Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-08
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

The Queen mine at Negaunee started
up with 275 men, and the force will be
increased
Russell Woodlin, age 90, colored, was
drowned in Spring Lake, near Battle
Creek, while bathing.
The Tappan Shoe Co., has broken
ground for Sl2, 900 factory, to en-
ploy 200 men at Coldwater.
Herbert Townsend, farmer near
Perrinton, was kicked in the pit of the
stomach by horse and he may die.
A. j. Jucket, Homer farmer, has
been appointed deputy oil inspector for
the Ninth district, ending bitter fight.
Mrs. Ernest Maurer, of Niles, acct
dentally cut an artery in her arm and
bled to death before the doctor arrived.
Geo. Mcintyre was sent from North
Vile to the reform school for four
years for stealing Arthur Buzzell's
bicycle. arl5
r. Ii. Arthur and wife have been
chosen superintendent and matron
respectively of the Masonic home at
Grand Rapids.
Harry l.. Williams, of Sturgis, has
invented flying machine, attached to
a balloon, which he says can be guided
and controlled with ease
A portable boiler used by Kennedy
e. Campbell, pavement contractors, ex-
ploded at Bay City, but no one was
near enough to get hurt.
The general store of Willard Smith,
at Yates, a country postoffice near
Copemish, was struck by lightning and
burned down. Loss $1,7OO.
Jesse Hainer, aged 10, jumped from
the topmost point of the Maple street
bridge at Manistee, 35 feet to the water
and swan ashore uninjured.
The Dryden roller mills and eleva-
tor burned down. Loss, S13, 500; in
surance, 81, 900. j. c. Lamb, of INLAY
City, was the owner. Cause of fire not
known.
Thomas Hall was kicked so severely
in fight Joseph Bryant, at Dowagiac,
that he died, and Bryant is locked up
on charge of manslaughter. Both
are colored.
George j. Howard, aged 80, employee
of the First National bank at Niles,
was drowned while bathing at Barren
lake. The board of directors had just
made him assistant cashier.
A man who. registered at the Har-
rington house at st. Louis, as j. w.
Houcks, of Belding, committed suicide
in his room by taking morphine. Over
President Mckinley has again hon
ored Michigan by naming w. X. An
derson, of Detroit, as consul at Han
over, Germany, and James Shepard,
of Cassopolis, u. s. consul at Hamil-
ton, Ont
| When the. Aragon miners at Norway
learned that the mine had been sold
and would be started up again they
hoisted flags, shot off firecrackers,
| got out the fire department and had a
regular jubilee.
Corunna's council decided to advance
Sc, 900 to the ID. X. Salisbury shoe fac
tory, but protects the city by taking a
bill of sale for five years. If Salisbury
runs his factory all that time he will
be credited with $500 each year on the
bill of sale.
Archie Gordon, ex-Constable Sellers
and Ernest West were arrested at
Battle Creek, charged with conspiracy
to bride Prosecuting Attorney Lock-
ton, the complainant in case against
West, the circuit judge, sheriff and
other officers.
Mrs. Gil Darling and her 4-year-old
child were fatally burned by the ex-
plosion of gasoline stove at Hastings.
The child died few hours after the
accident. Mrs. Darling was filling the
gasoline stove, which was close TO a
hot wood stove.
Prof. Thomas NJ. Cooley, of the u.
of M. faculty, who has been constantly
growing weaker for the past two
years, has begun to lose his mind and
his condition will soon warrant his be-
| irg sent to some private institution
for special care.
| Joseph Haynes and wife were lodged
| III VIC hSuI county jail III ooSaiihB 10
chickens belonging TO Mrs. James Lar
away, of Cascade. The chickens we're
found in an upstairs room of Haynes
house, They say they stole them to
keep from starving.
j. ID. S. Hanson, editor of the Hart
Journal, was driving with his wife
and two daughters, when the team be-
come unmanageable. Hanson and the
girls jumped out, but Mrs. Hanson
stayed in for nearly mile, when she
jumped, striking upon her head and
shoulders, and receiving such injuries
that she may die.
Several years ago Allegan township,
Allegan county, agitated the subject
of good roads, with the result that
there are now 80 miles of the best
graded and graveled turnpikes, in place
of what were once sandy wastes.
Other townships caught the fever, peo-
pie subscribed literally, and in very
few years Allegan county will have
roads as good as those in France.
While Charles Nelson, aged "a, a
popular young man of Cadillac sat on
bench in Washington park, Chicago
with lady friend, an unknown assas-