Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-09-21
CONDENSED NEWS.

MILWAUKEE, Is Salu 10 ne lOslHS SAo'-
600 a year through the operation OF
its garbage plant.
Swimming is advocated as a cure
for obesity. in Modern Medicine, a
Boston publication.
DR.. Francis Pounds. of Philadelphia,
says spotted fever is due TO bathing
in polluted waters.
Bradley Martin is making the old
Scotch families at Belmacaan angry
by substituting jiu jitsu wrestling
for the old Caledonian games.
E. H. Hartman will spend 100000
600 in railroad building in Oregon.
Washington and Idaho within the next
year.
The sentry of the royal palace in
Madrid recently refused admittance
to King Alfonso, who had disguised
himself cleverly.
1.-The unit of society" says Bishop
Fallows of Chicago, lis no longer the
individual but a man and woman,
united in holy wedlock"
A trolley car running 20 miles an
hour, ran into a wagon In the 500
Wednesday afternoon and Joseph La
londe had both legs crushed so that
he may lose them.
A typhoid fever epidemic has brok
en- out in r. G. Peterss lumber camp
near Cadillac, where 200 men are EN-
ployed. No deaths have resulted from
the twelve cases reported.
The entire oil and commercial quar-
tiers of Balakhan, Sabunto and Nomant
have been wiped out by fire. and the
inhabitants remaining behind were
massacred and thrown into the flames
Customs officials at Helsingfors
Finland, on Saturday discovered 66C
carbines of Swedish manufacture with
bayonets and 10000 cartridges on q
barren island in the gulf of Bothnia
near Kerni.
Justice Crutchfield, Of Richmond,
| Va, in sentencing James Gregory,
doorstep newspaper thief TO 90 days In
| the pen, asserted that the theft OF a
mans newspaper was enough TO make
! him lose his religion.
There Is a Roosevelt club in Free
! land to which only mothers may be-
long Ii is devoted 10 propagating the
! presidents anti-race suicide ideas. II
was organized a year ago with five
members and now has %.
The big ocean liner Etruria sailed
from New York for Liverpool Satur-
day with only 10 cabin passengers.
Each will have seven stewards to wait
on him. This is the dullest season
! of the year for travel TO Europe.
Ten thousand harvest hands are
wanted in The northwest for the wheat
harvest, about to begin. Wages range
from s1.75 to $3.50 a day. Grand
Forks, n. d., wants 5000; Fargo. l..
| 600; and a number of others anywhere
| from SO to 1000.
The consulates, banks and admin
istration buildings in Baku are guard
ed by troops All of the English resi-
dents and almost all the other in
habitants of the better class hav,
boarded ships and gone to sea to es
cape from danger.
Murder is on the increase in New
York city, under Commissioner Nc
Adoo's administration. Records of the
district attorneys Office show that 81
homicide convictions were obtained
since Jan. 1, 1904: so mysteries un
solved and II men accused of takinl
| life still in the Tombs.
New York has the richest baby, the
richest boy, the richest bachelor, the
richest spinster, the richest married
man and the richest widow in tn,
whole world. They are John Nichola!
Brown. baby: James Henry Smith
bachelor: William Ziegler, Jr., boy
Miss Stickney, spinster; Rockefeller
richest of all. etc.
Little Katherine Mackay, S-year-ol
daughter Of Mrs. Clarence II Mackay
and heiress prospective of $4,000, 00C
goes 10 the public school in Roslyn
Long Island, just like the other chi
dren in the village, and more willine
" than a majority of them.
Hugh II. Hanna, of indianapolis, Il
being urged as the successor OF Score
tary of the Treasury Shaw. Mr.. Han
ma was the leading spirit In the golt
standard movement In the countr.
from 1896 TO 1900. He was a warn
friend OF President Mckinley, am
was a member OF the internationa
/ monetary commission that visite,
| Europe.