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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Husband Was a Woman.

The body of Nicholai de Raglan,
whose sex has been the subject of dis
pute and litigation since last Deem
Der, was exhumed on the arrival in
Phoenix, Ariz., of Baron Schlippen-
bach, Russian consul in Chicago. The
body was in a good state OF preserva-
ton and the face unchanged. Baron
Schlippenbach said:
This is the body of Nicolai de Ray
Ian, who was for II years my secre-
tary."
Later the proof of sex was made,
the coroner and a physician who had
attended the dead person making af-
fidavits that De Raglan was a female.
De Raglan. as a man. was twice mar
ried. His widow in Chicago denied
that De Raglan was woman and
claimed his estate. She cannot get II
row as a widows heritage.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
AT REST.
Funeral Of Mrs. William Mckinley
Was Notable.

Hvao trSeeb'Ss
The most distinguished men in the
nation attended the funeral OF Mrs
Ida Saxton Mckinley in Canton, Ohio
and stood at the grave side In the
cemetery where the body was laid be
side the remains of her martyred hus
band. Simple as was the funeral cere
mony, there was much that was i'm
pressive, for the woman who lay dead
and the men and women gathered
around her coffin recalled scenes and
incidents that have formed the history
OF the nation for the last decade.
The service was held at the North
Market street residence of the McKin
leys. Not since the funeral OF Mrs
Benjamin Harrison has so large q
of. the nation been gathered at the
funeral of any woman.
Among the number who paid last
tribute TO the memory OF Mrs. McKin
ley were President Roosevelt and
Vioe-President Fairbanks, four mem
bers OF the cabinet, two OF whom also
were ministers of the late President
Mckinley; Senator Knox, of Pennsyl
vania, attorney general IN the McKin
ley cabinet; former Postmaster Gen
eral Gary; Supreme Court Justice and
former Secretary of State w. r. Day;
Gov. Harris, of Ohio Senator Dick
and many other distinguished persons
The cabinet members present were
Secretary of State Root, Secretary OF
the Treasury Cortelyou, Secretary OF
the Interior Garfield, and Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
THE MARKETS.

Detroit-Good grades OF butchers
cattle brought fun steady prices with
grades and cow stun were. about So
lower. Gold mich cows sold well, blu
were scarce. Common grades dull
Extra dry-fed steers and heifers, IS so
steers and heifers. 200 to l,200, $50
S. %. do, 500 TO 1000, 81 1905 20; steer.
and heifers, fat 500 to 200, 81 25d4 60,
choice fat cows, 81 25Q4 so; good fat
Gamers, 81 75Q2 Is; choice heavy bulls
81 25Q4 SO; fair to good bologna bulls,
81 1904 stock bulls, 50 1908 40; choic,
fair feeding steers. 500 to 1000, So IS O.
4 rs; choice stockers, 500 to 700. So 20 a
4; choice stockers, 500 10 700. SO 1904
stock heifers. 50 1904; mixers. large
mixers, s1sG25.
The veal calf trade was active and
strong, 25c per hundred higher than It
was week ago. quite large proper
ton OF the receipts bringing 81 per
hundred and some choice grades as
high as s. %: Best grades, s7@7 rs
The sheep and lamb trade was stronL
and 25c higher than last week, tor
lambs bringing as high as IS per hun
lambs s7q7 So light to common 5n no la s9Sa
81 60@6 15: fair TO good butcher sheep.
$5q5 IS; culls and common, SO 50m4.
spring lambs, 5000
In the hog department the trade was
very dull and prices paid were from 25c
to soc per hundred lower than last
week. Packers started in to buy them
at Sc Is, but raised their morning bids
a nickel and paid commission men
Sc 20. Range of prices: Light 10 good
butchers, Sc 20@6 25; pigs Sc 20; light
workers.. So 15q6 20; roughs, So rs:
stays one-third off
East Buffalo.-Market generally 1Oc
higher on all desirable grades: best
export steers, s5.75@6.1O best 1000 to
1,300-lb steers, s5.50Q5.75: best 900 to
1.100-lb do. 1925 a 5 so; best fat COWS.
81 a 45O: fair to good $4,000: trim
mers. s2.25 "a SO: best heifers $5m550:
medium TO good s425@4 $50: best feed :
ers, S4.50m476; yearlings, $350d4:
common stock steers. 1920 $50; export
bulls, $3.50 $50: fresh cows dull and
s2mt per head lower good to extra.
$40 50: medium to good, s3S@4s; com
Hogs-Market lower; medium and
heavy. s6.2566.4O: mixed. s64O6s45:
workers.. s6.45; pigs, t6.50@6.55; roughs,
s550M5.60.
sheep-Market active and higher
best lambs. sS.406s.50: cuIls. $500
$50; wethers. t6.50ds7b: cuiis, SlmT:
yearlings. s7d7.7O: ewes. s5.25GS7s.
Calves-Strong; best, SsGs25: me-
dunn to good. $6.50@715; heavy, Sia
40
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Smallest in the State.

