Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-24
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The large barn of A. Il. Youngs, near
Quincy was burned by incendiaries.
Loss 1000; partially insured.
Over 5000 lives have been lost by the
earthquake disturbances which re-
Gently visited the province of Assam,
East India.
The window glass factory at Orestes,
Ind, has burned The factory is
owned by the United Glass Co., and
employed 400 people and the total loss
will be 500, 900.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
has presented to Secretary of State
Sherman a vigorous formal protest
against the treaty for the annexation
of Hawaii to the United States.
A large hyena escaped from the Lin
coin park menagerie at Chicago, and
during the night ravaged several
graves in Graceiand cemetery. The
police refused to help catch the beast,
but it was killed by a posse of men
about Is miles out in the country.
The trial of Frank Butler, charged
with the murder of Capt. Lee Weller,
and six other men whom he took sep
arately on gold prospecting trips in
Australia, and who was caught in San
Francisco, has been concluded, the
jury rendering verdict of guilty.
A carriage containing four ladies was
struck by train on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Logansport, Ind, and drag
ged 200 feet. Miss Daisy Raymond, of
Valparaiso, was instantly killed, and
Misses Lillian Moore, of Lafayette, and
Stella Foster, of Logansport, were NOR
tally injured.
Over 5000 unemployed Poles marched
to the city hall at Buffalo to demand
bread. The outbreak arose because
8, 200 men asked for work on street rail
way construction, and only so were en-
gagged. The men had long looked for
employment at this work. After their
rejection, a meeting was held, and all
officeholders were denounced.
The library building of the the Iowa
state university was struck by light
ming and destroyed by fire. The loss
is $4,000 OF this $4,000 was in
books. Many of which are out of
print and cannot be replaced, some of
them dating from the beginning of the
10th century Fireman l.. M. Leek was
caught under falling roof and burned
to death. The state carries no insur-
ance on any public buildings.
A very heavy thunder storm passed
over Owosso doing much damage.
Chas. Moss, a laborer, was struck by
lightning and killed while sitting at
the supper table. Miss Horigan was
seriously injured, and horse owned by
Gastric & Shaw was killed while the
driver was holding the team. At Cor
runna the Baptist parsonage was struck
by lightning.
The Michigan Association of indie
pendent Telephone Companies was or
ganized at the Russell house Detroit
with nearly 30 men, representing the
most of the independent companies in
the state, present. Joseph Il. Ware, of
Grand Rapids, was elected president,
and Alex l. Mcleod, of Detroit, sec
sretary. constitution and bylaws
were adopted and everything started
for strong movement to fight the
Bell telephone monopoly.
Thomas Turk, one of the pioneer
residents and merchants of Detroit and
Pontiac, died at his home at the latter
place, at the age of II. He assisted in
laying the first plank sidewalk, one
plank wide, between Grand Circus
park and the city hall in Detroit,
which was laid in 1888. In 1874 he
opened small grocery store in Pom
tiac. The business steadily grew UNI
til 1875, when then he sold to his sons,
who still continue it on a large scale.
X. A. Wilson, superintendent of the
electric light plant at Marquette, says
he has discovered a complete model of
an electric lighting plant made by an
eccentric inventor named John Ingalls,
which has lain i'm disuse since 1887 and
has just been unearthed in perfect
working order. BY it a light similar
to the incandescent bulb is said to be
obtained without the use of filament
the light being caused by waves of
electrical energy forced through vac
uum on "high frequency"