Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-11-26
.NEwsY CONVERSATIONS.
The wire nail trust has collapsed.

tne BoVernOfship oh thc BtouhuS VI
fraud in the election.
The Belmont coal mines at Bellaire,
O., are closed. The miners want their
old wages, 81 cents, restored.
The Buell. wooden mills at Ut. Joseph
Mo-, the largest west Of tho Mississippi
river, have resumed operations on full
time.
Peter Maher was knocked out in six
rounds by Joe Choynski before the
Broadway Athletic club at New York
City.
Placards have been posted in Canea,
Island of Crete, melting the Mussul-
mans to engage in a holy war against
the Christians
VIM. j. Bryan made three addresses
at Lincoln. Neb.. continuing the battle
for silver. His voice gave out before
he had concluded
The British steamer Memphis, from
Montreal on Nov. 4, for Avonmouth,
went ashore in Dunlough bay, England,
and IL men were drowned
A rumor is in circulation in Wash
ington that the A. T.. A. will make a
strong effort to secure a cabinet posi-
ton for Congressman Linton, of Mich
igan.
Mrs Samuel Schrock, aged 50, climbed
tree at Middleburry, Ind, fastened a
rope about limb and making a moose
about her neck jumped and hanged
himself.
The Yale and Princeton football
teams played their great game before
80, 900 people on Manhattan field,
Princeton, n. j. Princeton won by a
score of "a to 6.
The subscription to the new Spanish
loan of $50. 100000 pese tas now agPre-
gate 591, los, 500 pesetas of which over
2s5, 900, 900 were subscribed in the
provinces of Spain.
James Hover has brought suit for
injunction against b. c. Faurot, former
president and present agent of the
Lima, O.. national bank, charging him
with appropriating $4,000 of the
banks funds.
A London dispatch says that Mrs.
Maybricl, the famous prisoner at
NORWOOD Scrubs, is very much
emaciated and is on the verge of in
sanity. 1t is thought she cannot live
another year.
Rain has fallen in Rajputana. India,
which is in the famine district and
more is promised. This will somewhat
relieve the famine, but comes rather
late. The death rate from starvation
and heat is increasing.
While Warden McCrea, of Erie, Pa.
was en- route to Riverside penitentiary
with % prisoners, Thomas Cronin, un'
der five years sentence for robbery
jumped from the train. McCrea fol
lowed him but alighting on his head
broke his neck. Cronin was caught.
There is good chance for serious
international complications between
| the United States and Canada over the
| troubles in the Yukon gold mining dis
| trict OF Alaska. The Canadianfi 70 NJ
IUics ecri einue 90 ciaIm 10 control aus
g liable portion Of United States terrific
C and a conflict with American miners
not lIn pTODdDle.
AS the result of injuries receiv
while being initiated into the FL
= lodge at Des Moines, Ia, Edward
Curry, chairman of the Democratic sta
central committee, died of blood pc
{ oning. 1t is said that he was put in
q an electric chair and a powerful CT
> rent turned on, which was so stro
e that it burned him horribly.
David Storr Johnson, of the Beri
:, sea commission, states that the Unit
States herds of fur seals on the islam
of st. Paul and St George are thr
+ times as large as those upon the RI
c sian seal islands. Yet they numb
i only about onefifth of what were the
u five years ago He says the Japane
: herds have been exterminated.
: Chief Justice Charles d. Long, of t
y Michigan supreme court, who for {,
years contested the ruling of the pc
sion bureau reducing pensions of V,
erns and requiring examination befo
s. "a board Of surgeons before restor
= ton could be made, has practical
7 given up He has made apphcati
q TO be restored to his old rating of s
u month and has filed evidence in su
3 port of his application.
The records of the u. S. treasury d
partment show that from Feb /, IS!
:, TO Nov. /, there were coined 16, 262, 9
standard silver dollars, from silver bI
5 lion purchased under the act
July IA, 1890. The seigniora
!. upon this was s5,051 400. The balan
/ of the silver bullion purchas,
under the act of 1890 on hand Nov.
3 1896, was 125, 06l 1868 fine ounces, viii,
cost the government S212. 500 ,625. al
! the coinage value of which is $40
r co., 900.
{ Andrew j. Spute was arrested
s Denver, Colo, with the murder of Il
5 wife and five children. On Sunda
G Oct %, Sputc, took his family boatri
k ing on Smiths lake, and the boat w
S capsized. Spute alone could swim al
: all the others were drowned. 1t d
5 veloped that Mrs. Spute's life was i
: sured for $4,000. Spute has be-
leading dual life and Nellie Dav
was arrested shortly after the ms
!, was incarcerated.