Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-09-04

| ''""D'ip- "hit WOrkllls ~ tire saw
mill at Frontier, fell on the circular
saw and lost his right arm and right
foot.
Acting Secretary OF War Sanger has
accepted the resignation OF Cadet Robt.
II. Dunstan, who vas appointed to the
West Point military academy from
Michigan two years ago.
DR.. III. V. Apsley. Grand Rapids
physician. was the victim OF pick
pocket at the Grand Trunk depot. last
night. Eighty dollars and some surgl-
cal instruments were lost.
1t Is asserted that not less than 300
new barns have been or are being
| erected In Sanilac county this year.
which does not look much like hard
times.
The annual reunion of the Fourth
Cavalry Will be held at Pennington
on September is, which date is the
fortieth anniversary of the mastering
in of the regiment.
or twenty candidates who wrote In
civil government at the last Calhoun
county teachers examination. but four
passed the test. Eighty-two persons
took the examination.
Ernest Singer, of Saginaw. is dead
from injuries received July II last in
the harvest field. his horses running
away. throwing him beneath their feet
and dragging heavy hay wagon over
| him.
The annual reunion OF the Camburn
! family will he held at Adrian. August
-. A hundred ard fifty members of
the family live in the vicinity Of Te-
cumseh. nearly all OF whom are ar
ranging to attend.
The total increase I'm Oakland coun-
| tvs valuation at the hands of the state
| tax commission is $S}2, 466. The David
Whitney estate will be assessed half
| i'm Bloomfield, Oakland county, and
half In Crosse lie.
Mrs. Il. Il. FeSler. of ROgersyille,
fell in her dooryard and was picked up
! unconscious. She did not regain her
senses and died Thursday morning.
Mrs. Fesler was Is years of age and
leaves one daughter.
Miss Mabelle Olive Sanford and
Wellington Grove were married by n
sister OF Rev. Emmilless Blake, of the
Spritualist church Tuesday. the first
ceremony of the kind that ever took
place in Grand Rapids
Geo. a. CasSelman. OF Lansing. has
pleaded guilty in police court ut Win
nipeg. Manitoba. Of forging a number
| of checks ard passing them on mer-
chants. He will be sentenced Friday,
CasSelman is an engineer
Monday, Labor Day. was a great day
Si0nS are reported from all over the
country MS OF more than usual numbers
and interest. The celebration in De-
troit was the best in years.
September 5 to 13 will take place in
Evart the reunion Of the Soldiers and
Sailors Association of Northeastern
Michigan. the grand street carnival,
baseball tournament, matinee races,
With numerous other attractions.
\ large area OF ground at the Queen
mime OF NcgaUuee Ated in. carrying
down several hundred feet OF the
South Shore railway track and several
ore cars. \ dozen houses stand on the
verge Of the abyss and the families
moved out.
Twenty employees oc the Knott Bros.
& Van Arnam brass foundry and plum
bers' goods factory. in Coidwater, went
oil strike Monday demanding the re-
instatcmenf cf a popular fellow work
man. The firm will ill Tie strikers
places.
VIM. Ball. of Hamburg. ten years
ago q renowned Republican politician.
and once acting lieutenant governor OF
the state. whose fatal illness was an
nouIced in The Journal last Monday.
died at his home AZ Hamburg ut SO
Thursday morning.
Mrs. George Wethers. OF Jackson.
found her seven-wcekS-old daughter
dead in bed by her side when she
awoie Wednesday morning. The child
had been suffering from whooping
cough and il is believed died from Il
spasm during the night.
Robert l.. Horton. of the United
States geological survey. has estab-
lished measuring station at Mendon
and has appointed Postmaster VIII i.
Mccoy 10 conduct Il series OF investi-
gations TO determine the howage ami
variation of hight OF the st. Joseph
river
John Brook Grand Trunk news
agent. went TO Mrs Gilr0y's boarding
house In OwOsso To lodge. Before he
Ind been in the house 81 hours Mrs
Giiroy missed her pocket book. Ap
! officer, ii il alleged. found the property
in brooks possession. Brook will be
prosecuted.
Correspondence or the Associated
Press from Honolulu. under date of
August III. brings the news that \. w.
Mitchell, the millionaire lumberman of
Cadillac, jumped or fell from his
steamer Coptic i'm the Pacific ocean
August L. and was lost. The body
wHs not recovered
Mrs. Henry Aurand. of Tckonsha. is
~ years old, ana yet rs spry as a
maiden Of 80. She recently patronized
an excursion TO Niagara Falls. visited
all the sights around the cataract on
foot ana returned home as fresh as .
bride. She keeps horse alone and
manages her own business affairs.
\ skeleton found I'm the woods near
the llough'on poor farm is believed TO
be that of Eli Halter. Of Atlantic mine
who nystcriouSly disappeared a year
and half ago Mr.. Halter left his
lgup wearing sItt.,.v. tr,,tgnrs o,,I