Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-07-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Forest fires have been raging in
the vicinity of Haines, Alaska.
Edmund Cooper, secretary to Presi
dent Andrew Johnson, is dead at the
age of ninety at his home in Shelby.
Vile, Tenn.
Lady ON, consort Of Emperor vi
Heul, who abdicated in 1907, is dead
She was originally a slave who be-
came power in the court.
Because he evaded the payment of
his personal tax of 81, Arthur Miller
a wealthy resident of Fastford, Conn,
must pay fine of $30099
Abram Blum. Jewish rabbi, took
office as chaplain in the New York
police department He is the first
Hebrew to be appointed to such POI
sition
Mrs. Sarah Austin. said to be the
Oldest Methodist in the United States.
having been member for 90 years.
celebrated her one hundredth birth
day in Bellefontaine, CT
Experiments now being conducted
by the federal leprosy investigation
station in Honolulu undoubtedly will
produce serums and vaccines fatal to
leprosy germs according to DR. Moses
T. Clegg.
Cloudbursts that filled canyons with
debris and turned nine buildings into
house boats marked the climax of a
hot wave which sent the mercury up
to 40 degrees in the Death Valley
sink, California, during the week
Following in the wake OF the army.
the navy department has under con-
sideration the question of vaccinating
all recruits TO the navy and marine
corps against typhoid fever, the
scourge of the military services.
Within the next two or three weeks
5 100000 bushels Of oyster shells and
other material for making oyster but
tons will be planted in Long Island
sound. Great South Bay and Rhode
Island waters by the oysters grower.
of New York, Connecticut and Rhode
Island.
Ten frst-class postofices in addi-
ton TO four already designated were
named by Postma ster-General Hitch
cock as postal savings banks They
ore: Phoenix. Ariz; South Bend. Ind:
Pueblo. Col Vicksburg. Miss;
Springfield Mo-; Butte Mont: Albu.
querque. y M. and Norfolk Va.
Harlow Higginbotham. the Chicago
philanthropist, whose custodianship
OF fund raised for the widows and
orphans of fremen who died in the
stockyards fire, has brought him
threatening letters BY the score. has
found Temporary refuge in Ipswich,
Mass. at the summer home of his
daughter, Mrs. r. J Crane.
There is TO be a national conven.
ton OF the unemployed I'm Washing
ton in September. ]. Fades How, the
millionaire boho," and his national
committee of the unemployed. in
session in New York, made plans for
the big fall meeting Among other
things the committee has decided to
make an appeal to President Taft for
the use of the senate chamber in
Washington for the sessions OF me
convention.
The annual reunion OF the soldiers
organization OF Tuscola. Huron. SAM.
lac Lapeer and Genesee counties.
known as the Five County associa-
ton, will be held in Cass City Aug.
16. II. rs. Competitive drills. horse
and auto races and ball games are
the sports planned for the amusement
OF the veterans.
The Connecticut senate directed the
appointment OF committee TO in.
quire into the legality and practica
bility of creating some form of state
insurance as a means OF providinr
compensation for working men an6
others injured through accidents ow
ing to industrial ccupation.