Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-11-29
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The spread of smallpox in Alaska is
causing much alarm.
Secretary of War Root, his son and
Gen. Wood left Cuba for the u. S. on
the 23d.
Russia is negotiating for the build
ing of "A number of fast cruisers in this
country.
Col. Gardener is still in the Manila
army hospital suffering from an attack
dysentery,
The British government has ordered
a warship to Panama to protect her
interest there.
One man was killed at Ellsworth,
Pa, on the Goth, by the explosion of
gas in mine.
The first blizzard of the season in
South Dakota was reported on the
Goth, when seven inches of snow fell.
Peter Maher has challenged Tom
SharlIey for fight. 1t is to be desig-
mated for the championship of Ireland.
Chas. IL. Hoyt, the well-known play
wright, died at his home in Charles
town, n. H., on the night of the Goth,
of paresis
Brooks Story, the celebrated express
robber, escaped from the Mississippi
penitentiary on the 10TH This is his
fourth escape.
The collections of internal revenue
for the month of October aggregated
S27, AGA, 495, against $50, l47, 446 for the
same month lasyear
Tea merchants OF Boston have begun
movement looking to a removal of
the war tax imposed on imported tea
since the Spanish war.
Minister to Austria Harris, who will
retire March 4, will return to his post
before that date. After retiring he wiz
resume his business in Indiana.
National Chairman 10 A. Parker of
the national committee of the Populist
party, has issued call for convention
at st. Louis, Saturday, Dec. 20.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee arrived in New
York from Cuba on the Goth After
reporting at Washington he will go TO
Omaha and take command Of the de-
part ment OF Missouri.
Newspapers from Manila, dated
Oct is, contain accounts of Gen. Trias
assuming the title and singing his
name as chief of the in
surgent forces, and that Aguinaldo
may be dead.
John Lionel Fegan, secretary for
mines and agriculture at Sydney N S.
w asserts that the recent downpour
of rain has largely improved the pros.
poets Of the wheat crop
Miss Theresa Heating, a highly re-
spectacle young woman, of Rochester,
n Y, was found murdered in vacant
lot, near the New York Central rail
road tracks on the 2lst She had been
robbed of her money and outraged
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal,
says: Hundreds Of Indians on the
Mesa Grande reservation are reported
to be on the verge of starvation be.
cause of the failure of their supplies
of manzanita berries and acorns, due
to drou tn last June.
Secretary Hay, for the United States,
and Ambassador Aspiroz, for the gov.
eminent of Mexico, on the 2lst signed
a treaty further extending the time al
lowed for the survey and definition OF
the water boundary between Mexico
and tho United States.
Tests of mari from the Dowagiac
mari beds show a percentage OF so to
IS per cent of carbonate of lime. AT
Schoolcraft, where company capital.
at
the mari shows but 90. The com pany
has secured 700 acres there.
Ambassador Choate has made repre-.
sensations 70 the British foreign office
on the subject of the Filipino junta at
Hong Kong. The foreign Office is in.
vestigating the matter and will reply
so soon as the reports of the author-
ties at Hong Kong are received.
An international congress attended
by 1000 delegates assembled in Rome
on the 25th to discuss the use of can.
non TO prevent hail, which is SO
destructive to crops. The theory is
that firing cannon into the air would
have the effect of breaking up rain
clouds.
Particulars were received on the 25th
from Iloilo of the battle Oct 80, at
Bugason, Island of Panay, when 200
bolomen and so rifiemen attacked the
Americans, who lost three killed. When
the garrison in force attacked0 the
rebels, 1903 insurgents were killed.
The Republican members of the
ways and means committee on the
2lst decided to make reduction of
$50, 90 900 in the revenues the amount
suggested by Secretary Gage. The
day was spent almost entirely in going
over thc.war revenue bill. The SEIZED.
ules on which the reduction shall be
! made have not been decided upon.