Belding banner., 1910-07-21

IcuulltSS because OF lnclT lOuB
strike, many miners In the coal dis
tricts of Oklahoma are said to be in
destitute circumstances.
One man was killed and many were
injured in a Canadian Northern train
wreck, near Quebec. Six cars con-
tanning 800 English emigrants were
shattered and then took fire.
The United States army transport
Sheridan arrived at San Francisco
from the Philippines, bringing a num-
ber Of officers and civilian passengers,
but no regular organization of troops.
The Roman Catholic church and st.
Annes convent, at Nanaimo, B. c.,
were completely destroyed by fire.
Forty orphans in the convent were
rescued, but all belongings were de-
stroyed. The loss is placed at $780,
000
Demanding an increase in wages
from So to $3.50 a day and a reduction
of working hours from to hours a
day, about 1876 molders employed in
IL iron foundries at Hartford, CT,
went on strike. The men are mem
bers of the moders' union.
The largest days shipment of fruit
ever sent from the Sacramento Valley
was dispatched when rs cars Of pears
and plums left for points in Canada
and the eastern parts of the United
States. There was nearly 100000
pounds of fruit in the cars.
The American Institute of Homeo-
pathy in session at Pasadena, Cal,
elected DR.. G. j. Jones, of Cleveland,
president; DR.. Walter E. Nichols, Of
Pasadena, vice-president, and DR..
James r. Ward, of San Francisco, DR..
E. |. Man, of st. Paul, and DR.. j. p.
Sutherland, of Boston, trustees.
The Southern Pacific Co. has paid
into the United States district court a
fine of $4,000 recently imposed by
Judge Van Fleet at San Francisco,
after the corporation pleaded guilty
to granting of rebates. On the pay
ment of the fine indictments embrac-
ing $50 counts were ordered dismissed.
Clement S. Ucker, chief clerk of the
interior department, will leave Wash
ington July 26 for trip of inspection
Of Yellowstone National park in Mon
tana The administration of the ma
tional parks comes directly under Mr..
ment, and he desires to familiarize
himself with the conditions there.
A big megaphone has been pur-
chased by the band of Chicago suf-
fragettes who are touring northern
Illinois in an automobile, and here
after crier who will be employed
at each stopping place will announce
the time and place of each meeting.
When the next automobile loaded with
suffragettes leaves Chicago in a few
days for tour of the states, it will be
equipped with singers and cornet
players.
William Durand, who claims the
heavyweight pugilistic championship
of the United States navy, was con-
victed, at Hampton, Va, by jury in
the circuit court, of prize fighting. He
was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentiary. Durand was knocked tout
several weeks ago at Buck Roe beach
by a negro named Scarborough in the
first round Of what was to have been
a 10-round mill. Durand formerly
lived in Pennsylvania.
The historic Black Horse tavern
which has stood on the old Washing
ton pike for 1876 years, hallowed with
the memories of George Washington
and Col. Braddock and once the rem
devious OF mail robbers and insur-
rectionists during the whisky rebellion
of 1894 and 1895, is doomed to pass
away unless some historical society in
tervenes. The old hostelry and the land
surrounding has been sold for $S,345
to the Cannonsburg school board,
which proposes to erect modern high
school building.