Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-03-25

had been in charge of the Associated
press bureau at the capital.
The first beet sugar refinery in Wis
consin has begun operations at Me-
nominee Falls. The new plant repre-
sents an outlay of $4,000 actual CAPT.
tai, and $4,000 for labor and mater
ialS.
John Fest, a lumberman, was found
dead about forty miles from Hayward,
Wis, on the headwaters of the Chip
pewa river. He apparently got lost in
the heavy snow storm and persisted
within forty rods of farm house.
Judge Dick, at Port Washington,
Wis, sentenced Ferdinand Wagon
knecht fer murder in the second de-
gree to serve twenty-one years in the
states prison at Waupun at hard la
Dor; one day each year, the Goth Of
December to be solitary confinement.
c. ID. Nash, the retired capitalist and
banker, died at Milwaukee as result
Of a surgical operation.
\ verdict has been found at Decatur,
ILL.,, against County Treasurer BoIds in
a suit brought by the county commits
sioners to recover $4,000 township
funds which it was claimed Bolds un-
lawfully secured by raising township
orders. The Judge returned a verdict
early this morning.
Reports have been received OF very
serious disorders at Tokat, in the ST.
vas district OF Asia Minor Ii is said
that many Armenians and Turks have
been killed. AS yet there are no de-
tails as TO the exact cause of the out
break.
II is officially announced that the
government forces have defeated the
insurgents in a battle near Melo, Uru-
quay, killing Chief Chiquito Saraiva
1t is announced that the insurgents
lost 500 killed and wounded.
Billy" Birch, the old-time minstrel,
was stricken with paralysis while at
tending meeting of an Elks lodge at
New Yor,1. He was removed to his
home.
1t is reported that the Khalifa Alb
dullah, leader of the /ervish hordes in
John Riddulph Martin, who married
Mrs. Victoria Clafiin Woodruff, died
on Saturday at Las Palmas, in the Ca
nary Islands.
At Muncie, Ind, a tenement house
was destroyed by natural gas explo-
sion. p. O. Null and wife and F. M.
Needham and wife were seriously
burned
Daniel Muck, ST., of Haven, Kan,
accidentally shot his aged wife while
handling a revolver.
The fishing schooner William Z.
Mcdonald of Gloucester, Mass, was
given up for lost, but her captain tele-
graphs that he was caught in the Ice
for thirteen days, but escaped with the
vessel and all on board.
The freight-handlers strike at Lud-
ington, Wis, is broken. About fifty
strikers made break for work and
many secured their old places. Nearly
Toe of the old men are now at work
at 10 cents.
Two thousand Spanish troops, under
Colonel Salcedo, ordered to attack San
Nicholas, were led on March by the
native guides into an ambush near a
strong position occupied by the rebels,
and were defeated with heavy loss.
The Ryan elevator burned at Buffalo,
n. Y, with 5000 bushels each of wheat
and oats. Loss, probably $685. 00 Two
schooners, the Thomas ROBBIE and the
A. ]. Rogers lying at the end of the ele-
vator, were also burned.
A call has been issued TO Nebraska
free silver republicans TO meet in mass
convention in Lincoln on Thursday,
March 25 to name members of provi-
sional national committees and other
wise perfect the organization of the
party.
The attempt of the Iowa building and
loan associations to amend the ways
and means committees revenue bill
to relieve them from making a detailed
statement of their shareholders and the
value of each share for the purpose OF
assessment was defeated by vote OF
IS to II.
The 5-cent cut in the block coal min
ers' scale in the Brazil. Ind. district
is in effect. The miners claim 1t is i'm
possible to make a living there at the
reduced scale.
Lizzie Lloyd, aged 20 years, while
alone at the home of her parens at Pal
myra, Ohio. was burned to death.
Gov. Bushnell has appointed Ray S
Kaylor of Alliance. Ohio. commissioner
of railroads and telegraphs. Kaylor Is
a practical ralroader.
The curfew ordinance passed the
Springfield Qll) city council by ma
jority OF one vote and takes effect i'm
mediately.
sylvester Scovel. the war CORE
spondent. recently released froom pris
on at Sancti Spiritus. has arrived a.
Havana.
William Grimes, aged 81. hanged him
self in a log house near Howard, Ind
He married his second wife two weeks
ann