Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-12-22
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Lynch, aged 101 years, died al
Louisville.
War is being made on the gambling
houses in New York City.
| Ex-Attorney General John H. Martin.
dale, of New York, died in France.
VIM. Patterson, of Brazil, Ind, acci-
dentally shot and killed his five-year
old son.
AT Pecos Village, n. NJ, Julius Sando-
val was mOrtally wounded by Hughes
Baron.
Governor Shepherd has been danger
ously bitten in the leg by tarantula in
Mexico.
Samuel A. Green, Republican, was
elected Mayor Of Boston by about 500
majority.
The State of Iowa has nearly COM
pleted its new Capitol at cost of
81, 100000.
Prisoners made an attempt to escape
from the Bellefontaine, O., jail Thurs
day night.
VIM. Milan, residing near Peint Pleas
ant, West Virginia, committed suicide
by hanging.
A colored man named Woods was
murdered and robbed in Jackson coun-
ty, Alabama.
Frank Russell. residing near Zanes-
vile, o., accidentally shot himself in
the forehead.
Ex-Sheriff Sankey, of Decatur county,
Iowa. has been paid $1,000 for killing
the Mercer brothers.
John Deitz and John Turner were
killed by gas explosion in the Prospect
Mines, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Mr.. Longfellow is rapidly recovering
from his recent illness, and in spite of
his years is taking long walks.
Counterfeit five and ten dollar gold
pieces, bearing date Of 1880, are reported
to be plentiful in San Frrncisco.
In the Hudson murder trial at Xenia,
Ohio, the prisoner entered plea of gull
ty to the charge Of manslaughter.
The Knox county Bar held meeting
at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and passed resolu-
tions on the death of Gen. Banning.
A young man named Jessie Jenkins
committed suicide at Dayton, O., by |
shooting himself through the heart.
A brakeman named johnson was
killed by the cars at New Paris, Ohio,
and Thomas Scanlon at Warren, Ohio.
A loss of $4,000 worth of oil occurred
at Chicago by tank belonging to the
Standard Oil Company springing leak.
Hon. Eugene Caufeld, of Aurora, Il
llnois, will probably be appointed Sur
veyor General of Washington Territory.
In Carolina county, Virginia, VIM.
Wright chopped down tree which fell
on his young wife and crushed her to
death.
France has had thirteen Prsmisrs
since the fall of the empire in 1S70-or
an average Of one for every eleven
III
The island af Scio still suffers from
frequent earthquake shocks, and the
gardens and vineyards have been terri
bly, devastated.
A caucus of the Virginia Readjuster
of the General Assembly nom.
mated H. A. Riddleberger for United
States Senator.
Mrs. Belle Karnes was run over and I
Iilled by train at Latrobe, Pa. She
md her husband were just starting out
IN their wedding tour. b
The Directors of the Western Union Z!
Telegraph Company have declared a 5
dividend of l & per cent for tie quarter B
nding December 31st.
Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-five
'oys who have been rendered permanent
ripples by attempting to jump on rail-
Dad trains while in motion.
A Michigan boy of ten years has al
eady shed three sets of teeth and is now
rowing his fourth. His possible capaci-
y in the future is startling to think of.
There are $4,000 vagrant children liy.
ng among the gypsies, says Mr.. George
mith, an English authority, and they
re not, as majority, of Romany orr
in.-
When Mrs. Flood and her daughter
,aveled from New York to San Fran
SEQ, last week in special car, the use
the car across the continent cost
|, 400.