Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-18
THE TWO PENINsuLAs.

near bay City.
Miss Evangeline Leverage, of Char
coal Corners, Hillsdale county, fell
while skating and swallowed her false
teeth Fears are entertained for her
recovery.
The mines on the Menominee range
have reduced wages 10 TO 20 per cent
and strike may result. At the same
time the strikers at Norway want to
return TO work, but were refused.
State OIL Inspector Mcmillan has
paid into the state treasury Sl1, 625.75,
the net profits of his Office during 1896,
after paying salaries and expenses.
His deputies inspected 1880, 900 gal
Ions.
The farm residences of VIII Smith
and George fuller, of Boston township,
and w. A. Lee, of Berlin, Ionia county,
were destroyed by fire in one night.
They were all insured in the Farmers
Mutual.
The farm house of the Fence River
Logging Co., with other buildings,
nine miles from Menominee, has
burned. Loss. $4,000. Several farm
hands were hurt in jumping from the
third story.
A 3-year-old daughter of John Caus-
ley, of Bay City, swallowed a tin
watch attached to a piece of candy.
The watch cannot be removed, except
by an operation, and is almost sure To
cause blood poisoning
The Detroit & Mackinac has pur-
chased depot grounds at Posen, from
which place the proposed road to Che
boygan will be built SO as to take in
Rogers City and the shore towns, with
branch to Rainy lake.
Aunt Nuby," a colored woman, al
most 100 years old, was found in her
miserable hut at Bangor, frozen to
death. She lay beside the stove and a
few burnt pieces of paper indicated
that she had attempted to light fire.
The court house was filed at Big
Rapids with creditors of the Mecosta
County Savings bank, who roasted the
management of the defunct bank and
called the officials very ugly names
and voted to start an official investiga-
ton.
A. ID. Ackles, an old resident OF
Parma, and a war veteran was found
hanging from rafter in an old house
adjoining his residence. He has been
working for an increase of pension,
and it is supposed the failure to get ii
unbalanced his mind.
VIM. Thurston, a veteran at the Sol
diers' home at Grand Rapids, died sud
denly. A postmortem examination
disclosed bullet in his lungs wrapped
in piece of cloth which was forced
through the flesh with the bullet. He
had carried it for 30 years.
A score or more accidents occurred
at Bay City on account of icy walks.
Mrs. HlSV. Wright, wife of the mayor,
has been injured internally. Roswell
Wands strained the ligaments in his
chest, so that he is very i'll, and Isaac
Elbinger fractured a knee cap.
Joseph Omslicker. farmer five
miles south of st. Joseph, is said to
have found $4,000 while digging a
cellar for new house The money was
in rusty iron box and consisted
mostly OF gold coin. 1t is said the
money was buried by an Indian chief
35 years ago, to prevent it being stolen.
Supervisor Sanborn, of Alpena
county has presented to AuditorGen.
eral Dix the claim of that county for a
credit of Sl1 200, the amount of taxes
enormously charged between 1891 and
1896, owing to the error of the state
board of equalization of 1891 in adding
the personal assessment of the coun ty
twice.
The annual meeting of the state as
ISOLATION of Mutual Fire insurance
companies was held at Lansing with
some 40 delegates present. The feature
of the reports made by delegates is the
unusually large percentage of losses
caused by lightning, in many countie:
the lightning losses exceeding those
from other causes.
The people of school district No. /
Algoma township, Kent county, are
divided over the question Of holding
religious services in the school house
One faction is holding revival services
every night and the others have tried
repeatedly to break up the services
but did not succeed until they turned
a skunk loose during a service. Pros
ecutions will probably follow.
Marshal Peterson, of Ann Arbor
and two deputies arrested VIM. Lar
klns, Ed Lyons and Rupart Jones, al
of Plymouth, on the charge of robbing
and numbering James Richards, the
hermit farmer, who lived between
Plymouth and Ypsilanti, on Jan. 30
None of the accused can give an accur
ate account of his whereabouts on the
night of the murder. They are each
about % years of age and live at Ply
mouth
Republicans are trying to GUST Darius
A. Babcock, Jr., treasurer of st. Joseph
county, because the name on the bal
lot was simply Darius A. Babcock
without the "Jr." 1t is maintained
that if any Babcock was elected, i
must have been the father. The Dem
ocrats, however, reply that 'Jr." il
not legal part Of the name, and tina
those who piled up big majority
knew whom they were voting for.
Charles A. jackson, superintendent
of the Jackson Mich. Paper Manufac
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