Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-07-09
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.
President Cleveland and family are
at their summer home, Gray Gables.

The national celebration of the
Daughters and Sons of the American
Revolution was held at Saratoga, y. !.
by the explosion of natural gas at
the Evergreen hotel, near Allegheny
Pa, six persons were injured fatally
The hotel was badly damaged.
Z A dispatch from Cairo says the Egypt
ian government packet Rahmanieh,
from SualSim for SueZ. was wrecked
on reef and 60 people drowned.
L. 5. Ambassador Bayard gave
Fourth of July banquet at London
which was attended by 500 guests
| Sir Richard Webster toasted the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Maj. L. w. IIalford, who was private
secretary to President Harrison and is
now paymaster of the U. 5. army in
the west, sustained compound frac-
ture of his right leg while riding a
bicycle at Denver
! Prof. j. o. Simlund u Swedish music
teacher of Manistique, disappeared
June and his body has just been
found in a swamp near the city. The
coroner's jury attribute his death to
drink.
Henry Fontaine, of Muskegon. was
taken to Grand Rapids, charged with
being a foreign pauper. He came TO
Michigan year ago and soon developed
insanity. He will probably be de-
! ported.
American prelates have protested
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who is mentioned as the successor to
Cardinal Satolli. as apostolic delegate
to the United States. They favor an
American for the place.
A dispatch from Athens says that
the Cretans have elected provisional
| government. decided to proclaim the
union of the island with Greece and
expressed the hope that autonomy will
be granted the island under the sur
VIGILANCE of the powers.
A cloudburst at Wegee creek. near
Bellaire, O.. drowned James Berry, his
wife and child, and destroyed the Bel
laire, GAINESVILLE IL Cincinnati railroad
bridge. a large trest!e Ga the Pitts
burg * Ohio Valley railroad, Presby-
terrain church and a dozen other build
| ings.
Sidney Randolph, a negro charged
with the murder of little Sadie Buxton
and with brutal a. saults with intent
to commit murder ON the girls father
mother and elder sister at the home of
the Buxtons near GaithersLurg, Md,
was lynched 10y mob who overcame
the sheriff and forced him TO surrender
the keys to the Jail.
The Turkish legation at Washington
has received a message from the sub
lime porte denying the news published
charging the Mussulmans and imperial
troops in Crete with cruelties is false.
4 On the contrary the Christians burned
the homes and olive orchards and the
Mussulmans burned in return. but the
troops are trying to protect all property.
Senator Teller was given a tremen-
dous welcome upon his arrival at Den.
yer Flags. banners and bunting every
where, an immense parade of military
and civic bodies including the Teller
silver club. 1000 strong, greeted him
as he stepped from his train and was
escorted To this carriage which was
then drawn by 500 young men through
the streets where a continuous ovation
was given him.
The strikers at the Berea stone quar-
ries, near Westview, o., made a raid
upon the non-union men, but were met
by 40 armed deputy sheriffs. battle
ensued in which four strikers were
wounded and one will die During the
fight the women sympathizers of the
strikers swept down upon the 'scabs'
and drove them out with clubs and
then forced Sheriff Lecli and his dep
utes to retreat. The sheriff has called
for troops.
1t is reliably reported that the Col
umbus, Hooking Vas " & Toledo rail
road will be consolidated with the
Flint e Pere Marquette road on July
10. The +. & =. NJ. Is now building a
new depot in Toledo. and will soon be
in that city, and the consolidated line
will make fine lumber and coal road,
and intersccting so many trunk lines
will secure AN enviable passenger
traffic.
The two most extensive printing
houses in Lanslng-D ID. Thorpe X
Son and Robert Smith & Co. the pres
ent state printers, were merged into
one and will hereafter be known as
the Robert Smith Printing Co. The
state printing and binding for the next
two years will be executed by this
company, it having secured by assign
ment the contract awarded by the state
auditors to ID. c. Page.
The Womans Rescue league. with
headquarters at Washington, has an
nounced a national crusade against
women riding bicycles, declaring that
recreation TO be productive Of immoral
ity, disease and crime; that the craze
''swell the ranks of reckless girls who
finally drift into the standing army OF
the outcast women; that married wo-
men should not resort to riding the
wheel unless they wish to prevent
motherhood; that bicycling by women
is indecent and vulgar, and that the
bicycle is the devils advance agent.
1t is reported from Washington that