Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Another lot Of homeseekers. mum
bering more than 5000. chiefly from
the middle western states, arrived in
south Texas
Walter A. Dip,ey and Mrs Goldie
Smith. charged at Marshtield. Mo,
with the murder of Stanley Ketchel,
filed a motion in Justice court ask
ing for change of venue for their
preliminary hearing.
AS indicating the postoffice depart
ment is fast approaching the state of
self support, Postmaster General
Hitchcock announced that the deficit
for the fiscal year ended June 80
1910. amounted to only s5,SSl ,4S2. as
compared with $17,479.77O for the pre-.
ceding year
Forty million pounds of tobacco,
held by the Burley Tobacco society
as part CT the dissolved 1909 pool. viii
be scld on the cpen market in Gin
cinnati. About 40,000.000 additional
pounds probably will be sent to the
Louisville breaks"
Tag Day" netted $4,000 for the
Childrens Charitable association OF
Chicago. The day was the greatest
ever known in the history o. charita-
Bile events in that city. Tag Day" is
three years old. This is the financial
history Of Tag Day" in CHICAGO:
1908, $4,000; 1909 $4,000; 1910. SEQ.
900.
Brigadier General Maus. commsnd-
ing the department OF the Columbia.
in his annual report to he war de-
partment recompends legislation for
the elimination of inefficient officers.
He expresses the belief that a gen
eral service corps would add greatly
TO the efficiency of the army and in
the end actually prove economical.
Population statistics issued in
Washington, are: Portland, Me. 5S.-
571, an increase of S.426: Brockton.
Mass. 5G.S7S, increase lGS15: Chico.
pee. Mass. 25401. increase G,23i;
Fitchburg, Mass. 37.S26. increase g.
295: West Hoboken, y. j., 35.403, in
crease 12.300: Lima, O.. 10000, in
crease $3.50
DR.. Kendric c. Rahcock. president
of the University OF Arizona. has been
appointed specialist in higher educa
ton in the United States bureau of
education at Washington Ills an.
pointment is in line with the policy
OF the present commissioners of tie
bureau of having specialists to study
the various phases of education His
salary is $4,000 a year.
over four million cords OF wood
were used in the manufacture Of
pulp for paper making in the United
States in 1909, as shown by the an
nual report on the industry. issued In
Washington by the census bureau
The cost of the trans formation of the
wood of which there were 4.002 900
cords. was s34 SIS COO. This was an
Increase OF about $50 COO cords over
the consumption OF 1909. but OF only
about SO 600 over 1907.
Sanford l.. Robson who, "a attor
ney for Arthur p. Heinze, brother OF
F. Augustus Hei-ze. was charged In
the United States circuit court OF New
York with resisting and opposing a
United States marsh hal in attempting
to serve subpoena, for which he
was sentenced to pay a fine OF $500
has been ordered to be suspended
from the practice of law fer enc year
by the appellate division OF the su
preme court.
The damage TO the Carolina rice
crop as a result of the storm tides
asst week will amount to at least so
per cent, according TO Capt. Samuel @
Stoney, one of the best posted men
on the rice situation. after thorough
Investigation OF conditions in the rice
growing sections.
The report OF the college entrance
examination board, Just received at
Yale, showed that for the present year
1871 candidates took the examina
lions, an increase OF nearly 300 over
1909. The board expended S23 221 IL
and read a total of % i9o papers. Eek
aminations were he az les Places
covered by As examiners.