Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-09

ElBnl-ycar-OluJ Joseph EdkWflInt, OF
Bailey, was adjudged insane, and com
mitted to the Traverse City asylum.
He is probably the Youngest patient
ever sent to an asylum in Michigan.
\ Coldwater adopted the plan of work
ing its city Jail guests in the gravel
pits or breaking stone, each wearing a
ball and chain. After week of il the
last hobo slipped off the ball and chain
l and disappeared, and the tramp frater-
nifty now give Coldwater the go by.
Il ID. ID. Robinson, of Niles, has just
\ celebrated his seventy fifth birthday.
4 He has been blacksmithing ever since
he was II, and he can WELD the ham
mer with as much vigor as any man of
| 40. He says he will never retire as
long as there is strength in his arm.
A steamboat Queen of the Lakes will
be running on Grand river from Grand
Rapids to Grand Haven this fall if a
plan of the Grand Rapids board of
trade goes through. The government
has reached Lamont, clearing the
channel of sandbars and other impedi-
ments, and navigation is open to that
point.
A printing press was found in a barn
at Grand Rapids by the secret service
officers upon which choice line of
counterfeit bills had been printed.
4 The counterfeiters are in custody at
La Porte Ind, but the head of the
gang, Martin Misner, is a Grand Rap
ids man and made his home the base
of operations.
James Welch, a disspated but usually
good-natured farmer near Hudson, was
arrested on a charge of stabbing his
wife in the neck and face with jack
knife and Of shooting at his step-son,
/ Clyde Manning, who took his mothers
part and who made complaint against
! Welch. A quarrel over property led up
to the stabbing.
John Pyle, formerly well-known
carpenter and contractor of Kalama-
ZOO, was found dead in his room at the
Kalamazoo house. He is supposed to
i have committed suicide. He had been
drinking. He has wife and son and
three daughters in Battle Creek and a
son in Chicago, Tut has not lived with
his family for several years.
The body of a man, terribly mangled,
was found on the G.. II. & |. tracks two
miles south of Grand Rapids. 1t was
later identified as that of Joseph Mar
\ vim. He and James Heath fell into the
hands of a gang of tramps while steal
ing a ride on freight, and they were
1 robbed and thrown from the train.
Heath was only slightly injured.
|. Supt. A. G. Murray, of the state pub
lie school at Coldwater, has resigned,
he says. TO take position with man
ufacturing concern at Cortland, n. Y.
1t is understood, however, that too
much interference with the manage
ment of the school by the board was
the real cause of his resignation. He
makes the fifth superintendent who
has served a term of only two years.
Railroad Commissioner Wesselius
made the statement that Gov. Pingree
win call special session of the legis-
Z lature to be held soon after the holi-
Mays to secure the passage a. .legisla-
~. :. 1917 - So
x G5S. s'ft tiisstsss'e6 says he hasn't said a
word TO anybody about calling an
extra session of the legislature and
wants to know ''who is governor of
this state, anyway.
The steamer City of Alpena of the
Detroit & Cleveland line collided with
and sank the sail yacht Hattie V, of
Alpena, in Thunder bay. The boat
was manned by John Weber, her
owner, and John c. Comfort cashier
of the Alpena National bank. Both
men were soon picked up by a boat
from the City of Alpena. which had
been lowered to their rescue immedi-
ately. The yacht sank at once in so
feet of water and will be a total loss.
She was valued at 81 900.
1t is expected that work will be com
menced within a month on the indus
trial cooperative scheme at the de-
serted old town of Lincoln, near Lud-
ington, which was once the county seat
of Mason county The development
company, which is composed of Chi
cago people, intends starting an indus
trial college, with a cooperative fruit
and vegetable garden, a dairy and q
cheese factory, poultry farm and can
ming and picking factory. Later they
will erect hotel TO be used sailors
snug harbor" in winter, and as low
priced resort for poor Chicago working
women in the summer.
Things were twisted around and
mixed up in great shapa by cyclone
about Warren. 1t cut "a swath five
miles long, and many chimneys, wind
mills, hay stacks, sheds and roofs were
blown to pieces. John Engel's new
house was laid fat. Every piece of
corn in the path is down and good for
nothing but fodder. At Center Line,
three miles SOUTH the storm tore one
of the chimneys from the Catholic
church and uprooted or smashed every
tree in John Spoilers large orchard.
At Mrs. A. Peters farm the barn doors
were blown open and double buggy
was carried about 10 rods and wrecked.
The corporation of Brown university
at Providence, K. L., voted to request
President Andrews to withdraw his res
ipnation. The trustees came down from
their thigh horse" and declared that