Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-01
NEWS ITsMs IN BRIEF.

Corbett and Sharkey have agreed to
fight 10 rounds in San Francisco on
Thanksgiving eve for a purse of ST. 900.
John r. Gentry, at Rigby park,
Portland, Me-, paced the fastest mile
ever travelled in harness and placed the
worlds record at 2:o0h.
Mrs. Frances E. Willard, president of
the Worlds w. c. Il. L., has issued a
call to every union in the U. S. to hold
meetings to protest against the Arme-
nian horrors.
Three big rats attacked the two
months-old baby of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Asher, of Baltimore, and gnawed its
face, head and neck TO such an extent
that the infant died.
San Francisco telegram says the
Corbett-Sharxey fight is virtually off,
so far as that city is concerned, the
clubs having refused TO put up the
purse demanded by Corbett.
Charles Gessler, a young man near
Defiance. O., was drowned in the Maui
NEE river, while attempting to walk
on the water. in imitation of Christ.
Gessler is believed to have become in
sane over religion. He was married
week ago.
Dispatches from London regarding
the reported alleged discovery of plots
by dynamiters to blow up the queen
and the car, and some minor plots,
show that they were nothing more nor
lac 30 t..
political disturbance.
The car and czarina of Russia have
been magnifcently received as the
guests of Queen Victoria and Great
Britain. Lord Salisbury had confer
ence with the ear at Ballater, the
Scottish seat of the queen, presumably
upon the Turkish situation.
A. ID. Powers, manager of the Chi
cago branch of the Cuban junta, or aid
committee, has suddenly disappeared.
1t is known that he had received let
ters threatening him and it is feared
that he has fallen into the hands of
agents of Spain and been foully dealt
with.
Amnesty meetings were held at Tip
perary, Ireland, which were notable
from the fact that Messrs. Redmond,
Dillon and DAILY all spoke. This is the
first occasion since the death of Mr..
Parnell that these rival leaders have
addressed an audience from the same
platform
The old Scotch hermit Of Westport,
iad In 10 q no N
there Thursday. Wilson came to this
country and took up his residence in
Westport fifty years ago. He was a
ripe scholar and one of the first school
teachers in Dane County.
The GAINESVILLE, Tenn, Electric Light
Company made an assignment La
bilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
Burpee, Rumsey & Co., shoe manu-
facturers at Lynn Mass, have failed.
Assets and liabilities not given. The
firm did a business OF between 5000, 900
and $500. 1000.
Harry l.. Stevens, hardware and i'm
plement dealer at Lawrence, Kan, was
closed on chattel mortgages for ever
1000. his mother being the first and
largest creditor
II. w. Ryder OF Phoenix, Ariz., deal
er in buggies, lumber and wagons. has
assigned to A. F. Messenger. The as
signment also covers his establish
ments at Mesa Tempe and Glendale.
H. Dumois & Co., shipping and COM
mission merchants, New York, have
made an assignment. Liabilities, $243.-
500; nominal assets. 1871 500; actual as
sets, $6,766. Nearly all the assets are
in Cuba, in possession OF either the
Spanish army or the insurgents.
Charles c. Black was appointed an
|. cillary receiver for the Richards Com
pany, at New York, dealers in cloaks,
suits, etc, n proceedings for dissolu-
ton Of the company. The liabilities
are estimated at $110, 900. the nominal
assets at $15o,000 and the actual as
sets at 5000. Attachments aggregat-
ding $55,629 In favor of several credi-
tors Of the company have been served.
Mt Holyoke college at South Hadley,
Mass, the pioneer institution for the
higher education of women, received a
severe blow in the burning of the main
building with probable loss of over
$3.50, 900. The buildings cost over
$500, 900. Fortunately none of the 400
students or faculty was injured.
The Peary- Cornell university polar
expedition steamer Hope has returned
from the Arctic regions, having failed
in their main object-to bring to the
United States the Acton meteorite dis
covered by Lieut.. Peary at Cape York
upon a previous trip. 1t was found inn
possible to rig derrick strong enough
to move the meteorite. Otherwise the
VOYAGE was scientific success.
San Marcos, Tex, suffered from a
most terrific rainstorm which caused
the San MaGos river, usually about
four feet deep, to rise TO a depth of
nearly 80 feet. Many houses in the
lower portions of the town were swept
away and scores of people had to be
rescued in boats from their roofs.
There was no loss of life, but had the
storm occurred at night the result
would have been terrible. The prop
ertv loss is about $4,000