Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-06
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF.


liceman. He is Samuel j. Battle, %
years Old, six feet tall and 23O pounds
in weight.
Gen. Pascual Orozco will be candi-
date for governor Of the state OF
Chihuahua. Mexico, against Provis-
ional Governor Abram Gonzales.
Federal Judge Newman has denied
the application of Charles w. Morse
for release from the federal prison at
Atlanta, Ga, on writ of habeas cor
pus.
The American Association OF Com
MERGE and Trade in Berlin gave a
erican ambassador, DR.. David jayne
Hill.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz, former president
of Mexico, arrived at Frankfort-on-
the Main, Germany. He is on his way
to Wiesbaden, where he will take the
cure.
The report that Andrew Carnegie
would be the non-polrical candidate
for the lord rectorship at Aberdeen
university, turns out to have been a
hoax.
President Taft has promised Mayor
Magee of Pittsburg to attend the CEN
tennial celebration of the beginning
of steamboating on the Ohio river in
that city October q.
The Grady bill, prohibiting the pho
tosraphing and measuring Of suspect
ed criminals, has been vetoed by Gov.
Dix OF New York, on the ground that
ii would hamper the police.
Alex j. Groesbeck, Detroit, petitions
for permit for Detroit capitalists to
build new car line from Saginaw to
Bay City, as an extension of the Sag
NAV & Flint of the ID. U. r.
The state department has cabled to
Consul-General Griffiths, London, for
a full copy of his speech before the
Pilgrims society there May %, in
which he is reported to have favored
an Anglo-American alliance.
The new census gives the common
wealth of Australia, consisting of
New South Wales, Victoria, Queens
land, South Australia. West Australia
and Tasmania population of 4,449,-
495, against 3,773,S01 in 1901.
The bridge over Salt river. at Phoe-
nix, Ariz.. the longest concrete struc.
ture of its kind in Ihe world was
opened. The bridge proper is 2,150
feet in length, while. with it's ap-
proaches, it measures 1900 feet.
The committee on labor of the
Connecticut general assembly will re-
port favorably on a bill which makes
it unlawful to employ any person for
seven days a week. The bill ex-
empts farm labor and personal SER
vice
JOS. A. Carter. the smallest adult
in Tennessee. is dead at his home
in Jefferson county. He was 70 years
DID, AZ inches high and weighed 5S
pounds. He served as register OF
Jefferson county for IS consecutive
years.
Sixteen hundred tons of uncolored
tea, the largest shipment OF the new
crop reach Puget Sound this year,
arrived from the Orient on the Pan
anna Maru Under the prevailing reg.
ulations tea from the Orient must be
uncolored.
For seven hours James Harding. a
negro, sat i'm a billiard hall in Pitts
burg, apparently intent on the games
being played. At closing time one of
the propretors found Harding
corpse. Physicians said he had been
dead several hours.
Free milk is to be furnished by the
city OF New Castle. Pa, this summer
to infants under 2 years of age, where
the parents are unable to supply it,
An investigation disclosed instances
where young children either have no
milk or an insufficient supply.
The clay beds of New York state
are worth more than 100000, 900, ac-
cording to a report by John II.
years output of brick. tile. terra cot
ia. pottery and other materials reach
ed an aggregate OF $1l.5O0,000.
Pure opium, valued at $4,000,
enough to bring dreams to all China
town, was found in cellar in that
quarter Of New York Coon Chong,
a middle-aged Chinese restaurant
keeper. was arrested on the charge
of having the drug in his possession.
Financial circles of Philadelphia
received a dsagreeable shock when
Of the stock brokerage firm of Nor
man Macleod & Co, which suspend
ed Monday. aggregate $1,1S2,173,
while the assets are given as S410,-
SSi.
Ratification of the extradition
treaty between the United States and
France have been exchanged at Paris
by Ambassador Bacon and the French
foreign office The new treaty ap-
plies to number of offenses which
experience has shown should be ex.
traditable.
The U. s. supreme court has issued
the order 10 the attorney general to
instruct the lower courts TO carry out
the supreme courts decision provid-
ing for the dissolution of the Amer
lean Tobacco Co. the 30 days allowed
the company to ask for rehearing
having expired
BY the will of Nathaniel Tooker,
the sugar merchant of Newark, ~ j..
$4,000 is bequeathed TO the board of
commissioners for foreign missions
Of the Presbyterian church of New
York, the income to be used for the
support and maintenance of the Took
er memorial hospital, Soochow, China.