Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-01

ton. The loss is S., 900 with no insur-
ance.
Talk of the electric road between De-
troit and INLAY City, via Warren, Utica,
Romeo and Almont, is being revived.
Rep. Davis believes it will be running
within year.
Frank Il. Sheldon, cashier of the
Chesaning bank died on the train
while returning home from Colorado
Springs, Col, where he went last fall
for his health
John Millen, of Musl<egon, hanged
himself to a bed post in his farm house,
several miles out. His body was dis
covered by his wife, who had gone TO
the farm to see him.
John Cuttings residence at Niles was
burned to the ground. Mrs. Cutting,
aged 90, attempted to save some of the
furniture, but was so badly burned
that she died in a short time.
The grocery store and warehouse of
III. o. Bigelow burned at Shepherd.
Loss $4,000. The store had been rob-
bed and then set on fire. Owing TO
the failure of the water works nothing
was saved
The body of Mrs. Peplinski was
found in the Kawkawlin river near
Bay City. A postmortem showed that
she was dead before she was placed in
the water, and her husband is in Jail
on suspicion.
The constituents of Congressman +.
| T.. of IN trip
were pleased to read of his making a
name as an orator in his speech on the
tariff bill in the national house of rep
resentatives.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting
of the Michigan board of missions of
the interior, of the Congregational
church, was held at Owosso for four
days Mrs. j. b. Angel had charge
of the program.
Edward Hopkins, of Hudson, was
taken to Jail at Adrian violently in
sane. During the night he wrenched
off water pipe, drenching the cells
underneath and wrecking the electric
light apparatus.
While at work in a sawmill at Cold
hand amputated by saw. He was
married only two weeks ago, and had
commenced work in the mill the morn
ing of the accident
Farmers and fruitgrowers of Allegan
and Ottawa counties have arranged TO
open commission houses in Chicago to
distribute their fruit. thus keeping out
of the clutches of the hoggish commits
sion men of that city.
The examination of Chester w Com
stock, manager of the busted Big Rap
ids savings bank, resulted in the ac-
} cused being bound over for trial. This
makes the president, manager and
cashier that are held for trial
A COW owned by Mrs David Morris,
1T Alpena, was killed because of her
queer antics and in the stomach was
been lost by neighbor four years ago.
besides handful of nails, etc.
The roads leading into Lansing are
so bad that farmer with 4 200 pounds
milk on his wagon and seven horses to
draw it got stuck in the mud. He be-
came so Disguised that he emptied the
milk into the road and returned home.
Mrs. Emeline Ball, widow, at
tempted to commit suicide at the home
of her brother, Seymour Hayden near
Quincy. Her sisterin-law found her
hanging by her neck and succeeded in
christening the rope and reviving her.
James Cole, Bay City laborer, be-
gan to beat his wife because the bread
did not suit him. His son Harvey,
aged Z, tried to protect his mother
when the father hurled him to the
floor and and kicked him in the stom-
ach, inflicting fatal rupture.
Sidney IIaight, of Reading, a veteran
of the late war, is going to Cuba to as
sist in the fight for liberty He has
received a commission in the Cuban
army as captain of company of
sharpshooters, all Americans, and
mostly from southern Michigan.
A travelling man who registered as
p. Durdue, of Norwalk, O., was found
unconscious in his room at the Hotel
Williams at Charlotte, with bottle of
morphine and a picture of a young
lady by his side. Doctors worked over
him all night, but he died the next day.
Gov Pingree has, upon the recon-
mendation of the pardon board, par
doned ex-Coroners Jos. Bettinger and
Daniel NJ. Butler, and ex-Clerks Vim.
Bird and Henry Benzing, who were
sent to the Detroit house of correction
last May to serve Is months each for
collecting jury and witness fees for al
legged inquests that were never held.
Several boys in the gallery of the
Grand opera house at Grand Rapids
quarreled and Norman Culver, aged II,
J and Morris Courtney, aged 10, retired
to the alley to fight it out. Courtney
was getting the best of it when Culver
drew knife and stabbed him in the
neck and breast. The blade pene-
trated the lung and may prove fatal.
: The sudden death of Mrs. Stantle y
Felepiak, at Bay City, after taking
headache powders, caused great
excitement Mrs. Felepiak had been
involved in a quarrel the night before.
The families were ants in the recent
Polish church war, and both factions