Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-10-12
CONDENSED NEWS.

Prince LOUIS, OF BdtJenDerS, Will
visit Washington Nov. 2.
Starving worimen in Spain threat
en- TO sack and burn shops.
Western floods caused the Santa Fee
railroad a loss of more than 100000
in the fiscal year just closed.
President Harper of the University
of Chicago has undergone another op-
Grafton, the third since Jan. l.
Chicago union freight handlers
have voted to accept the old wage
scale and the proposed strike is off.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., has passed
his Harvard entrance examination
and will enter the university within
week.
o. C. Barber, the match king" will
build in Akron, O., a 100000 dupli-
cate of the famous Church of the
Madeleine, Paris.
Minister Takahira, who leaves soon
for Japan, will probably never re-
turn An old saber wound is giving
him much trouble.
Sewer diggers at La Crosse, Wis,
have unearthed the skeleton of pre-
historic man eight feet tall. The skull
is an enormous affair.
Thomas F. Hogan, weight 500
pounds, married Miss Helen Fitzger-
aid, weight 100, at Tarrytown, n. Y.
1T was a case of love at first sight"
said Hogan.
Sacred manuscripts, written on
leather used to repair old shoes in
the time shortly after Christ came on
earth, have been unearthed in a city
in Turkestan, Asia.
Bishop Mora of Hidalgo, Mexico,
recently celebrated mass $500 feet be-
meath the earth's surface, at the bot
tom of silver mine which had been
worked for centuries.
Because the mine mule hadn't
enough to eat, 125 Terre Haute min
ers went on strike, but returned
when MAUD" was promised three
square meals hereafter.
Iron Hand Dooley, the first police
captain who ever succeeded in scar
ing the evil doors of Coney Island,
has been transferred to the command
of New York's "Tenderloin."
Civilian physicians will not be per-
mitted to officially examine army re-
cruits after September 80, owing TO UNI
satisfactory results. Their combined
fees reached an average of 100000
a year.
Police in Salt Lake City found in
one room a dead Chinese sitting bolt
upright on a cot, another Chinese in
sane, and lying on the floor, Eddie
Merode, a white acrobat, apparently
dying of opium poisoning.
The Theosophical society, in ma
tional convention in Chicago, has an
attendance of 400 delegates from
Mexico, Canada and the United States.
Alexander Fullerton has been elected
general secretary and treasurer
A Glendola, n. j.. farmer has been
using an auto horn TO call his chick
ems at feeding time. Ii worked very
we'll until Mr.. Alderman of Asbury
Park, in scorching past the mans
farm, let out a series of "toots." All
the chickens rushed out, and II were
crushed to death by the car.
A S2,500,O00 hotel. to be called the
Plaza, will be erected on the west
plaza of Central Park, New York.
Ii is to be an eighteen story edifice,
with a facade of brick trimmed with
limestone and terra Gotta, and hay-
ing a mansard roof 1t will front 200
feet on Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
streets respectively.
The cars commission has elabor-
ated the conditions governing the
representation OF the people OF Po-
land in the national assembly. The
voters will be divided into three
classes, the first to be composed of
landed proprietors, the second OF
members of cantons owing from
TO 90 acres and the third of urban
electors. Thirty-six members will be
returned from Poland.
The entire oil and commercial quar-
ters of Balakhan Sabunto and Nomani
have been wiped out by fire. and the
inhabitants remaining behind were
massacred and thrown into the flames.
To attain the realms OF the ideal a
wife must be absolutely truthful to
her husband; she must look her best
at all times she should never criticize
her husband, nor be a scold. and she
should realize she was created to be
subject to him. These are the at
tributes of The Ideal Wife," as given
to his congregation by Rev. Richard
A. Morley pastor of the Euclid Ave-
nut Methodist Episcopal church of
Oak Park, Chicago