Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-26

had been drinking.
The Third Michigan cavalry reunion
was held at Lansing with over 100
members present. Adrian Yates of
Grand Rapids. was elected president
and o. Il. Webster of Owosso, secretary.
. Mrs. Esther Kinney celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
at Laingsburg. She is in good health
and does enough walking, working and
reading To tire many younger women.
At the winding up of n dance in
drunken row at the boarding house of
August Linn. at Fulton, Jacob Pollan.
aged 30, single, was killed. The sher-
itf locked four men in Jail on suspicion.
Margaret l. Tate, the pretty daugh.
ter of VIM. Tate, began suit by capias
ut Grand Rapids against Harrison 4.
Ledyard, claiming $4,000 for breach
of promise to marry, and deception
generally.
Chauncey +. Mccormick. local agent
of the Chicago, Kalamazoo Il Saginaw
railroad at Kalamazoo, has disappeared
and il is said that there is large
shortage in his accounts. He was
heavy drinker.
At "A depth of 3Sj feet large body
of magnetic ore has been encountered
on the Quinnesec town site. The find
is considered the most important and
| valuable that has been made on the
| Menominee range in recent years.
The Indictment against Edwy c.
| Reid, of the Allegan Gazette. in the
| L. ). court at Grand Rapids, for pub
fishing obscene poetry in his paper and
depositing it in the mails. was quashed
because of insufficient evidence. New
charges will be made.
Fire originated in the basement
of the Lenawee Preserving Co.'S
plant at Adrian. 1t followed the
stairways and elevator to the roof
burning the floors, part of the roof
and doing $4,000 damage to the build
ing and machinery.
Benjamin Hathaway the farmer
poet of Little Prairie Ronde, is dead.
Hathaway made his own coffin. Years
ago he planted chestnut tree. Not
long ago he felled the tree, sawed it
up and made the box into which he
was carried to his grave.
Gov. Rich has appointed William S.
Turck, of Alma, a member of the board
of managers of the Soldiers Home to
succeed James A. CroZier, of Menomi-
nee, who was recently elected com
mandant. Mr.. Turck's term of Office
will expire in March, 1899.
The little son of Joseph Toynton.
aged two and half years. fell over
chair at Pontiac and bit his tongue,
which bled profusely for some time.
Two days later the wound broke out
afresh and, despite all the doctors
could do, the little boy died.
The Burbridge block at Bay City was
damaged to the extent of SIS, 900 by
fire. The Bay City Cigar Co., on the
second floor, loses 81, 900 and William
Keisler, saloonist on the first floor
@s~s &9f u ne ,Y losssss are &c eoSaed .,
insurance. The origin of the fire i
unknown.
Rufus Baker and wife celebrated
their golden wedding ut Fairfield
Mr.. Baker was poor man 80 years
ago, but by frugality he has becom,
one of the largest tax payers in Fair
field. He started one of the first
if not the first cheese factory in Lena
wee county.
Muskegon has mystery. In hous,
on the Rood farm the body of Charlie,
Converse with his throat cut was founC
and by his side closed razor and :
letter To his daughter. The letter wa,
not the dead mans writing and ther,
are many who believe that he wa,
murdered. But no motive is given
Joseph Albert Vinson, of Port HUI
ron, "A convict in the northern prison
with several aliases, has made a seconC
written statement to the prison chap
lain confessing to six murders Vim
son has served time in Ohio and Mich
igan prisons. and if his confession i.
substantated, his criminal record j.
appalling.
Elder Buck. the divine healer. whC
took undue liberties with woman
who called him in to treat her a
Grand Rapids was fined $50 anC
costs with 30 days in Jail as an alter
native. Not having the funds, h,
went to Jail. His wife and two chill
dren have arrived from Dakota. anC
are in destitute circumstances.
Peter Rheinhart moved out of tn,
old building at Benton Harbor two
weeks ago where live of his sever
children died of diphtheria and the
sixth, a girl of 10, was left speeches,
by the disease. While the seventh
was vet barely convalescent their HON,
and most of their belongings wer,
consumed by fire. Their loss is $500
with no insurance. The family is en-
tirely penniless.
Workmen, while ditching near Eat
Claire, unearthed portion of the skel
eton of mammoth. A tooth tina
was dug up measured p inches in cir
conference, the jaw bone was nearly
three feet in diameter and tusk wa,
two feet in length. Three teeth wer,
found which glistened as though re
Gently polished. Other huge bone,
were found and the entire skeleton
will probably be brought to light.
Two men, one whose name cannot
be learned, the other giving the nam,
of William Hunt. were asphyxiated b,
gas at the Bayview hotel at Marquette
Both men were aborers of middle age
and unmarried. Hunt, ut one time
admitted that his name was assumed
and said his real name was Ilargraves
His family connections in England are
said TO bc highly respectable and h,
claimed To be the owner of an estat,
worth S4,000,O00
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