Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-02-12
NEWS ITEMS.

The remains of Miss Dolly Hartman,
of Allegheny City, Pa, were placed in
the lie Moyne furnace Saturday, and
were successfully cremated.
Clark Nelson, an old GAINESVILLE SOL
dier, died at the Soldiers, Home, Dayton,
Saturday. The remains were taken to
his old home for interment.
The Chicago Veteran Union Club
unanimously denounced the Weaver bill,
giving as reason that it threatens the
business interest of the country.
Samuel Newberry, of Pomeroy, has
been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
fifteen years for brutal assault upon
his stepdaughter, aged eight years.
John o. Clark, an old resident of Gin
cinuati, died on Saturday, aged eighty
five years. He went to Cincinnati in
1919, and has resided there ever since.
Mayor Kallock, of San Francisco, in a
speech at Sand Lots, Sunday. said that
portion of the city known as Chinatown,
would soon be legally declared anuisance.
The Iowa House of Representatives,
Saturday, by a vote of 81 to 81, adopted
a resolution for constitutional amend
ment making women eligible to the
Legislature.
The Georgia Supreme Court has refu-
sed a new trial to Cox, sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life, for the murder OF
Col. Alston. The case is to be carried
to the United United States.
Cashier Captain Ashley Brown, of the
Internal Revenue office of the Third
District, at Dayton, is defaulter for at
least $4,000. The Captain grabbed 81
700, and then made his escape.
Hugh NJ johnson, of Muskingum
county, was arrested on a charge of
horse stealing, Saturday night. He was
recently discharged from Jail under
promise to leave the state at once.
John T. Lennox, prominent stock
dealer and shipper, committed suicide at
his residence in Union county, Saturday,
by taking poison. Unfortunate specu-
lations is thought to have been the cause.
Kenneth Albro, Texan cattle dealer,
was robbed in New York last week of
a satchel containing S125,O0O in regis
tered bonds. The robbers subsequently
offered to return the Satchel for S25,000.
1t is reported that Senator Clingman,
of North Carolina, has in course of pre-
paration letter in which he will coun-
sci the dissolution of the Democratic
party OH the same ground that O'ConOr
does.
After a full settlement of accounts
the Commissioners of the Cincinnati In
durtrial Exhibition of 1879 found they
had surplus of $4,000 OH hand, $15,-
900 of which was turned over to their
successor.
John Rice, who WAS with Commodore
Perry at the battle of Lake Erie, died at
Shelby on Sunday, aged ninely years.
Mr.. Rice is the last pensioner ON the
rolls known to have been with Perry at
his victory.
Five persons, all of them convicted of
petty offenses were publicly whipped in
the Jail yard at New Castle, Del, Satur-
day forenoon, in the presence of about
200 spectators. Two of them were white
and the rest were negroes.
Julius Radke was arrested at Dayton,
o., Friday, charged with the death of
his child, an infant of four months. He
came home under the Influence of IL
quor, and seiZing the child, dashed it to
the floor and kicked it across the room,
crushing its skull.
The House Committee on Pensions
has agreed to construe the Pension Act
of 1878 so as include in its provisions
soldiers and sailors i'll the war of 1912
who served fourteen days, either before
the declaration of war or after the
treaty of peace with Great Britain.
Amos II. Inskeep, the murderer, who
escaped from the Union county, (Ohio).
Jail last December, was captured in LO-
gan county, Saturday, and is now lodged
in Jail at Bellefontaine. He is charged
with killing Deputy-Sheriff Rockwell, of
Logan county, more than a year ago.
From the report of Gen. Sherman on
the condition of the army it is shown
that, in an emergency, there would be
available along the Atlantic Coast a
force of artillerymen smaller than the
police force of New York City, and that
the army1of fifty thousand men could
not be Immediately and uniformly provi-
ded with ammunition.
The Cincinnati District Court Satur-
day decided the ordinance recently pass
ed, giving the Mayor power to Incense
shows, invalid, on application of Snelba-
ker for mandamus to compel the May
or to issue license to him. The man
damus, however, was refused. This de-
stroys the recent action of the city gov
ernment against indecent shows.
At Athens, on Friday, it was discov-
cred that two prisoners in the Jail at
that place, had succeeded in breaking
off an iron leg of a cell bedstead, and
with the iron leg and an iron poker had
intended to attack Sheriff Warren while
calling his attention to the water appa-
ratus in the back part of the Jail. A
third prisoner gave away the plan.
A notorious and dangerous counter
er has been arrested near Jackson, Miss,
by Government detectives. For forty
years he has been counterfeiting bank
bills and Government money. He is
reported to have operated extensively
in Confederate money until the genuine
became of no value, when he turned his
attention TO greenbacks. There is much
rejoicing in Government circles that he
is finally bagged.
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt has become
dissatisfied with the settlement of the |
81 .OOO,Ou0 suit with his brother, VIM. II. |
Vanderbilt, and, having paid out most
of what he received in payment of old
debts, he petitioned Judge Donohue to
allow the stock, in which 100000 is in
vested, and of which he only receives
the interest, to be sold and half of the
amount paid him. He wants capital to
go into business with. The application
was, however, refused.
Late Friday evening the First NJ
tional Bank of Knoxville, five miles from
Galesburg, ILL.,, was robbed of $4,000. Mr.
C. Runkell, President of the bank, sleeps
in the buildinp The burglars threaten