What is probably the smallest
school in point of attendance in the
entire state Of Michigan, and one of
the smallest in the entire United
States, had its ending several weeks
ago, when District No. in Muskegon
township closed for the season. The
two pupils who were under the tute-
age of Miss Edith Hale, of Muskegon,
left states, blackboards and arithme-
tics and romped away to follow
plows and pick berries at their home
on the farm.
Miss Hale thinks that the number
of her pupils compares favorably 10
any school in Michigan. The pupils
were both young and were very or
derby. One was a boy and the other
girl. They were both in the same
grade in school
District No. hasn't always been
so light in attendance. but early this
spring many of the pupils left school
to work at home.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
More Railroad Suits.

Messrs. Todd and Simpson, appoint
ed some months ago by the president
TO investigate the anthracite and bi.
luminous coal carrying railroads with
reference TO violations of the Sherman
antitrust act, have reported to Atty.
Gen. Bonaparte, and their findings will
be submitted to the president.
The department is very reticent con.
corning the report, but there is reason
to believe that action will be begun
within the next 10 days against the
Pennsylvania, Reading, Chesapeake Il
Ohio, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Sea-
board Air Line and the Beech Creek
railway, for violations of the Sherman
antitrust act
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
The Hermit's Estate

Archimedes Galbraith. the swamp
hermit who passed away in the st.
Clair county poor house a supposedly
rich man. did not have enough of his
probating. The appraisers find that
the aged hermit left real estate valued
at $1,000, but this being highly mort
gagged, there will not be quarter OF
the valuation, when a final settlement
is made. He left farm implements
valued at s45 and held $1,000 shares
in seventeen different corporations
The value of the shares is placed al
about 81 or less.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
General Evans Lauds the Confederate
President


"Ail the elements of greatness were
components of his life." said Gen
Clement A. Evans, of Jefferson Davis
In his address. the principal one de-
livered at the unveilinga of the monu
ment erected as an everlasting mem
orial of the former leader of the lost
cause at Richmond, Va. After prais,
ing the women OF the south, through
whose efforts the monument was Sc
cured, Gen. Evans paid this tribute
to the first and only president OF the
confederacy:
He outlived obloquy; he saw de-
traction die by its own sting; he saw
vicious censors put to shame; he be
held resentments of south and north
whitening in stem and root. leaving no
seed He was not faultless in judg
ment, but he was upright. brave, fair
and absolutely incorruptible. History
will surely give him an honorable and
distinguished place among the noble
characters of past times
The unwilling of the monument was
the browning feature of the annua'
anS perhaps last great" reunion or
the Confederate veterans.
Gov. Swanson also spoke.
William Jennings Bryan and Mrs
Bryan attended the ceremony a
guests of the United Confederate Vet
Grams. They rode in the parade in tho
carriage of Gov. and Mrs. Swanson
and were given a continuous ovation
en- route.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
A Unique Wedding.

A Sunday afternoon wedding on
board a yacht, decorated with smilax,
violets and other wild flowers as for
a gala OCCASION, was the unique event
on S. S. Armstrong; boat, the Ariet
ia, George Mutscheller and Marie
Pearl Armstrong being the central
figures and Rev. j. Ambrose Dunlel
pastor of the Warren Avenue Presby'
terrain church, officiating. A wedding
supper was served after the ceremony
the party including the immediate
families of the contracting parties and
a few friends. The craft made the run
back to the city in time for the couple
to take the evening train for Buffalo
and the east
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Horribly ManuIed.

