Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-31


soldiers monument in that city. One
citizen has offered to contribute $3.50 as
a starter for the fund.
The state board of education will
encourage the organization of school
officers associations in counties, pat
termed after the one recently organized
in Washtenaw county.
great amount of damage has al
ready been done in lower Michigan for
the lack of rain. About the only
county where crops have not been
damaged by the drouth is Lenawee.
Quartermaster General White has
commissioned press clipping bureau
of New York to compile a newspaper
history of Michigans troops and naval
initial through the Spanish-American
war.
In the vicinity of Camden, Hillsdale
county, springs are drying up and
farmers are experiencing difficulty in
watering their stock The farmers are
feeling downcast over the crop pros
poets.
The family of Brinton Cradle, living
at Silver Creek, three miles southwest
of Piainwell, were poisoned by eating
gravy that had stood over night in
tin basin. 1t is believed all will re-
cover
Muskegon is to have big tin plate
mill The size of the building will be
2Oox2OO feet The capacity will be
from 500 to 200 boxes of finished tin
plates every "a hours, giving employ
ment TO 200 hands.
Lapeer is to have street fair Sept.
10 to % The business mems associa-
ton reports 81, 100 pledged for the
carnival. The annual Lapeer County
Veteran Battalions reunion is to be
held at the same time.
Fred Brandenberg, a Chesterfield
farmer, scared by the numerous burg
laries, provided himself with a revolver.
On the 2lst a burglar entered his home,
stole the weapon, exchanged an old
suit of clothes for new one and made
way with his watch.
Stillwell Palmer, Methodist of near
Adrian, was dumb for two years. He
thought the Lord directed him to go
to a Baptist ex-preacher named Her.
He did so. Her struck up a song and
then prayed that Palmer's speech be
restored. Afterwards Palmer began
TO pray aloud too.
The new steel bridge over Sucker
creek, two miles west of East Dayton,
collapsed as a traction engine and
grain separator were passing over it.
The bridge was new one and the
cause of its collapse will not be known
until the debris is raised out of the
mud. The engineer saved his life by
jumping into the water.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of George Boucher. and the
sheriff of st. Joseph county is after
him. 1t is alleged that Boucher is
wanted in connection with the finding
of the body OF an unknown man at the
mouth of the Paw Paw river recently.
II is said the officers are convinced that
the man was dead before his body was
thrown into the river
Edwy c. Reid, editor of the Allegan
Gazette, one of the most bitter of the
anti Pingree Republican papers of the
state, was arrested at Grand Rapids on
the cath upon a capias issued at the
instance of Quartermaster-G General w.
l.. White. as the commencement of a
500, 900 suit for libel. Reid made
charges against White which the lat
ter alleges he cannot prove.
Mr. and Mrs Peter Tallman and two
children, of Detroit, were poisoned by
eating diseased meat, and remained
without medical attendance for seven
hours, none of them being able to call
for assistance. They were discovered
lying on the floor by friend. While
no member of the family has yet died,
Mrs Tallman lies in precarious con-
dition at one of the hospitals.
An unknown man, giving his name
as Tom Burns and aged about so years,
went to Mancelona on the 23d. He
acted strangely, as though troubled
about something, and asked a deputy
sheriff to lock him up, saying that he
was crazy. A short time after being
locked up he was found with his throat
cut almost from ear to ear He had
broken a window pane and used a
piece of glass to cut his throat.
The grand lodge Swedish Sons of
America, which has been in session at
Marquette, has elected these officers:
Supreme past president, Gustaf l.. Lar
son, of Muskegon; supreme president,
August Swenson, of Ishpeming; SUI
preme vice-president, Thomas Nelson,
OF Traverse City; supreme secretary,
Albert Erickson, of Manistee; supreme
treasurer, August Franzquist, of Crys-
tai Falls. The grand lodge will meet
at Ishpeming next year.
Flints tramp ordinance is a success
in every particular. The keynote of
the success of the ordinance is that it
prescribes manual labor as the penalty
to be imposed upon it's transgressors,
who are required to work out the
amount of their fine on the streets at
the rate of so cents a day. Before the
ordinance went into effect the city was
a regular rendezvous for all specimens
of the genus hobo, but is now abso-
lutely free from the pest of their
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