Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-08-15


Sheriff Hammond reports that the
Mason county jail received 300 prison.
ers during the past year. OF which only
| - were women. The cost OF maintain.
ing the Jail was $500.
Miss Eva Rosenfeld. a Detroit girl.
is now considerable OF heroine at
Aryerne beach. near New York, for the
rescue of Or Julius Rosenberg from
death by drowning in the ocean.
Chief OF Police Johnson. of Benton
Harbor, has received word from New
York that he will be paid a reward OF
about $500 for his services in aiding
the New York authorities in running
down Reuben Feinberg, notorious
confidence man.
During the past year Charles Gid
ney's father killed himself while de-
ranged, and his mother and two sisters
died III IN asylum. Charles has been
worrying for fear that he also might
lose his mind. and ii has finally driven
him insane.
Mrs. ID. l.. Cleveland, of IAwton,
drank a quantity Of carbollc acid and
ammonia, having mistaken the bottle
containing il for n bottle of wine. Her
mouth, throat and stomach We're SER
iously burned, and she is still in a
critical condition.
Margie Wilson. young girl in Cali
fornia township, went to neighbors
on an clTand and was attacked by Il
savage dog. Before she could be res
cued the brute had terribly lacerated
her arm and side. The owner was also
severely injured before he succeeded in
choking the dog.
Samuel A. Gentle. n prominent and
wealthy fruit package manufactures of
Benton Ilarhor. has been made de-
PENDANT i'm two sensational suits for
SANDER, each for $4,000. Thos. Evans,
ease, and his young daughter. Lille
May, in the other.
1t is said that Maj. y. $. Boynton
proposes to bring suit for 100000
damages. based on an article published
in the Bee Hive. the official organ of
the Maccabees, iustifying the supreme
tents action in deposing Maj. Boynton,
and asserting that he was n disturbing
factor IN the order.
W. A. Smith and T.. -. Conger have
purchased for syndicate of capitalists
the lime kiln interests of Capt. III. @.
Rose, the pioneer lime man of north
ern Michigan. The sale means much
to Petoskey. as it is the intention of the
syndicate to work the kilns to their full
capacity.
Frank Bailey. the Niles dwarf, is
about TO he removed 10 the Cass coun-
~ poor farm, where his midget wife
preceded him. Bailey and his wife are
each a years old and have Travelled all
over the United States with the old
time circuses. In their younger days
money came easy and it was lavishly
spent.
The receiver of the defunct First Ma
tional Bank announces that a third div
idend of 10 per cent is ready for dis
tributi0n among the depositors. The
bank failed during last March and up
to date has paid 10 per cent of the de
posits. 1t is thought that the bank
will ultimately pay depositors dollar
for dollar
4 Benton Harbor canning company
last spring contracted for the sale Of
11,00D cans of tomatoes ut 70 cents 4
can. Owing to the drought the cost
Of the goods will be 30 cents a can. II
the contracts are not released the com
pany will be losers by thousands of
dollars. Other factories are in like
predicament.
The 400 employees Of the American
Tin Plate Co.'S plant i'm Muskegon. all
of whom belong to the AmalGamated
association, are on strike. If the
struggle continues long it will affect
the independent mill of the American
Rolling Mill Co. which employs about
300 men. all members OF the Amaga-
mated association.
Matte Cronan. daughter of a res
taurapt keeper of Eaton Rapids. elopcl
last evening with Art Montgomery a
member OF the Jackson Star quartet
and $50 OF her fathers money Their
absence was soon discovered and they
were captured at Onondaga and are
now I'm jail. The woman has been mar
ried and has one child.
The horrible burns and bruises
which Louis Wolf received i'm a bak
cry fire i'm Detroit Monday morning
proved fatal, the unfortunate man dv.
ing at the hospital that afternoon. Fire
department OlllCIdlS say IlaU lad he
made a direct attempt to escape in
stead of trying to save some money
he had stored away. he would not have
been fatally injured.
Frank Bailey. the midget, has
changed his mind about going to the
poorhouse. and will tour the state for
the purpose of raising funds to recov-
err his old home. He says he has dis
covered that Il mortgage of $1,000 on
the home is void because his wife
never signed it, There is second
mortgage for 800, and Bailey's idea is
to raise enough money to clear it.
John Graham was arrested Saturday
night. tLaig ed with forging orders on
local merchants. He struck Battle
Creek from Chicago in the morning
and i'm the afternoon obtained a pair
of shoes at Harbeck's on an order pur-
porting to be from the foreman of the
sewer gang He was arrested at Park
er's while attempting to pass a similar
order for hat. The orders were
forged
Amelia Garfield. Of Grand RAPIDS
and Helen Decker of Sumner. Mich
lcgatecs Of the late Palmer G. Perkins
oe Indiana invention on1 t1biloptIt..