Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1906-01-11
CONDENSED NEWS.

Prison for life for habitual crimi-
nails. is the recommendation OF the
Ohio board of state charities to the
legislature.
The home of Philip Johnson, colored
Of Paramount, W. Va, was burned to
tho ground Sunday and his two sons
were cremated. Johnson and his wife
barely escaped.
Elliot Danforth, of New York, state
treasurer from 1889 10 1893, former
chairman of the state Democratic
committee. and nominee for lieutenant
governor in 1898, died Sunday.
The Hebrews Of New York. in mem
DRY of those killed during the riot in
st. Petersburg, have planned a parade
for January %, the anniversary, in
which more than 100000 Hebrews will
participate.
Mrs. Jennie Purkett, married wo-
man of Troy, y. Y, fatally shot Her
bert d. Ashdowne in a jealous rage
after he told her he was to be married
to another woman. She planned to kill
herself, but lost her nerve.
President Roosevelt has declined to
interfere in the behalf of Antoinette
Tolla, sentenced TO be hanged In New
Jersey, saying: at is entirely a mat
ter for the state courts and that no
federal question is involved"
Robert II. Todd, mayor of San Juan.
sailed for New York Tuesday. and
from that place he will go to the cap
ital as delegate from the Porto Rico
Municipal league, Of which he is the
president, and ask congress TO pass
law creating an elective senate in the
island.
DR.. Charles Eliot Norton, of Cam
bridge, former professor OF literature
at Harvard, has joined forces with
Miss Anne S. Hall, of Cincinnati. and
with Mrs. Maud Darlington Booth liz
their campaign for the killing off the
hopelessly insane, hopelessly diseased
and victims OF accidents.
Senator Hale has introduced a bal
to re-establish the grade of commo-
dore in the navy, advancing 16 cap
tains by seniority to that position He
also introduced a bill authorizing the
construction of an armored cruiser OF
the first class to be called the Consti-
tuition, cost not to exceed $4,000, 900.
The cases of John F. Gaynor, Ben
iamin ID. Greene, William Gaynor, Ed
ward Gaynor and Oberlin NJ. Carter are
booked for trial on January in the
United States court of southern Geor-
gia. The charge is for defrauding the
United States government out of ST.
100000 in carrying out the Savannah
harbor contracts.
Mrs. l.. V. b. Ferguson, a grand
niece Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
lives on her wealthy husbands ranch
near AXial. Colo, has written to Den
yer friends that she wants to adopt
g Negro boy about Ia years of age.
The lucky and dusky youngster will
have two charming sisters" by adop-
ton. Besides being a descendant of
Oliver Wendell Holmes Mrs. Fergu-
son claims relationship to Ernest
Thompson Seton, the author. She is
q prominent Christian Scientist.
An ambition cherished for many
years by the Roman Catholic church
dignitaries of Chicago, in a plan by
which this diocese becomes the cen
ter of the Catholic education and re-
ligion in America, finally has as
sumed definite shape. With the open
ing in the suburbs of Austin Of al
immense seminary for the priesthood.
plans Of which have just been com
pleted the first step toward the reali-
zation of the great project will have
been completed. Gradually other edi.
fees dedicated to religious purposes
will be added to the seminary.
One million women have signed pc
titions for the expulsion of Senator
Reed Smoot of Utah.
The bodies of all Of the twenty
three miners killed in the gas expIo-
sion in the Cooper coal mine nj Coal.
dale, w Va, have been recovered.
you're dead, old bear" playfully
said Willle Sickle, aged 10 years. to
his brother Albert aged 70. while
playing bear hunters in their fathers
yard at Upper Bad Neck, near Plough.
keepsic. n H., Tuesday. Then Willie
pointed a revolver he held az Albert
ard pulled the trigger. The revolver
went off ard bullet pierced the
breast OF Albert. and he will die.