Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-02

strike. All except the leaders IN the
late rike 20 given their old positions
Lightning destroyed the barn Of
Arthur Corey, near Hubbardston.
Eight years ago to the day his barn
was struck and destroyed. On each
occasion Mr.. Corey was in town buying
a binder
Thirty striking miners employed by
the Saginaw Coal Co. went back to
work at the old wages OF 20 cents a
ton. The back bone OF the strike is
now broken and no further difficulty
is anticipated.
The 5-year-old daughter of Timothy
Mcneil WIS burned to death at Water
vliet. her dress being set on fire by her
little brother who was playing with
matches The parents were away
working at the time.
Lynn Cranston was frightfully in
iured at Constantine when he Mt
tempted to pull a shot 'un out of a
boat. The gun exploded. blowing the
muscles OF his arm entirely off. lie is
in critical condition.
Ralph Gould. OF the real estate and
loan firm of Andrew Gould 81 Son, of
jackson, was arrested on charge of
embezzlement and larceny of $500 col
lected on a mortgage executed to Sylvia
r. Rosson, of Missouri.
A man who gave his name as Il. A
Brown, and said that he was WAC ted
in Blairsville, Pa, for embezzlement
of money TO the amount of $3.50, walked
into police headquarters at Grand Rap
ids and gave himself up.
Henry Jennison, of Antioch tow n
ship, Wexford county, which many
people imagine is "A wilderness of pine
stumps, has raised $50 bushels of wheat
off 30 acres, and other farmers average
from 90 to 25, all of fine quality
The largest single shipment of lum-
Der from Bay City this year was f-e
Larges which cleared last week for
Cleveland and Tonawanda with $780,
600 feet. The Bay City lumber mark e t
shows signs of returning activity.
Miss Nellie Clark. n pretty l6-year-
old girl, of Ypsilanti, outwitted her
mother and escaped on borrowed BIZ
cycle to meet her lover, Geo. McDan-
iels, of Detroit, with whom she fled to
Windsor, where they were married.
Pat Kelly, of Marcelius, whose neck
was broken several weeks ago, is still
alive and actually recovering. At first
he was paralyzed below the hips, but
now he is able to sit in chair and
move his legs, and expects soon to
walk as we'll as ever
Herbert A. Chapman, was released
from the Ionia house of correction
after serving three and halt years
sentence for burglarizing Benson &
Crawford's hardware store at Slranac.
He was at once rearrested for entering
Riley Taft's house in Orange township.
The Bay View Epworth League
elected the following officers: lHesi-
----. :. r. S-svv, -".F x. ..,saestrof: He-
troit; secretary, Rev. II. L. Shier, OF
West Branch; treasurer, Mrs. Cross.
man, of st. Johns; trustees. j. T. Berry.
j. Z. Mason, Rev. A. w. Stalker.
The State fair opens at Grand Rapids
Sept. 6. The first day will be Labor
day and suitable program will be car
ried out in counec ion with the usual
doings of labor's holiday. Tuesday is
designated as Children's day, Wednes.
day will be Grand Rapids day. Thurs
day for farmers and fruit growers, and
Friday for everybody.
just after dark G. b. Ross, the sta
ton agent at Minden City, walked
down the siding to seal some freight
cars. Two rods from the depot he was
seized by two men who quickly bound
and gagged him and then robbed him
of S225 and gold watch and tossed him
under freight car. After struggling
some time Ross loosened the bandage
on his mouth and his cries soon brought
help. but the robbers escaped.
While thrashing was in progress on
the farm of Lewis Lefevere, near
Galesburg, bundle OF wheat contain
ing some explosive, presumably dyna-
mite. was fed into the cylinder. The
whole interior of the barn was in
stantly in flames and the seasons crops,
together with an entirely new separ-
ator, the latter the property of Jesse
Simmons. were destroyed. The man
who was feeding was blown out of the
door and seriously burned.
Fire broke out in Ed Croa-kin's
clothing store in the Masonic block al
Dexter and threatened to destroy the
building and spread to other structures
Ann Arbor was appealed to for help,
but the home bucket brigade did such
excellent work the fire was gotten
under control before the engine ar
rived. The building is three-story
brick and was damaged 81 900. Ell
Croarklu'S loss on stock is s., 900, while
E. Jc@- .e'g meat market was dam
aged 500.
The three military companies AT
Grand Rapids have applied to the quar-
termaster-gcneral for the loan OF shell.
Yer tents for their accommodation for
two days during September. They in
tend 20 leave the city in heavy IN trch-
ing order, with tents, blankets, haver-
sacks and cauteens. and strike camp
six miles out They will go through
all the military regulations and rou-
tine, and the next day will move IN