Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1904-01-28
CONDENSED MEMS.

Hartford. CT. suffered by a S2OOoO0
fire Saturday.
Dawson city had a 100000 blaze.
ana with the mercury - degrees be-
low zero.
Rev. sam Jones. the noted evangel-
list. says: IL lind Texas is In favor
of digging the Panama canal"
The Cleveland City Railway has So
cured a temporary injunction restrain
ing the enforcement of the ordinance
I for thrce-cent fares.
United states Senator Burton. or
Kansas. has been Indicted for accept
ing money To influence IA department
decision. He denies il.
THE Chicago Dairy co." which Chi
caGo capitalists are forming Is Il 81
100000 corporation designed to con
troll the milk supply of Chicago.
The Chicago police arrested Frank
/ Uhlcr, II printer. 10 years old, on Il
charge Of robbing the dead of the fire
in the llOquois theatcr. He confessed.
Rev. w Il. Hinshaw. convicted and
sentenced TO an Indiana prison for
life for the murder of his wife, has
returned after passing a 60-days' pa
role with his sick mother
Tie fire In the Masonic Temple. Chi
cago. on Saturday caused loss OF
about 10000. No one was injured, the
GOODNESS o. employees of the building
preventing a disastrous panic.
Upon the management and builders
OF the Iroquois theatcr has been
placed the responsibility for the fire
H., .lt,,. hat
Harrison. Of Chicago, 10y Fire Chief
Musham
Eight lives were lost in the wreck
Saturday of Quogue. Long Island. of
the four-maSted schooner Augustus
Hunt. bound for Boston from Norfolk.
Va. or the crew Of ten only two men
We're saved
The federal grand jury did not find
sufficient evidence To justify indict-
ments. but claims were made rs To the
alleged existence of peonage in Texas
which. if true. reveals Il deplorable
state Of affairs.
\ wiSp of hair. apparently from Il
mans mustachp. was found in the
hands of Miss Sarah Schaefcr. the
school teacher who was murdered M
suited and robbed.
Cyrus IL. Mccartney. a newspaper
man of La Porte. Ind. who disap.
pearcd several years ago and was sup
posed TO have been murdered. has
been heard from ut Dawson. Alaska
He says he is we'll and rich
Three persons were killed. two fatal
ly and eight dangerously injured in Il
gas explosion in the SitZ Hotel, To-
Gated near the entrance 10 the Nation
al Soldiers Home. three miles south
OF Marion. Ind Thursday morning.
While radium is at present worth
several million dollars pound. the
announcement Is made that New York
rests on foundation of It, and Texas
comes To the front with an earth that
will produce large percentage of
the valuable stuff
As 4 result OF the breaking Of gov
crnor belt. allowing an immense fly
wheel to run away ami burst in the
Cambria steel Co : No > rail mill.
Johnstown Pa. one man is dead three
are fatally injured and six are more
or less severely wounded.
President Palma ordered the Cuban
congress to adjourn and the session
came 10 an end soon after the re-.
cclpt of the order This authority is
given the president by the cOnstitu.
ton. No objection was made in either
house 10 this manner oi closing the
session.
Every calf In Germany will be vac.
cinatcd upon reaching its third month
with specially prepared tuberculosis
bacilli taken from human beings IL
the proposals OF Prof. Behring. the
great bacteriologisi and opponent OF
Prof. kochs tuberculosis theories. are
adopted Ivy the reichstag
The Death Trust" cannot get Its
grip OH Chicago by establishing a o.cn.
opoly and raising the price OF antitox.
! in Secretary Prltchard. OF the city
health department. announced that the
medical profession Of Chicago will be
supplied with antiioxin scrua at
price Gar below that OF the alleged
trust prices
The train robber who took 200
1 ponnd safe. alleged To contain $4,000.
4 from A Southern Pacific train near San
Luis Obispo. Cal. lost his hat, and
man who later bought hat from
! section man near there was arrested
mt the depot and identified by the sec
I ton man. IL is believed lie IL the
! robber
Many complaints OF exorbitant rates
charged by the St. Louis hotels for
/ accommodation during the Democrat.
/ IT, national convention are reaching
| Washington. and several Democratic
national committeeman are talking or
holding another meeting To deal with
| the matter.
Gov. Cummins. OF Iowa. says lie 4.
! still for what Is popularity known as
I the Iowa Idea" In the treatment OF
the tariff question. and expects to be
delegate 20 the national Republican
convention az Chicago He said hp
would make an effort to have the
Iowa idea" Incorporated In the Re.
publican platform.