Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-02-26
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

From Duluth to the Gulf is the latest
electric railway scheme.
The Indian appropriation bill and the
Philippine currency bill have both
passed the senate.
Paul Grant. OF Atchison county,
Kas., aged IS, will marry Hattie NJ,
Thompson, aged SO. He is her adopted
son.
A colorad footpad was shot by Miss
Lillian Wilson, whom he held up Oh
the street at Omaha. The robber IL
badly wounded.
The widely heralded discovery Of
formalin as Il cure for blood poison
ing is declared by New York physi-
clans TO be failure.
Death to I'VE Italian coal miners re-
suited when the Kansas City limited
on the Chicago & Alton road struck the
wagon they were riding In near Brace
Vile, Ill.
Tho coal strike commission il
slI 10 ooUId s5HBm puB uMo slI 10
holding secret sessions at Washing
ton formulating their report to the
president
Ella Atkins is dead and Folger
Green, in the hospital, at New Or
leans. with three wounds as the result
Of n compact they entered into to end
their lives.
Chicago street cars, 1t Is estimated,
injure five women every day in the
downtown district. the victims being
struck while craning their necks into
shop windows.
Gross earnings Of all railroads in the
United States reporting for February
TO date are $13,691 $3.50. a gain OF 17.6
per cent over last year, and 11O per
cent over 1901.
Thirty states were represented at
the good roads convention at Chicago.
which drafted memorial requesting
congress to appropriate $20,000,O00 to
build good roads.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court has
just awarded S7O0.O00 damages to the
heirs of Henry Rudloff, an American,
whose concession to build market in
Caracas was annulled.
Oliver Nichols. lumberman. shot
and killed Mrs. Ira Shaffer In the
woods near Eiie. Pa. and then plac-
ing the muZZle Of the shotgun 10 his
face blew his head of.
The health officer of the town OF
West Seneca, y. Y. reports that there
are 80 cases Of typhoid fever at that
place and probably more than 100 sd-
ditional cases not reported.
Manuel Del Vale, of MEMO Park,
! suburb of San Francisco, Cal, claims
! that he is 157 years Of age. He has
I ~ 10 10 IsVsf
in Zacatecas, Mexico, on November
81, 1T4J.
| Bessie Logan. believing that her
| father had sold her for So to her pros
/ pectiye husband, George Million, balk-
ed at the altar of the Mount Carmel
church. near Hustlerville, Ky, and
| fled from the church.
Commander-n-C Chief Stewart Of the
G.. \. X. has arrived in San Francisco
! from Pennsylvania. lie will meet the
members OF the local command TO de-
eide on date next summer for the
! holding of n national encampment
\ bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature providing that
drugs must bear the date OF manufac-
lure, the time limir after which they
will he unfit for use. and imposing Il
penalty for the sale of drugs not so
marked or after the expiration Of the
/ time limit
Results OF the operations OF Cana
dian railroads, just published by khe
! department of railways for the 49,
year ending June 80. 1902. show That
ga miles Of new line were built, max
! ing the present mileage of the Domin-
| ION 1S,S0S. The gross earnings In the
year amounted To $S3, 666. J02.
An icy torrent from the breaking OF
three reservoirs in the town Of Shell
ton, Conn, destroyed buildings. street
railway tracks and telephone lines by
the logs and huge cakes of Ice IL swept
along. with a loss of 100000. There
were many narrow escapes from death.
The torpedo b0at Protector, a new
| type Of vessel. is about To be officially
tested off City island, New York. She
is built Of steel, 60 feet long, and will
both cruise on the surface and, Ii Is
claimed by Capt. Simon Lake. OF
Bridgeport, Conn, her owner and in
ventor, travel on the bottom Of the sea
with wheels.
The first tie-up In the anthracite
region since the strike settlement Oc-
CURED Monday, when go men and
boys were rendered idle by the shut
down of the Pettebone colIiery of the
D., l.. & w. at Kingston. There Is
a disagreement over the question OF
wages.
Drinking wood alcohol caused the
death Of Mrs. George Stave, aged i2,
and her daughter. Mrs. Lemuel M.
aged q. at Schenectady, ". Y. 1Ny
had been accustomed to drink small
quantities of hot diluted grain alcohol
and during the night. neither one being
well. they purchased by mistake wood
alcohol and drank n