harris, a miner in the Millie
mine at Iron Mountain, was killed by
premature blast. He leaves a widow
and five children.
The mammoth paper mill of the Quin-
nesec Falls Co. commenced operations
near Iron Mountain. The plant is one
of the largest in the west
The annual picnic of the Ionia county
battalion, G.. A. r., was held at Sara
nae. Hon. James O'Donnell and Judge
Daboll were the speakers.
Emery Pratt, farmer, was instantly
killed near Oshtemo. While he was
sinking large well he was caught in
cavern ana buried allVe.
A young man named Very Coon was
sentenced in the circuit court at Lam
sing to two years in the Ionia house of
correction for stealing bicycle.
The wheat granary on Henry Roots
farm near Plymouth broke down and
the wheat ran out. Three valuable
horses ate so much of the grain that it
killed them.
Michael Tanning was seriously in
jured while at work cleaning away the
debris of the opera house ruins where
IL firemen were killed at Benton
Harbor.
Capt. Henry L. Hunt, of Co. ID, at
Jackson, has received commission
from Gov. Rich promoting him to be
Junior major of the First regiment,
Michigan National Guards.
VIII Cebolt, a mulatto, was fishing
off the bridge over st. Joseph river at
Benton Harbor when he was taken
with a fit and fell into the water. He
leaves a widow and two children.
Jesse Stackford, of plymouth town
ship, Saginaw county, had ms own son
arrested for stealing two melons. The
boy was promptly acquitted. Stack
ford and wife are separated, and the
boy lived with his mother.
The fifty-second annual meeting of
the Michigan grand lodge, /. o. o. F.,
and the annual assembly of the Daugh-
ters of Rebekah of Michigan, will be
held at Lansing, Oct. 81, % and 20.
Six years ago Judge Burlingame, of
Grand Rapids, sentenced VIM. Skahan
to five years imprisonment for bur
glary. The fellow called the judge
names and told him to go to place
where overcoats are superfiuous
quantity. A few days ago the fellow
appeared before the Judge again for
some small offense. and the judge got
even by sending him to jackson prison
for 10 years.