Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS.

An anonymous gift OF $4,000 to q
proposed fund for memorial to Rev
Henry Ward Beccher has been made
1t Is expected the fund will reach
100000.
Cholera is depopulating the Moro
village on the east shore OF Lake La.
mao. Mindinao. The disease also pre-.
walls at Bacolod. At Macln the deaths
average 30 a day.
A Chesapeake & Ohio Coal Co Off.
tial says that the soft coal miners i'm
the West Virginia coal fields are pre-
pairing to strike for a big advance in
wages about April /.
Just MS he resumed his seat at the
! conclusion Of speech accepting the
1 presidency of the Woonsocket. II. l..
board Of aldermen. Emmanuel l.. Sim.
mons expired in his chair.
Henry Phipps. of New York. has
given 100000 to establish an institu.
ton in Philadelphia to treat and study
consumption, with an additional en-
dowinent TO provide yearly income
OF $4,000, making the total 81. SOC. 600
A direct freight carrying road FROM
the 500 TO ST. Ignace will be at last
mad in the new electric line which. il
is announced. will be built early i'm the
spring. The run will be made i'm a.
hour. with power from the Michigan
Lake Superior Power GO.
1t is stated that if the reports OF tho
experts who have been examining the
property OF the Consolidated Lake Su-
perior Co. make favorable reports. n
further loan OF $4,000. 900 will be
granted. This will be used to push
especially the Algoma Central railroad
Clarence Rein. of New Orleans is
under arrest at San Francisco. charged
with swindling the Western Union
Telegraph Go. out OF $4,000 by man
pulating telegraph money orders of
the Fruit Dispatch Co. His alleged
pal. Andrew Houser, is under arrest
at New Orleans.
Mrs. Mary Kline and her infant
child died in the San Francisco emer-
gency hospital from the effects Of
burns received at their home. Before
dying, Mrs. Kline declared that Mrs.
Mary Davis had come into their room
and thrown burning lamp under the
bed IN which she and her babe lay.
When the Baltimore & Ohio mas
senger train arrived at Columbus. O..
from Cincinnati the body of n female
colored child. wrapped i'm an old skirt
was found hanging to the brake rod
under the rear platform Ii was dead
but still warm. The poStmortem
showed that 1t was healthy and had
died from exposure
The board OF construction of the |
navy department has submitted to See |
retary Moody its recommendations that |
the bid OF VIM. Cramp & Sons. for tho |
of the cruisers Tennessee |
and Washington. De accepted. Their |
bid. which was the lowest submitted |
was Si.0Oc,O0o for each cruiser. TO no /
I'm 81 and 30 months respect |
lively.
The German Shoe and Leather Ga.
zette shows up the combination OF
American trusts as the cause OF wide.
spread ruin among German industries
The American leather trust bought
iermany's supply. then when German
were compelled 10 raise
prices undersold them.
Brig Gen. Wood has gone 10 Column.
BUS. O., by special direction OF Score
airy Root. TO investigate the advIsa-
lility OF selling the lands and improve
nents, or any portion Of them OF the
military reservation In that city, using
lie proceeds for the purchase and i'm.
,royement OF other land at or In that
ilclnity for military purposes.