Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Former Gov G. W. Click, of Kan.
sas, is dead
r. w. Benson. former governor and
present secretary of state of Ore
gon, is dead in RedIands, Cal, after
an illness lasting several months.
1t is stated at the foreign office
that the visit of the American naval
squadron to Kiel has been arranged
so that the American. ships will be
anchored in Kiel harbor for three
days during Kiel week.
Announcement is made that Champ
Clark, speaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, will be the toastmast
at the banquet which will be fea-
ture of the National Peace conference
TO convene in Baltimore May 3.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
was stricken with vertigo. and fell
unconscious TO the sidewalk as he
was entering the pension Office. He
was hurried to a hospital, where it
was reported his condition is not
critical
Denman Thompson, the famous act
or. died at his home in West Swan
zey, n. II. He had been I'll for weeks
from heart trouble and the end had
been expected several times in the
last few weeks. Mr.. Thompson was
born in 1888.
Federal officeholders are prohibited
from acting as delegates TO conven
tons called TO nominate a candidate
for president or for any other cleo
tive office by the terms of bin in
troduced today by Rep, Richardson
of Alabama
Since its completion the great cap
itol of the United States has been
without adequate fire alarm facili
ties. The discovery. made accident.
ally, caused feyerish activity and in a
few hours the great building was
equipped with modern signal alarms
The house fpf representatives has
extended tle right of debate to the
two resident commissioners from the
Philippine islands, Benito Legarda
and Manuel H. Quezorn. The two
delegates have participated in de-
bates before, but never with official
recognition.
An advance Of Is cents ton on
buckwheat anthracite coal recently
made by the Pennsylvania railroad,
was ordered suspended by the inter
state commerce commission from its
effective date to August 10, to give
the commission tie to ascertain it's
reasonableness
Statistics issued by trans-ccntinen-
tai railroads showed that $4,000 per
sons travelled from eastern cities to
s,t Az. 4 . he,
35-day period ending April 10. The
figure exceeded by $4,000 the number
going west in 1910 and broke al
previous records.
IN fire which destroyed the Saliva
tion Army Industrial home in vii
liamsburg, ~ Y, 300 inmates of tn
home marched to safety singing, "Oh.
you must be a lover of the Lord,
while the Salvation Army band played
away on the stirring marching tune
which was carrying them to safety.
Senator Bradley will introduce
bill in the senate for the erection of
100000 monument to George Rog-
ers Clark, who has been called the
first of the Empire builders II is
proposed that the monument shall
grave In Cave Hill cemetery, Louis
vile.
So many letters commenting Presl-
dent Taft's proposed arbitration
treaty between the United States and
Great Britain are coming to the
White House each day that a special
stenographer has been assigned to
take care of them. Two hundred and
eighty-three letters came from Eng
land. All were commendatory.
An immigration bill affecting all
Monaghan peoples was introduced by
Rep. Hayes. 1t provides that all
laws now in force regulating the com
ing Of Chinese into the United States
apply to japanese, Koreans, Tartars,
Malays, Afghans, East Indians, Lac
scars. Hindoos and all persons OF
Monaghan or Asiatic race or extrac-
ton.
Sir Frank Newnes, the English pub
Usher, who was in New York. on his
way homeward from a months tour
of Canada, found the people OF the
Dominion overwhelmingly enthusiast
tic for reciprocity. He travelled
from Montreal to Winnipeg. visiting
the principal centers of population,
particularly with view TO ascertain
ing the sentiment of all classes on
the proposed tariff agreement.
Jacob w. Clute. three times mayor
of Schenectady, killed himself with a
pistol shot in the bath room of his
home while sheriffs were waiting at
the door with a body execution for
him growing out of alleged Irregular
ties in the handling of an estate.
Exports for the nine months since
the beginning of this fiscal year have
exceeded imports by $4,000, 600,
which is greater than the total ex-
cess of exports for the whole fiscal
year 1909. Statistics for March show
exports of sl61.924.000 as against
s143,657 900 last year. Imports for
the month were $139, 100000, as
against slC2.999,Oo0 last year.