Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-01-20
NeighbOrhOOd News

Sheriff Read, of Monroe county, is
confined to his bed by a severe attack OF
iniiammatory Rheumatism.
Joshua Dorse, .an oil citizen of Wells
burgh. who WIS Il soldier UI the war of
1912, died on Wednesday morning of
last week.
John Lowery was arrested and Jailed
at Woodsfield last week, for stealing a
horse from Andrew Henthorn, of Mon
roe county.
A young son of Mr.. Walling, of Bell
aire, had two fingers cut OF by fOoling
with a window which was prUpped up
with a knife.
The LaBelle Glass Works, of Bridge
port, reports net profit, during the past
year, of 35 per cent, 10 per cent earned
during the past six months.
In 1879 only about four hundred acres
of ground were planted in tobacco in
Guernsey county. In 1875 there were
1858 acres thus planted, and in 1877,
S95.
( John Coon, a Noble county boy, re-
ceived load of shot by the careless
handling of a gun by his grandfather,
John December. The first named John
will recover.
The safe in the depot at the East Liv-
erpool was blown open Friday highland
some eighty dollars in money, belonging
to the railroad and Western Union Tel
egraph companies was taken.
The coal miners of the block coal re-
gion, near Youngstown, are getting
ready to strike for higher wages as soon
as navigation opens. A secret meeting
with this in view was held last Friday
On New Year morning large gang of
students in Berlin mObbed two Jewish
restaurants and smashed everything
breakable Their action was certainly
in Jew disheS.-HackenSack ChrytaliZa-
ton.
The three-year old child OF James Nc
Bride, residing near Fulday, Noble
county, was 50 horribly burned by its
clothing taking fire while playing near
the fire place that it died i'll few
hours.
Orange Patton has struck a vein of
oil below Macksburg, Noble county, that
promises to be the best oil well ever
struck in the vicinity. 1t has been flow
ing oil for the last ten days at the rate
of 80 barrels, at least, per day.
At Wellsville, Ohio, on Monday last,
Luther Bolts was chopping wood, when
his little boy came running up with a
hand Sled to haul away the wood, and
getting i'll the way of the AK, it struck
him ON the neck, nearly Severing his |
head from his body.
Robert Fleming, of near Cambridge,
fell into the fire Thursday, and it is fear
ed was fatally burned. Mr. Fleming, |
alone, and being subject to fits, it is |
supposed that the accident happened |
while laboring in one of these.
Recently Miss Lena Huffman dropped
dead in church at Palermo, four miles
north of BowerstOn, and on the night |
of her burial the body-SnatcherS reSur-
rected her. The case was put into the |
hands of S. r. Webb, a detective at
Uhrichsville, who succeeded in recover
ing the body near Leesville, two miles
north of Bowerstown.
Miss Mary Hogg, daughter OF VIM.
Hogg, formerly of Cadiz, but more re-
Gently of Bloomington, ILL.,, killed her.
self few days ago, by jumping into a
well, at the residence of her sister, Ella,
(Mrs. Nichols,) near Can thage, Mo. She
had been at party of young folks du-
ring the evening, and nothing unusual |
had been noticed in her manner.
On New Years night, in store in
New Lisbon, a young man by the name
of McCord, was struck on the head by a |
comrade named Starr, with weight |
McCord died last Friday from the effects |
of the blow, and the authorities made |
search for the Starr, but he had taken |
flight toward the setting sun, and will |
be brought back, if possible, and tried |
for the crime of murder.
A young man named Frank Greer |
met with very severe accident at Mar
tins Ferry Thursday evening He is in
the employ of A. d. Newland at that |
place, and While hauling load of coal
down hill, the wagon got to slipping 7
and finally upset, which caused the |
the team to run off. Young Greer was
thrown off the wagon and one of the !
VI haalS Struol him in tho faon bro.Lipn