Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-10-13
Neighberhood News.


| Sixty inmates in the Guernsey county
infrmary.
The Cadiz schools have an enrolment
of 432 pupils.
The grape sugar factory in Wheeling
is rapidly approaching completion.
W. II. Harter, Steubenyille jeweler,
failed Friday afternoon to the tune of
$4,000.
John Mccoy, a livery man of Youngs-
town, died Oh Wednesday night after a
short illness.
a literary society in Bellaire is one of
the excellent organizations of the young
people down there
Maggie Baxter, of Youngstown, was
painfully burnt about the face and arms
by the flame of a candle setting fire to
his clothing.
| A man by the name of Davis had his
fingers caught by the machinery of an
engine belonging to J. E. Spaid, of Hart
ford. Guernsey county, and before it
could be stopped his arm was crushed to
the shoulder.
A panic was caused at the county
AuAA az ANCNaIh ny .LuC
of the grand stand with hundreds of
people on it. Many persons were hurt,
but only five or six severely, among
whom were four women.
People are leaving Martins Ferry to
escape the ravages of that dread dis
ease, the diphtheria. Many people here
remained ont of town till the dis
ease had abated, and then returned only
10 lose one, perhaps more of their chill
dren. There seems to be but little use
in trying to flee from the disease. 9th
er places have it, and even if they had
not, there is more danger when they re-
turn.-Bellaire Ind.
Sophia Boreu, of Youngstown, who
was shot by her father, is suffering in
tensely. Her leg may have to be am
putated. The matter is being investi-
gated, as some parties say the shooting
was intentional
Yesterday, VIM. Dennison, miner at
the Garfield shaft, a few miles from
Youngstown, Ohio, while being raised |
to the mouth of the shaft in bucket |
and when about forty feet from the bot
tom fell, breaking his neck and both
arms.
Twenty casks of ware were sent to the |
Michigan sufferers by the East Liver |
pool pOtteries last week.
The Bridgeport Passenger and Freight
Transportation Company, with a capi-
tai of $4,000 has been Incorporated.
James II. Hunter, one of Well,ville's
most enterprising merchants, dropped |
dead in his house from dropsy, last
week..
In sinking the shaft for coal at the
mouth of Rocky Fork; the Captina Coal
Co, struck vein of oil, which flows
about gallon an hour.
They have struck oil in Guernsey
county. James Booth, a farmer, is sink
ing two oil wells on his farm. In the
first well. oil was found at a depth of
161 feet.
A child was born on a German emf
grant train as it crossed the b & O. bridge
at Bellaire Monday afternoon. Is the
child native of Ohio or West Virginia?
Rev. John Williams, of East Liver
pool was robbed of his gold watch in the
Cleveland depot. His name was engra-
we'd in the watch, which may lead to its
recovery.
i. NJ. Branson, assisted by John R. Da-
Wis, has recently bought and shipped
car loads of the incest clips of
wool of Harrison comfy, amounting
70 161 900 pounds.-CadiZ Sentinel.
The Pennsylvania company proposes Z:
20 lay the track and furnish the rolling
stock of a railroad from Marietta to
Bellaire, if the people will get the road
bed ready. The estimated cost of the
'oad bed is 100000.
VIM. Wirt's wife, of Youngstown, :
committed suicide few days ago by
ranging.
The Steubenville Herald suggests the 4
building of monument at that place to c
he great War Secretary. E. NJ. Stanton. Q
Some thief stole fine 2-year old bay
'elt from Nathaniel Moffet's pasture
ield, about three miles southeast of .
Noodsfield, last week.
One man was killed and another, Geo. /
Rose, seriously injured, in Dewey's mill :
It Wheeling at AN early hour Friday
morning, by the bursting of furnace
ap. :