Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-09-23
Grand Rapids iobbers adopted reso-

Grand Rapids jobbers adopted reso-
lutions condemning the new inter
changeable mileage books and APP
pointed a committee to wait on the
presidents of the G. II. e. l., G. & w.
NJ and d., G.. X. & w. railroads, to see
| if the numerous restrictions and con-
| ditions surrounding the sale of the
books may not be removed.
President Mckinley has appointed
Freeman Ii. Dickerson, the well-known
book publisher, as postmaster at De-
troit. Other postmasters appointed:
At Escanaba, Chas. M. Thatcher; Fow-
lerville, Aaron c. Cooper; Gaylord,
Faustina M. Towle; Morenci Abram
BabcocS; Norway, Richard M. Samp-
son, Jr.; Quincy, Francis f. Marsh, Jr.
Wayne, Henry Loss.
An attempt to wreck Michigan Gen.
trail train at Mason was frustrated by
flagman who discovered that switch
had been opened and a coupling pin
wedged in between the split rail and
the main track. At this point the
track is on an embankment Is feet
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been serious. A tramp who passed
through the town is suspected.
Stephen S. Hurlbert Charles f.
Lyman and Fred w. Gage, prominent
residents of Battle Creek, have been
arrested, charged with having polluted
Goguac lake by bathing therein. The
city obtains its water supply from this
lake. The men arrested are among
the numerous owners of land and sum
mer cottages on the lake, and they
will fight for their riparian rights.
Edwin +. Uni. .x-assistant secretary
of state and ex-ambassador to Ger
many, will probably leave Grand Rap
ids for good. He has formed Chicago
law partnership with Frank III. Jones,
former first assistant postmaster-gen-
eral and X. NJ. Lands, ex-private sec
rotary to the late Secretary of State
Gresham, under the firm name of Uhl
Jones & Landis His wife and family
are still in Germany.
Sarah Fitch, frequent offender in
police court at Grand Rapids was SEN
fenced to 30 DAYS in jail and her hus-
band received a similar sentence at the
same time. The woman's fine was
afterward paid and she was released.
She took dose of morphine and, GO
ing to the Jail, called for her husband
and when he appeared she said she was
going to die, and fell in swoon at his
feet. Medical attendance failed to
save her.
The famous Sparrow insanity case,
the trial of which created such a sem
sation at Lansing year ago and
which resulted in the finding that Miss
Henrietta Sparrow was insane, is about
to be tried all over again. Judge @. A.
Smith, attorney for Miss Sparrow, has
fled the required bond for an appeal
to the circuit court in accordance with
an act of the last legislature which
was passed with special reference to
this case.
Three houses were broken into early
in the evening in the outskirts of Hud-
son, and then David Way discovered
the burglar leaving his house. He fol-
lowed the fellow four miles into the
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got drop on him. The burglar tried
to get away when Way shot him
through the thigh and then loaded him
into the wagon and took him to town.
He was identified as the notorious
James Butler, lifelong colored Grim
inal He may die from his wound.
After nearly three months idleness
between $4,000 and 10000 miners in
the Pittsburg district have returned to
work in accordance with the action of
the Columbus convention. Nearly all
of the others will go to work within
a few days, 1t is estimated that the
strike, which lasted 60 working DAYS,
cost the people of the Pittsburg dis
trict over $1,000, 600. OF this amount
the strikers lost about s.. $50, 900 in
wages. The strike against the Dear
mits will be continued until they come
to the 65-cent rate.
Imposing ceremonies marked the
dedication of the new NJ. j.. church at
Alma. The building cost 81, 500. Rev.
w. NJ. Puffer, presiding elder of the
Lansing district, conducted the cere-
monies. The dedication sermon was
preached by Rev. DIR. Il. l. Ives, of Au-
burn, n. Y, and he raised $1,000 to
wipe out the church debt. L. the
afternoon a service was conducted by
Rev. Joseph +. Berry, editor of the
Epworth Herald, Chicago, and in the
evening Secretary of State Washington
Gardner delivered an address.
Three Columbus, o., penitentiary
prisoners assaulted the guards, took
their guns, then appeared in the guard