Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-07-28
WIRE BULLETINS.

Maj-Gen. Frederick Dent Grant left
Chicago to assume command of the
department of the east with head.
quarters at Governors Island, n. Y.
The strike of $4,000 employees OF
the Northwestern railroad was settled
at Newcastle. Eng. The men accepted
the terms offered by the company and
are returning to work.
Five hundred employees of the Long
Island City plant Of the New York
Sugar Refining Company went on
strike in sympathy with the strikers
at the Williamsburg works.
Fire destroyed the entire plant OF
the Damascus Brake Beam Co, at
Sharon. Pa. The loss Is estimated at
$125,000 partially covered by insur-
ance. The cause is unknown.
Four employees of the Montreal
Light, Heat and Power Company went
out in a boat at the companys pic.
mic at Maple Grove. Montreal The
skin upset and all but one were
drowned.
After being betrothed for 10 years
Gerhard Holscher, sc, and Amalie
Muschage. SO, were married at Ham.
who ever obtained a marriage license
In Butler county.
Directly In the path Of vessels ply
Ing between the United States and
West Indian ports, 200 miles from the
Georgian coast, a derelict is reported
af1oat with barely mast above water.
The revenue cutter Yamacraw is
searching in the vicinity with the
purpose Of removing the menace to
navigation
A novel method to save the wheat
crop of Scott county, Kentucky, was
resorted to when a number of farm
ers appeared before the county Judge
and paid the fines OF 10 prisoners in
the jail in order to get help to har
vest the crop. In several instances
the fines ran as high as $40 All the
prisoners went willingly.
On account Of low water In the Fox
river in Wisconsin the government
has refused to permit the water power
users on the lower Fox to use anv
water, resulting In all the paper and
pulp mills at Neenah. Menasha. Kauk.
auna. Depere. Appleton and Kimberly
being closed down. throwing thou.
sands out of employment temporarily
Regulations designed to protect the
Indians whose trust periods have not
expired in disposing OF their allot
ments by will, are being compiled
by the bureau of Indian affairs. Pre-
viously the Indians whose trust pc
RODS had not expired were not able
to execute wills, the property descend.
ing in accordance with the laws OF
the state in which II was located
A few hundred feet from the place
where the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton freight train met a Big -Four
passenger train July 4. near Middle
town, causing a wreck in which %
persons lost their lives. and at prac
tically the same hour, Cincinnati
Hamilton a. Dayton passenger train
No. /. southbound. ran through ar
open switch and into freight train No
SO No one was seriously hurt, al
though several cars were derailed.
Felix Ferbaul. alias John Compton
accused OF numbering his father al
Chippewa Falls, Wis, in 1905, has
been recaptured at Sioux Rapids, Ia
after being a fugitive for five years
Ferbaul was arrested when the muir
der was discovered but escaped from
Jail A letter Of inquiry he wrote re
garding his fathers estate led to his
capture.
A dispatch from the city OF Guate
mala says that Guatemala is TO be
placed upon a new monetary basis
The present basis is paper currency
Congress will convene in special ses
sion this month to adopt either a sill
yer or gold standard.