Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-16
CONDENSED NEWS.


Geo. w. Buttrick and William Jack
son were burned to death Sunday in
the Lake City, Ia, jail, by fire start
ed by Buttrick.
Secretary Taft has sailed for Cuba.
At a public reception rendered him
in Colon. he made a speech praising
President Roosevelts administration.
Seventy-five thousand miles of tele-
phone wire are being buried in the
ground between New York and VIII
mington, Del, at an expense of ST.
100000
The China sea is yet a dangerous
locality for navigation on account OF
derelict mines. The Hsicho. Chinese
vessel, exploded one last week, drown
ing fifteen passengers.
A sold chunk of iron forming a
mountain, and reputed 10 be the most
valuable iron deposit in the world, in
Durango, Mexico, has been purchased
by the United States Steel Co.
Great Britain has promoted Sir
CLAUDE Mcdonald from minister to am
bassador to Toxic. Japan is overjoyed
and wants the United States 10 do
Albee Oaks and William Rock, 81
and 81 years old respectively, chums
from boyhood both ended their lives
in Buffalo, n. Y, Wednesday. Neither
left message, but a death pact is
believed TO have been agreed upon
Desperate for want Of liquor to quiet
his infiamed nerves, Michael McDer-
mott, prisoner in the Newark jail on
a charge of alcoholism, set fire to his
padded cell Thursday night and was
dead before the flames were extln-
guished.
Howard Owen, of Vienna Ga, was
held up and robbed. Two days later
he received a letter bearing skull and
crossbones and warning him, Pre-
pare to meet thy God" Owen was so
unnerved that he went home and shot
himself dead.
The khedive of Egypt has amassed
an enormous private fortune Not only
is he a monogamist and a teetotaler,
but II Is said that he does not smoke
even an Egyptian cigarette. He gets
up at 6 every morning and can talk
in six languages.
the assets of the wrecked Vicksburg
bank by the action of the United
States court in declaring Fred and
Eva Neasmith and Ella Cooley in
voluntary bankrupts. They were con
cerned in the partnership.
President Roosevelt sent a wireless
dispatch from the cruiser West Vir-
ginia to his wife in Washington. II
was necessary that ii be repeated
through the Western Union office in
Norfolk, and as ii was not paid for
Operator John Biggs refused to send 1t.
He has lost his job for want of discre-
ton.
His marriage against the orders OF
the Annapolis Naval Academy VIII
oblige Rollo c. Palmer, of Charlotte,
VT. TO pursue a civilians vocation He
first married and then rendered his
resignation which was not accepted
the authorities deeming ii necessary
on behalf of discipline TO dismiss him
in disgrace.
A spectacular forest fire lined both
sides OF the Potomac along the Balti
more & Ohio railroad between Mar.
tinsburg and Cumberland, a distance
of so miles. Hundreds of acres of tim.
Der and miles of fences have been
burned, and many farm houses arc
threatened. Hundreds of farmers are
fighting the flames.
The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity
in convention in New York city, Thurs.
day night adopted resolutions brand.
ing as false and malicious" the re-
ports sent out from Mt. Vernon, O.. that
student had been tied to a railroad
track as a feature of his initiation init
the society resulting in his being run
down by train and killed.
Railroad magnates are generally
supposed to be hard workers, but many
of them seem to stand it very we'll
James J. Hill is 81, A. j. Cassatt T.
&C, Marvin Hughitt is ga and e. r.
Jeffrey, Roswell Miller and Thomas
Lowry own up to 60 each. OF II OF
the most prominent railroad men IN
the country not one is under b. years
old.
James Richards and Peter Stevens
members of Dillon Wallace's expedi
ton to Labrador, arrived at st. Johns
n. F., reporting they left Wallace
Easton and party in September, with
provisions growing scarce. No news
from Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard was
Brought by the mail boat. Ii Is
feared she may have been lost in
Labrador.
Shelby Ball, leader of gang OF
Kentucky terrorists, who for week
has been in the mountains near Pine
vile, defying the efforts OF the police
and the militia to capture him, was
surrendered to the sheriff in Middle
boro, Wednesday, by his brother
Houston Ball. The prisoner is under
indictment for the murder of Lewis
Collins, last May.
Chicago has $4,000 deserted wives
says Lester w. Bodine, superintendent
of compulsory education. II am not an
advocate of race suicide, but in the
poor quarters there are too many
births We are suffering now from toe
much prosperity for the rich and toe
much posterity for the poor. The moth
er who must bend her back to the task
OF caring for her children cannot prop
erly raise them, and eventually thou
sands of the boys and girls find their