Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-03

inmate of the Lapeer county house for
the past 12 years, was gored to death
by bull on the eth.
The county clerks record of crime in
Oakland county shows that last year
there were 81 criminal cases, four less
than the number for 1897.
Michael Mcdonald, 20 years of age,
recently arrived in Lewiston, Me-,
from Detroit, in search of his long lost
daughter. He walked most of the
way.
The business men of Oxford have
raised 81 900 for the purpose, and will
make their street fair this fall even
more of a ''hummer" than last years
one was.
The proposition to bond the city of
Red Jacket for S45, 600 to pay for new
opera house and city hall, now in pro-
cess of construction, was carried by
majority of 11s.
Reports from Dowagiac says that
the owners of peppermint farms near
that city do not expect to get more
than Is pounds of oil per acre-one-
third of an average.
The fine four company barracks at
Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie has been
damaged by fire to the extent of about
$40, 600 The building cost SIS, 900 and
was considered a model of its class.
Burglars made pretty fair hall at
the residence of Frank Morrow, chair
man of the Republican city committee
at Benton Harbor. They carried off
$500 in jewelry and cash. No clue.
Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer, prominent
physician and surgeon of Albion, was
found dead in the woods late in the
afternoon of July 49, Despondent be-
cause of i'll health caused her to COM
NIT suicide.
turkey gobbler belonging to Lewis
Sherman, who lives five miles west of
Cass City, recently Matched out 81
chickens and five guinea hens, and
cares for them as carefully and proudly
as any hen.
young man of Washington, Ora
tiot county, raised a sparrow bounty
order calling for pay for "a birds so as
to make it read 234, but his trick was
discovered and he now has charge of
forgery to answer.
The executive committee of the state
fair board announces that no skin
games will be allowed on the grounds
this year This will be marked con-
trast to the last few years, when all
kinds of shell games were permitted.
A movement is on foot at Escanaba
to utilize the power of the river to run
the city's street cars by building a
dam some distance above the city and
transmit the power, converted into
electricity, by overland wires to the
city.
Cora Keyes, of Collins, met horrible
death on the Goth. She poured a mix
ture of kerosene and gasoline from a
fruit can upon blazing fire. The
fluid catching fire and the flames spread
to her clothing. She was so horribly
burned that death ensued
Secretary Baker of the state board
of health says that the death rate from
consumption has steadily decreased in
Michigan since 1881 at the average an
nual rate of IL per cent. BY 1850, he
figures, the disease will be wiped out
at the present rate of reduction.
A peculiar deed was received at the
registers office in Ann Arbor recently;
peculiar in that it bore no signatures.
The parties to it were evidently unable
to write, so they made their marks.
The Justice who made out the deed had
written Ibis mark" and cher mark"
after the respective crosses, but had
neglected to put the names in also.
Dan w. Spealman and son of Cooney,
O., narrowly escaped horrible death
while managing a traction engine
southeast of Camden. Near a high
embankment the engine became un-
manageable, rolled over the bank and
landed bottom-side up in the ravine.
Both men chung to the cab and escaped
without a scratch. The engine is
wrecked.
On the cath the thermometer at Bay
City registered So, at Ann Arbor 96, at
Muskegon 90, at Kalamazoo 100, at
Battle Creek 100, at Saginaw 102, at
st. Joseph 95, at Berrien Springs 104,
at Grand Rapids 9s, at Lansing "a, at
Marshall 90, at Gaylord 90, and at
Mason %. Prostrations were reported
at Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Grand
Rapids, Lansing and Adrian.
The sugar beet industry is proving a
| gold mine for the industrious young
sters of Gratiot county. Schoolboys
who never earned a dollar before are
averaging from So to so a week. One
boy, 10 years old, made SLIGO in one
week wedding by the row. The high
wages paid for labor in the beet fields
| have caused an advance of two and
three shillings day in local lumber
| mills.
A company has been organized in
Detroit for the manufacture of auto
mobiles. The wagons will be made
from the model invented by Henry
Ford, which is claimed to be the most
perfect one in the world BY Mr..
Ford's machine the power is applied
directly to the wheels and thus does
away with the chain gear. In fact it
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