Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-18
THE TWO PENINSULAS.

Fifty men have gone from Otisville
| to Ludington, to take the place of the
striking freight handlers.
The flats and fair grounds at Ionia,
were flooded by the high water and the
wagon works had to shut down.
The council of Lansing has author
lied the use of the Abbott voting ma
chine at the spring election, April 5.
Scarlet fever is epidemic in Pc toslxey
and over dozen houses are under
quarantine. Schools may be closed.
Miss Eva Tibbetts, of Shepherd, the
sole care of s0-year-old father, has be-
come insane and was taken to the
Traverse City asylum.
The Winthrop iron mine at Ishpem-
ing. of which Senator Mark Hanna is
half owner, will resume work with
several hundred men.
The farm residence of Thomas Max
well, near Lawton, was destroyed by
| fire at 3 a. M, the family barely es-
| Gaping with their lives.
Bay county supervisors passed res
olution urging the state legislature to
| pass the bill to require railroads to
carry bicycles as baggage.
The Ladies Library association, of
Worthwhile, has more than 1000 vol
umes upon its shelves. The ladies are
hustling for new building.
The trial of j. III. 5. Holmes who
| shot and killed Motorman Johnson at
Grand Rapids commences at Allegan
on change of venue, April 20.
Nearly 200 fishermen were carried
far out INTO the Saginaw bay by the
wind breaking the ice into foes, but
they all succeeded in reaching shore in
safety.
The state fair will probably be held
in Detroit this year. Plans are being
pany to put $50 into land and
$50, 600 into buildings.
Farmer Bert Todd's hogs paved over
carriage box in which box of
matches had been left, igniting them.
The barn and several sheds burned to
the ground, near Flushing.
Farmers of Menominee county re-
| port that wildcats are killing cattle.
| Charles Bemis shows two large cats he
killed and he says scores are roaming
| the region near Carbondale.
John Maynard, Union soldier, aged
63, died at Coldwater, having become
respondent when his pension was re-
Ger 'ly reduced from S72 to $50 per
month. lie was almost blind
Muskegon has begun mandamus pro-
ceeding to recover Sl6,256. % delin-
quent taxes in the hand of the county
treasurer. This is in accordance with
recent supreme court decision.
Port Huron police are investigating
story that in certain cheap hotel
the girls are obliged to draw their pay
in the barroom and then devote some
of the money to treating the loungers.
The body of William Raney, the
Sarnia conductor who disappeared two
months ago. at Port Huron, has been
found floating in the river near the
Star-Cole dock. 1t is supposed that he
met with an accident and fell in.
Supervisor NJ. W. Fairbank and wife,
OF Genesee, were driving near the
Sharrick ditch, when the horse SHE'D
and threw both into the water. Mr.
Fairbank was rendered unconscious
and narrowly escaped drowning.
The March electrical storm VIII ich
gave an exhibition in various portions
of the state damaged every telephone
line in Jackson, set fire to the exchange
building and frightened the Bell Co. S
bellies so badly that the curl came out
of their hair
After 10 years of idleness operations
will be resumed at the Rigg copper
mine in Ontonagon county, and about
$40, 900 will be expended for new equip
ment. About 80 men VIII be employed.
1t is probable that other idle copper
mines will resume soon.
Mrs. Mary Norris, a partially blind
woman, was fatally burned at Lansing.
She was working in the kitchen and
her clothing caught fire. She rushed
into the street and Thereon Winans, a
milk peddler, went to her assistance
and poured can of milk over her to
extirguish the flames. The flesh was
so fearfully burned that it dropped
from the arms, limbs and breast
During the absence of their parents
for few moments, a little 4-year-old
daughter OF James Shane got hold OF
some matches and lit them to amuse
her 2-year-old sister. The baby was
soon envelopcd in flames 9-year.
old sister, with much presence of mind
ran for the water pail and extinguished
the flames. but the child was fatally
burned, and died during the night.
Hattie H. Garfield, of Milwaukee
has brought two suits in the United
States circuit court for the northern
district of Michigan against John Can
field, the lumber and salt millionaire
of Manistee. A claim is made for So,
GOO, 900. which, it is alleged, has beer
appropriated by John Garfield, as the
executor OF the estate Of his de
creased brother, who died intestate II
. 1871, leaving a widow and two sons
one of whom became the husband o.
the plaintiff and has since died.
Carl III. Brown, d., g. X. a. w. fire
man living at Grand Ledge, had LEG
cnt off by a passenger train at Ionia.