Belding banner., 1911-04-13


reported during the last two weeks
Wilbur Wright, before leaving Ber-
lin for Paris, said that the German
government had purchased one of the
latest types OF the Wright machine.
Sixty-five open-air schools for chill
dren afflicted with or predisposed to
tuberculosis have been established in
26 cities since January /, 1909.
X Okura has given 100000 to be-
devoted, with a similar amount do
mated some time ago by the emperor.
to the relief of the poor and sick
of Japan.
The Massachusetts senate, by a
vote of 80 to Is. rejected a bill to
provide for ain equistrain statue of
Gen. Butler in the state house
grounds.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for a
statue in the state house grounds of
Franklin Pierce. New Hampshire's
only president of the United States,
was passed by the house.
The presence of the plague in east
ern Java is officially confirmed. In
the vicinity of Malang, in the eastern
part alone, there have been 46 cases,
&c of which were fatal.
There were 9S sail and steam yes
sells of 1920 gross tons and 7SS such
vessels of 199.444 tons built in the
United States during the nine months
period ending with March.
In accordance with plans laid and
announced several months ago. the
war department will send two more
companies of coast artillery to Hawaii
in about three months time.
The representatives Of Chicago
business houses who are touring the
east have been cordially received and
entertained by the chamber of com
merce of Toxic and Yokohama
Mayor Gaynor among other New
York city officials, will be subpoenaed
as witness before the grand jury in
the crime wave" investigation, ac-
cording to announcements made.
Mrs. Fanny Bullock Workman, the
noted mountain climber, has left for
her sixth Himalayan expedition Her
friends believe she is determined to
break all records on this attempt.
President Taft has tentatively ac-
cepted an invitation to address the
tenth biennial convention of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen at
Harrisburg, Pa, on Sunday, May IA.
Senator Elihu Root of New York
was a proud man Monday. He moved
and seconded the admission OF his
son, Elihu Root, Jr., to practice be
fore the supreme court of the United
States.
The corporation of Dublin voted, 42
to 3. to proceed with the next busi.
ness" when a resolution proposing a
loyal address on the occasion of King
Georges approaching visit was intro.
duced.
Mrs. Benjamin Marriott, of Penns-
boro, Richie county, w. Va, gave
give birth to her fifth pair of twins
Three sets of them. are living. All
were born during period of seven
years.
II. S. Morris, United States commits.
sioner general to the Rome exhibi-
ton, has decided TO postpone the
until April II in order to have the
presence of King Victor Emmanuel
Rep. Suzler, OF New York, in.
troduced in the house a joint resolu
ton directing the president to ter.
inmate the treaty between the United
States and Russia, because of discrim-
ination against American citizens OF
Jewish origin.
1t is learned that the Turkish gov
ernment is reconsidering it's decision
TO award its naval construction con.
tract to British shipbuilders, and the
matter may be brought up in parlia-
ment American builders are endeav
oring TO get the work.
The first distribution of rewards
has just been made by the German
Carnegie hero fund commission. The
amounts given ranged from $50 70
$3.50 The grants were only made to
widows whose husbands were killed
in rescuing others.
Four hundred members of the
Building Trades union went out on a
strike in Toledo following a refusal
of numerous building contractors to
as to recognize the universal card
system or closed shop.
The federal grand jury has return
ed an indictment against Capt. Chas.
Johnson, who was master of the fill
clustering steamer Hornet on its re.
cent trip from New Orleans to Hon
duras, charging him with violating
the neutrality laws.
At an executive meeting in Phila-
delphia, officers of the supreme lodge
of the Brotherhood of Railway Me-
chanics adopted a resolution stating
the brotherhood did not contemplate
affiliation with the American Fedora
tion of Labor.
The United States circuit court of
appeals for the eighth judicial cir
cults has sustained and made perma-
nent the injunction against the state
of Oklahoma, preventing IL from in
terfering with the piping of natural
gas out of the state.
A coroner's jury empaneled to in
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