Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-11-24
NEWSY BREVITIES.

Italy will increase her navy at once
Joseph jefferson, the famous actor,
is i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Lucy Alexander, colored, died
at KeoIuk, Iowa, at the age of 1913
years.
Over 100 delegates attended the ed
annual convention of the Knights of
Labor at Chicago.
Congressman-elect B. III. Roberts, of
Utah, is a Mormon, and has three
handsome wives and seven children.
The Diamond Match Co., will erect a
mammoth match factory under govern
ment protection at Dresden, Germany.
War preparations by the British at
Hong Kong continue, and the mines in
the Lai-Mum pass have been charged.
The Missouri supreme court declares
unconstitutional law providing for
the sale of public franchises to the
highest bidder.
A cable dispatch from Libertad,
Nicaragua, states that revolution has
broken out in Salvador, United States
of Central America.
Russia has ordered st. Petersburg
shipyards to build % torpedo boat de-
stroyers of about 24O tons displacement
each and 80 knots speed.
Mai. Gen. Merritt will resume COM
mand of the department of the east on
his return from Europe. Gen. Shafter
will take the department of the Pacific.
The Chicago Virden Coal Co. at Vir-
den, H., specifically acceded to all de-
mands of the striking miners. The
company agrees to pay the union scale.
U. S. armories have made such pro-
gress in the manufacture of the Krag-
Jorgensen rifles that the entire army
will be armed with them as rapidly as
they can be sent forward.
A number of heavy guns and tons of
other valuables taken from the wrecks
of Cervera's fleet at Santiago have been
landed at the Norfolk navy yards.
Two of the guns will be sent to Detroit
as relics.
In raising box of red-hot sand out
of pit at the Glow pipe works at New
conversion, o., Henry Scott and j. w.
| Cooley, both colored, were precipitated
into the sand by the breaking of the
chain attached to the box and were
fatally burned.
Maj Gen. Otis reports from Manila:
Health conditions improving; sick re-
port decreasing; five female nurses OF
the Red Cross are doing excellent work
in hospitals; 90 competent female
nurses who give strict attention to
work would render beneficial service. =
Col. Charles w. Williams, U. S. depot
| quartermaster at Havana, died at the
Trocha hospital of yellow fever +. T.
Stewart, clerk of quartermaster's de-
partment, who had also been FRUSTRATED
by the fever several days, died at the
Quinta del Rey hospital, after intense
suffering from the terrible black yomit
lasting more than so hours
| Great pressure is being brought upon
the war department to have the volun-
teer troops now in the Philippines re-
turn to this country. The boys com
plain that the life is very obnoxious
and that the duty of policing the city
of Manila and remaining inactive is
very disagreeable. Gen. Otis has been
asked by cable if troops could be spared
and has replied in the the negative.
Admiral Dewey has informed the
navy department that he has con.
tracted with a Hong Kong firm OF
wreckers to raise three of the Spanish
war vessels sunk in the battle Of Ma
Mia last May. The cost of raising the
ships and putting them in thorough
repair will be $500, 900. The vessels to
be raised are gunboats of large size
the sister ships Isla de Cuba and Isla
de Luzon, and the Don Juan de Austria
Commander McCalla has reported tc
the navy department that the cruiser
Maria Teresa is aground off Cat island
in such a way as to make the rescue
of the vessel practically impossible.