Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

luton for constitutional prohibit
DRY amendment convention
A bill making IL a misdemeanor to
sell cigarettes or cigarette papers
has passed the legislature OF Utah.
One man killed and 800 head OF cat
tie were burned to death in a fire
which destroyed a square block OF
pens in the Union Stock yards at
Chicago Loss $4,000.
The burned wing OF Randolph hall,
the Harvard dormitory at Cambridge.
Mass. which was damaged by fire.
VIII be repaired at once and may be
ready for occupancy before class day.
Admiral Togo has decided to make
tour of the United States on his
way back from the coronation OF King
George. according to advices brought
by steamer Sada Maru from yoko-
hama
The jubilee marking the anniver-
sary OF the proclamation which king
Victor Emanuel issued, announcing
the unidcation of Italy was celebrat-
ed at Turin where the original scene
was enacted
In line with the retrenchment poll
cy OF the New York Central railroad,
nifty firemen have been laid off The
dismissed men were recently engaged
Tor the purpose of moving the win
ter freight traffic.
Twenty-Five million oranges and
lemons were moved out of Southern
California, 173 carloads starting east
ward from San Bernardo, Cal, and
Cotton. This is a record shipment
for single day
John Hovey Rice. an attorney of
civil war fame, who represented the
Fourth congressional district of Maine
in congress three terms, and later
was collector of the port of Bangor,
is dead. at the age of 50.
Farmers of Aroostook county
Maine, the largest potato growing
district in America, are contemplate
ing formation of a combination to
govern production and output of tub
ers with special attention to distilla-
ton of potato alcohol.
Although Ralph tombstone. the avia-
tor who lost his life in a fall at
Denver last November was one of
the foremost aviators of his day. he
died a comparatively poor man. His
will filed for probate showed he left
1884 in cash and real estate valued
at $500.
When the case Of Mrs. Laura
Farnsworth Schenk. charged with
attempting the life of her millionaire
husband, John o. Schenk. came up
for trial in criminal court at Wheel
ing, w. Va, it was postponed until
the May term on motion of Prosecute
ing Attorney Handan
The city's share Of the net receipts
of the Chicago City Railway com
pany which controls the surface lines
in the southern part of the city. will
be $S29,914 or 80 per cent of the
net receipts This is an increase
of s355,000 over last year. which is
accounted for in the reduction Of op-
Grating expenses.
Chicago's proposed sS,0000OO field
museum of natural history. beQueath-
ed TO the city BY the late Marshall
Field, is to be located in Jackson
park. where the worlds Columbian
exposition was held This was decided
finally at joint meeting of the South
park commissioners and the trustees
of the museum
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the militant
Kansas temperance worker. who is at
sanitarium, is gradually growing
weaker. Her condition, which is due
to general breakdown. is regarded
as serious. None of her mail is Civ
en- her, hut is forwarded to her daugh-
ter in Kansas City. who is managing
her mothers affairs.
The commission of Civil Engineer
Robert f. Peary as a rear admiral
on the retired list with the highest
retired pay of that grade. to date
back to April 6, 1909. the date of the
| discovery of the north pole, now only
awaits the presidents signature. The
issuance of his commission will be
followed immediately bv an order for
| his retirement, which gives him Sc 600
a year pay.
John Sears, the half breed who shot
! and killed Rev AMI L. Armstrong
and Mrs Armstrong at Dutch Neck
on last THANKSGIVING evening, was
| electrocuted at the New Jersey state
! prison He was in state OF col
| lapse and had to be carried to the
chair by two deputies. He confessed
he killed the minister to get a ring
and that he killed the women when
she threw paper weight at him after
seeing her husband shot.
Col. Legrand w. Perez, so. promi-
nent Chicago attorney. commander Of
the Illinois commandery, military or.
der of the Loyal Legion, died at his
home in Chicago. after an illness of
two weeks. Col. Perez made the first
capture of military supplies by Union
troops in the civil war. Selling a
| trainload consigned to the south while
he was on his way to Cairo from
Chicago in command Of a battery OF
artillery and two companies of in
fantry.
John B. Mcdonald the eminent en-
gineer, who has been critically i'll for
weeks. died in New York. He was
conscious M to the last and at the
bedside were his wife his daughter
and son-in-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
b. Reed, physicians and nurses
Mr. Mcdonald was born in Ireland