Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-11-28

line, instead OF clay. The plant VIII
run winter and summer.
David Carter secretary and general
manager OF the Detroit & Cleveland
Navigation Co., died In his Detroit
home Thursday afternoon.
j. ID. Norton and a companion were
lost on hunting trip north Of Medbury
recently. They walked all night and
were finally found nearly frozen.
Mai. George w. Newcomb. well
known citizen of Traverse City. was
thrown from his carriage In a runa-
way and perhaps fatally injured.
The Hotel Acme, at Youma, has
been closed by the health officer. There
Is one case Of smallpox and ten peo-
pie are quarantined In the hotel.
Nashville claims to hold the palm
for construction of cement walks. This
season the village has built almost a
mile of walk, averaging five feet wide.
Frank Guy and Fred Fuerstack, OF
Bay City, are under arrest for break
ing into freight car at Lansing. They
say they were looking for place to
sleep.
The Austin +. Mining o., capital
100000, has filed articles Of associa-
| ton. The Michigan headquarters are
at Iron Mountain, and the general ONCE
| Is In Chicago.
The girls OF the university who are
members Of the Woman's League Will
soon issue n single edition Of the U. Of
NJ. Daily. Lillian X. Sabine, Of De-
troit. will be editor-in-chief.
Three Rivers has set formal ban
on Sunday shows by refusing to attend
a concert given in that city, the band
which was to give it, being discour-
aged before the doors were opened.
Dudley NJ. Wells, of Coldwater, has
been disbarred from practicing before
| the interior department. at Washing
| ton for having received illegal fees in
the prosecution of pension claims.
| Several cases Of cattle stealing are
reported in the eastern part Of Clare
county A horse and buggy stolen six
weeks ago has just been recovered,
having been deserted by the thieves.
The trial Of Newell C. Rathbun, Of
| petoskey, Mich, the insurance swind-
Ter, charged with the murder Of his
| pal. Charles Goodman, at Jefferson
vile. Ind, has been fixed for Dec. 10.
BY the burning of Frank Stevens
| house at Pomona Stevens two little
children burned to death. Their grand
mother who was alone with them,
escaped by climbing through a win
| dow.
| l.. ID. Link is under arrest In Chi
! cago with silverware stolen from
Charles Gardner, of Battle Creek, Fri
day night. Over 100 pieces, worth
$500, were taken, and all will be re-
covered.
Chicago parties are figuring on the
erection of a big hotel in Sault Ste.
Marie, which will be the largest tran
sient house in the upper peninsula. 1t
is stated that the work will begin
early in the spring.
The Lake Superior Iron Co. spent
5000 searching for the body OF Ed
ward Riberty. killed by a cave-in. 1t
was necessary to drift fifty feet and
then sink G shaft afty feet through
tfoose ground IN order to reach the
body.
A Niles policeman named Ullery has
published in local paper challenge
to Il. w. Cook, editor of another pa
per, to fight duel to the death, the
weapons to be revolvers Of SO calibre,
and the distance 10 PAGES. 'S'death!
Belud!
Station Agent Rothman at Flood
wood, Dickson county, has smallpox.
The town Is quarantined and trains
don't stop there. All roads leading to
the village are watched to prevent peo-
pie leaving. Communication Is entire
~ shut off.
Train No. . on the Pere Marquette
Saginaw division left the track at
Plymouth Wednesday morning. The
engine turned over and Engineer Joe
Virgins and his fireman climbed out
of the cab window after the upset.
Neither was hurt.
| At the Mcmillan copper mine, near
Rock Lake, four miners, while at
tempting to throw out quantity OF
dynamite i'm blast tale. were fright
fully injured by premature explosion.
1t is believed all will be totally blind
and two may die.
The will Of Henry Druillard, Of Port
Huron. has been filed. 1t bequeaths
to son-in-law blue suit, the old gen.
tleman's best hat, best necktie and
best pair Of glasses. His daughter is
given half the canned fruit in the Gel
l anu a NipNh VI but'Ni.
@. A. Scharsch. the young society
man and once bookkeeper Of the
Fourth National bank of Grand Rap
ids. changed his plea of not guilty OF
having stolen $500 of bank funds TO
guilty He was sentenced to five years
in the Detroit house of correction.
T. II. Stevens Vail, reporter on the
New York Sun, died suddenly at his
home in that city, after a severe attack
of tonsiltis. He was born twenty nine
years ago in Detroit and was grand
son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Holdup
Stevens, of the United States navy.
Charles Keshena. prominent among
the Menominee Indians of the Shawa-
no reservation, Is missing and his
tribesmen believe he has been shot by
white hunters. They promise to wrealI
vengeance on white hunters in this
locality If their fears prove to be well
founded.
\ young woman has been operating
i'm Detroit and detectives have been
looking for her. Her scheme is to gain
access to residences. sometimes by re.
questing that she be allowed to step
inside to arrange her clothing. Then
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