Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-18
THE NEWS CONDENSED

try SHOW tndt tue lhuChihistS strlke Is
over.
Disaster wrought by the storm which
| has swept Haiti and San Domingo has
| been great.
Christian Endeavor twentieth an
nuSl convention closed In Cincinnati
Thursday night.
Bubonlc plague has caused 361
deaths TO date in Cape Town since its
outbreak last fall.
Ex-Lieut.-Go VIM. Cumback, ~
years old, was married in Lapel, Ind,
TO Miss Laura Wachstatter. a teacher.
The great drouth in Kansas and Mis-
souri, has been slightly relieved by
showers Most crops are hopeless,
however.
Rev. T.. A. Cantrell quits the pulpit
of the First Christian church, Wash
ington, announcing that he no longer
believes the Bible.
Gen. Maxine Gomez has returned to
! Cuba from New York. Says he will
never forget American kindness as
long as he exists.
Alfred b. Kitteridge, of Sioux Falls,
has been appointed United States Sen
dloE u iii the ulltADlltu ltIll Oh JOS.
III. Kyle, deceased.
A Denver woman has just secured a
| divorce from her husband because he
didn't tell her he had wooden leg UNI
| til after the wedding.
Brooms go up another % cents PEI
| dozen, by order of the trust, which
| promises another raise Aug L. OH the
| plea that broom corn Is scarce.
Rear-Admiral Bunce, L. S. ~, re-
tired, had most of his cancerous tongue
cut out in Boston hospital, but will
not wholly lose the power Of speech.
A storm of wide and in some places.
( very heavy dimensions. has swept over
| central Arizona, breaking the heated
spell of unusual length and intensity.
J. H. Hollander Is en- route to the
! United States and is said to have quit
! his post as treasurer of Porto Rico.
| He may go to Manila to frame tax
| laws.
A man in Beaumont, Tex, being in
need Of money recently, sold II acres
of land for $500 to another man. who
| i'm turn sold the land for $685., 900, hav-
| ing discovered that the land contained
! oil.
The Chinese government, through
| Minister WI Ting Fang. has filed n
| claim for indemnity TO the amount of
| $500, 900 on account of alleged outra-
| geouS treatment of Chinese at Butte,
! Mont.
There are only 10000 seekers for the
$4,000 farms in the Kiowa country
! opened by President McKinlcy's proc
In -
the ground waiting for Il chance to
| register.
John j. Martin. capitalist and land
! lord of the Capitol Hotel i'm philadel-
| phia. found his son. lost u years ago.
! working among the iron furnaces in
Anderson, Ind. He will now have an
easier JOB.
Mrs. John Edwards and her 15-year-
| old daughter, Mary, are in jail in
Reading, Pa. accused of Staying John
Edwards, husband and father, with a
grubhoe. A 10-year-old son told on
them. If convicted they may be hung.
The state pardon board approved the
| parole Of Cole and James Younger,
| who have been in the saltwater. Mimi,
! penitentiary - years, for completely
in robbery and murder during the raid
! Of the James gang on the Mortified,
Mimi. bank.
( y cargo of granite will be shipped
! in August from Maine quarries TO Iiv-
erpool. This will be the first cargo of
| American granite ever shipped to any
! European port. and will be laid down
! I'm Liverpool at 81 a ton, or 81 % a ton
| less than Scotch granite can be sup
| piled.
No seriously injurious effects to
| crops from the period OF intense heat
! Is reported from the middle Atlantic
! states. but from Texas northward TO
! Nebraska, including Missouri. Arkan-
sas. and portions of Illinois. Kentucky
| and Tennessee, crops have been more
| affected.
Independent Cuba will begin bust
ness with bonded indebtedness of
only S122.400, resulting from the clause
! in the new constitution pledging the
! Cuban republic to the payment of the
/ bonds ISSUED by authority of the revo-
lutionary government during the war
with Spain.
The endowment rank of the Knights
of Pythias has a deficit of S225, 267.
| i Ills announcement WIS llaup DN SUI
! preme Commander ogden II. Fethers
| TO the supreme lodge of the order,
which has been assembled i'm Chicago
| for the purpose Of looking into the af-
fairs OF the rank.
William Duploy, Boer prisoner who
escaped from Bermuda and got TO New
| York as a stowaway, told immigration
| officials that he came to this country to
earn his own living and there was no
chance of his becoming a public charge.
! He was sent back to tho detention
4 pen on Ellis island.
Large parts of the Russian empire
/ are again threatened with famine. The
| last official report. which has just been
published. was dated June 81. Since
then not drop of rain has fallen in
the eastern provinces, and IL is be-
| lieved the crops are now largely be-
| yond hope i'm many districts.
Every train brings extra coaches
crowded with people coming to FL
| Reno. Okla. TO register for Kiowa
| lands. The hotels and restaurants are
! taxed to their utmost and as rapidly
as needed churches and school houses
/ and every available room will he given
ND for the accommodation of the