Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-02-17

Creek, has brought To town 81 rattle
snakes which he found frozen stiff in
an old stovepipe under the barn. He
put them in barrel near the fire and
in a few minutes they were wriggling
about as lively as ever.
Village Clerk o. V. Plea, Of Stevens
vile, left for st. Joseph over week
ago, and was last seen at Galien. A
Mrs. Donovan is also reported missing.
Plea has a wife and three children.
Ed. Stevenson has been appointed vii
lage clerk in Pleas place.
New Michigan postmasters: Prest,l,
Clare county, William McWath; Sagola,
Dickinson county, John O'Callaghan;
Sears, Osceola county. VIM. j. Marley;
Inlay City, Geo. w. Jones; Hancock,
George w. Emery; Fairview, Oscoda
county, Robert harrington.
There was a rcar-end collision on the
c., Nj. & st. =. tracks at Carneys spur,
six miles south of Iron Mountain. A
way freight crashed into logging
train which was switching Twenty
cars and an engine were wrecked. and
Conductor Anderson, of Iron Mountain,
and Brakeman John Tews, of Green
Bay, Wis, were killed.
Fire broke out among the lumber
piles in C.. Merrill & Co.'S mill yard,
known as Whittier mill, on the west
bank of the river at Saginaw, and
1,500, 900 feet of lumber was burned.
The loss will be about S25. 900. but the
amount of insurance is small. Hon.
Il. w. Palmer, of Detroit, is largely in
terested in the property.
A number of special services were
held in Ann Arbor churches in behalf
of the Anti-Saloon league movement.
Rev. j. +. Brant, of Lansing. sent
party out to investigate the saloons and
claims to have found nearly all violat-
ing the law About ~ business men
and professors met to devise some
means to combat the evil.
G. J. Eaton, aged 81, until recently
resident of Lowell, died at "a cheap
boarding house at Grand Rapids. De-
velopments show that he had property
worth Sl2. 1000 or $1,000. On his per-
son were found certificates of deposit
aggregating So. $40 He was an old
soldier and was very eccentric. He
leaves three married daughters.
Secretary Gage in bill sent to the
House recommended the consolidation
ofcustoms districts all over the country.
and figures on making an annual saw
I'M Of IN, M;ul,,,r.,, r.,
asks that the collectors at Detroit,
Port Huron and Marquette alone be re-
tanned and deputies be placed in charge
at Grand Rapids and Grand Haven.
The report of the treasurer of the
state Y. Nj. c. A. showed receipts dur
ing the year S3,l13.s9, disbursements
81, 926. IL. The resources are S749.9s.
liabilities above resources. S5S6.S5. +.
III. Burt, assistant state secretary of
Illinois, made an appeal for personal
and association pledges for state work,
and pledges were received amounting
to something over $1,000.
New Michigan postmasters: Au
Train, Alger county, George A. Bald
win; Azalia, Monroe county, +. ii.
Noble: Clifford, Lapeer county, Henry
a. Pullin; Shiloh, Ionia county, George
w. Brown Cleon. Manistee county.
VIM. j. Ridout; Cohoctah, Livingston
county, w. III. Trowbridge; Hopkins
Station, Allegan county, c. L. VOL
finger; Troy, Oakland county, Frank
ID. Cutting.
Mrs. Richard Clegg was fatally
burned by "a hanging lamp falling from
the ceiling of her home at Adrain. The
hook gave away and the lamp, when it
broke in pieces on the floor, set fire to
the steaming oil, quickly enve!oping
Mrs. Clegg in the flames. Her grand
daughter, Mrs. Abbie Campsie, rushed
to the old lady's aid, and in attempting
to smother the flames was badly burned.
Very little damage was done 10 the
house.
An explosion of giant powder at the
Newport mine near Ironwood killed
three men: Peter Biazza, Emanuel
Naimo and Mike Saba. They were at
work on the ninth level. Biazza and
Naimo were en- route for the powder
chest when the explosion occurred.
Just what was the cause is not known.
These two were literally blown to
pieces, while Sadia died from the effects
of gases. Three other men were over
come by gases, but will recover.
Cora Wagner. aged IL, was paroled
from the Industrial home for girls, mt
Adrian, and was given a home with
Jackson family. She ran away, but
was soon located at the home of John
Hildcbridge. north of Vandalia. When
the officers went to get her she excused
herself to go into another room. An
instant later shot was heard and the
poor girl was found lying in "A pool of
blood. She had aimed at her heart,
but the bullet struck rib and was
detected, and she may recover
An attempt to resume operations at
the Wheeler & Co. shipyard at Bay City
was failure. The old union is salts.
fed with the scale of wages offered by
the company. but cannot go to work
before the rivcters return. About 500
men gathered at the yard expecting
that 30 gangs of riveters would start
work, but were disappointed The
riveters say they will meet Wheeler IL
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