The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-02-09

judges in Gil cases of felony. 1870
cases Of misdemeanor. 1853 cases of
Juvenile delinquency, making total of
1884 suspended sentences. In many of
the cases the action OF the judge was
entirely arbitrary and absolutely UNI
warranted.
Included in the report is, among 9TH
er interesting things, table which
compares the homicide records of Lon
don, with it's 100000 inhabitants with
those of New York, having an cstimat-
ed population of 100000 London sta
tistics for 1911 were not yet available.
but the statistics for 1910 show that i'm
that year 30 murders were committed
in London. against 1i7 in Now York.
or the murderers IL were arrested in
London. 1O9 in New York. In London
OF the murderers committed suicide,
in New York 3. The number of con-
victions in London was II. i'm New
York 30. For the years 1908 and 1909
the figures were Quite similar in pro-
portion.
Mrs Belmont, the intellectual and
financial head of the Woman's Suffrage
movement in this city is an energetic
woman and quite ambitious. Not sat
isned with the success of her lunch
rooms ana beauty parlors conducted al
the suffrage headquarters, MIS- Bel
mont is planning a bank, where the
shop girls may deposit what money
they may have left after buying Is
cent lunches and various Identifying
toilet preparations The bank plan in
terests Mrs. Belmont considerably, but
even more dear TO her is the plan of
establishing a woman's suffrage paper,
which is to bear the somewhat lengthy
motto The Truth, the Whole Truth
and Nothing but the Truth" upon it's
title page. The paper is To have no
fixed policy or politics and is To pub
lish no advertisements except such re-
lating to- woman's suffrage matters.
IL is believed that the paper is to con-
tain no news except relating to wom-
ans suffrage matters and no editorials
which We're not dictated by Mrs. Bel
hiOhNs - 10 tNHttAfu W bt a. IlGilA
interesting and edifying sheet. 1t may
be added that Mrs. Belmont does not
expect the paper to pay.
New York is undoubtedly easy
pickings" for the burglar fraternity
and it is easily understood why the
members of that fraternity hate 20 alb
sent themselves, even temporarily,
from this Eldorado Of their craft. Es-
Inmates based upon the reports of the
police indicate that during the month
of January Just ended, jewelry repre-
senting an aggregate value Of about
100000 was stolen in this city by
burglars. Practically no arrests were
made and only small part of the
plumber recovered from the various
pawnshops.
Unless an endowment is obtained
soon for the Trinity Methodist Church.
at llSth street, near Second Ave. the
church will have to be closed for lack
OF funds. Some time ago a charitable
woman donated to the church three
!ots IN the vicinity OF the church build
ing, but that did not help much, as
cash Is needed more than real estate
The pastor of the church is a man of
considerable shrewdness and business
ability and he conceived of the plan
to obtain an endowment by means of
the three lots. lie proposes To collect
100000 in voluntary contributions and
invest that fund i'm modern apart
ment house To be erected on the three
adjoining lots. The rents from the
building would afford handsome in
come, making tire endowment not on.
~ permanent but available at once
The church is the only Methodist
church In "A district containing popu-
lation Of 100000
London has an area of COZ square
miles.