Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-11-23
CONDENSED NEWS.

Coal companies of Kentucky and
Tennessee have declared against the
rate bill.
Toledo is having a consumption cpl
demic There were 220 deaths last year.
and the record for 1905 will be worse.
Arva Grinnell. a Mexican war vet
eran. the first to scale the walls at
Chapultepec, is dead in Spencer Mass,
aged 70 years.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr, it is said,
will give up his Bible class in the
Fifth Avenue Baptist church. He is
tired of notoriety.
King Edward has added $4,000 and
the Prince of Wales $3.50 to Queen
AleXandra's fund in aid of the London
unemployed.
Memorial services were held in New
York Sunday for the Presbyterian mis-
sionaries murdered in Lien Chau, Chi
ma, October 22.
The National University project was
Endorsed by the association of presi-
dents of state universities, which met
in Washington.
The Oriental Limited" a new trans
continental train of the Great North
ern, started it's maiden trip west from
st. Paul Sunday.
Senator p. c. Knox, eX-attorney gen.
eral of the United States, will manage
in the senate President Roosevelts
fight for railroad rate legislation.
More than 200 actors and clergymen
attended the Manhattan theater in
New York Sunday TO participate in SER
vices in memory of the late Sir Henry
Irving.
The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic
road has adopted a new trademark.
The title, THE Marquette Route" has
been discarded, and in its place will
be used the words, The South Shore.
Lieut. Gen. Chaffee, U. S. A., has
recommended that a copy of the report
OF Gen. VIM. CroZier, chief of ord
nance, be sent TO every officer in the
army. Gen Crozier advocates bigger
guns.
Morris HOFFMAN, a Cleveland cigar
cite manufacturer. says cigarettes
drove his son, Lewis, mad. The young
man has been adiudged insane. The
IL, her says young HOFFMAN smoked 100
cigarettes a day.
The municipal council of the Isle Of
Pines has denied that the island is
deficient in proper courts, schools, etc,
and insists the government has done
more for the island now than the
small revenue warrants.
Emperor William has figuratively
stretched his hand across the Atlantic
in a telegram to the Manhattan Chess
club congratulating its members for
their peaceful victory over the Berlin
Chess society of Germany"
Maj.-Gen Henry c. Corbin, L. S. A..
in command of the division of the
Philippines, has requested that he be
not appointed chief of the general staff
when promoted next summer TO the
grade of lieutenant general.
Senator Tom Plat has seen the
president and as result ex-Gov.
Odell his bitter enemy, may be de-
posed as boss of New York. Roosevelt.
IL is said. will hereafter consult Platt.
and not Odell, in making New York APP
pointments.
In his annual report, Gen. VIM.
Crozier, u. S. A., chief of ordnance.
says that at the suggestion of the
president further consideration by the
general staff resulted in the substitu-
ton of a knife for a rod bayonet for
the army rifle.
DIR. w. r. Harper. president of Chi
cago university, expecting to die with
in few weeks Of cancer, is closing up
his affairs and putting the university
to right John ID. Rockefeller will be
summoned to his death bed
The Calvary NJ. f. church OF New
York has loaned its church to the con-
gregation of Temple Israel, a Hebrew
society which recently was burned out.
In his first sermon in the temporary
quarters. Rabbi Newmark described
the act as a remarkable instance Df
the broadening of church lines. We are
all trying TO serve the same God,
said the rabbi 'and are learning 10
lay aside our differences.