Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-06-18
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

An early morning fire in a tenement
house in Allegheny, Pa, resulted in
the killing of two persons and serious
injuries to two others.
The Republican national committee
will have to decide upon 15s contested
seats out of the total 900. Fifteen
states and one territory have contested
delegations.
Another detachment of British Egyp-
tan troops made sudden move upon
Suarda, from Akaseh, capturing the
place with about 40 dervishes and kill
ing as many more.
One hundred and eighty cans of dy-
Mantle exploded near Lilly, Pa, killing
one man outright and fatally injuring
six others, working on the road bed of
the Pennsylvania railroad.
Five hundred quarrymen went on a
strike at the Cleveland Stone Co., near
Borea. The men demand that all non
union men be discharged and that sew
eral union men, recently dismissed, be
reinstated.
1t is reported from Washington on
good authority that Senior DeLome, the
Spanish minister, has given Secretary
Olney the assurance that the Madrid
government had decided to accord a
new trial to the Competitor filibuster
crew.
BY the burning of the American
Horse exchange building in New York
City 125 valuable horses and 100 car
riages were burned at loss of $500, 900.
Among the owners is John Deyeo, of
jackson, Mich, who lost horses valued
at SIS, 600.
1t is reported that the Cecil Rhodes
and Barney Barnato are turning their
attention to the mining regions of Brit
ish Columbia, and now have an expert
at Rossland, who says that there is 10
times more wealth in the Trail district
than South Africa ever saw.
A tornado of unusual severity struck
the to~n of Wyeth City, Ala. Thir-
teen houses have been literally blown
from the face of the earth, but only
two deaths, Ed. Long and Negro wo-
man, have been reported. A hundred
or more persons were injured.
The Spanish merchants in Mexico,
Uruguay and Argentine have called a
meeting to take action on the un-
friendly attitude of the United States,
as expressed by her people to Spain in
Cuban affairs. A boycott on all Amer
lean goods is the threatened outcome.
At the national convention of Ship
builders and Boilermakers at Cleveland
President Gompers. of the American
Federation of Labor. expressed the
belief that there would be no general
labor upheaval this summer, though
there would be many local strikes.
Wheat and oats harvest is in progress
in Nebraska. The period is from one
to five weeks in advance of the season.
The yield is something unprecented in
Nebraska. August Myers, of jefferson
county, had an enormous acreage of
ripe grain and because of insufficient
help committed suicide.
The Junior Order of United American
Mechanics held their twenty-eighth
annual convention at Denver and it is
estimated that fully $4,000 members of
the order and friends were there. The
| order, which has membership of
$50, 900, was organized in 1853 Forty
one states will be represented at this
meeting.
Three hundred and fifty Roman
Catholic sailors, OF the British Mediter-
ranean squadron, made special visit
to the vatican. They attended mass in
the Sistine chapel in the presence of
the pope, who blessed them as he was
carried out. The scene was striking
one, the sailors giving prolonged cheers
and waving their hats
Spanish dispatches tell of a two days
battle between the Spanish and insur-
gent forces near Ciego Najasa. in which
| the insurgent forces of 5000 men were
repulsed by half as many Spaniards
until the arrival of reinforcements for
| the latter. The loss to the insur-
gents is given as 500 killed and wounded
while only 40 Spaniards were lost.
Reports received by Surgeon-General
| Wyman, of the l.. ;. Marine hospital
corps, indicate that smallpox is raging
in Cuba, and is increasing and that it
| already has assumed far wider pre-
valence than yellow fever, the hered-
itary enemy of the Cubans. One report
says that the yellow fever is almost en-
tirely confined to the Spanish troops.
President Kruger held big recep-
ton at Pretoria. the mayors of all the
towns of South Africa, with deputa-
ton calling on him To thank him for
his clemency toward convicted reform
ers. Kruger said the Bible was his
guide. Referring to Cecil Rhodes, he
said he acted as If he were egging on a
dog-fight. He was the cause of all the
trouble and is still unpublished.
In Bow street police court London,
DIR. j. 5. Jameson. Maj Sir John Will
loughby, Col. Il. Grey. Maj. II. White,
Col. II. +. White and Hon. Henry +.
Coventry, the prime movers in the
Transvaal raid. were committed for
trial. The other nine accused persons
were discharged. The men committed
for trial were admitted i'm $4,000 per-
| Snnal hail in each ooso and i'm addition