Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-08-27
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

At Troy, N. c., the boiler OF Tafts
sawmill exploded killing five men and
injuring four. Three of the injured
will die.
At Allenville, KY, boiler in the
harvest field of Dr. Sid Allen exploded,
killing four boys who were working
near the engine.
FIR. Martinelli, who will succeed Car
dinal Satolli as apostolic delegate to
the United States, will sail from Genoa
the first week in September.
Generally favorable prospects for
the crops of Europe are announced in
the report of the European agent of
the United States agricultural depart
ment.
1t is reported that DIR. Nansen in
tends TO conduct an expedition to the
Antarctic ocean in search of the south
pole before returning to the Arctic re-
gions.
Six cars of Rock Island stock train
were derailed near Topeka, Kas. and
four men riding in the feed box under
meath one of the cars were crushed to
death.
Hon. w. ID. Balfour, Ontario's, pro-
vincial secretary and member in the
legislature for South Essex, died in his
residence, parliament buildings, at
Toronto.
Oscar Neebe, the Chicago anarchist,
who was pardoned for his completely in
the Haymarket riots by Gov. Altgeld,
has left his wife and eloped with an
other woman.
French coffee planters in Cuba COM
plain of severe treatment by Maxine
Gomez. They claim that he has seized
their horses and forbidden them to
work their plantations.
During a heavy thunderstorm, three
little girls were crossing Napanee
river, at Napanee, Ont, when light
ming struck the boat and killed two of
them, aged 10 and IL respectively.
A skiff in which there were three
men, was capsized in the Ohio river,
near Pittsburg, by the waves of pass
ing steamer and William Hickman and
Thomas Shaughnessy were drowned.
Peter Ryan, foreman, Jack Campbell
and John Manning, two miners, were
killed in st. Lawrence mine, at Butte,
Mont, by fall of the cage from the
top to the bottom of the shaft, 1000
feet
While a force of % workmen was en-
gagged in tearing down Music hall, a
four-story frame structure, the struc-
ture collapsed, at Eau Claire, Wis.
Twenty-Five men went down in the
ruins and four men were killed.
The sanitary condition of Havana is
reported as abominable. The city's
sewage empties into the bay, only to
be carried up on the beach by the
tides. Yellow fever and smallpox
abounds and consequently is almost
beyond control
Reports from Buenos Ayres say that
an American syndicate has offered the
Argentine Republic $780, 900 in
silver in exchange for 500, 0OO, 900 in
bonds payable in gold at 4 per cent in
terest, with one-half per cent added as
sinking fund. The offer is part of
the plan by which Argentina is seek
ing to go from paper to a specie basis.
Fred 5. Rothacker was stabbed by
Attorney Charles Lundy, on Mount
Auburn street, Cincinnati, during a
quarrel, and died from his wounds.
Lundy is an athlete, and it was sur
prising to his friends that he resorted
to knife when attacked by the Roth
acker brothers one of whom at least
was Intoxicated.
The coach department of the C. II.
e ID. shops at Lima, o., have burned,
also the freight department building
with many freight cars, one baggage,
one coach and one sleeper. The whole
plant was threatened, but the fire was
checked with loss of $685. Over
75 men were thrown out of work and
lost all their tools.