Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-04-20
Minor Happenings Of the Past
Week.
EVENTS OF LAST SEVEN DAYS.
Political, RelIe Ious, Social and Criminal
Doings OF the whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Readers-The Ac-
cident Record.

aSeQ ~ years, Hedu VI the Well-kuOWH
lithographing and stationery firm, died
suddenly of heart disease.
st. Louis, Mo.-Elevators Nos. and
3 of the st. Louis Hay Exchange were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss esti-
mated at 100000.
Algiers.-Max Regis, the former
mayor of Algiers, notorious Jew-baiter
and editor of the Anti-Juif, was SEN
fenced to four months Imprisonment
for insulting the encouragement of
Algiers.
Lafayette, Ind.-Mrs. Lucy Johnson,
wife of Fred Johnson, residing at
Stockwell a small town just south of
this city, hanged herself. No reason
is assigned for the deed.
Rome-The Tribuna asserts that the
papal internuncio at The Hague has
been ordered to absent himself from
the city before the meeting of the peace
conference on May Is.
New Albany, Ind.-Harry c. White
man, a former member of company c,
One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Indiana
| volunteers, was buried with military
honors. Five thousand people at
tended
Omaha, Neb.-Reports to the Bee
from over Nebraska received within the
last few days indicate that the damage
to winter wheat and rye has been
greatly exaggerated.
Cincinnati.-The report about the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail
way system being purchased by the
Big Four is officially denied.
San Quentin, Cal.-Manuel Chavez
was hanged here for the murder of
woman in southern California
Chatham, n. B.-Four persons were
burned to death in a fire at the North
cumberland county almhouse.
Kansas City, Mo.-Santiago Morphy,
the alleged embezzler of $4,000, is on
his way to the City of Mexico.
Knoxville, Tenn.-Harry Fret,
tailor, has come into possession of
$4,000 left him by his grandmother.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-The net surplus
earnings of the Tennessee convicts for
the last quarter was $4,000.
jackson, Miss.-Sam Washington,
negro, was hanged at Yazoo City for
the murder of a plantation manager
named Cocker.
Gainesville, Ala.-Andrew Mack, a
young farmer, shot his wife and then
himself, both dying at the home of his
father-in-law, w. l.. Weir.
Columbus, Ohio-The republican
state central committee has fixed June
/ as the date, and Columbus as the
place of the republican state conven-
ton.
Cleveland, Ohio-Judge Frank r.
Dellenbaugh was requested by the Bar
association to resign from the bench
of the Common Pleas court.
Berlin-It is officially announced
that the Montengrin crown prince,
Danilo Alexander, is betrothed to
Duchess Augusta Charlottet Jutta of
Mecklenburg-Str
Trenton, n. 1.-THE triennial chap
ter of the Order of Minor Conventuals,
a Roman Catholic organization, closed
its sessions. Rev. DR.. Miller of Louis
vile, KY, was elected provincial of the
order in the United States.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Arrangements
have been completed whereby Presi-
dent Mckinley will push an electric
button which will start work on the
San Pedro breakwater April 26.
Galena, Ill.-The Grant Birthday as
ISOLATION WILL as usual, celebrate the
seventy-seventh anniversary of the |
hirtb Of Con Grant April 81
Savannah, Ga.-The Two Hundred |
and Second New York regiment was
mustered out of the United States SER
vice here.
Paris, Tex.-Solomon Hatema shot
Metamora, Mich.-The Cross Roads
Weekly office was sacked by unknown
parties The presses, cases, etc., were
hammered TO pieces and the remnants
scattred over the town.
Oshkosh, Wis.-Thomas L. Smith,
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary for forging, has been pardoned
by the governor ito restore citizen
ship" as his sentence was nearly up.
Athens-Severe earthquakes have oc-
Cured in Greece. Many houses col
lapsed at Gascouni and elsewhere, but
no fatalities have been reported
Upper Sandusky, Ohio-Mrs. David
'Harpster aged 81, widow of the late
wool king of the United States" died
at her home.
New York-The Mechanics bank
has purchased the Fulton bank of
Brooklyn, ~ Y, which will go out Of
business.
Ithaca, n. Y.-Prof b. l. Wheeler
of Cornell university is likely to be
the next president of the University
of California.
New York.-Thomas j. Havemeyer
died at his home in Throggs Neck, N
Y. aged SO years, of hemorrhage Of the
brain.
Marion, Ind.-Mrs. Hanora Reidy. SO
years OF age, was burned to death at
her home in the absence of the family,
who had left her alone for a short
time.
Baraboo. Wis.-Robert Osborne,
3-year-old son of l.. r. Osborne, swal-
lowed a small watch and chain.