Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-06
NEWS FOR MICHIOANDERs.

A fast M. G. train killed Will LOOMS,
farmer boy, near jackson junction.
Jas. O'Connor, aged 8, was attacked
and scalped by a vicious dog, at Bay
City.
Army worms in vast numbers are
affecting various portions of Emmett
county.
Sarah j. Russell was fined $500 for
running a house of ill-fame near
Petoskey.
Ellis Kuny, aged Is, tried to commit
suicide at his fathers barn near Adrian
by hanging himself.
Over 5000 people participated in the
Sunday school Rally day for Mason
county at Ludington.
Eva Dollars died in her room in the
Hotel Janzen at Marquette from an
overdose of laudanum.
Mrs. James Corcoran, of 139 Colum-
bus avenue, Detroit, was fatally burned
by a.gasoline explosion.
Five tramps stopped at Saranac and
went bathing in Grand river. William
Scramble was drowned.
Lake carrying business is in very
poor condition, rates are low and many
vessels are being laid up.
Asa G. Hopkins, Jr., well-known
resident of Muslegon, died from the
the effects of a sunstroke.
The sisters of st. Francis will estab-
lish public hospital at Hancock, the
first in Houghton county.
striker at the Wheeler shipyards,
at West Bay City, turned scab and was
badly pounded by union men.
John Mysick, a farmer near Big Rap
ids, has become insane as the result of
an injury in a railroad accident.
Frank Cole and VIM. Sloan were ar
rested near Fowler for selling liquor
with only government license.
o. L. Partridge, ex-secretary of the
loan association at Alpena, has been
arrested charged with embezzling over
So. 600.
Harris new waterworks system has
proven highly satisfactory in recent
tests. About 90, 600 feet of mains have
been laid.
Henry Wolfram, aged 60, farmer
near Rogers City, was arrested for Grim
inal assault upon his 14-year-old
daughter. -.
James Beard, aged Is, of Port Hurdt a,
1wTyvdf6Nhe1 by falling 5verooar
: from the steam yacht Vulcan in S
Clair river.
9 Simeon Barrett, for many years
farmer nc ar Decatur, committed suicid
: by shooting himself while in fit
q dependency.
e Mrs. Charles A. Barry formerly {
jacks has been elected preceptre:
of the State Agricultural college {
Pullman, Wash.
n The electric cars on the new int
I urban road between Saginaw and Ba
i City carried over 800 people the frs
day of its operation.
Twenty members of the X. o. T. NJ
, of st. Joseph, submitted to skin graf
: ing for Miss Annie Rupp, who was n
:. Gently badly burned.
: Lansing will entertain the sixty frs
9 annual session of the Michigan confer
q ence of the Methodist Episcopal churc
g commencing Sept. 16.
v Emil Weiss, of Gore township, Huro
S county, while on his way to the lax
i to get tank of water, was killed b
r his team running away.
e Elias Fuller will start out from S
y Joseph to find the lost steamer Chicor
c by methods of his own. He is afte
a the Sic, 900 reward offered.
> The boiler of j. Sullivan's shingl
. mill exploded at Cedar, killing Waite
Scott, the engineer. None of the othe
10 men were injured. Loss $4,000.
: Abram Woodbecl, of Tecumseh, ser
V to Jail for drunkenness, escaped fror
4 the stonepile gang. He was recaI
v tured and provided with a ball an
a chain.
. Two inmates of the Children's HON
e at st. Joseph died from sewer gas, an
: two more are in critical condition
!; The gas escaped from defectiv
: plumbing.
Chas. III. Crane may die from injurie
received by falling 80 feet from a
: arch he was building over the street q
Sault Ste. Marie, for the firemen
tournament.
Burglars attempted to blow open tn
: safe in A. f. Herrick's store at Farwel
but instead they toppled it over on II
face and were unable to lift il. TIL
safe contained $500.
I In an opinion by Judge Gran
!. the supreme court held unconstit,
4 tional the act of 1895 removing tn
c homeopathic department of the u. {
4 M. from Ann Arbor to Detroit
j, Jennie DeJonge the young girl who's
;, baby was left in grove to die of e,
|. posture, at Grand Rapids, has been r,
/ leased from custody but her mother
r held to answer for the little one
i death.
Q H. "A. Waite. the ex-city controlle,
$ of Port Huron, who returned afte
skipping, was arrested on charge {
embezzling $3.50 and fraudently COZ
N vartinu tho Same IN his own 30,