Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-25
THE TWO PENINSULAS.

Barryton is to have a bank.
Caro- Masons talk of erecting q temple.
John Schleur's foot was caught in a
planer and cut off at Bad Axe.
Farmers have raised the necessary
So, 900 stock for butter factory at San
lilac Center.
John Spade, aged IS, near Holland,
accidentally shot himself in the left
breast. Fatal.
The Loretto sisters are planning to
erect a large Catholic seminary at
Sault Ste. Marie.
Thomas the only eol of VIM. May,
was drowned while fishing on Pleasant
lake, near Leslie.
The grocery store of John Rose, of
Fisher avenue, Bay City, was destroyed
by fire; loss $1,000.
The Kalamazoo gas company fur
nishes free a gas stove TO all families
who will use gas as a fuel
j. Russell was found dead in his hut,
east of Seney He was an old hunter
and is thought 20 have frozen to death
Henry Golden. aged 6S, was very
severly injured by falling down stairs
at Wales while carrying bag of beans.
The Senate committee on the Uni
versity of Michigan recommends an APP
preparation of $50, 900 for a law library
at that institution.
In the homeopathic hospital at the
L. of NJ new cure for rupture has
been discovered and is proving success
full in a great many cases.
Peter Olson was delivering goods on
the west side OF Grand Rapids when
his little boy wandered away from the
wagon, fell into the canal and was
drowned.
The L. 5. supreme courts have de-
cided that states have the right to tax
the franchises of corporations, such as
express, telegraph and railroad com
| panies.
Judge w. f. Grove of the Kent cir
cult court, has sent his resignation to
Gov. Pingree because the supervisors
cut his salary $1,000. Gov. Pingree
will appoint his successor.
Fire destroyed the residence of
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Charles Dawson at Pontiac. The eX-
plosion of an overturned lamp caused
the blaze. The building was totally
destroyed, but some of the contents
were saved. Loss 81, 500.
After jilting young farmer at Zil-
waulkee and marrying Sanford Secord,
[ aged A., Maud Wrightman. pretty
| girl aged IS, was content only one
week and now seeks a divorce so she
can marry the younger lover.
| Postmaster-General Gary, has made
the definite announcement that. exec pit
| in a few cases, where removal for
cause was required all postmasters,
fourth-class as well as presidential,
would be allowed to serve out term
of four years This affects 70,675 post
masters.
Newaygo county's school commits
sioner fight is a peculiar one. Two
years ago +. c. Stillson ran on the
Democratic opulist ticket, defeating
the Republican nominee, John Har-
wood, of White Cloud. This year Still
son is the Republican nominee, and the
Harwood faction in that party is pre-
pairing to knife him by voting for the
Democratic nominee.
One child of Frank Nowart, of Calu-
met, died after few days illness and
lay in the house two days. After its
burial two more children came down
with diphtheria and another died three
days later. During the second funeral
the mother gave birth TO another child.
Now the whole family is i'll and severa
of the neighbors' children are down
with the dread disease.
Col. Hiram c. Hodge. aged "a. died
at the home of his son. DIR. ii. ID.
Hodge, at Jackson. Col. Hodge was
elected to the lower house of the sta tc
legislature and then to the senate. aDi
in 1850 he ran for congress on the
Greenback ticket, but was defeated
He was great traveller and wrote
brilliantly for leading papers and mag
zines. He was blind for several years.
Joseph Schluchter, produce mer-
chant at Pigeon, has written Maj,
Pebbles, of the Salvation Army at De
troit, saying that if the latter will send
him $50 sacks, he and other citizens of
that town will fill them and ship them
to Detroit at once. The railroad com
pany has agreed to transport the pota-
toes free, and il will be the largest
single consignment thus far received
for the poor of Detroit.
locke Wiersma, a farmer three miles
north of Holland, was moving his resi-
dence when the foundation gave way
and the entire building, weighing sew
eral tons, landed on his chest and hips.
For nearly half an hour he lay in this
position. breathing heavily, but seem
ingly uninjured. When the house was
raised few inches IL fell back, and
this time every rib in Wiersma's body
was broken, crushing the bones
through his lungs. Even in this condi-
ton he lived several hours. but finally
died 10 awful aUonv