Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-11-16

FRED server. n Well-knOWn cltlZen of
Standish, who served in the army and
navy during the civil war, on the 9TH
received $500 prize money for captur-
ing boats, cotton, etc, during the war.
The st. Louis city council has pur-
chased the plant of the st. Louis Elec-
trio Light Co. for 81, 800. This ends a
fight between the city and the electric
light company which has been in pro-
gress for nearly two years.
The saloonists of Bedding received a
tip that spoilers were going to be out
in full force on the 5th, and they fooled
them all. Out of 40 persons who gave
the proper signal at the rear door, not
a single person was admitted.
Conductor George Mogford took the
first passenger train out of the Lake
Shore depot at jackson in 1876, and the
last one Saturday. Nov. A. 1899, before
the road changed all the passenger
trains to the Michigan Central.
Mutton seems to be considered very
valuable in Oakland county. A farmer
near Orchard Lake lost 25 sheep, which
got on the railroad track and were
killed, and has asked the railroad com
pany to pay him 81 $50 damages
Up in Baraga county is a farmer who
thinks there ought to be some protec-
tion for the farmer as well as the deer.
His fruit trees and potato crop were de-
stroyed the past season by the deer
which are SO numerous in that section.
Of ;,,H Sc LII
many horses near Calumet, and causing
much fear. Many of the draught
horses belonging to the mining com
panies are affected and their loss is
great at a time when they are in great
demand
Someone very fond of turkey, and
who is determined not to be without
one Thanksgiving visited the turkey
roosts of three farmers near Gaines the
other night and carried off % of the
birds. They also took 80 chickens for
good measure.
Chester Beardslee, of near Oxford
thinks he is 'some punkins" when it
comes to raising potatoes. He har-
vested 800 bushels, not counting the
little ones. from II acres of ground, or
25O bushels to the acre, and claims the
championship belt.
Charles Il. Mains the Battle Creek
lawyer, who was recently disbarred by
the supreme court, is out with very
bitter attack on Judge Clement Smith.
His says his case is by no means dead
and that he will take it to the United
States supreme court.
Allegan county claims credit for send
ing more deer hunters to the northern
part of the state than any other county
in southern or central Michigan. The
county clerk issued 13i licenses this
season. and nearly all who secured
them have gone to the deer country.
A saloon at Alpena was robbed of
$500 in cash on the night of the 18th.
The money was taken from the cafe
while the barroom was crowded. The
confession that the saloon was robbed
on election night may result in more
money out of pocket for the proprietor.
Mrs. Cornelius Brouwer, of Muske-
gon, has been accustomed to deposit
her savings in the leaves of large fam
lily Bible. She did this until she had
accumulated $50. The other day she
went down town and when she re-
turned she found that thief had Wis
tied her home and stolen all her money.
George Quick has commenced suit
against Holly for $4,000. He claims
that he collided with bicycle on
4. 4
the evening of Aug. 6, 1898, and that
one of his cranial bones was fractured,
and that he lost the sight of one eye.
He started one suit before and it was
thrown out of court.
The Emmett county Jail burned re-
Gently and now when prisoner is ar
rested they chain him to tree on the
city lot. One of the local papers claims
that even this is preferable, from the
prisoners standpoint. to being confined
in ramshacble old hovel which used
to be dignified by the name of Jail be-
fore the flames swept it off the land
scape.
The Ann Arbor railroad had a small
accident on the morning of the 10th on
sharp curve one mile east of Cope
mish. Four cars and caboose broke
loose from an extra freight going east
and came back with considerable speed
until they met another freight that had
come to standstill. Two cars loaded
with ore were reduced to kindling and
the caboose left beyond repairs while
new engine lost its pilot. Nobody was
hurt.
Reports to the state board of health
show that rheumatism, neuralgia.
bronchitis, diarrhea and tonsillitis, in
the order named, causing the most
sickness in Michigan during the past
week. Consumption was reported at
POO places; typhoid fever at 104; scarlet
fever at 73; diphtheria at 33; measles at
20; whoopingcough at II; smallpox at
10: cerebro-spinal meningitis at >, and
suspected smallpox at 1.
Samuel Stauifer, of near Coopersville.
met sad and peculiar death on the
18th lie was assisting two men who
weg~ engaged in completing cistern
for him to n place of safety. they hav-