Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-01-16

ten days
The workingmen of Homestead, Pa.
| have contributed $4,000 to the nation
al fund for n Mckinley memorial.
Il. +. Williams is suing Healer"
Dowie in Chicago for $4,000 for alien
ating the affections of Mrs. Williams.
EX-Aud. Gen. W. Irving Latimer,
Big Rapids, has been appointed an as
sistant sergeant-at-arms of the senate.
The death list i'm the tunnel accident
at New York city has been swelled to
II. The latest death is that of Win
field Slutze.
Emory SZocs, Hungarian, commit
ted suicide at Cleveland O., by satur-
ating his clothing with oil and then
setting fire to IT,
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Chaves, their 2
year-old son, Joseph, and Mary Devi-
da, aged Is. were asphyXiated by coal
gas at Hartford, Conn.
Prince" David KawanonOkoa, of
| Hawaii, was married Monday ia Sen
| Francisco to Miss Abigail Campbell.
by Archbishop Riordan.
Secretary Smith, of the Michigan
pan-Amerlcan commission, expects
that the commission will be able to
return $1,000 to the state treasury.
The secretary of the navy has pre-
pared for submission to congress
bill providing for the establishment of
a ndyal training station on the great
| lakes.
Roland B. Molineux will not be
! placed on trial for second time In
%, fatrInr Mrc
| Catherine j. Adams until the begin
ming of March.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen now has a membership OF 49,
! 72O, q gain of 10000 since 1891. There
are only $4,000 firemen in the United
! States and Canada.
Capt. w. j. ID. Horne, Ninth cavalry,
| u. S. A., who was nvalided home from
! Manila in December, cut his throat
| with a butcher knife at San Francisco
! Sunday. He may recover.
Capt. Jas. A. Crossman, who was in
command of the steamship Allencia
when on March 8, 1895, 1t was fred
| on by Spanish cruiser off Cape May
81, is dead in Jersey City.
Elsa Condor, a head waitress at n
, hotel in Vincennes, Ind, in demon
strating her ability as n high kicker,
lost her balance and fell backward.
! She is dying of the injuries she sus-
tanned
An effort Is being made to hav
sentence of Morris Garnsey. Of th'
! Greek, who was sent to the 81 Battl,
at Jackson by Judge W ate prison
charge Of larceny, comr ,tsner on
| IN two vporc ,ufra fy>oN1Y fou
The open air TT
in the early ste .eatment for person
shown to ha- .ges OF consumption,
extent of &c been efficacious to tn
cases ~ about 81 per cent of til
the " .eated during the past year i
RI Massachusetts, state sanitarium 1
.fand.
II is now said that the president wi
, (ssend Dewey and Miles to attend Kin
Edwards coronation in June as chic
representatives of the army and navy
a and that Rear Admiral Crowninshiel
l. NAV 60 as commander of the Unite
L States fleet in European waters.
- Physicians ascribe the breakln
down of so many American resident
= in the Philippines to homesickness.
:, ! movement is OH foot to establish
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= United States to bring the American
into closer touch with home affairs.
~ Secretary Of War Root says tn
r. army Is necessary as a moral force
4 maintain civil administration i'm I'll
IN Philippines, and that many Filipino
ID are idle and conspirators for that re-
IN son. Root doesn't think reduction
II the military force in the islands wi
rs be possible for some time to come.
We Hy Wong, paralytic Chinama
V. while an inmate OF a hospital ut Bal
ly or City. Ore, had his queue cut OF
V. When he was returned to the care
d his countrymen in the Chinatown di
o. trict of that city, preparations wei
w made to offer him as n sacrifice
Joss. lie got word to the hospital n
thorities just in time to save his life.
le' The Schley case is now being co
n sdered by Attorney General Knox f
the purpose of discovering wheth
49, there was any illegality In connectiC
n with the court Of inquiry. If he shs
is find that the court was properly co
stituted and rules OF law followed
ed will then be within the province
la, the president to consider the case ,
IL its merits. If the attorney general d
as cides that there were illegalities
es- claimed 10y Schley. the verdict Of &
court would I've vitiated
OF Webster Davis, speaking in Omal
tn Monday night, said Boer sympathize
ar expected soon to ask congress to a,
RS. president Roosevelt" he said Get
ed. do nothing of his own accord to bril-
the Boer war to an end. The on
at way he can act Is through congre,
he and we are now preparing petiti
We 10 that body, which VIII, in she
led time. have 100000 signers. The 7
ley tltlon will ask II to extend sympat
SITS of this country TO the two republics
ng Former Lieut.. Gov. Mines Is to
nst tire MS postmaster OF Coldwater. Mic
de- when his present term expires, viii
Of will be soon. Rep. Gardner has sele,
cd Benz. II. Garman.