Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-11-03


in the 10th U. 5. infantry last summer
and went TO Porto Rico. He returned
home, having left his regiment with
out leave, and was arrested as de-
serter.
Leslie Parker, aged l6, was shot and
instantly killed at Muskegon by Mich
ael Burns, an aged man, upon whom a
number of boys were playing some
Halloween pranks. Burns gave him
self up.
Extensive forgeries of sparrow
bounty orders have been discovered at
Jackson. Fred McKeever, Frank Webb
and VIM Smultzler, of Mason, and
Ansel Hatfield, of Eaton Rapids, were
arrested.
The Delta Lumber Co. has sold its
large plant at Thompson, upper PENN.
sula, to the Fuller & Rice Lumber Co.,
of Grand Rapids, ana the White &
Friant Lumber Co., OF Muskegon, for
$4,000.
Mrs. Anna Sonnabend, aged SO, liv-
ing alone at Detroit. was found dead
in bed and note by her side said she
had taken morphine to end her exist
ence She has been dead week when
discovered.
Henry McCrum, aged 65, met with
fatal accident in We'll & Co. S furniture
store, Detroit, by walking into an
elevator shaft, falling Is feet and strik-
ing his head on a cross beam, fractur-
ing his skull.
The success of the Bay City sugar
beet factory has induced West Bay City
people to lay plans for big factory
1t is said $3.50, 900 of eastern capital
and $50, 900 local capital are available
for the purpose.
Capt. Wheeler, of the Salvation Army,
and his wife, had a quarrel at Ionia,
over questions of creed and a new
preacher. The captain took dose of
laudanum to kill himself, but took too
much and will recover.
The shock caused by the loss of 10
lives by the sinking of the steamer l..
X. Doty, of which c. J. Smith, of Bay
City, was managing owner, has SO af-
fected Mr.. Smith that he is now con-
fined to his bed with brain fever.
Capt. Fred NJ. Alger, assistant adju-
tant-general son of the secretary of
war, and Capt. James H. Mcmillan, as
sistant quartermaster, son of Senator
Mcmillan, have been honorably dis
charged from the L. ). volunteers.
A 15-year-old boy named Jones, of
Vienna township, Montmorency county,
was trying to draw a cartridge from
rifle when the weapon was discharged
and the ball passed through the boys
younger brothers head, killing him
instantly.
The Bell Telephone Co. refused to
comply with a Lansing ordinance and
string its wires on 50-foot poles put up
for the joint use of all wires on the
main streets, and the chief of police
chopped down the Bell Co. poles on
those streets.
There are about 40, 900 acres of swamp
land in Iosco county, between AuSable
and Tawas City, much of which is pine
stumpage reverted to the state for non
payment of taxes. The state will be
asked TO appropriate sum sufficient
to drain the lands thoroughly.
The Northern Assurance Co.. of Lon
don, has come TO Insurance Commits
sioner Campbell's terms, agreeing to
sever all connections with combina-
tions and bureaus designed To maintain
rates. The company pays fine of
$50 for a renewal of its license.
Shiawassee county farmers are to
have free rural mail delivery from the
Owosso postoffice, as an experiment.
One route will extend Il miles south
and another west and south 10 miles.
The carrier service was secured through
the influence OF Senator Burrows
The Soldiers Home board announces
that no more veterans can be received
in that institution. There are now 600
men in the home, ITO more than at this
time last year. In addition there are
so veterans out on leave who will soon
return for the winter, bringing the
total up TO 10. The highest number
ever accommodated there before was
ZOE.
Under Michigan's new system of reg.
istering deaths nearly so per cent more
deaths are reported than under the
old system The death rate under the
new law the past /? months was ia
per 1000. OF the 37.9l5 deaths re.
ported, 5,0sl were of persons under
one year old and 2.035 from one TO four
years. Consumption caused 2.4jG
deaths.
A storms which had all the trade
marks OF a genuine. bowling blizzard
swept over Kansas, Iowa, Illinois. Wis
consin and threw mp waves as high rs
church steeples on the Great lakes
Railroad traffic was much delayed in
the west and lake shipping ran for
shelter wherever possible. Two or
three craft were lost but the crews
were saved.
On the evening of Oct. IA mail
pouch was stolen from the Michigan
Central depot mail truck at Jackson.
Last week quantity Of the mail was
found in box car in the yards. The
letters had all been opened and the
money taken. Bank drafts, checks,
postoffice money orders and the like,
representing over $1,000, were strewn