Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-19
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

The power of the Niagara falls has
now been harnessed to produce the
power for the electric railway system
of Buffalo
Alexander Stephens Clay has been
nominated by the Democratic legisla-
tors of Georgia to succeed John Il.
Gordon in the u. S. senate.
| The Alabama Democratic Legislative
caucus on the first ballot nominated
! Gen. G. w. Pettus for U. 5. senator to
! succeed the veteran Senator Pugh.
Robert Raison, n gardener, living
alone near Columbus, o., was tortured
with fire, knife, rope and revolver by
robbers, who got S23, all he had. H.
| is in a serious condition.
An explosion of naptha in retort
used in connection with water gas
plant at the straw factory of VIM.
Knowlton IL Son in West Upton, Mass,
! killed the superintendent and two
| employees.
| Nels sunbeam met death in the Stur-
| geon River lumber mill at Chassell by
falling upon a log carriage and was
carried to circular saw. His body
was cut entirely in two before the log
carriage could be stopped.
The Hollidaysburg, Pa, iron and
nail works, the Eleanor iron works,
! the Portage iron works and the AL
toona Iron Co., the four leading iron
| plants of Blair county. Pa, have re-
| Snnah nnaraf ions on, full fipna
The annual convention of the
Knights of Labor. held at Rochester,
n. Y, indorsed the Lodge Corliss bill
! for the restriction of immigration, and
the Legislative committee was in
structed to work for its passage.
The leading officials of the Standard
! Oil Co. are on tour of inspection
through the Indiana field to inspect
the Cudahy pipe line with a view to
purchasing it. 1t is said the Standard
will soon eXpend ST. 100000 IN improve
ments on its refineries.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Castle, of San Fran
cisco, who was sentenced at London to
three months Imprisonment without
hard labor, for shoplifting has been
released from prison on medical
| grounds, by the order of the British
home secretary, Sir Matthew White
Ridley.
The Pacific mail train on the North
ern Pacific, was wrecked three miles
east of Plains, Mont, by landslide
into which the express plunged upon
rounding a curve. George Fairchild,
the engineer, was instantly killed, and
Frank Walden, fireman, was fatally
injured.
A fast freight train on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad ran into a carriage con-
tanning Chas. +. Bright, aged 80,
wealthy citizen of Reading, Pa, and
Catherine Boyer, aged 10, working
girl, near Reading. Both were in
stantly killed, and the mans body was
terribly mangled.
Serious famine roiting occurred at
Sholapur, India. A band of 500 men
looted l,50o bags of grain. The efforts
of the police were of no avail and
therefore they fired on the mob. kill
ing four men and wounding six. A
further outbreak is feared. as Sholapur
is one of the worst famine tracts.
The reports in circulation that a
massacre had occurred in an Armenian
village near kaisarieh and that 60 per-
sons had been killed, were not exag-
gerated. On the contrary, the affair
turned out to have been more serious
than at first announced. The massacre
occurred in the village of Everek, 100
persons were killed and nearly all the
Armenian houses were pillaged.
Elijah Rice, his wife and Is children,
residing near Bowmanville, Ont, have
all been overcome by n relig ious mania,
the father declaring that God had APP
pointed him to reform the world, that
his oldest son, Louis. aged %, was pos
sessed OF devil and it was his duty to
beat it out of him. The parents beat
the young man into insensibility and
were preparing to celebrate the pass
over-sacrificing the youngest child as
the pascal lamb-when neighbors in
terfered and had the family taken to
an asylum.
The twenty-third semi-annual appor-
tionment of the primary school inter
est fund has been made by Supt. II. r..
Pattengill, and S537. 637.s7 will be dis
tributed among the 81 counties of the
state on the basis of the number of
children of school age, between five
and 20 years, in each, the rate being n
cents her capita. The primary school
interest fuad is for the ruost part made
up of the specific taxes paid by rail-
way, insurance, telephone and tele-
graph companies. etc. In accordance
with the provision of the constitution.
The amount annually derived from
such spec...s taxes is about 5000. 900.