Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-10-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

Leopold !. Stern. the indicted post
office department CRATER who sought
refuge in Canada, has been returned TO
Washington.
Two negro women inmates died
from fright as the result OF fire In
Grady hospital, Atlanta.
A movement is on foot TO organize a
Chautauqua at Goguac Lake. TO he un-
der the control of the original Chau-
tauqua In New York
4 doctors bill OF 5000 for bring.
ing an heir 10 the home Of Millionaire
George X. Allen. OF Lynn, Mass, is TO
he contested in court.
To curtail expenses the New York
Central. Pennsylvania, Erie and South
ern Pacific railways are cutting down
the forces of employees.
-Four harvest hands stealing their
way east from Kansas fields, were
killed by the wreck OF Missouri Pa
cifc train near Langley, Kas.
The body of woman. Mrs Kate
Laumb, aged 30. was found in "A clump
of bushes In 81. Louis suburb. She
had been shot dead and robbed.
The largest military camp ever
formed in time Of peace is that now
located ut Fort Riley, Kas.. for the
army maneuvers, about 1900 me-.
The reward Of $50 for the arrest OF
Tom Carruthers. the youth sentenced
10 hang mt Atlanta. Ga. for the muir
der Of Henry Byrd, is claimed by the
lads father.
Nine men were killed as the result
az the breaking OF traveller crane on
the rittsburg end of the new Wabash
bridge over the MOnongahela river
Monday morning. and many injur, |.
That the British race is deteriorat-
ing from too liberal use of soap Is
the argument of n writer in the Lon
don Times who says he has never used
soap himself in 30 years and has there
fore avoided rheumatism, chills ana
colds
In n riot in New York, the result OF
a strike at n rag factory. several girls
were stabbed. one of them. Lena
Schwartz, 50 seriously that she had to
he taken To a hospital. sac will re
cover.
Artists and sculptors all over the
country are preparing 10 make an or
ganiZcd fight against the control which
they assert organized labor Is trying
10 obtain over the realm Of art where
II enters into interior decoration OF
houses.
The only condition on which the
Colombia government Is now prepared
TO conclude the pending treaty for "A
canal Is the payment of S25,00O.o00 by
the United States and an agreement to
let the territory remain as a part Of
Colombia.
j. Il. Leimer. cashier OF the Prince
ton. Wis, state bank. has been arrest
cd and taken TO hartford. where he
is now In Jail. State Bank Examiner
Marcus G.. Burgh states that Lelmer
has confessed To forgeries amounting
10 500, 600.
Henry Brown. a retired hotel-kceper,
was shot In the head at Trenton. y.
j.. Ivy Peter Kotz. into whose house he
had broken In fit OF insanity Kotz's
wife held the lamp for her husband To
aim by. and the two bullets penetrated
Browns skull inJuring him fatally.
The charges on which Brighter
Jonn Chase Of the Colorado National
Guard has been summoned before a
military court in Denver. are perjury
and dlsobedfence of orders. The per
jury * In connection with the impris
onment OF Davis, one OF the strik
leaders at Cripple Creek.
John Jesse Courtney. Of New York.
Is suing Lewis Earle for $4,000 for in.
siauatlng that he was an idiot The
cxac. words. contained In letter to
Mrs. Courtney. were; IL have seen
good many Engishmen and have
lived In London for two years, but of
all the idiots haze ever seen there,
your husband takes the blue ribbon"