Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-03-26
CENERALITlES IN BRIEF.

Fire did 100000 damage in the At
lantic oil refinery at Pittsburg.
John Hartman shot his wife and |
at Omaha because they were |
penniless and he could not find work. |
Strikers and non-union men came to |
blows at Chandler e Taylor's iron
works at Indianapolis and three men |
were fatally shot.
4 John A. Right, cashier. of the Fifth !
zvenhe Savings bank, Columbus, o..
was arrested and charged with having
embezzled $4,000.
| Gen. Alger, in an interview at Wash
| ington, said he had no idea of trying
for the nomination for President but
that he would vote for Mckinley at
the Republican convention.
At Belleville, Tex, Glenn Stawther
and Buck Chappell, Negroes, were
hanged for the murder of Mrs Dora
Ermshoff because she did not hand out
her pocketbook quick enough.
The wife of John Noes, wealthy
brick manufacturer, secured a divorce
at Tifiin. o. A few days later he
called at her residence and demanded
her return to his home. She refused,
and he shot her and her sister, Katie
smith, wounding both fatally.
| Thomas A. Edison reports that by
means of says he can see through
eight inches of wood with the naked
eye. Mr.. Edison says that, with the aid
Ola tiucroscent screen, he has been able
to see objects through all sorts of sub
stances, except metals and bones.
The final formalities for the release
of John l.. Waller, formerly American
consul in Madagascar, who was SEN
fenced to 20 years imprisonment for
conveying information to the Hovas
regarding the French, have been com
pleted in Paris, and Waller is now free.
Direct negotiations with Great Brit
ian respecting the Venezuelan bound
airy dispute have been resumed by our
| state department ut the point where
! there were left by the exchange of the
notes of Secretary Olney and Lord
Salisbury, of last July and last Novem-
| Der.
! L. ;. Consul ]. ID. Hall, at San Juan.
| Porto Rico. reports an attempt on his
| life by Spanish soldier who shot at
him from the prison wall, saying after
ward that the shot was aimed at an
escaping prisoner. News had just ar
rived of the action of congress on the
Cuban question.
The Ohio brigade of the X. of +. will
hold an encampment at Cleveland
the fourth week in August, 1896, and
has issued a general invitation to all
the brigades of the military branch of
the Knights of Pythias throughout the
supreme jurisdiction. to join with it in
a general encampment.
Lord Salisbury. the British premier.
has sent reply to the memorial in
favor of the Anglo American arbitra.
ton of the Venezuelan question adopted
| by the peace society. lie saws: II am
| glad to be able To inform you that this
question is receiving the consideration
of the government and that proposals
| in the direction indicated by the mem
orial are now before the government
of the United States"
Very general response is being made
| by the commercial and manufacturing
interests of the country to the circular
letters addressed to them by the house
ways and means subcommittee on
reciprocity and commercial treaties. in.
yiting expressions of opinion from
them as to the advisability of endeav.
oring to renew the reciprocity agree
ments made with many foreign coun.
! tries under the terms of the Mckinley
tariff act There is an unquestionable
prcponderance Of desire for the re-
newal of the reciprocity agreements.
The L. =. census bureau at Washing.
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