Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-04-30
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at Hilltop, Md.
Sickness and famine is said to demon
alize the dervish camps which confront
the British in their Soudan campaign.
A strike of Indiana glass blowers in
volving 10000 men began at Hartford,
CITY. because one union man was fired.
Edward Barr, of Shelby, o., fatally
shot his mistress, Nettie Steele, at
Martha Smart's house, because of jeal.
ousy
A Toledo dispatch, from good author
ity, states positively that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad will run into Detroit
over the +. & p. Nj.
The conferrees of the two houses OF
congress have agreed that officers of
u S. courts shall be paid regular sala-
ries instead of fees.
A company of volunteers is being or
ganiZed in northern Indiana, near La
Porte. for service in Cuba Sons of the
best families are active in the move
ment
Owing to the illness of Mrs Il. Jones,
president of the State Federation of
Women's clubs, the meeting of the
board Of directors, to be held at Lam
sing, was postponed until May T.
Simon Iasselbach, aged 20, apd his
son VIM, aged 25, got drunk at Union
CITY. Pa. and began to quarrel. The
old man shot his son dead and then,
realizing his crime, shot himself.
BY the collapse of the roof of the
vieia silver mine in the Santa Eulalia
district, Mexico, 81 men were buried
alive, and AS were killed and score
seriously injured when recovered.
From present calculations the L. 5.
treasury deficiency will, at the end of
the fiscal year June 80, 1896, reach
S95 900, 900 for the year; total de-
ficency for the past three years of
Sl31, sol, s12.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks occurred at Episl1opi in the
fighting and so persons were killed and
wounded. The Cretans have appealed
to Greece for aid.
Albert Willis, minister from the u. S.
to the Hawaiian islands has arrived from
Honolulu. He says he is in i'll health
and with his family will GO to his old
home in Louisville to spend his three
months leave of absence.
The wife of Herman Scharnitzka, a
wood carver, of Cleveland, tried to
I ~ ~ Of oil
The oil can exploded fatally burning
her and her two children, five and
three years old, who were clinging to
her skirts.
While Lady Aberdeen was driving
along the band of the Gatineau river
at Ottawa, Ont, the horses plunged
into deep hole filled with water. The
occupants of the carriage were extri-
Gated with much difficulty, but the
horses were drowned.
h sri ii,ss.snpcb government has granted
San Red Cros-s0ciety Tb1taJIlseddt DE Rus ;i;
territory on the way TO Abyssinia. 1t
has been limited that these surgeons are
really Russian army officers of different
ranks, ready to aid actively the Abyss
sinians.
Linford c. Biles, foreman of the
Philadelphia jury which convicted III.
III. Holmes of murder, was killed on
the roof of his house by coming in con-
tact with live telephone wire which
he was endeavoring To remove. His
son. Geo. {. Biles, was severely shocked
and may also die
A party of eight young men crossed
the Becancourt river at Lizander falls.
near Quebec, and the boat was headed
down stream through misunderstand-
ing between the men at the oars, and
the swiftly rushing waters carried them
over dam Is feet high. Six of the oc-
cupants were drowned.
Capt. Gen. Weyler released Rev. AL
bert Diaz, the Anne rican Baptist mis-
sionary, and his brother Alfred, from
custody on condition that they imme-
diately leave Cuba. A dispatch from
Matanzas says two American newspaper
Messrs OLeary and
Daily, are detained by the authorities
there.
A colossal bronze equestrian statue
Of Gen Grant measuring l5I feet, on a
pedestal l6 feet high, was unveiled in
front of the Union League club, in
Brooklyn. Over 10000 soldiers and
sailors, besides a large representation
Of the G. A. r, participated in a
grand demonstration which was wit
nessed by 10000 people The statue
was presented to the city by the club.
Minnie Allen, convict in the Wis.
,onsin state prison. has confessed 10 |
he murder of Montgomery Gibbs. a |
awyer, at Buffalo in April. 1894 She |
ays Gibbs ruined her under promise OF
and then refused TO make her
lis wife. Clarence Robinson and wife
IRE serving life Imprisonment for the
murder of Gibbs and the confession is
made so that the innocent may not
uffer.
w. G. Dygart, the Illinois citizen
Who has just been released from a
spanish prison in Cuba, after hard
york in his behalf by the American
onsul, says that prisoners taken by the
parish are shamefully treated. He
,as locked in a l6xls room with 80
Their men. The water constantly
l.. n. = 81.