Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1905-06-22
CONDENSED NEWS.

"a CidANduOOSd yOull was lAAlCu Ylp
for snoring in church.
Kansas farmers will need $4,000
men and 2,240 teams to harvest their
crops.
Palestine is the best place for Jew
ish colonization, is the decision of the
confederation of American Zionists at
Baltimore.
Yale graduates in China have sue
ceeded in getting permission from the
governor of Human to establish a Chi.
nese Yale college at Chengsha.
Rhoda Hollinser, a I9-year-old girl of
Sterling, H., went into a cataleptic
trance and narrowly escaped burial
alive. When taken from the coffin she
became a raving maniac
John ID. Rockefeller, after making
John Melin, the Swede innlleeper of
Sleepy Hollow, agree to sell his place,
has refused to buy 1t, though he
has been trying to do so for years.
King Oscar OF Sweden has been
made an admiral of the British navy
by King Edward, and Crown Prince
Gustav of Sweden has been honored
with the orders of the Garter and the
Bath.
McKinley's pastor, Rev. w. H.
Locke, of Canton, o., has been strick-
en- with apopleXy at the home of his
son in New York. He is rs years old,
and no hope is entertained for his re-
covery.
Charles F. Kelly, ex-speaker of the
St Louis house of delegates, has been
released and all bribery charges
against him quashed because he kept
faith with the state in helping put all
the boodlers In prison.
The treasury department has issued
warrant for $3.50 in favor of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, which represents the
two months extra pay allowed to
officers Of the Spanish war under an
act passed by congress in 1899.
The American Federation of Labor
now has a balance on hand of nearly
100000, according to Secretary Morri-
sous report to the executive council
approximately $4,000 local unions arc
now connected with the federation.
"Bluebeard" Hoch, who is to die on
the gallows June % FOR the murder
of Marie Walcker-Hoch, says he is the
great-grandson of Marshal Ney. who
went TO st. Helena with Napoleon. and
the scion of a prominent family in
Strassburg.
Andrew Carnegie has been pro
nounced the friend of labor by Thco.
dore Shaffer, retiring head of the Iron.
Steel & Tin Workers, who says he
looked up Andy's record in union
books and found that at the time of
the great Homestead strike Carnegie
was not antagonistic to labor.
Chicagos official seal, new one, Is
supposed IAN infant sleeping in n
shell, as its design, but critics say II
has a baby sitting upright, with legs
dangling over the edge and looking
very wide awake. If the seal is in
validated all official documents
stamped with it will also be invali
dated
Postmasters have all been warned
by Postmaster General Cortelyou that
they must be on guard to detect lottery
literature In the mails that pass
through their hands. They are also or
dered to withhold all mail matter con-
corning guessing or estimating con.
tests, gift concerts" and raffles.
whether general or local
Queen Christina. of Spain. who in
herited an immense private fortune
from her uncle. the late Archduke AL.
bert of Austria, has for a number of
years held some 100000 worth Of
United States bonds, and retained pos
session thereof even throughout the
war of Spain with this country. They
are deposited in the Bank of England.
Alice Roosevelt II is alleged in Gin.
cinnati, had reserved a stateroom on
fast Pennsylvania train Monday. when
she was returning 10 Washington. but
Cancelled the order shortly before the
train left, because Booker T. Washing
ton and a party of colored bishops
we're on the train en- route to WILDER.
force. o. 1t Is alleged that Alice had
no desire for any talk about her such
as followed the lunch Booker +. had
in the White House with her father.
Alice took the next train.
The Russian minister at Rio Janeiro
and all his family are Buddhists, while
the Japanese minister and his secre
tary are Christians.