Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-11-21
NEWS JOTTINGS.

Ex-Msyor A. Oakley Hall has assum-
ed the post of city editor of the New
York World.
Gen. Gordon on Monday was unani-
mously reelected to the Georgia legis-
lAture.
At Wilmington, Illinois, Sunday
evening, Father Mcclure, Catholic
priest, shot and killed his sexton, mis-
taking him for burglar.
The arrests in New York Of persons
supposed to be implicated in the desc
Grafton of the Stewart vault have not
80 far produced anything that promises
to lead to the recovery of the remains.
Near Columbus, O., on Sunday,
Jacob Dewitt, a prominent farmer and
road supervisor, was shot and fatally
injured by neighbor named Ingalls,
during dispute about the payment of
road tax.
An oil firm-the Phillips Brothers
in Venango county, Pa, in the Bull
ion district, have just struck oil in a
we'll they have bored, that flows from
five to eight hundred barrels day.
On Saturday Eta Smith, the school
teacher of Fremont, convicted of at
tempting to poison the Slime family
there, was sentenced to two years in
the Penitentiary.
Chicago ha-, in the first sixteen days
of pork packing, slaughtered 3SS. .639
hogs, against 243,071 for the same
period last year, an excess of l45, 90 for
this year. Prices ale very low, but
corn (Which alone makes hoga) is cheap
and in over abundance.
! The latest attempt at regicide has
been directed at King Humbert Of
Italy, a man endeavoring to stab him
with a poniard as he was entering
Naples. The King cut him down
with sword, receiving himself only a
slight scratch.
The Vermont Supreme Court hasre-
fused to give E. G. Hayden, convicted
of murder, new trial, He WAS sen.
| fenced to be executed on the first Fri
day after the first day of January 1881
This is in compliance with the State
law requiring two years to elapse be-
tW cen the sentence and execution.
The Supreme Court of Florida has
granted writ of alternative mandam-
US against the Canvassing Board OF
Alachua county to compel them to
canvass the returns of the county.
Three precincts have been omitted
from the return made, thus throwing
out votes essential to the success OF
Bisbee, the Republican candidate.
Detectives have gone to work to in
vestigate the death of Charles Collins,
at Cleveland, Chief Engineer of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railraad, who has been supposed to
have suicided on account of the Ash
tabula railroad disaster. 1t is now be-
| lieved he was murdered, and hence
the step taken by the detectives.
Sylvester Everett and wife, of Tus-
carawas county, were arrested Thurs
day for stealing corn. They were
caught in the act of loading their wag-
on from one Truman, who had lost
so much in that line that he concluded
to watch for the thieves. On examin.
ing their cellar we're found meat,
cannedfruit, corn, vegetables, etc.. that
they had stolen.
The fire at Bradford, Pa, that CON
menced on Thursday evening ravaged
five acres that were covered with
buildings, oil wells, lumber yards and
a planning mill and wheel factory. In-
cluded in the buildings destroyed were
the Riddell House, express Office and
twenty three stores and dwellings.
The loss, apart from the oil and lum-
ber burned, amounts to about one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. !,