Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-05-07
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Forest fires in the Adirondacks were
quenched by snow storms on Friday.
George William Crawford negro
has carried off the highest oratorical
hOnors at Yale.
California is appealing for men 10
pick her fruit crop. The Chinese eX-
clusion act has cut off the former sup
ply Of labor.
Gen Nelson A. Miles is to become a
resident of Long Island after his re-
tirement He has leased for the sum.
mer cottage near East Hampton.
w. H. Pope. judge of the Court Of
First Instance of the Philippine
Islands. has resigned and owing 10
shattered health, will return to Santa
Fe. y "
The plant of the international Salt
Co., located at South Chicago. with
three boats lying in the Calumet river.
were destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The loss is estimated at 81 100000
Minister LeiShmann at Pera cables
the state department that the prohibit
ton of American pork into Turkey,
which had been in effect for five
years. has been removed and orders
have been issued permitting entry
after the customary inspection.
Patroman James Baker, of New
York stopped runaway team and
saved the life of girl who turned out
to he Hrs old sweetheart. with whom
he had quarreled some years before
The quarrel was called off, and a cap
tain and 30 patrolmen attended their
wedding.
Susan Wilkinson, a New York widow
OF 81 has taken TO herself blushing
bridegroom of 10 She says she has
known him since he was a baby. and
that when he was Is he asked her to
marry him. but she made him wait a
year.
Frozen 10 death on a warm day was
the fate that befe the little daughter
of w. c. Prior. a Memphis druggist.
The little one had been poliiDg into an
ice cream freezer and fell in being
frozen to death before she could be
eXtricated.
Prayer books and church furniture
were weapons used by bcligerent fac,
tons in a fight i'm the Slavonic Roman
Catholic church nj Joliet. III. over >.
000 men. women and children were
mixed up in the scrmmage when the
police arrived and then all hands
turned on the officers and drove them
away.
After 36 hours continuous service
at the fire OF the South Chicago salt
trusts plant. and with face so sooted
that his friends scarcely knew him.
Fireman Richard Schoenherr. of Chi
cago, who had been called almost from
the altar by the fire. made hustle
and welded his bride amid the hearty
congra tulations OF his fellew hremen.
The Pere Marquette steel bridge
across the Paw Paw river was
wrecked Tuesday night while an at
tempt was being made to open IL. The
overhanging arm snapped. leaving the
iron structure partially open. but with
one end on the bottom of tho river.
It was far into the night before
train could pass
The wholesale liquor men. II Is said
are having a bill prepared under which
they hope 10 have their taxes reduced.
The tax for both wholesale and retail
business is now $500, and the county
auditors Of Wayne have been making
them pay the full amount The bill
would place new construction on the
retail selling. and under which the
wholesalers expect that they could get
of with a $500 tax.
"A dozen skeletons Of unusually tail
men were unoarthed by laborers ex-
cavating for new grounds Mt Fort
Riley, Kas. With tho bones were
many utensils and weapons apparent
~ over 200 years old