Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-01-17
Brief NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

New York physicians have COM
menced war against faithhealers.
1t is estimated that the barley crop
Of the u. S. was about 25 per cent short
this year.
There is famine in the province OF
Shen 81 and it is said that 100000
people are facing starvation.
An armless and legless baby boy
was born at Irishtown, ILL.,, one day
recently that weighed four pounds at
the time of birth.
The residence Of +. III. Taylor at
Model City, N. Y. burned on the sth,
and Taylor, his wife and three small
children persisted in the flames.
The nitrate building of the Eastman
Kodak Co., was destroyed by fire CD the
sth. Two firemen were killed by the
fumes of burning chemicals, and ono
other was so seriously injured that he
will die.
The Bucharest correspondent of the
Lonoon Daily Express says that five
Roumanian soldiers, while going home
were attacked and eaten by wolves,
after a desperate struggle, one day
recently.
BY the decisive vote of "a to Is, the
senate on the 9th abolished the can
teen from the army bill. The effect of
the vote is to restore TO the bill the
house provision doing away with the
sale of intoxicants.
Anoonn. A. thara caap,c
TO be an organized band of assassins,
their object being to just crafty re-
yenge or envy against the rich. Only
the other day two more Americans
were captured and ordered killed.
Seven people were crushed to death
and as many more seriously injured in
panic which followed mans cry of
fire" at Turner hall, Chicago, on the
afternoon of the 18th About 500 peo-
pie were in the place at the time the
alarm was sounded.
Most of the miners in the Weir City
zinc mining district, Kas., are on
strike The trouble resulted over
wages and the introduction OF non
union miners There has been a riot
in one of the mines in which an at.
tempt was made TO hang one of the
superintendent.
Thomas c Moshier, farmer aged 25
was murdered, and his mother, Mrs.
Rufus Moshier, aged So, was brutally
assaulted at their home in Gorham,
Me, on the night of the 18th by two
men who forced an entrance into the
Moshier residence with the evident in
tent.on of robbery.
Thomas j. MinnocL, the newspaper
man who made the original charges
against Nurses Davis, Dean and Mar
shall, of Bellevue hospital, New
York, which led to the exposure of
horrible abuses in the charities de-
partment and caused the nurses to be
held on the charge of having murdered
a patient, has disappeared and all
efforts of the authorities to locate him
have been futile Ii is feared that he
may have met with foul play at the
hands of some of the thugs of the
charities department whose situations
were threatened by the exposure.
The application of Attorney Steven
son for a writ of prohibition to restrain
the lngham county circuit court from
proceeding with the case against ex-
Gov. Pingree, was denied by the SUI
preme court on the sth. The court
held that inasmuch as no proceedings
had been instituted in the lower court
to quash, they would adhere to the
rule laid down in the AGA Michigan
that the question must first be raised
in tire lower court. The supreme court
did not pass upon the merits of the
case.
The United States transport ingalls,,
from San Juan, l.. r., December %,
and Havana. January i, reached New
York on the 9TH, after very tempes-
tuous voyage For 40 hours the vessel
was buffeted by enormous seas, stirred
by high winds first from the north and
later from the northeast and east.
Doors and port lights were smashed,
ladders were broken aud the bridge
was damaged. The hand steering gear
was carried away and the saloon and
dining saloon were flooded, the furni-
ture being broken or ruined. The
special apartment on the upper deck
aft was also wrecked.