Edward Martin was instantly killed
~ Pere Marquette train, short dis
lance north of Muskegon Saturday.
He was not identified until piece of
paper on which his name had been
written four times, was found in the
lining of his coat by Coroner Balbir-
ME. The body was terribly mangled.
1t is thought that Martin had start
ed out on hobo trip. and while rid
ing on the train fell between the
trucks of the baggage car. The body
was dragged the entire length of the
train. He was unmarried.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

While working about an old tree
Louis Bouffard, aged Sc years, a
pioneer farmer OF Delta county, was
instantly killed by the tree falling on
him. He was unmarried.
Fred Johnson. steward OF the La
peer Home for Feeble Minded since
the founding of the institution, is near
death.
Contrary to the general opinion
that the peach crop had been killed
by the recent frosts and storms. fruit
growers who have inspected the trees
say that a fair crop will be yielded If
there is no more cold weather.
There will be a family reunion when
John Jewell. just sentenced TO serve
term at Ionia for stealing q copper
sap pan valued at S125. reaches prison,
as his son Floyd was sent to the same
Institution in January. 1905, for lar
Cery
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Barely Escaped the Mob.

Frank Shampo and Frank st. Peter,
The two young men who on Decoration
day at Wallace assaulted an aunt oil
Shampo. are held in default of $4,000
bonds The crime was the worst OF its
kind that has happened in the county.
st Peter drove to the home Of Mrs.
Leanna, at night, stating that the
mother of Shampo was dying and
wanted to see her Mrs. Leanna
stepped into the rig. When the woods
were reached Shampo, aided by st
Peter. attacked her, it is charged. The
sheriff had difficulty in protecting the
prisoners from the violence of mob
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
GREAT BUSINESS.
The Target April Business Ever
Known in This Country.

The cool weather appears to have
had stimulating effect on the inter
nal commerce of the United States.
finished casting up the figures for
April. They show that month was the
biggest April for business the country
has ever seen.
The traffic congestion which inter-
fered with business all winter and was
the cause of much complaint TO the in
terstate commerce commission has
been relieved, especially in that portion
of the country tributary to the Great
Lakes. the opening of navigation hav-
ing given marked relief in clearing up
the piled-up warehouses and docks.
Another indication of the improvement
in traffic conditions is found in the
fact that the car service associations
during the first four months of the
year handled 1,45S,572 cars, as COM
pared with 10.S71,96 for the same
period of last year.
In all forms of internal commerce
the improvement is equally striking.
The receipts of cattle and hogs were
nearly 20 per cent greater than during
April, 1906, while the grain receipts
at the - leading primary markets of
the interior showed an increase of
about so per cent over April, 1906. and
70 per cent over April. 1905. Grain
shipments from the primary markets
were also in excess of those of April.
1906 and 1905. Cotton, coke and pig
iron gained from to per cent. Build
ing operations in the "a leading cities
of the country amounted in April. 1907,
to s75,947 ,209, while in April, 1906,
they summed up in value to only s72,-
401 ,224.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

At protest frop resorters the fare
between Pontiac and Sylvan and Cass
lakes has been reduced from ten
cents TO five.
A cat belonging to r. II. Williams,
OF Coldwater, has adopted Belgian
hare, while one belonging to Charles
Moore has assumed custody OF brood
Of chickens.
While gathering mushrooms, Elton
n. Esselstyn and Bert Sumner, OF Ian
sing, were attacked and brutally as
saulted by three tramps. Esselstyn
had his wrist severity cut by knife
welded by one Of the tramps.
Lansing board of education has
found that some of the teachers have
been getting too much pay and others
not enough. How the mistake came
to be made in their checks no one
knows.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

The attorney general has ruled
that an application from life convict
for a Communication of sentence is not
necessary before the governor can
commute the sentence. In order 10
transfer the prisoner from one Jail to
another.
DR.. James II. Reed. an ex-Confed.
crate, has been made an honorary
member of the very regiment he
fought against, during the civil war,
and he will make Memorial day ad.
dress in Climax. In the war Reeds
regiment captured the Nineteenth
Michigan, which has now adopted him
A silver cup presented by a Sunday
school TO William II. Stone in Allegan
m 1869. was plowed up by Walter
Evans on his farm near Butternut
island. He returned 1t to it's owner
who was once a resident of Portland
and lost The cup nearly 20 years age
when the children held a picnic near
the river.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Shaken Up.

