Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-01

dealers in hardwood lumber, was do
stroyed by fire at West Bay City. Loss
about sos, 900; insurance SIS, 900. The
plant will probably be rebuilt.
Detroit may have National league
base ball team next year, as it is re-
ported that President Van Derbecl Of
Detroit's club, has offered S75, 900 for
the Cleveland team and franchise.
While Mrs. Geo. Dalglish and her
7-year-old son were driving to Oxford
Michigan Central train struck their
horse, tearing it from the buggy and
cutting off its head. The woman and
boy were unhurt.
Charles Kreiter, the desperate who
shot at the Jonesville officers after
committing several thefts, was sem
fenced to Jackson for 10 years. When
he received his sentence he fell in n
dead faint. He threatens to kill him
self.
A famous old Indian of Prescott
Peter Wademan, aged 113, who buried
his second squaw only two months ago.
has just married a Polish woman
named Emma Jane Swansteppanslxi,
aged Sc, who emigrated from Montreal
recently.
The Franklin stamp mill burned at
Hancock and is total loss. The mine
is closed, as the fire leaves it without
stamping facilities and work cannot be
resumed before next July. The loss is
$3.50, 900, and 600 men will be thrown
out of employment.
The meeting of state librarians in
Washington developed the fact that
Michigan's state library in scope and
influence stands second only to that of
New York. Michigan, New York and
Iowa are the only states employing the
travelling library system.
Fred Pickens was returning from a
hunting trip at Lake Odessa and was
just entering the door when he let his
gun drop. The trigger struck the
doorstep and the charge took off por-
ton of his scalp and tore his face to
shreds. Pickens died from the injuries
H. H. Kinds, of state live stock sani-
tary commission, says that while
tuberculosis exists among cattle in the
state in spots, he does not believe that
per cent of the cattle are affected.
Hog cholera, he says, prevails at
number of places and causes more loss
financially than all the other animal
diseases combined.
A substance resembling yellow ochre
accumulates under the salt tanks in
the salt works over the state and has
always been considered worthless, but
is now being used for painting houses,
barns, ETC., it is fre-proof, and also
preserves the wood. There are thou
sands of tons of it in the state which
have been regarded as waste here
tofore.
Fire caused loss of $1,000 on
Aid. Fred Vos' grocery and crockery
store at Grand Haven. The family
occupied rooms over the store and
barely escaped with their lives. They
were not awakened until escape by the
stairway was cut off. Mr.. Vos leaped
from window, procured ladder from
the rear of the store, and rescued his
wife and daughter before help arrived.
Small insurance.
Mrs. Eliza Virginia Godfrey Watson,
aged &C, who was born in Detroit and
has always lived in that city, being a
daughter of one of its first settlers,
died while engaged in prayer at the
Jesuit church of IS. Peter and Paul,
Detroit, where she had worshiped
many years. She had been to the con-
fessional, and returned to her pew,
| where she knelt in devotion and a mo-
ment later she fell to the floor.
Fire broke out at Stephenson, at
| 1880 D. m. in the rear of j. Johnson's
general store, and spread rapidly until
six buildings, the best part of the bust
| ness center, were on fire The Mari
nette fire engine was sent for, but ar
rived too late. Citizens saved the big
hotel and barn and adjoining buildings.
| 1t was thought that the whole town
was going. Everybody moved out Of
residences and stores. Loss is esti-
mated at $4,000. Insurance covers
about one-third of the loss
The November blizzard which swept
| GOWN upon us dllcT DIItl StdSOH VI
| beautiful Indian summer was terrific
| in it's fierceness throughout the west
and northwest. Live stock suffered
severely. +. II. Thompson, of Des
Moines, Ia, was frozen to death in the
street at South Omaha. George and
Ed Cotter, farmers, persisted while
riding to their homes near Ash Grove,
Mo. The storm ragged fiercely on the
lakes, but timely warning had been
given and nearly every craft sought
shelter.
Through the generosity of Frederick
X. Stearns, of Detroit, the University
of Michigan, has come into possession
of the rarest and in some respects the
most valuable collection of musical i'm
struments in the United States. The
collection contains 1000 instruments.
The collection is especially rich in
Aztec, African, Chinese and Japanese
instruments. Mr.. Stearns spent Is
years, part of the time in foreign
| travel in making the collection He