Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-06-27
THE NEWS CONDENSED

| 1oTtO RICO y 4hSStllDlN Will TAKE up
the question Of free trade July 4.
A tornado near Naper, Neb., killed or
| fatally injured nearly dozen persons.
Charles II. Flint is combining thirty
of the big Irvine factories into one COM
| pany.
Lapeer's new four inch water mains
have been given n fire test with disap-
| pointing results.
\ disease similar to the grip has APP
peared among horses in New York and
is rapidly killing them.
Agoncillo. the European representa-
tive Of Aguinaldo, has left Paris and
is returning TO his own country.
The state supreme court sitting at
Jackson, Tenn, on the Goth decided
that a woman cannot practice law in
! Tennessee.
The Grinnell, Ia. Congregational
church has decided TO drop the name
of Prof Geo. ID. Heron from its
church rolls.
The plague is becoming violent in
Hong Kong. Up to the end of May
from the beginning of the year 495
ClllneSe nave dWeu
The business Of national banks. ac-
cording 10 the last report of Comp
trollel Dawes. has increased nearly
100000. 900 in ten weeks.
According to a special from Wash
ington, Boer sympathizers are making
preparations for visit by Kruger to
this country IN the autumn.
-,
extended beyond the Bombay presi-
dency ard unless they become moro
| general the outlook is gloomy.
Fire, which originated in the estab-
lishment of j. Il. Sickles Saddlery com
pany, st. Louis, consumed property and
stock va ued at nearly 5000, 600.
Edward Biddle has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree at Pittsburg,
Pa, for the killing Of Thomas ID. Kah-
ney, the Mt Washington grocer
Three persons were killed and several
injured by lightning during severe
electrical storm which passed over In
diana on the night of the Goth.
The Engineering and Mining Journal
estimates the gold output in the United
States last year at S11S.435, $50 for the
United States and $3.50, 1924 ,G54 for the
world at large.
Mrs. Mckinley is gaining. The ply.
sicians now hope TO be able TO permit
their patient to take a few short car
rage rides this week il the weather
is favorable.
The Kansas Democratic state cen
trail committee Of Kansas has refused
an invitation from the Populists to join
in the formation Of new fusion party
under a distinct name.
Germany desires to increase her
claim of indemnity against China from
C II, 100000 to G14,0O0,0o0 because the
first figure does not include expenses
borne by Germany in China from May
to July.
The trouble long anticipated has at
last taken place and the strained re-
lations between the union and nom
union miners at Matewan, w. Va, has
resulted in bloodshed. Two men will
probably die.
Thousands of people, men, women,
children, camping on the border of the
Kiowa- Comanche Apache reservation
in Oklahoma, awaiting the opening of
that land to settlement, are in desti-
tute circumstances.
Gross earnings of all railroads in the
United States for the first half of June
are S15,259553, a gain of 90 per cent
over last year and 25.1 per cent over
1899. The increase continues very large
on southwestern roads.
Secretary Wilson says: Within ten
years the United States will produce
all of its own sugar. | may be over
sanguine, but believe my Judgment is
correct. Any one of the states of Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa or Nebraska could
produce from beets all the sugar need
ed in the United States.
Surgeon-GeneralW yman has issued
a general circular to medical officers
of the marine hospital service calling
special attention to the importance Of
insects as factors In conveying disease
The circular says there is no longer
doubt as to the relation OF the mosoui-
to to malarial diseases and to filari-
asis.
The miners strike in the Matawan.
resort to firearms has been the re-
suit. The whole field is excited and
serious trouble is feared. Already two
or three conflicts have occurred be-
tween the striking miners and the
guards, which have been placed In the
works by the operators.
Daniel Smith. who resides near Or
vile. Bridgeport township, Saginaw
county, is undoubtedly the Oldest living
resident Of Michigan. He was born
aboard the old ship Mascoloma. in
Portland harbor, Maine, January Fl,
1901, and consequently he is in his
111th year. He served in the Mexican
and Seminole wars.
The largest coal deal ever consum-
mated in West Virginia was closed on
the 18th, the Watson coal operators
having practically secured control OF
the entire Fairmont region. A new
company, with s12, 900, 600 capital, has
been organized and is known as the
Fairmont Coal Co.