Three earth shocks at about 1920
Saturday morning caused the inhabit-
ants OF Guayaquil, Ecuador, to jump
from their beds and run, panic
stricken, into the streets. The first
and last of the shocks were slight,
but the second was heavy and lasted
about 40 seconds, causing the bells in
the churches to ring and stopping the
clocks in the church towers. No news
has yet been received from the in
terror. but ii is considered probable
that damage was done in the coun-
try. Owing to the peculiar construc-
ton of the buildings the disturbance
did not cause any damage in that
city.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Narrowly Escaped Cremation.

Martin Fraser, of Port Huron, was
carried from his hope by neighbors
Sunday morning While his home was
burning. Fraser was sleeping and did
not discover his danger until the
flames had reached his room. The
exits were shut off and he broke
through window and was carried out
by neighbors. The building is out OF
he city limits and the fire department
was not summoned
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Salvador has sent a sensible man to
represent it in Washington. The new
minister said the other day that the
Salvadorean and the citizens of the
other Central American countries are
getting tired of war. They realize,
he says. that if all the money spent
for slaughter and the qualification OF
selfish ambitions of some individuals
had been turned to the building of
good roads, schools and other instru
mentalities of civilization, Central
America would comprise one united
prosperous and happy nation to-day
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Died in Great Agony.

James j. Perry, aged so, an old resi-
dent of Saginaw, died from injuries
received by a pile of lumber topping
over on him in the Booth e. Boyd lum-
Der yard Forty stitches were taken in
his head, his legs were both broken In
two places and he was terribly in
iured internally, but his powerful
physique kept him alive 36 hours, dur
ing which time he was conscious and
suffered greatly, three men being re-
quired to hold him just before he died.
He leaves a widow and five children.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
After Nine Years.

Peter Conan, an Indian, was arrest
ed near Eagle River, on the charge of
numbering Henry Taresh, of Crystal
Falls, Mich, nine years ago. District
Attorney O'Connor, accompanied by
Sheriff Murphy, found the body of
Taresh buried at a depth of two feet
in swamp near Lac Du Flambeau.
Taresh was a woodsman with relatives
at Crystal Falls, and the authorities
searched for years to locate the muir
derer.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

The cold weather which prevailed
all over Europe last winter is making
a tremendous demand for fuel. 1t is
not merely in Russia and North Ger
many, says the London Statist' thar
the cold has been intense. In south
ern Italy, southern Russia and at Con
stantinople the frost has been un'
usually severe.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Not only does Henry Vanness of
Rockville, Conn, enjoy the distinction
OF being the only negro railroad con-
ductor in the country, but he has also
the honor of being one of the men
who have been longest in continuous
railroad service in the country, having
been employed as a conductor for AZ
years without a break. He has been
employed on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad since it
was opened to traffic in 1868.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

The only English woman admitted
by royal decree in recent years to
any of the ancient orders of chivalry
is Queen Alexandra. who is Lady of
the Garter. AS such her majesty
wears the broad ribbon of the Gar
ter over her left shoulder on state oc-
casions, the star upon the left shout
der, and when the Garter is worn
at all it is clasped upon the left arm.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Though she is not yet social
bud" Miss Helen Taft has been
nicknamed the tulip girl by her
close friends. The title had its origin
in her fondness for certain style of
dressing. The daughter of the secre-
tary of war is almost II and will
'-come out" in the last winter Of the
Roosevelt administration. She is a
classmate of Miss Ethel Roosevelt In
the cathedral school Miss Taft has
been in the orient and can rattle OF
Filipino phrases.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

According to the report Of the min
lister of mines and forests, the yield
Of gold in Victoria for the year 1905
amounted to S10,050 ounces gross, or
747,166 ounces fine, representing a
value of approximately $15,90OOOO.
The total output since the first dis
covery to the end of 1905 amounts to
1867, 403 ounces gross, with an esti-
mated value of .370.000,000.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
A Quiet Sunday.

