Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

United States held an enthusiastic
convention at Chicago.
The American Wire company closed
down their plant at Cleveland for three
months owing TO the strike
Two little Cleveland girls, Lena
Groh and Stella Schlaudecker, were
instantly killed by an electric motor
Terry Tufft, his wife and three chill
dren, were drowned by their boat
capsizing on Lake Keuka, Bath, n. y.
Nebraska reports a splendid wheat
crop-fully two-thirds of full crop.
Corn and oats were never better there.
Lawrence Burton, of Sonora. o., was
arrested at Kansas City, Mo for run
ming away with Sl,400 of his wife's
money.
Charles ID. Sherwood, ex-lieutenant-
governor of Minnesota, was found
lead, floating in the lake at Chicago.
Suicide.
The body of Andrew Lasilla, Rus
sian traveller, was found near Toledo
A bullet hole in his head gives the APP
pearance of murder.
A stay of execution has been granted
in the case of Harry Hayward, under
sentence of death at Minneapolis for
mul Il, until October.
The 14-months-old child of John Il.
Irwin, of South Bend, In L., cot hold Of
pan of gasoline and drank it, The
child died in great agony.
A caisson of the big bridge now
building at Mage Hamed, near Alexan-
dria, Egypt, by a French firm collapsed
and 40 workmen persisted.
The IL principal glass manufac-
turers west of Pittsburg met at Ander-
son, Ind, and formed combine to
raise prices % to 40 per cent.
Chas. Schlick. white, was arrested
at ST. Louis for committing crime
similar to that of Jack, the ripper. a."
Ella King, colored, was his victim.
Flora Gedeon and Mary Tomasch,
who accompanied an excursion from
Cleveland to Chippewa lake, o., were
drowned by the capsizing of boat.
Ex-Secretary of State Foster has re-
turned from Hong Kong, having con-
cluded his duties as the agent of
China in negotiating peace with Japan.
About 700 Chinese attacked Hsinchu,
Island of Formosa, and 200 of them
were killed and many were captured.
On the japanese side the loss was IL
men.
The Caddo Indians in Indian Ter
ritory are worshipping an old Indian
Squirrel-because il rained after his
incantations and after several week S
drouth.
Harry Jackson, Chicago crook, was
instantly killed at Portland, Ind, Gus
Gar was fatally wounded and Ed
Barker was arrested while trying to
burglarize store.
Capt Bundy, for 81 years mission
airy among the sailors on the Great
lakes, has sold his gospel boat, Glad
Tidings, and will seek retirement in
his old age at Chicago.
a bad wreck occurred at White Sui
phur, O., on the Big Four, resulting in
the wrecking of IL cars of whisky,
feed, tobacco and candies, amounting
to S75, 200. Dick Hurley, molder of
Cincinnati, was killed.
A prize of s., 900 is offered by the
Chicago Times Herald to the successful
competitors in horseless carriage or
vehicle motor race tetween Chicago
and Milwaukee. Definite details will
be announced in the near future. The
date of the contest will not be far from
November ].
The French line steamship La Nor
ma a ia hat -,
from Havre to New York she caught
on fire in the lower hold amidships.
The crew volunteered to man to go
down and the fire was overcome after
Is hours work Very few passengers
knew of their danger.
Nathan Goodrich. clerk at the Il. &
o. c. freight Office at Fostoria, o., was
riding on hand car with his wife and
little son when the ear was struck by
an engine. Mrs Goodrich and the lit
tie boy were killed, both being horri-
bly, mangled. Mr.. Goodrich was seri-
ously hurt and he may not recover,
Fire, which started in l.. A. Mayo's
hardware store, in which a large
quantity of powder and fireworks was
stored, destroyed property of the es-
timated value of Sl5O,OO0, at Lynn,
Mass. James ii. Winslow, an en-
ploye, is thought to have persisted
He was 6s years old q nd in feeble health.
A dispatch has been sent out from
Montreal saying that the cause of the
wreck at Lewis, Que, where ID were
killed, was that Engineer Mcleod was
asleep at the throttle owing to being
to work three nights in sue
cession in addition to his regular run,
because the Grand Trunk management
had cut down their force.
The row in the Soldiers Home at
Grand Rapids was investigated by the
board, and the result is that Mrs.
Trask, of Greenville, matron of the
annex, who had been sus-
pended bv Commandant Graves, was
Then a resolution was
adopted declaring that Mr.. Graves, in
taking the action he did, acted for the
best interests of the home
The first convention of the Michigan
Dealers association was
held at Detroit, with the foremost
men in the business in the state in at
tendance. Officers elected: President,
+. :. Carleton, Calumet: vice-president,
Henry c. Weber, Detroit; secretary
treasurer, Henry G.. Minnie, Eaton