Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-08-27

settled with the company.
Fire at CHASED destroyed ELL
Ruelle's livery barn and his house.
John Burgoyne's candy store, Madde
Truedell's blacksmith shop and Will
lam Fisher and William Haloppa's
houses. Loss, about $1,000.
Attain Ricardo. an animal trainer
with carnival company showing In
Jackson, was severely bitten by jag
uar thar he was trying 10 train. At
tendants saved him from being chewed
up.
The Mpkegon Fruit Growers Co.
has been organized with S2o,oo0 ana
! IL will boom the fruit lands In the
Muskegon district. IL will begin by
Planting trees Oh one tract or 900
acres.
Manistique has its first automobile.
The fifteenth annual reunion and en-
campment of the Tri-State Soldiers
and Sailors association begins ut
Montgomery September :, continuing
three days.
James 4. Mccarthy. Grand Rapids
| railway crossing Waterman, was
found in the gutter AT the corner Of
Cherry and Ellsworth avenues Mon
day with fractured ribs aud skull. He
died without speaking.
The West Bay City canning factory
has canned nearly 1900 bushels OF
| luckleberries this season ana Is not
through yet The most of the berries
come from along the Mackinaw divis'
ion of the Michigan Central.
Wesley Hubert. aged SO, unmarried,
blew his head off with a shotgun at
his home in Manton. Several years ago
he was struck on the head by limb
that fell off tree, and he had been
partially deranged ever since.
The 2-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence George, living east OF Muir,
fell backward into pail of boiling
| water which her mother was about TO
use for hopping and was so badly
scalded that it died in a short time.
State Game Warden Chapman. Chief
| Deputy Brewster and Deputy Fisher,'
! Of Detroit have returned from Isle
| Royal. where they found that some
provisions of the fish laws had been
violated. Wholesale prosecutions will
follow.
/ L lie AdnCltSlcT TsulNIIIlSt sdl
(! that the acreage planted to wheat in
that vicinity this fall will he larger
than for several years past. The good
yield and freedom from the various
pests this year has encouraged the
farmers.
Will Hall one Of n Grand Trunk
train gang, was instantly killed at
| Anger by making the mistake of back
ing from the gravel train on to the
main track and not observing that a
fast train was coming. His home was
at Bellevue.
William Peck Keene. son Of Am
brose Keene. met death by falling
| from a buggy He had gone out be-
hind one Of Ernest Bodine's horses,
and the animal came home without
driver Search was made and his
body was found.
While Mrs. Anna Oteney. of Brook.
| field township was unhitching horse,
-snS ran the, lnd Of a buckle tongue
intta kcr ingef1 Blood poisoning has
uccessita'ed tile amputation of the
finger and il is feared that her hand
will have to he taken off.
/ Otis Mosher, n iaborer. hailing from
| Cassopolis, was arrested in Battle
! Creek Monday afternoon by Deputy
/ Sheriff AnniS for stealing bride from
a farmers wagon. and when he broke
away and tried to escape the deputy
shot him in the back. Mosher will
die.
Peck Kcene of Dundee. took one of
Livcryman Btrden'S rigs to drive Geo.
HOlcOmbe five miles out Returning
alone. Peek died suddenly a mile from
| town and fell out of the buggy. The
horse came on to the barn and search
ers went back and found Peck's body.
He was 20 years old
Herbert Moon. IL years old. shot
and killed Lucian Drew. aged 20. of
Ithaca, Mich, on a farm near Utica.
y. y. The boy and man had been
Guarreling and the latter had severely
choked young Moon. During the
quarrel the boy broke away and got
22-caliber rifle with which he shot
Drew.
The canal for which Port Huron APP
propriated 100000. to connect from
Lake Huron to Black river. for the
purpose OF cleaning the latter stream.
is in the air. The city has so far sunk
nearly $4,000 in the ditch and all
there is To show is large irregular
hole In the ground and several small
bridges.
Otis Mosher who was shot Monday
by Deputy Sheriff Annls, of Battle
Creek, while trying TO escape from the
officer. who arrested HIM for stealing
Il bride from a farmers wagon, died
Tuesday night Of the wound There
Is good deal of feeling that any man
should be killed for such petty Of
Tense
The store Of the Pittsburg e Lake
Superior Iron Co. at Palmer was
raided by burglars Tuesday night The
safe was blown open and $1,000 and
hundreds of stamps were taken. The
store was used as the postoffice. Tues
day was pay day at the mine, which
accounts for the fact that so much |
money was on hand
Two years ago Edward Mitchen, a |
negro day lahorer. of Grand Rapids. |
married 4 prep0ssessing white girl, |
named Riecka Gerber. The wife died |
ana now Mitchen has married Ger |
trude Gerber, sister Of Riecka, and |
remarkably pretty woman of u |
years. Mitcheu is - as black as they |