Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-11-28
NEWS ITEMS.

The Navy Department wants about
fourteen million dollars for next year.
Chas. w. Angel, the absc0nded
Treasurer of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, has been arrested at Lisbon,
Portugal, and $4,000 of his plunder re-
covered.
Mr.. John Welsh, the American Min
lister to London, has paid over the
So, ,000, 900, the amount of fishery award
to the British Government.
The people of Deering ton, New York,
have repudiated a bonded indebted
ness al one hundred and three thou.
sand dollars, issued in aid OF the Mid
land Railroad, taking advantage of an
informally in issuing the bonds.
The Postmaster General has ordered
the closing of the office at Spring Gar
den, Alabama, n consequence Of riot
Gus demonstrations against special
agent who had discovered frauds com :
Ipitted By the Postmaster Ia the sale of
stamps. .-.. ..,.t....
The Vermont House has passed a
joint resolution inStructing Vermont
congressman to use all homo rable
means 10 prevent the repeal OF the Re-
sumption Act. r-
The farm house of William flaming,
at Dearborn, Michigan, was entered on
Tuesday night of last week by bur
glars and pluHderad, the whole house
hold having previously been chloro-
formed. The next day the inmates
were found to be still asleep, and were
with difficulty brought back to con-
sciOusness.
The Supreme Court of Florida has
decided that the three precinct returns
in Aiachua county thrown out by the
Board of Canvas er5 in order To elect
Hull, the Democratic Candidate for
Congress, are good and Wild. The
Court i"sued peremptury writ to the
Board IN canvass them, which will
elect B.aher, the r publican candidate,
by about 200 majority.
An awful explosion occurred on
Thursday, in the Sullivan coal mine at
Sullivan, Indiana. The gas was igni-
ted by an open lamp, and also caused
the explosion Of eight kegs of powder.
OF thirty men in the mine, thirteen
were Instantly killed, eight or ten were
WOunded, and mnny Others nearly suf-
focated, so that their recovery is nearly
hopeless.
Z c. Hayden, under sentence of
death At Montpelier, Vermont, for the
murder OF his wife, has made state
ment in which he speaks of his wife's
character as pure aud spOtlesS, and that
his crime Was committed unconscious
ly, in a moment of despair and frenzy,
Caused by the treachery OF h,r rela-
tives. He asserts that the murder was
contrary to his nature, his desire, in =
terest aud peace of mind.
England publishes lengthy defense
of It's position toward the Ameer, the
subs auce of the statement being that
the Ameer had received Russian en-
hasSy and refused to receive one from !
end that it is in the highest |
degree important to England that the |
Czai should not have privileges there
which ire not accorded to England.
Mrs CAtharine Stull, uho was sus-
pected of the murder OF the Widow |
Best at Port Washington, week before !
last, has confessed her crime, and Is
now in jlil at New Philadelphia. She
suspected her husband Of Ofcriminal rela-
ions vii h the widow, and sending her
/ dccoy letter, met her at haystsck,
whore she beat her to death with
club. Mrs. Stull is the mother of sew
en- children, one of whom three months
old, she has in jail with her..
General H. V. Boynton, the Cincin'
nati Gazette's Washington correspon'