Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-02

jackson county, died OF heart DIS
ease
Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes, widow OF
the financier and railroad builder, Is
seriously III with grip.
lightweight Cornell students
"hunked' in the mid-wlnter examina
lions and will have to leave college
Capt. Archibald w. Butt, President
Tafts aide. has been elected a mem.
Der of the Society or the Cincinnati
OF Georgia.
The mercury dropped to 26 degrees
around Austin, Texas. and the freeze
did great damage to the fruit and
early vegetable, crop.
Eight potato store houses contain
Ing $4,000 barrels OF potatoes locar
ed near Easton, Me-, were burned.
The total loss Is 100000.
After married life lasting 50 years
Mr. and Mrs. IL. S. Berry. of Perry
City. \. Y, died within two hours
OF each other at their home. Each
was 7S years old
1t is announced that the wedding
ut Jay Gould TO Miss Annie Douglas
Graham will take place on Saturday
April 20. The ceremony will be in
st. Thomas church.
The treasury department bill pro-
fibiting the use of Panama canal
bonds as security for national bank
notes was passed by the senate. IL
has not been acted upon by the house.
States granted TO the state of Ar
kansas the privilege of filing a suit
against the state of Tennessee to de-
termine the exact boundary between
those two states.
The president has rendered to Rep.
Albert +. Dawson OF Iowa the office
OF secretary to the president, but Mr..
Dawson has not yet communicated to
the president whether he would ac-
cept the Office.
A rehearing in the case involving
the constitutionality of the Oklahoma
bank guaranty law of 1907 was denied
by the supreme court of the United
states. The court recently held that
the law was constitutional
Claiming they are not American
citizens IA Italians, owning property
at Hilsyille. near Newcastle. Pa,
have been lodged in Jail for non-pay-
ment of taxes. A large number OF ad-
ditional arrests are likely to follow.
J. Pierpont Morgan is named by
the George Washington Memorial as
ISOLATION as the donor OF a gift OF
100000 to the funds of the assoc'a-
ton. The money, which came unso-
licited. will go toward the building
fund for the erection OF a s., SOC. 900
memorial TO Washington In the CAPT.
tai
w. r. Montgomery, former presi-
dent of the Hamilton bank, of New
York, which failed in 1907, was SEN
fenced by Judge Rosalsky to a term
OF not less than two years and two
months or more than five years in
Sing Sing penitentiary for grand lar
ceny through fraudulent loans OF 81
400.
Gov. b. +. Carroll, of Iowa. vetoed
the Oregon primary plan bill which
had passed both houses OF the Iowa
legislature. The governor character
lied the measure "as an attempt in
directly to accomplish something that
cannot be done directly" and declar-
ed that IL Is an evasion OF the con-
stitution
The enormous growth of the for
eign parcels post mail received at
New York is set forth in statistics
made public by George Wanamaker.
appraiser OF the port During the
calendar years from 1906 TO 1910 the
importations OF parcels post packages
from abroad rose from 9O,297 in 1906
to f90,4l0 in 1910.
The death of Gen. w. l.. Cabeu OF
Dallas. Tex. leaves only half a dozen
general officers Of the Confederate
army alive. They are Gems. s. B..
Buekner, Kentucky: I.C. Walker. South
Carolina: Clement A. Evans, Geor-
gia; Marcus j. Wright, Washington:
George W. Gordon, Tennessee. and T.
T. Munford, Virginia.
At the annual meeting OF the Eaton
and Barry Insurance Co, held in Char
lotte. Frank Andrews. OF Bellevue. was
elected president, and Elmer Swift,
Nashville. vice-president. About 700
members were in attendance. nearly
300 coming from Hastings, Nashville
and 'other Barry county points The
advance assessment plan was re-
jected
Replying 70 a request whether mem
bers of the organized MALTA are
exempt from U. s. jury duty. the war
department has ruled that the selec-
ton of federal jurors is governed by
the laws of the state In which the
particular federal court sits and it is
within the discretion of the federal
courts to excuse jurors for the same
reasons that would result in their ex-
cuse from serving in a state court.
Congressional legislation would be
necessary TO secure broader exemp-
ton from jury service OF members OF
the militia
The disappearance OF the large cop
per cent and the nickel cent from
circulation has brought about a curl
Gus condition. in the u s. treasury.
None of these pieces had been coined
for years, but enough OF them were
returned to the treasury each year O
give the government a good profit in
recoining them into smaller copper
cents and into nickel five-cent nieces.
Officials Of the treasury. department
have informed congress that these