Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-09-29

An unknown woman, aged about so,
was run over and killed by the west
bound passenger train on the Detroit
& River st. Clair railroad, between
Chesterfield and New Baltimore.
Gen. Arthur II. Marsh, of Allegan,
the new chairman of the Republican
state central committee, has designated
Harvey A. Sherwood, of Grand Rapids,
as committee secretary to succeed ID. 4.
Award.
Some few weeks ago Leonard Jones,
living four miles west of Highland
Station was blown from his wheel and
his skull fractured. The young man
is now insane, due, it is believed, to
the accident.
Just before the 19 companies of the
32d Michigan left Island Lake for
their various homes Chaplain Kelley
presented Col. McGurrin with a dia-
mond ring in behalf of the officers of
the regiment.
Lieut.. Sargent, who as executive Off
Ger of the U. s. auxiliary cruiser Yo-
semitic was bitterly complained against
by the Michigan Naval Reserves, has
been relieved from duty and placed on
waiting orders.
Mrs. Mary Z. Battin, of Steubenville,
o., claiming to be the widow of a
prominent Buckeye judge, is under ar
rest for theft at Ann Arbor. She says
she was under the influence of liquor
when she committed the crime.
The estate of DIR. Elizabeth Bates, of
Port Chester, N. Y, who left her prop
erty to establish chair of dis
eases of women and children at the
U. of NJ, inventories $1,000 against
which there are claims aggregating
$4,000.
The steamer Queen of the Lakes
burned TO the waters edge while in
harbor at South Manitou island, where
she had ran in for shelter from the
storm on Lake Michigan. No lives
were lost, but the crew lost all of their
belongings.
Briggs & Smalley's saw feed and
planning mills and contents were
burned at Vicksburg, involving a loss
of So. 900 or over with no insurance.
When discovered the buildings were
half burned, and the fire department
saved adjoining property.
Ed Hughes, Clio lad of Is, left his
widowed mother and home month
ago. Nothing has been heard of him
since uu,il his mother received a tele-
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riding on freight train at London,
Ont. His mother is nearly distracted
The body of Anna Vandam, the
young lady who was missing from her
home in Muskegon was found in the
lake near the Goodrich Tran sportation
Co. 5 wharf. There were no marks of
violence on the body with the eXcep-
ton of slight cut over the left eye.
1t is evidently case of suicide.
Nicholas Thompson is in Jail at
Houghton under suspicion of having
murdered his wife at Portage Entry.
| He bears a hard reputation. and as he
had half killed the woman in previous
outbreaks her disappearance under
peculiar circumstances leads to the be-
lief that he has made away with her in
some way.
A heavy cloudburst did great damage
| to wheat fields about Sturgis. The
water came in such torrents that great
burrows were cut in fields never known
to wash before and in many instances
the complete surface of the ground
was washed away, carrying the seed
and young wheat with it. Thousands
of acres are ruined.
Writ NJ Austin, of Lapeer, commit
/. ted suicide by drowning at Vassar
lie was young man about 32 years
old, of excellent habits and was finely
guages in the Lapeer high school for &
number of years and last year was EN-
ployed in the same capacity in the AL
pena public schools.
The Michigan Federation of Labor
in session at Kalamazoo adopted reso
lutions declaring a united boycott OF
West Virginia coal, as it is on the un
fair list; against letting the state print
ing by contract, and asking for con
stitutional amendment to allow tn,
establishing of a state printing Office
also a resolutionto change Labor da,
to the first Tuesday in September.
Gov. Pingree is on top again. Sur
geon-General Sternberg has beer
forced to admit that the policy of abol
ishing regimental hospitals in favor o
division hospitals has proved unsatis
factory. This has been hobby of tn
governors from the outset, and tn
opinion is gainiug that the governor i
right and Gen. Sternberg wrong il
this matter, and Secretary Alger ha
about made up his mind to the sam
effect.
Mrs. Solomon Shoemaker was as
saulted on the public streets at Bento
Harbor and because she fought for he
honor her alleged assailant, colore
man named John Williams, fired thre
3s caliber cartridges in her face an
one at her side, but the last ball struc
a corset steel and glanced to tn
ground. The enraged man then turne