Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-26
Briefs.


A fredamp explosion took place in
colliery at Rocklinghausen, West
phalia, Prussia. OF the 80 men in the
mine at the time, 80 were killed.
James j. Corbett has signed for 20
round boxing match with Bob Fitz-
simmons before the Greater New York
Athletic club, January IA, for purse
of S25, 900.
The Peoria Polytechnic institute,
branch of the University of Chicago, is
being erected at Peoria, ILL.,, from the
S., 900, 900 left by Mrs. Lydia Bradley
for that purpose.
A Chesapeake & Ohio train struck
buggy at Concord, KY, End instantly
killed A. l.. Pollok, a young lawyer,
and Misses Lulu End Lizzie Lind, who
were returning from a party.
William Snyder, treasurer of Lewis
township, Brown county, o., and also
the custodian of the school funds OF
Higginsport has departed, taking with
him the entire contents of the treasur
ies-about 81, 500.
Rev. ID. l.. Moody, the famous evan
gelist. has been bequeathed $4,000
by j. N. Harris, New London, Conn,
banker who died recently. The money
will be used in Moody's educational
| work at Chicago and at Mortified,
Mass.
A memorial to congress was unani-
mously adopted in the Alabama assem-
| bly, expressing profound sympathy
| with the cause of the Cuban rebellion
and petitioning the congressman from
Alabama to exert every influence to
reader them assistance.
Hon. Chas A. Boutelle, of Maine,
who is prominently mentioned as Nc
Kinley's probable secretary of the
navy, was returning home after visit
to the President-elect and had reached
| Syracuse, n. Y. when he received
dispatch summoning him back to
| Canton.
Mgr. Maghaki Ormanian's election
as the new Armenian patriarch in Tur-
key, is an excellent sign of peace in
the future. He has already decided
that religious councils shall take i'm
mediate steps to examine the rules of
organic law which will doubtless be
| modified.
c. Henry Genslnger, president of
the Bohemian Sporting club, of New
York City, has written letters to James
j. Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons, Of
fering a purse of SIS, 900 for a 25-round
contest between the two pugilists
The fight to take place in New York
in January
Thomas A. Edison has verified the
experiments reported to have been
made in San Francisco, in which by
means of the cathode ray a blind boy
had been enabled to distinguish light,
and it is Edisons intention to continue
experimenting until much more salts
factory results are arrived at, which he
confidently predicts will be soon.
Under the new constitution adopted
in South Carolina last year, the right
rs-of sdaffrsgg lylaI ! ,rtnusctad ia
1t the whites, there being only about Is
DC 900 of the 10000 Negroes who ca
RS qualify under the stringent test a.
e piled. The Republican managers ha,
l. determined to bring the matter to I'll
lie attention of congress with the clai
l. that South Carolina is only entitled [
three instead of seven representative
The loss will fall upon the Democrat
W Word has been received by the Metl
4. odist Foreign Missionary society tn,
II Ii Hung Chang has appointed tw
u Christian Chinese women delegate
&c from China to the Womans congress.
~ to meet in London in 1898. This is a
L. innovation on the part of the Chimes
e government, which, from time imm,
mortal, has kept women in seclusior
The appointees are Margarine Whan
', and DR.. Huking Eng. Both were edl
= Gated in the United States by til
Methodist Episcopal church.
The woman suffrage amendment {
the constitution OF Idaho has major
/, ity of nearly 5000. 1t is however,
:. question whether the amendment ha
- really passed, owing to the official rul
ing on a similar question two year
ago when the courts held that a
= amendment must receive a majority @
? the votes cass at that election. Thi
IulS III ChtCbs Jlldb NObcS hOI CdS
, either for or against are to be construe
= as being cast against a measure. TIL
;. question will be taken into court.
n The c., III. e ID. railway has pun
n chased the street railway lines of Mid
dletown, o., will connect them wit
!, the tracks of the steam railway, an
:. as soon as they can be equipped the
Il will be operated between Middleton
y and Hamilton, a distance of Is miles
!, with electricity. This step is but tn
"a initiative, and will be followed by a.
v extension of the system to Cincinnati
r and Dayton. The equipment will b
4 of the best.
e j. Wyman Jones, brother-in-law o
!. Mark A. Hanna, mas bought the histori
w Wilder property at Wattoquottoc Hill
v Boston, and il is said that Maj McKin
l. ley will occupy it as summer resi-
e dence during his presidential term.
N is a well established tradition that i
st was arranged that the Wider mansion
e should be an asylum for Napoleon
"a a ftar HE dafaat az Waterloo but ha 10