Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-02-10
MICHIGAN NEWS ITEMS.

committed suicide at Sterling by TAX.
ing carbolic acid.
The little son of f. l.. Maddox, OF
Grand Rapids, fell down stairs, and
died from conclusion of the brain.
The rails spread under a d., Il. & NJ.
freight train near Homer and 10 loaded
cars were wrecked. No one injured.
The Owosso-Corunna electric railway
and Caledonia electric lighting plant
have been consolidated, with $3.50, 900
capital.
The large town hall at Saganing.
owned by 5. r. IIoebler, was burned
to the ground together with feed mill
and a large amount of grain.
Darius Eddy, aged 20, slipped while
shoveling snow off roof at Saginaw.
He broke two ribs and suffered other
injuries, which may prove fatal.
While workmen were engaged in har-
vesting ice on Clear lake, north of
Niles, valuable team of horses broke
through and were drowned, and Lewis
Emmons had narrow escape.
AT South Bay City poor superintend-
ents found a starving family. In a
candle box lay the body of two-days-
/ old babe, the father being unable to
pay for an undertal1er's services.
Willie Herman, aged l4,was run over
and killed on the Ann Arbor track at
! West Owosso. He attempt TO catch on
an incoming freight train, was thrown
under the wheels and his body horribly
mangled.
William Carr started from camp to
see his sick wife at Seney. His father
in-law, going to meet him found his
frozen body only a mile from town.
He had lost his way in storm His
wife gave birth to twins only few
days ago.
According to a new law, every town
| ship board must soon publish an item
lied statement of the amount of money
| in the township fund, the amount raised
during the year and how raised to-
gether with a minute statement as to
how each cent was spent.
A. company has been orgonized at
Port Huron for the purpose of operat-
ing trading and mining company in
the Klondile district, Alaska. The
company is capitalized at 500, 900, and
will conduct general store, operate
sawmill and do prospecting. A force
of men will be sent out the last of this
month.
A 10-year-old daughter of John
Bowkes was shot at German wedding
which was being celebrated at the
Bowkes home near Benton Harbor.
The ball entered the girls breast near
her heart and passed through the body
and she will die. The shooting, said
to have been accidental, is being thor
oughly investigated by the officers.
Stephen Lautenback, aged 16, was
stabbed in the back, by playmate.
Henry Hydega, aged ~, at Grand Rap
ids, and he cannot recover. The lads
were playing in an alley, and Lauten-
back good-naturedly rolled his com
panion into snow bank. Hydega be-
came enraged, and flew at Lautenbacl,
striking him in the back. The blade
penetrated the lung.
DR.. w. d. MacQuisten, of Detroit,
recently had his wife arrested on a
charge of setting his Office on fire. She
was acquitted, and upon her return to
Owosso where she was working in the
Merrill house, a warrant was issued
charging the doctor with using insult
ing language in the presence of ladies.
The doctor was taken to Owosso under
arrest and was fined S24 so.
Miles Way, Portland boy, appropri-
ated another fellows bicycle over two
years ago. He was tracked to Wiscon-
sin and while an officer was bringing
him back he crawled through car
window and escaped. He has just re-
turned from the Klondile and wants to
pay for the wheel. He says he sold
one claim for SIS 900 and has another
for which he has been offered $40 900
Miss Belle Weaver, an almost blind
deaf mute, was burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the home of her
uncle, Elias Worden, near Climax.
The girls mother and uncle, the only
other occupants, escaped. The fire
started very mysteriously. Joseph
fusing to support Miss Weaver's ille-
Ultimate child of which, she alleges, he
is the father.
Frank Davenport, aged so, and his
sister, aged AZ, share one 20-foot square
room with their pigs and chickens in
Cooper township, Kalamazoo county,
Filth abounds Officers visited them
and orde red Davenport to keep the
sheep, horses and pigs somewhere else.
Davenport had feed, but the stock is
half starved. He owns a 20-acre farm.
but raises nothing, and the poor au-
thorities are obliged to help them.
The Upper Peninsula Teachers Asso-
citation convention was held at Mar
quette and program was carried out
with papers by j. L. Edwards, of Mar
inette, Wis; T.. +. Ferguson, of Sault
Ste. Marie; II. Hardy, of Ishpeming.
l.. l.. Wright, of Ironwood was elected
president, and Miss Anna NJ. Chandler,
of Marquette, vice-president. The
meeting was a great success, nearly the
whole membership of the association