Seven men were slashed with knives
or beaten with clubs and two were
shot with revolver in two saloon
brawls which took place in Ham
tramck, near the Detroit city limits,
Sunday. which goes TO show that the
lid is completely off in that suburban
district despite the law and the sheriff
of Wayne county.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

The telegraph does not reach every
where. News arrived in London early
lin April that there had been a
fight last December between British
soldiers and natives on the west coast
OF Lake Tchad, in central Africa, dur
ing which II men were killed and AZ
wounded. 1t took more than three
months for the particulars of the
struggle to reach civilization and a
telegraph line.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

A marriage epidemic in a Pennsyi-
vania town threatens to close the
schools for lack of teachers who nave
succumbed to its ravages. And there
is no amount of theory, educational
system of legislation which Will Keep
Cupid from interfering with the best
laid plans of school boards and peda-
gogical experts.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Want Il in Constitution.

In the state convention of the w. G.
+. U. to be held in Lansing June Al
the principal topic of discussion will
be: What | would like to- see incor-
porated in the revised constitution of
Michigan" A determined campaign
viii be inaugurated TO put temperance
and restrictive features in the new or
ganic law. Another question will be-
Are the laws of Michigan adequate
for the protection of the homer
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Perhaps the most famous of all the
shippers on the Atlantic to-day is Capt.
Karl Kaempff, commander of the great
Hamburg-American speed record
breaker Deutschland. Capt Kaempff,
or, as his friends prefer to call him,
Commodore Kaempff, has been fol-
lowing the sea for nearly 40 years,
and yet he is only little over So
years of age.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Detroit Valuation.

Surprising even to the assessors
themselves is the increase OF s21, O00,.
900 in the assessed valuation of land
and buildings in Detroit. as figured
out at the assessors Office This in.
cludes an estimate OF the realty value
of the eleventh ward, which is placed
at little over 100000, and of the
recent village of Fairview at $4,000,
600.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Whirled to Death.

Employees at the Hecla Cemen,
mill. Bay City, were startled to hear
piercing screams, and looking beheld
William Kavat, aged 35, a Hungarian,
being whirled around shaft The un-
fortunate mans clothing had been
caught in the rapidly revolving ma
chinery. His body was reduced to an
unrecognizable mass. He has no
known relatives.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
Our Lake Navy.

The good ship Yantic will not leave
Michigan waters, but will be sent to
Hancock for the use OF the upper Pc
ninsula division OF naval reserves.
A joint resolution was passed by
the house appropriating $4,000 for re-
decking the ship. the unexpended bal
ance to be used to defray the expenses
OF sending a crew to bring the cruiser
Don Juan de Austria to Detroit.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

A Frenchman has invented pro-
cess of subjecting oats, wheat, rye
and other cereals to currents OF not
air. which preserves them from mold
French scientists claim that the ln'
vention has great practical value in
wheat producing countries, where
mold causes immense loss during
TRANSPORTATION.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Consul w. II. Bradley of Manches'
ter sends a statement signed by the
officials of the British United Tex
tile Factory Workers association,
warning laborers not to flock to that
city for employment, as every depart
ment in the several mills is working
to its fullest capacity, and there is
no scarcity of adult mill labor.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

II has been computed that there are
$4,000 600, 900 in gold and jewels at
the bottom of the sea on the route
between England and India.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06
ADJUSTMENTS IN DETROIT
Week Ending June 8. 1907.

LycEUS-Prices always ibc, &c soc, TO. DC.
Matinees "Wednesday and Saturday.
dorothy Vernon OF Haddon Hall"
TEMPLE THEArrR AND worpKRLANp-
Afternoons 2:l6. loo to DC: Evenings s:i5.
loo TO &C. Advanced Vaudeville. VIM.
'iouId A Naleeka Suratt.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

The Massachusetts statesman who
says that everybody ought to take a
months rest does not provide for the
numerous people who cannot be per
suaded to do a months work.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

A New York woman has been par
alyzed while listening at the teie-
1hone. Some one must have cut
loose at central for sure.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Paris cab horses work only every
other day and are fed on the days
they work only. not on the days they
rest"
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

Harry Seymour, aged S5. was prob.
ably fatally injured by a falling pole
at the Agricultural college grounds
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1907-06-06

In order TO balk the muckraners,
the man who gave $1,2OO,OO0 to
Princeton university concealed his
name.