Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-01-10
NEWS BRIEFS.

The remains of Delong. and his COM
panions will reach New York about Feb
ruary l.
A gas well at Attica, n. Y, put down
600 feet, struck flow sufficient to light
and heat the village.
The saloon keepers at Atchison, Kan
'sas, ,,have at last yielded to the prohlol-
tory law and closed their doors.
Thomas L. Kane, who was colonel of
the famous blacktail regiment of Penn
sylvania volunteers. died of pneumonia
at Philadelphia last week.
Under the habitual criminals act a
, Chicago burglar named Michael Hurley
has been sentenced to twenty years In
the penitentiary.
The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia,
who has been in confinement in Turkes-
tan, tried to escape TO India on horse
back, bnt was overtakeD.
The explosion of lamp in store at
Fargo, ID. T., fired row of wooden
buildings in Front street, causing a loss
of $4,000.
The Dupont powder mills at Whining
ton, Del, narrowly escaped destruction
from fire on the opposite side of the
river, which caused loss of $4,000.
McHugb. of Cincinnati. has been found
guilty for the third time of numbering
his wife. The jury was out twenty-five
hours.
A desperate named Williams. in jail
at OLlum " ii, Iowa, shot the turnkey dead
and escaped. How be obtained his pis-
tol is not known.
The New York and New England
Railroad had six weeks ago available
assets amounting to 100000. Last week
it was in the hands of a Receiver.
Judge Krekel, of the L. 5. court. has
held mat Frank James should be re
mauded Iu the State tribunal first obtain
ing custody of him. This leaves him out
on bail.
Ohiectien was raised in the Maryland
Legislature To Rev. Mr.. HUdgsDn taking
his seat as member. on The ground
that he Was ineligible by being a Minis
ter of the Gospel.
The Secretary of the American Iron
and Steel Association says. IN his annual
review of the years trade, that the
shrinkage in prices mas bee very seri-
ous-much mUre serious than is gener-
ally supposed.
The Sullivan Slade combination of
pugilists, while drunk in Denver, got in
a free light with local celebrities. A
policeman interfered and was done up.
Other officers went TO his rescue, and the
entire party were jailed.
The leaders of the Ohio Democracy
have devised plan for wiping out the
Scott Law without giving offense to the
temperance people. they will substitute
for it law grading the tax from $50 to
$500.
Governor Knott, in his message to the
Kentucky Legislature, Indignantly de-
MES that human life is held in slight re-
gard in that State. He says the general
belief that murders or unprOvoked as
saults are more frequent in Kentucky
than elsewhere is utterly untrue, as can
be shown by criminal statistics. He is
induced to make this statement because
the fashionable falsehood regarding the
frequency of murder in Kentucky pre-
vents strangers settling in the State.
A suburban train on the Grand Trunk
Railroad collided with freigh that was
running without orders on Wednesday,
near Montreal. A coach filled with the
employees of the Boland Iron Works was
telescoped. Nineteen of its passengers
were killed, aud seven more have since
died. A number of others are thought
to be fatally injured. The car took fire
and some of the poor fellows were roast
ed alive. The conductor of the freight
who is responsible for the accident has
been arrested. On the Illinois Central
road a sleeper ard two coaches went
down a fifteen-foot erBbankment near
Barnum. One passenger was killed and
several injured.