Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-02-11

GENERAL NEWS BRIEF s.

South Dakota senate has voted to
prohibit the formation of all trusts and
combinations
Five children, from s to Is years of
age, broke through the ice while
skating on pond near Nebraska City,
Neb, and all were drowned.
The striking miners at Leadville,
Col. have become so desperate that they
threaten TO burn the town if men are
shipped in to take their places
The New York World asserts that
the r. 5. government is being rcbbbed
by the railroad of $40, 600, 600 per year,
by VIGOROUSLY fraudulent overcharges
in carrying the mails.
u. S Consul General Lee has recon-
mended that President Cleveland de-
mand of Spain the release of Julio San
guillo, the l.. =. citizen sentenced TO
life imprisonment in Cuba.
The American Spirits Manufacturing
Co (the alcohol trust is endeavoring
TO secure the privilege from Uncle Sam
of shipping alcohol to the seaboard in
tank cars, instead of in barrels, as is
now required. They claim they will
be able 10 compete with foreign mar
kets and will consume 10000, 900 more
corn per year.
The Cuban filibuster steamer Three
Friends has been seized and libeled by
u. S. officers. The libel charges piracy,
in that a Hotchkiss gun was mounted
upon the bow of the steamer and was
fred at Spanish gunboat at the
mouth of the San Juan river, while en-.
deavoring to land an expedition. The
name of the gunboat is not given.
Hon. Don NJ. Dickinson, of Detroit,
chief counsel of the United States in
the Bering sea seal commission, was
returning from Victoria, Il. c., where
international inquiry was made into
the extent of damages due to Brit
ish sealing vessels by United States
cutters in Boring sea, when his train
was wrecked near Chico, CAL, and Mr..
Dickinson was slightly injured.
Secretary Olney and Sir Julian
Pauncefote have signed the treaty for
the definition of the commission of so
much Of the boundary line between
Alaska and the British possessions as
is marked by the one hundred and
forty-first meridian. Several senator's
have announced their opposition to the
treaty as il does not settle the main
point of dispute, as to what con-
stitutes the shore of Alaska.
Mrs. Cleveland's farewell public re-
ception drew large crowd, despite
drizzling rain. The White House was
artstically decorated with red and
white roses and smilax and groups of
big palms and garlands of vines. The
Marine band furnished the music.
Mrs. Cleveland was gowned in violet
and white striped MORE silk, the bod
ice OF deep cream lace. She wore
bunch Of violets, but no jewels. Mrs.
Stevenson, wife of the vice-president,
and the ladies of the cabinet, were the
immediate assistants of the mistress of
the White House.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
shows the total receipts during jan
nary TO have been S24 ,3l6, 994, and the
expenditures $40, 200, $50. This leaves
a deficit for the month of S5,952, 3o5,
and for the seven months of the pres
ent fiscal year deficit of s43, s54, 1902.
The deficit for the same months of last
year was Sis, $50, 377. The receipts for
customs during the last month
amounted TO Sill, 276, s74, falling off
of over s5,1Oo,0oO as compared with
January, 1896. The public debt in
creased 4,o7s, 735 during January and
now amounts to 81. 007, 00s, 3l7.