Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-12-28
GENERAL NEWS IN BRIEF

! wife Is a necklace of 100 jerfect
pearls, worth not less than 100000.
Nearly $2.75O,OOO has come to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy during the last year in gifts and
requests, according to the annual re-
| port of President McLaurin.
Hardin b. Littlepage. one of the
few surviving participants in the
| great marine battle between the Mon
| itor and the Merrimac. died at his
home in Washington. He was 20.
Gov. Judson Harmon OF Ohio will
speak in Milwaukee January 10 on
democracy, according TO announce
ment made by A. A. Allen, Gov. Har-
mons representative in Wisconsin.
Only about So per cent of Boston
school children are physically normal,
according to DR. William ] Gallivan
Of the board of health Out of 101 900
children in the public schools, $4,000
have been examined and $4,000 of
these found detective"
| Five thousand dollars for Miss
| Alice " Houghton, an employe of
the census bureau, whose scalp was
badly lacerated last spring when her
hair caught in revolving machinery
| at the bureau is included in the sup
| Elementary estimates submitted to
| congress by the department of com.
merce and labor
| Secretary OF State Philander c.
Knox addressed a gathering of women
| at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York on
| problems of the diplomatic service
| The meeting was held by the woman's
! department of the National Civic fed-s
GRAFTON, and is the first of a series to
| be addressed by various members of
| presidents cabinet.
Pupils graduates and working BOYS
and girls ,fiocked to four public
schools in Chicago where the school
board inaugurated its plan for social
! amusements. 1t is hoped thus to
| overcome the evils of the public
dance hall. At three of the schools
| the young people danced At all the
| plan was declared a success.
In the ruins of the Robin Hood
mill at Moose Jaw, Sask.. which was
| destroyed by fire, was found the
charred body OF Robert Nese. mill
wright Besides the flour mill the
! fire destroyed the oatmeal mill. coop
| erage plant, the elevator, with 100,-
| 600 bushels of grain, and smaller
buildings. The total loss is estimated
at 100000.
The United States now is among
the leaders in rapid battleship con
| struction, according to Chief Naval
Constructor r. NJ. Watt in his annual
report Time was when it was said
| American battleships were so long
| building they were obsolete by the
time they were commissioned The
change is attributed to the adoption of
| good management.
| Many lawyers from various parts
of the country to the supreme court
! chambers in Washington to attend a
memorial meeting in honor of the
! late Associate Justice John NJ. Har.
| Ian. Augustus +. Wilson, the retir.
ing governor of Kentucky. the jurist's
native state. presided. Solicitor-Gen-
eral Lehman and Senator Bailey
were among the speakers.
The largest order for steel pipe
ever placed in the world, it is be-
lieved, has been let by a Calgary. Al
! berta firm, which has ordere from
300 miles of pipe at a cost OF about
100000, to carry natural gas from
Row Island to Calgary Shipment
which will require $500 cars. will
| begin January !, 1912. and will be
completed within six months.
The Georgia railroad commission
has approved the $47,0OO.OO0 stock
and bond issue of the Georgia Rail
way. g. Power Company, a consolida-
ton of numerous Georgia water pow
er and electric concerns financed
largely by New York, Boston and Ca
madam interests. The company asked
permission to capitalize at $4,000
| 600 and issue $30,000000 in bonds
| The former was cut 10 $1,000, 600,
while the latter was approved
Notifications were exchanged in
Washington by Great Britain, Russia.
Japan and the United States. Of the
quadrilateral treaty for the protection
of seals in the north Pacific and Ber-
ing sea- Under this treaty pelagic
sealing will be terminated and the
taking of seals will be regulated by
the four governments. Congress will
have to appropriate 100000 to com
pensate Japanese and Canadian seal
ers for the abandonment Of sealing.
In an emphatic petition addressed to
Nevada's two United States senators
and one congressman, the Nevada
railroad commission urges the aboli-
ton of the commerce court and also
means whereby rate regulation cases
shall have precedence over all other
federal cases when heard before fed
eral courts. The petition also favors
making the decision OF the interstate
commerce commission final, excepting
for possible appeals to the United
States supreme court
The first hanging that ever occur
red in an opera house took place i'm
Jackson, Ca, when William Turner,
negro preacher, was executed for
having melted a race riot in which
Jesse Singley. a prominent planter
was shot to death. The sheriff de-
cided to hang the negro in Kinks
opera house. so that relatives of the
murdered man would not have to
stand in the rain. The gallows was