Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-10-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| Fire broke out to the northwest OF
! Beaudette and Spooner and in a half
nour the two towns were on fire.
The paper mill and pulp mill OF the
Lake Champlain Pulp e. Paper Co. in
fiattsDurg, n. Y. was almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire Sunday night
Loss estimated at 100000.
Rear AdmiSal Edward B Barry has
been appointed commandments of
the Pacific fleet to succeed Rear Ad-
miral Giles B. Harbor Rear Admiral
Cnauncey Thomas will command the
second division Of the feet.
Several men of science are express.
ing the opinion that the worlds sup
ply OF oxygen is diminishing with
tario in which at least fifty lives were
lost and millions of dollars worth of
property were destroyed is still rag
ing.
The first appearance OF a Japanese
In New York divorce court has Just
Deen recorded. TIE decree orders
John Sa Sa, Japanese tailor, to pay
MS wife $500 year foi the support
OF herself and their four children.
The wife Is an Englishwoman.
Word has been received from Los
Angeles, Cal. to the effect that At
torney ]. Howard Green. until re.
Gently of Battle Creek. has been ar
raigned for the killing of Prof Thomas
~ Skidmore, whom he found visiting
MS wite, and has demanded a hear
ing
Arch Hoxsey, in Wright bi-plane.
new from Springfield, ILL.,, to the
Country club grounds at Clayton. St
Louis county, Missouri, Saturday, and
established an American sustained
flight record in an aeroplane by Gov
ering 1O4 miles. The distance was es-
timated by Hoxsey.
According to estimates there are |
35,0OO,OOO citizens in the United |
states who are more than 10 years |
old who make no use whatever of |
present banking facilities How well |
the 10000 postmasters and 10000 ru-
raj free delivery carriers can collect |
small savings from them when the
banks are in full operation, is ques-
ton.
The predictions made by a number
of special correspondents who were
sent to Messina after the terrible
earthquake that the town would not
De rebuilt again appear to have been
justified. At any rate. the progress
SO far made is infinitesimal II is
now nearly two years since the cat.
astrophe OF December, 1908. and the
have not even begun 10
ciear away the debris to any percel,-
tible extent
Inc longtime dream of New York.
ers or great bridge to span the Hud-
son river and connect the metropolis
with the New Jersey shore
can never be anything more than a
dream, according to DR.. Geo. f. Kunz.
q geologist OF national reputation and
president OF the American Historical
preservation society. Recent exhaus-
i've tests by engineers have shown,
says DR.. Kunz, that nowhere along
ne river is a bed rock foundation TO
be found which will support the nee.
essary piers.
Because Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife
u harry *. Thaw, Is without funds
o pay the costs OF prosecution.
'ult mat she instituted nearly two
ears ago against James b. Regan. of
ne hnlckerbocker hotel for $50 900
manages, was dismissed in the SUI
,reme court She was elected from
he hotel grill room as an unsuitable
,erson
announcement or a general increase
q wages OF Nashville, Chattanooga &
81. Louis railroad employees is made
" j. l.. McCollum, superintendent of !
ne western & Atlantic Railway Co,
winch is under lease to the Nashville.
& st. Louis. {