Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-02-15
LATE. WIRE BULLETINS.


in Portugal.
Robert p Clark, formerly police
commissioner, and 90 years treasurer
OF the Boston stock exchange, died in
Boston.
Britain and Russia will shortly ad.
vance to Persia another 100000 TO
relieve the immediate necessities OF
the Persian government.
Four hundred thousand timber
slaves valued at $4,000 were swept
away at Beattyville, when an ice
gorge in Kentucky river broke.
Blackbirds, carrying infection from
the south, are responsible for the
death of great numbers of Kentucky
horses from disease akin to pella-
gra.
Adverse conditions marked the fish
trade during the year 1911 The 1911
receipts totaled 100000 pounds,
compared with 100,000,000 ponds in
1910.
Champ Clark was given his first
boom for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency by the organiza-
ton of a state Chap Clark league in
San Francisco.
With the fires of three days yet to
be included in the count the month
OF January has already set a record
in the number of fires. The number
stood at zoos.
The United States and Great Bri-
tain soon may have to submit to in
ternational arbitration the question
of sovereignty over Palmyra island,
in the Pacific ocean.
After 100 years building on Mas
sau street, New York, once owned by
Aaron Burr, and used by him fer his
law Offices, is to come down TO make
way for modern building.
Kentucky's proposed anti-tipping
law passed the lower house of the
legislature Tuesday by a vote of 80
to 4 The bill provides a fine for
tipping walters and porters.
The committees appointed to make
arrangements for the Inauguration of
Prof. John G. Hibben, PTinceton's new
president, announces that the formal
Inauguration will take place on Sat
urday, May II.
One-eyed men in Alabama, having
taxable property not exceeding $500
in valuation, are exempt from the an
nual poll tax of $3.50 required in that
state, In the opinion OF Attorney-Gen-
eral r.. c.. Grikell
Grief at the receipt of the news of
the death of Loretta Blakely, of Min
neapolis, TO become blind and dumb.
She is in a hospital, where physicians
say she eventually may recover both
sight and speech.
The Rev. DR.. Charles G. Roberts,
one of the oldest and most widely
known Congregational clergymen in
the United States, is dead at his
home in Flushing, Long Island, in his
eighty-third year.
The 1912 assessment roll for Green.
wich, CT, sometimes called the
wealthiest suburb in America, shows
a total of taxable property of s35,0O0.-
600. This is an increase of $4,000, 900
over the list OF 1911.
Gov Dix of New York has been ad-
vised by his physician to give up all
social and public engagements for the
present. Unable to bear the burden
of duties thrust upon him. the gov
ernor has been on the verge of a
breakdown.
The annual income of New York
from all sources has almost reached
the half billion mark. according to
the report of the city chamberlain for
1911 This years receipts amounted
to SAGA 200 900. The income for 1912
will aycaad half q billion
After removing disputed features -
the bill providing for the sale of the
unallotted lands in the Standing Rock
Indian reservation in North Dakota,
and South Dakota, the senate passed
that measure. The lands embrace
more than 100000 acres.
Mgr. Giovanni Bonzano paid visit
to the Vatican, where be was received
by the pope for the first time as pa
pal delegate in the United States, TO
which Office he has just been appoint
ed in succession to Diomede Falconio,
who recently was elevated to the car
dina'ate.
DR.. Waldemar Roche, assistant pro.
lessor of pharmacology at University
of Chicago, and one OF the leading
psychological chemists OF the United
States, Is dead of pneumonia. DR..
Roche was nephew OF Robert Roche
famous German bacteriologist He
was an authority on the chemistry of
the brain. He was sc years Cd and
graduate Of Harvard.
Five thousand delegates will he in
Rochester, n. Y. next week for the
fifth convention OF the National Can
ners' association and allied indus.
tries. DR.. Harvey w. Wiley will be
the principal speaker.
The constitutional convention now
in session In Columbus. o.. may GO
through its program without a chap
lain. The third attempt to eject a
chaplain failed when objection caused
the committee on ru'es TO withdraw
its recommendation that DR.. Washing
ton GLADDEN., of the First Congrega.
tional church OF Columbus. be named
There are four ministers sitting as
d.Jeoafae IN tho convention