Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-10-27
STATE GOSSIP.

The Bloomingdale Milling Co., VIII
rebuild Bloomingdale's burned grist
mill.
The sea serpent in Indian lake, near
Dowagiac, proved to be an otter and
muskalonge.
Geo. w. Shelters, of Sebewaing, was
sent up for IL years for assaulting l3-
year-old girl.
A cooperage plant with capacity OF
600 barrels day will be established at
Traverse City.
The project to build an electric rail
road from Lansing to Pine lake has
been abandoned.
Berrien county has another diph-
iberia epidemic, Benton township
schools are closed.
The report that the +. q T. M. and
the Hooking Valley railroads are to
consolidate is denied.
Monroe county farmers and business
men propose to erect large sugar
beet factory at Monroe.
The third victim of the Pentwater
boiler explosion was L. l.. Palmer, en-
gineer at the bedstead factory.
Col. Milford Harmon, prominent
manufactures of Jackson, an uncle OF
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is dead.
Rev. A. j. Comden, Methodist, of
Entrican, took a dose of aconite by
mistake and died in a short time.
About 60 members of the Seventh
Michigan cavalry met at Lansing on
the anniversary of Sheridan's ride.
The National General Passenger and
Ticket Agents association convention
was held at Detroit aud was big
affair.
Ed earns, of Three Rivers, has been
missing for over a week. 1t is feared
he accidentally shot himself in the
woods.
Mrs. Lillian Pratt, an attractive
young woman of Woodstock, was ar
rested at Hudson charged with passing
forged orders.
A third dividend of IA per cent has
been declared in favor of the creditors
of the defunct First National bank of
Mt. Pleasant.
The planning mill property of VIM.
A. Blakely in Petoskev, was COM
pletely wiped out by fire. Loss $1,000;
no insurance.
The North American Chemical Co.,
of Bay City, has received orders from
headquarters in London to double the
size of its plant.
Fire destroyed the house belonging
to Miss Nancy Simpson at Milan. 1t
was occupied by the Milan laundry.
Loss about 81, 200.
w. w. GUNNER has sold 10000 acres
of hardwood timber lands adjacent to
Cadillac TO Delos f. Diggins. The tim
Der will be cut this winter.
Holly fears another gang of firebugs
is at work. The destruction of Morri
son Beardslee's cider mill is the second
incendiary fire ~ short time.
A new Tight produced by chemica
battery and much stronger than in
candescent lights has been invented
by James Whtcomb, a laborer o
Hudson.
Bay City has offered $4,000 and ;
site to i. Z. Woodward, recent!
burned out at Owosso, if he will builC
furniture factory in that city. HI
may accept.
The national civic philanthropic con
ference at Battle Creek was ATTENDED
by prominent scientists, educators
preachers and reformers from all owe
the country.
The shop and barns, with contents
and several stacks of hay and straw
on the John Gorndry farm, near Belle
Vile, were destroyed by fire. Los
about 81, 100.
The Belt mines, at Houghton, value
at $500, 900, have been transferred to
company of Houghton capitalists VIII
will reopen the mines which have bee
idle since 1887.
5 Work is in progress on an eXtensio
| of the Prescott division of the ID. & N
5 railroad, which will open up a larg
: tract of pine timber which will b
taken to Tawas City.
. The Houghton county election Doar
decided by unanimous vote not to plac
: Sam Stephenson's name on the officit
+. ballot as a candidate for congress
the Twelfth district.
= The directors and stockholders {
= the "busted" Peoples Savings bank ;
= Mt. Pleasant will be sued to recov,
an assessment on the stock of the inst
tuition to meet it's debts
BENZ +. Powell, of Birch Run, a
C piled for divorce from his wife, Be
r tina, on the ground of extreme cruelt
}. The couple were married May II, an
l. lived together two weeks.
{, The crownsheet of the boiler on Il
" tug Arthur ID. Capt. Lillis, blew out
u Alpena, killing Arthur Pontwood, Il
u fireman. instantly, and badly scaldir
u deck hand named Peppler.
q The furloughs of all the Michigi
men run out Nov. 4. The war depar
ment has instructed Capt. Irvine
allow the soldiers pay from that da
n to the date of mastering out.
IN Veterans of the Fifth Michigan ca
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