Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-07-11
THE NEWS CONDENSED

Pierre Lorillard. the tobacco man
and horse owner. is dead.
Sam Gompers Is recovering from his
street ear fall in Washington.
Three hundred lives were lost by a
landslide at Lung Heng, China.
Work on the electric road from Bat
tie Creek to Coldwater has begun.
Five persons dropped dead on the
streets in Chicago Monday from excess
sive heat.
Now combination of the lead inter-
ests with S20,000,O0O capital is being
organized.
United States Senator James III.
Kyle. of Aberdeen, $. d., died ON Mon
day after brief illness.
l.. C. Knox. new encouragement Of
the United States, has just paid Sis,
900 for a residence In Washington.
Frank NJ. Deane, editor of the Hart
ford Alliance was drowned Tuesday
night al Beachwood. Paw Paw lake.
Harry Acheson. who has been an
usher at the white house since Gen.
Garfield was president, will be a pen
sion examiner.
Albert l.. Johnson, of Cleveland. O..
brother of Mayor Thomas l.. Johnson,
died Tuesday night 1T Fort Hamilton.
Il brooklyn suburb.
Train No. 3 on the Great Northern
Railway was held up by three masked
men mt Wagner Station, Mont, and the
express safe robbed of $4,000.
4. f,.a Ut
which destroyed nearly the entire
business portion Of the town, will
reach several hundred thousand dol
lars.
one thousand persons were precipi-
tated to the ground by the giving way
of an amphitheater at Monticello. Wis.,
during wind storm. Six persons were
injured.
Secretary Wilson has decided to
establish in the customs districts of
Boston, New York, Chicago and San
Francisco a system of inspection Of
dairy products.
Between $50 and 400 freight handlers
employed in and about the warehouses
of the different railroads entering East
st. Louis are on strike for an advance
in wages.
The leading bituminous coal inter-
ests of the central states will be con-
soldated by corporation with S25,-
100000 capital. and turned over to the
railroads handling the output.
The hot weather caused 225 deaths
and 32T prostrations in New York
Tuesday. - deaths and 300 prostra-
tions in Philadelphia, 30 deaths in
Pittsburg. Other cities report many
fatalities.
Lieut. j. H. Scott. of the revenue
marine service. who distinguished him
self ut the rescue of the persons on the
disabled torpedo boat Winslow, off Car
denas, on May II, 1898, has resigned
and gone into the railroad business.
VIM. Haywood. who represents GER
tain business and commercial interests
of Hawaii in Washington. has request
ed the government to grant permission
for the landing of a ship load of Fill
pinos in Hawaii for labor purposes.
Clifford Smyth, ex-United States con-
sui at Cartagena, Colombia. has started
from Brooklyn, N. T., TO walk to San
Francisco, in six months, at the rate
of 20 miles a day. He has tramped in
this manner through Great Britain.
A jury of prominent business men
took four minutes to find one of Kan
sas' new liquor laws, passed as a re-
suit of Mrs. Nations crusade. uncon-
stitutional. 1t was the "inquisition"
law, which authorizes county attor-
neys to summon and examine wit
nesses touching their knowledge of
the violation of the law. Dan F. Camp
bell, an attorney, who was summoned,
refused to testify and was arrested.
The jury acquitted him, though he ad-
mitted the charge.