Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-10-20

which have been in the hands
of receivers for over year,
have been bid in by Boston
bondholders. for an aggregate of S3o7,-
500, and will be reorganized at once.
The Seventh U. s. infantry, now at
Forts Wayne and Brady, lost one Off
Ger. Lieut.. Wansboro, and AZ men at
FL Capey. Four officers and $50 men
wounded. Since then fever has in
vaded the ranks, and out of the l,272
men in the regiment, over 600 are sick
in the eastern hospitals and at their
homes.
The steamer Peshtigo, bound from
the 500 to Toledo with lumber, col
lided with the steamer Roby off Thun-
der Bay island. The Peshtigo was
badly disabled and the life saving crew
put out to her assistance. Leaking
badly, she was started for Alpena har-
Dor. but went down within 100 rods of
the dock.
The Seventh U. S. infantry, San
tiago veterans, in command of Maj.
Corliss, has arrived in Detroit. Cos.
A, b, c, f, f. G, ii and /, about 400
men altogether, have been assigned to
Fort Wayne, and Cos ID, X, l. and M,
about ESQ men, continued on their way
to Fort Brady, at the 800, where they
were given hearty reception.
Mrs. Anthony Doyle, of Grand Rap
ids, learned by accident that her
father, Chauncey Smith, from whom
she had been separated since she was a
little girl and whom she supposed to
he dead was living in Port Huron.
She FASTENED TO find him, but on ar
rival there no trace of him could be
discovered. Later it was learned that
Smith had moved to West Bay City
and reunion of father and daughter
soon followed
Isaac Ellsworth, sent to jackson
prison from Clinton county, Dec. 81,
| 1897, for four years for horse stealing,
escaped from prison by cutting hole
! through the stone ceiling into the attic
and then cutting through the roof He
made rope of his bed clothes and let
himself down into the yard where he
secured ladder and climbed over the
north wall
Secretary of State Gardner has re-
ceived inquiries from Chicago capital
| lists, relative to the steps necessary for
the organi zation of a company to con
struct canal from Bay de Nocquet to
Lake Superior, across Alger and
Schoolcraft counties This would con
meet Lakes Michigan and Superior
The canal would be about 35 mile:
long. and would save about 900 miles
travel now necessary.
The township OF Lincoln, Arenac
county, has sued the Star Wooden
ware Co firm which erected build
ings at Standisb four years ago and
| pledged themselves to operate fac
tory employing l25 men and TO put
SIS, 900 into buildings and machinery
The township bonded itself at the time
for $40, 900, as bonus. and now sues
j to recover, as the firm failed to do a:
Col. Gardener, sist Michigan chhfg has .
scheme to give every man in his com
mand furlough, by allowing five men
TO be absent from each company at a
time The colonel is receiving appli
cations from men of regiments abou
to be mustered out asking that they b,
allowed to enlist in the 3lst. Thes,
are placed on file and as soon as tn,
war department gives permission the
vacancies in the 3lst will be thus filed
Rodulphus Sanderson, wealthy
citizen of Battle Creek, died Sept 6
- 1.p Il sx.l.t a n.
body was taken up, and postmorten
held by three physicians. The stomach
was taken to Ann Arbor to be ana
lyzed and sensation is expected Ar
inquest was held by order of the prose
cutting attorney There is great secrecy
among the officers as 1t has not beer
made public what or whom they sus
pect
The annual report Of U Land
Commissioner Hermann for the 6scal
year ending June 80. 1898, made public
shows that l27 acres OF swamp land
were patented in Michigan during the
year, making total OF 5675 ell
acres patented under the swamp grant
There are in Michigan Incorporated
! and unreserved, sos. SOS acres OF swamp
lands; reserved, s7,746 acres: appropri.
ated, SO. 225, $50 acres; total area, So.
SIG. 900 acres
The factory of the Michigan Sugar
Co. at Bay City. is now in successful
operation. This is the first beet sugar
factory to begin operations in Michi
gan and naturally great interest at.
taches TO 1T The company has made
contracts for sufficient supplies OF beets
TO produce 7.000.o 01 pounds Of sugar.
for which s275.o0O will be paid 20 the
farmers Of Bay and surrounding coun.
ties. The company will receive from
the state bounty Of one cent pound
on all sugar made from Michigan beets
| for six years. aggregating al least
SO, 600 per year. under the bounty law
passed by the last legislature.
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