Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-09-01
WIRE BULLETINS.

for governor rendered him by the So
cialist party OF Connecticut.
Fire originating in the warehouse OF
r. A. Grant, Jr. in West San Antonio,
destroyed a block and a half of ware
house buildings. Loss 500, 900. partly
insured.
Proceedings to test the constitutions
atty of the corporation tax law In
Massachusetts have been begun In
Boston by the New England Dressed
Meat & Wool Co.
The Democratic state convention
will be held in Boston on Thursday,
October 6. The Republican state con-
vention is also to be held in Boston
on the same day.
WI Ting Fang, probably the most
popular minister that China ever sent
to the United States, is to head the
Chinese delegation to The Hague per-
manent court of arbitration.
Hope of ending soon the strike or
coal miners in Illinois ended at Chi
cago, when the Illinois Coal Opera
tors association voted unanimously
not to accept the miners scale
The federal grand jury. which has
been investigating the so-called beer
trust, in Chicago, will look into
charges of fraud in connection with
the manufacture and sale Of butterine.
A passenger train on the Big Four
road from Louisville to Chicago col
lided head-on with a Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern work train near Bloch
er, Ind, slightly injuring several pas
sengers and trainmen.
The cruiser New York Thursday be-
came the flagship of the United States
Asiatic, fleet. Rear-Admiral Hubbard,
commander-in-chief of the American
fleet, now in Japanese waters, trans
ferred his flag from the Charleston to
that ship.
,, The birthplace of Grover Cleveland.
at Caldwell. n. j., is to be purchased
by Democratic leaders of Caldwell and
neighboring towns for use as a CLUB
house. The property is now a Pres
byterian parsonage, but was recently
placed on the market by the church
| trustees.
James F. Kelley, bread wagon driv'
! er, of Newark, n. j., at S15 a week
| has a diamond ring worth $1,000, $500
stud. 81 900 brooch, several other dla'
monds finely set, $1,000 worth of fan
| cy merchandise, and a cellarful OF
| champagne bottles. The police are in
vestigating.
Fifty burglaries in the last three
| weeks are the boast that George Col
| Inns, 16 years old, of Kansas City
made to the police. officers investiga
ted his story and confirmed it in the
| ~, hn stolen
goods to pawnbrokers. He stole goods
valued at $1,000.
Clyde H. Marshall, of Kingston, n
Y, with an average of 26S words q
minute, won the national shorthand
reporting championship and cup. w
| B. Bottome, of New York, holder Of
| the title. and ineligible for the cur
| again, broke the worlds record with
an average of 269 words.
The National Association of Census
Enumerators, recently organized IN
| Washington for the purpose of collect
ing additional pay for the enumera
tors, had disbanded on the advice o.
attorneys to the effect that the extra
work required of the enumerators was
not outside of the requirements.
The government is preparing to be
gin actions against 40 defendants as
members of a kindling wood trus
which is said to control business o
more than $25 900, 900 in the big cite:
of the country, according to an an
| nouncement made at New York b,
an official of the department of jus
tice.
Gov. Gillette, of California, ISSUED
| Al oil IF
legislature to convene September
to raise $5,000,000 by bonding the state
for the benefit of the Panama-Pacifi'
exposition at San Francisco in 1915
provided congress designated the Cali
fornia metropolis as the exposition
city.
Indictments charging grand larcen.
in the first degree were returned
against John A. Qualev and Harve.
w. Corbett, of New York, officers o
the Magnesia Asbestos company, b,
the grand jury Qualey and Corbet
were recently in court on a charg'
of swindling Mrs. Marie Nevis Bull
widow of the noted surgeon, out o
$35 1000.
The Canadian General Methods
conference, in session at Victoria, L
c., by an overwhelming majority dc
clared in favor of basis of churcl
union whereby the Methodists, Pres
byterians and Congregationalists Il
the dominion may unite under one dc
nomination to he known as tn
"Union church." The Union has a
ready been agreed upon by the othe
two churches.
Because of the intention of the fou
Rochester. n. Y, companies of tn
National Guard to show the Jeffries
Johnson fight pictures in the state al
mory the county Christian EndeaN
or union has appealed to Gov. Hughe
to prevent the exhibition in the al
mory, which is state property. Mayo
Edgerton, while expressing a desir
to suppress the pictures, declare
that he has no legal power to intel
fere.
Judge Theodore Bretana, Chicago
has ordered special grand jury I
investigate charges OF perjury an
; "other matters" This is the lates
turn to the second trial of Lee ONE
Browne, Democratic minority leader
| charged with hrihinp Rem C. A. Whit