Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-13

and starting actual mining operations
will begin Immediately.
ole M. Olson, prominent business
man of Big Rapids, mistook carbolic
acid bottle for water bottle at drug
store and drank quite freely of the
deadly poison before he discovered his
mistake. He died a few minutes later
The following day after the Pollock.
Pettibone & Chapman fire in Detroit,
McNaughton & Walker, general COM
mission merchants, suffered fire loss
of 500 Fortunately no lives were
lost, but one or two narrow escapes
are reported
st. Johns people are again agitating
the question of new opera house,
something the village has needed badly
since the loss Of the old one by fire
several years ago. The present scheme
is to raise the money necessary by pop
ular subscriptions.
The iron companies at Ishpeming
will fight the strikers and have notified
them that they would hire entirely
new crews About 1000 men are af-
lCGACAl anu llOuOAC 10 lCdlth II new
men are imported. Non-union men
are joining the union.
ontonagon people see the chance of
their lives to place that long-slumber-
ing village again on its feet, and will
make united effort to secure the To-
cation there of the stamp mills of the
numerous new mines which are being
opened up in the county.
b. Gebhardt, hotellIeeper and baker
of Saline, went to Detroit recently on
business, expecting to return home the
same day. Nothing has been heard Of
him since by his relatives. AS he had
considerable money on his person it is
believed he was victim of foul play
John Slower, who has been living
with Mrs. King, of Texas township,
Kalamazoo county, for three or four
years, quarreled with her and it is al
legged burned her house in revenge
He had taken two teaspoonfuls of paris
green before his arrest and died at the
Jail.
When the navigation season opens
Marquette will have the distinction of
having the only lighthouse on the
lakes lighted by electricity If the in
novation proves successful there, other
lighthouses around the lakes will be
lighted in the same manner wherever
possible.
The logging season in the upper pen
insula is practically at an end and
nearly all OF the camps have been
broken up. The logging is still good,
but the companies have gotten out all
the logs they wish. The amount
banked this winter on the Menominee
and its tributaries is over 300 900, 600
feet.
Nell MacWinter, of Rochester, slap
ped his wife's face, broke her nose and
blackened her eyes, because she would
not cook sausage for supper, instead of
saving it for Sunday dinner. He was
given S25 fine and GO days in Jail.
Later he broke Jail with the Intention
of killing his wife but the officers
headed him off
Miss Augusta Brundage, one of the
operators of the Michigan Telephone
Co. S exchange at Lansing, awolSe the
other morning and found that she was
absolutely unable to speak. She has
not been i'll, and her throat is not sore,
but repeated efforts to speak have
been unavailing. She is not able to
make the slightest sound.
. A classification of the patients
treated in the homeopathic hospital of
the u. of NJ, gives the following per-
centages: Farmers wives, 25 per cent;
farmers, ID; farmers children, %; farm
domestics, .; farm hands, 4; total farm
class, g. The remaining 33 per cent
is composed of students, 10 per cent;
mechanics, 6; paupers, p others, Is.
Old Mr.. Tracy, farmer living in
Arbela, was missing from the house
for an unusual length of time for him
so the family began searching, and
were Mortified to find his body in the
hog pen, nearly eaten up by the hogs.
1t is supposed he went into the pen for
something and was attacked by the
hogs, and, being about 20 years old,
was unable to escape.
Charles Taylor, treasurer Of Home
township, Montcalm Co., will not have
to make good the township funds
which were lost in the failure of the
Chaplin bank at Stanton, nor George
Douglass, the county treasurer, the
county funds lost in the same manner
The people OF the township and county
respectively voted on Monday to raise
the amounts by taxation.
The large wholesale millinery estab-
lishment of Pollock, Pettibone & Chap
man in Detroit has been destroyed by
fire. The stock was valued at SIS, 900
and was insured for S25, 600 futile &
Clark, dealers in turf goods, who oc-
cupy the adjoining store, had their
stock damaged $4,000, and the damages
to the two buildings will bring the
total amount of damage up to about
$50, 900.
Never before in the history of Kali.
lxaska has there been such wood IA
mine as during the past two months.
For several years prices have ranged
so low that farmers did not find it
worth while marketing their fuel, and
nearly everyone ran short of seasoned
wood during the cold snap in February.
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