Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-11-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

sections.
Several Ottawa people saw a flock OF
passenger pigeons flying over the town
the first OF this species of pigeons 10
be seen in northern Michigan for years.
After several failures s. +. Cody
succeeded In crossing the English
channel in his kite. boat. He encouDt
cred much shipping and had some mar.
row escapes
Another vice president OF the Jeffer-
son club OF ST. Louis--Charles Weiss
man-has been found guilty In the
naturalization frauds and was sen.
fenced 10 three years Imprisonment.
An Owosso woman rented rig at
Laingsburg and then left IL near town
with note pinned 10 the cushion, say
ing she was dead In Lansing. She was
captured In beet field and put In Jail.
Four children were blown TO pieces
by the explosion OF a can OF nitro
glycerln which they picked up at
Bucks Run, near Lancaster. Pa One
of the boys struck the can with n
stone.
Sylvanus Trevail, president of the
Royal Society Of Architects, of Eng
land. was found dead from n pist j
shot. OH train In Cornwall The
indications were that he committed
suicide.
A broken window caused quar-
rel between Albert Timm and Chas.
Butterworth AZ Timm's house at
Cleveland and Butterworth shot him
dead. Timm's wife and children saw
the tragedy.
There are 4,420,070 acres OF land In
Cherokee strip subject 10 allotment ac-
cording 10 reports Of the Dawes Indian
commission. The value OF the land Is
S13. $4,000 with 10000 Cherokees on
the final rolls.
Fearing assassination. A. Floyd Bird,
the prosecutor OF Breathitt county.
KY. who secured the conviction OF
Curt lett and Tom White, Will remain
an exile from Jackson during the next
term OF court.
A huge swindle In the sale OF coun-
terfeit lottery tickets has been un-
earthed at Lynn, Mass, through the
arrest OF VIM. S. Wells. aged A., who
has made partial confession implica-
ting men in other cities.
Falling heir To S250.OCO. Robert
Greenwald. IL trusty prisoner in the
county Jail at Portland. Ore, could not
wait for the expiration of his sen,
tence one month hence. but took ad-
vantage Of his position and skipped.
The United States transport Thomas
reached Honolulu Tuesday from Ma
Mia. three days late. having encoun-
tered typhoon oct. - and sustained
some damage. Her aft bulwarks were
wrecked and two life boats smashed.
forest tire In Chicago was the
unique spectacle resulting from con.
migration which started In the build
ings or Graceland cemetery and
burned the shrubbery and trees for
Space OF four blocks. The loss is $50,
COO
An offer OF 5000 for a right ear
brought response from 80 men, wo1
men. boys and girls 10 physician VINO
has AS a patient a western mining mil
'ionoire who lost his right aural APP
pendage and desires TO have IL re-
placed.
John Mitchell. az a member OF Presi.
dent Roosevel's next ca inet, TO sue
coed George r. Cortelyou. as secretary
Of commerce and labor, is the Dretiic-
ton OF the PittSburg Dispatch, based
on an interview with a CLOSE friend of
Mitchell
Nurse Carew. a pretty young wo.
man. formerly OF New York hospital.
Is being searched for. that she may b.
given $4,000 under the will - Frank
j. Edwards. OF Pasadena, Cal, whom
she refused 10 marry after nursing him
three years ago.
Acting under orders from washing
ton the Duluth land office has closed
To the public nearly 10000 acres Of
pine land in ltasca county. Sales have
been so small that the land will not
again be on the market until there il
n greater demand.
Two thousand more men have been
laid of by the Illinois Steel works at
South Chicago. In addition TO this.
100 men who were laid off two weeks
ago and who expected TO 90 To work
Monday have been Informed that there
is no work for them.
For a paltry $3.50 insurance Alexan-
der Jones was murdered near Waynes-
burg. Pa, by his head being crushed
That IL the theory Of the authorities
who have arrested Jones widow.
Thomas ana Elwood Loving and Dan
lei Jefferson OF a charge of murder.
over 5000 eases of yellow fever.
with death rate OF fully five per
cent. is the estimate placed upon the
epidemic In Texas and that part OF
Mexico just over the border by pr
II. ID. Murray. tie international yellow
fever expert, who has just returned
from a trip through the Infected terri
yory.
Hugh Armstead, negro. narrowly
escaped lynching In Pittsburg for the
probably fatal shooting of Patrick But
Ter. watcher at the polls In the IAN
voting precinct Butler and several
were playfully contesting
for the possession OF cane and In
the scuffie Armstead was struck AS he
was passing. when he drew revolver
and fred
H. &. Schreiner. cashier, and A. G..
Schaefer. assistant cashier, or the
Scott county bank, at Jordan. MINI.
which closed its doors last Saturday.
have been arrested pending an Inyes.
tigation into the affairs Of the con
Germ fl IL alleged thpy raoofvad A..