Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-26
CONDENSED NEWS.

New Jersey schoolma' ans refuse TO
show their vaccination marks because
not all OF them have been vaccinated
on their arms.
Jacques Faure, the French aeronaut.
was the winner of the international
balloon endurance contest which start
ed from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris
Sunday. He landed in Hungary after
covering 500 miles.
Vermont was awakened from her
Sunday morning nap by an earth
quake which shook houses and smash
ed crockery. There was but one shock,
lasting a few seconds, accompanied by
a sound like a distant explosion.
Bertha Leftwich, aged IA, brooding
over her solitude, attempted to escape
from the Children's Society building
in Brooklyn, and fell headlong from a
fourth-story window, breaking every
bone in her body. She will die.
Car Nicholas very latest pronun-
ciamento is addressed to his own
people," He congratuates "Russia's
glorious troops for their obstinate
struggle against a brave and mighty
enemy.
Wireless telegraphy is sweeping the
ocean in search of David Hobbs. a
Canadian Pacific agent OF Montreal,
who is believed TO be aboard some
ship bound for Europe, with $4,000 of
cash which does not belong to him.
Breaking stone Tor good roads
should be the occupation Of Jackson
and Marquette convicts, according to
the views of State Highway Commits
sioner Earle, who addressed the good
roads county convention at Coldwater.
Roy George, of Pennsylvania, a pri-
vate of the Thirteenth battery of ar
tillery, second provisional regiment
and only four weeks in the army, was
killed at Fort Sill, Okla, by the up
setting of a caisson, which fell on him.
Little Belgium, almost lost to sight
between the towering sides of war
ships belonging TO England France
and Germany, has voted S21 500, 900 10
make Antwerp impregnable from the
sea, by system of coast defense guns.
Rev. G. Ernest Thorne. a London
clergyman, recently appeared for one
night in a theatrical performance.
small part was written for him and
he sang a couple of hymns, also an
meetings in the theater.
In his annual report United States
Treasurer Treat says that the con-
tinued increase in the circulation is
a matter for just pride and has at
tracted the admiration and attention
Of the financiers of the world. Dur
ing the year the general stock nf
money grew S79,605, 729. making a per
capita circulation Of S31.0S.
Bearing the limp form Of her hus-
band for a quarter of a mile up a
mountain side, Mrs. c. b. Wilson flag
ged Denver & Rio Grande train Mon
day, and then fell unconscious. She
accidentally shot her husband while
hunting. The plucky woman weighs
115 pounds and she staggered under
the weight of a man who weighs 1876
pounds.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, Sis
ter of ex-President Cleveland, has be
come wealthy through her ownership
of an island a few miles from Camden
Twenty years ago she paid $4,000 for
the island, and since then she has
cleared up 100000 from the sale of
building lots. There are more house
lots left which will probably add con.
siderable more to her fortune.
After 10 years of waiting the Chica.
60 postmaster will move from the old
to the new building. The change in
wolves the continuous handling of
1900 900 pieces of first-class and 200
tons Of second, third and fourth-class
mail matter besides over 100000 pack
ages of registered packages
Because a tobacco concern was plac-
Ing President Roosevelt's picture in
smoking tobacco cans, along with pic
lures of European rulers, the president
OF the Cigar Dealers association of
New York has written the president
telling him he is being insulted. The
president has replied that he'll see
about II.