Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1895-08-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.


! John Lindsey is in Jail at Pomeroy,
o., charged with numbering VIM. Cum
diff, a crippled miner.
One person was burned to death and
a score of others injured in reGrend
collision at Camden, n. j.
At the Germana dock yards at Kiel
gang plank gave way with a large
number of men and 10 were drowned.
George Elsbree's home, near Lewis
Center, o., was totally consumed by
fire. and Mrs. Ellsbre persisted in the
flames.
EX- Mayor Van Horn, of Denver, was
killed by falling from a third-story
window of the Grand Central hotel, of
which he was the proprietor.
NJ. Urukoff, chief of police of Sofa,
Bulgaria, was taken into custody on
suspicion of having been concerned in
the murder of eX-Premier Stambouloff.
Senator PETER announces that he has
come To the conclusion that the coun-
try currency should be based on land
values instead of upon either gold or
silver.
The Japanese forces IN Formosa
made concerted attack on the head
quarters of the rebels and after "a
severe two days fight won a complete
victory.
Ex-State Treasurer w. w. Taylor, of
South Dakota, who defaulted last Jan
uary with $4,000, was sentenced the
limit of the law-tive years at hard
labor in the penitentiary.
Cholera is working frightful havoc
in Japan. The military have suffered
a loss of thousands during the past few
months. The Formosa expedition has
proved especially disastrous.
1t has practically been decided that
ii. II. Holmes, the alleged murderer of
Minnie and Mamie Williams, Il. f.
Pltezel and half dozen others, will
go to Chicago for trial for the murder
of the Williams girls.
The dead body of August Schlissler,
aged GO, was found hanging from
tree near his home in the outskirts of
Cleveland. He had badly injured his
wife in a quarrel and evidently
thought he had killed her.
The executive committee of the Re-
publican National League in session at
Chicago chose Aaron Il. Bliss. of Sagi-
nav. Mich, as treasurer of the league,
TO I'LL the vacancy caused by the death
of the late l.. ID. Harper, of New York.
The prize drill of the uniform rank
X. .. L. NJ. took place at Euclid Beach
park at Cleveland. The III. A. Chandler
division of Sandusky won the first
prize; Toledo second. and Saginaw
third Next years meeting at Saginaw.
The organ OF the Spanish govern
ment, makes the announcement that
spain will have l56,272 soldiers under
arms in Cuba by Sept. 3. This in
cludes the $1,000 soldiers to be dis
patched from spain at once. When
those achievements arrive there will
be 1922 regulars and 90 volunteers.
At dance at Crown Point, Ind, a
number of persons were poisoned,
four fatally, by drinking from a pail
of water in which strychnine had been
placed. Mrs Chas. Williams has con-
fessed the crime. She SAYS she wanted
to put her husband out of the way so
that she could get his heavy life in
surance.
Seven missionaries left Toronto,
Ont, bound for China. They were
Rev. X. A. Mitchell, Mrs. Goforth.
Miss MacKen lie, Miss Harriet Hast
ings, of Toronto; Miss NJ. f.. Man
chester. of Edmaston, N. Y. Miss Jen-
ME Davis, of Elyria, O., and Miss Julia
A. Smith, of McIndoes Falls, n. Y. A
large crowd gathered to see them off.
The board of United States engineers
appointed by the war department to
consider whether the Chicago drainage
canal will affect seriously lake levels |
is making trip over the route of the |
canal They will make a thorough |
inspection of the capacity of the canal |
and the amount of water IL will carry |
away from Lake Michigan. Gen. Poe. |
of the board, says it will lower the !
level OF the lakes considerable, but |
whether it will be enough to become |
serious cannot yet be determined.
The members of the Spanish reserves.
have been called out tor service ih