Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-05-13

The state military board has decided
TO hold the annual encampment of the
Michigan National Guard at Island
Lake on Aug. TO $.
Chas Trueblood, farmer near Pine
Ridge, was run into by G. & n. W.
locomotive at Escanaba, and injured
SO severely that he died.
Battle Creek is going TO set apart
square in the heart of the city where
the Grand Army memorial cannon and
monument will be placed.
Samuel Barlow, aged 20, died at
Ridgeway from starvation, having been
unable to take food for two months
because of a stomach trouble.
Benton IIarbor is TO have a new $685.
600 opera house to take the place OF
Cores theater, which burned last fall,
IL firemen being killed by the falling
walls.
viii GRANGE, of Remus, while play
ing with revolver thought TO be I'M
loaded. shot his married sister, proba-
bly, fatally, the ball passing through
the bladder.
The l3-year-old daughter of Adam
Smith. near Moline, had the top of her
head blown off by the accidental dis
charge of shotgun in the hands of
her little brother.
David II. Wilson of Detroit, went out
TO Crosse Pointe on "a pleasure trip.
On his return he was struck by car
| on jefferson avenue, near Fox creek,
and was instantly killed.
Miller Hobbs saloon and Colson's
drug store were badly damaged by fire
at KallSaslxa, the losses being 5000 and
s., 900 Hard work was all that saved
the whole business section.
The common council at Litchfield.
has lowered the rate for liquor bond
from Sc, 900 to $4,000. Litchfield has
been local option for the past six years,
but will now have at least three sa-
/ looms.
VIM Van Akin and family of IL
children were evicted from their farm
near Hudson on account of the fore
closure of mortgage. Neighbors gave
them shelter for the night, but they
will probably become county charges.
John McMan. aged 70, died at Mosh-
erville in destitute circumstances,
shortly after he had received letter
saving that he was one of the heirs to
a $500, 900 estate left by his brother in
Australia. His widow will try to get
the fortune.
The body of Il. f. Osborne, aged "a
of Dowagiac, was found jn the hold OF
the steam barge Olympia, in the har-
Dor al Cleve land. Osborne's head was
crushed in and his clothes had been
stripped of valuables. The police be
lieve he was murdered.
While intoxicated Benjamin Bour
geois, aged "a, saloonkeeper at St
Paul and Townsend avenues, Detroit
lay down in bed and, placing revol
yer in his mouth, pulled the trigger
The bullet plowed through the roof OF
the mouth and the brain, producing
almost instantaneous death.
A short time ago Robert Mccarthy
Clarence Brooks and Fred Fountain
com nitted frightful assault il
Bridgewater township, Washtenay
county, on Mrs Conrad Berg, a widow
aged "A, and her maiden daughter
aged "A. Mccarthy has been sentences
to life imprisonment at jackson
Brooks, 10 years at Ionia, and Foun
tain, one year at Ionia.
The Detroit bridge and iron work
has secured the contract of construct
ing the mammoth railroad bridge TO
the Grand Trunk railway at Montreal
The cost will probably reach beyon
81, 900, 900. The present railroad bridg
at Montreal is over mile long.
must be taken down and the ne'
bridge erected in such way that
, will not interfere with traffic and wi
be 60 feet above the water. The opei
alton of constructing it will be one {
the biggest engineering feats know
in this country for many years.
Three Rivers, Sturgis and Centervill
are all struggling for the county sea
of st. Joseph county. Centerville
present has that honor, but at TIL
spring election Il proposition to spen
S4, 500 repairing the county buildin
| was voted down and then Three Ri
ers council asked the state legislator
to allow them to issue $4,000 bonds
/ build new court house in their tow
; Sturgis people quietly opposed tn
latter scheme, having a string the
wished to pull and now the fight
: growing warm.
Athens newspapers say that a stron
Turkish force from Janina, co-opera
ing with the Turkish garrison at Pei