Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-20
NEWS NOTES.


& new fast mail service has been put
on between Chicago and st. Paul.
The Philadelphia Women's Medical
College graduated twenty-one students
Washington Territory wants to be a
State after the next President is inaug.
urated
The Iowa Senate voted favorably on a
constitutional amendment giving women
suffrage.
John Boyle, city treasurer of Erie, Pa,
is missing, with deficit of $4,000 in his
accounts.
Salyationists are being heavily fined
at Bridgeport, Connecticut, for paradiDg
the streets.
The Massachusetts House, 144 to so,
defeated the bill granting municipal
suffrage to women.
Herculean efforts are being made in
Kansas to check the spread of the foot
and mouth disease.
Franklin, n H., after being under
Democratic rule nine years, has thrown
off the yoke by large majority.
Helen King Spangler, author Of the
novel, "The Physicians Wife was found
dead at her residence in Coshocton.
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives passed a bill providing the
punishment of HOgging for all wife
beaters.
DR.. Mary Walker blacked a negros
eye in the Capitol building at Washing
ton for putting on her silk hat, one day
last week.
Lieutenant DaDenhower of the Jean
nette expedition, was married in New
York, to Helen Latin Stone. They will
reside in Washington.
VIM. A Cook, before Mr.. Springer's
committee at Washington. told of threat
ening letters received by MacVeagh be-
fore Garfield was shot.
A majority of the saloon keepers and
liquor dealers of Toledo are reported 20
be in favor of the Scott Law as against
the proposed graded tax.
Alabama was visited by tornado on
"Wednesday night of last week. Several
persons were killed and injured, and
much property swept away.
Five hundred stock men attended a
meeting at NeO no Falls, K .nsds, 20
consider measures for the suppression of
the foot and mouth disease.
The monotony of voting at Elizabeth,
n j., was broken 10y all the Republican
tickets being stolen. it being a late hour
before others were available.
Governor Hoadly has designated Fri
day, April Is. As Arbor Day, ani recon-
mends that the people devote tie day
to the planting of forest Trees.
At Columbus, o., IgDatius Harper shot
and killed Charles Howard, Thursday.
in an alteration about the formers i'll
timacy with the laJter's nife.- BJtn
cOlored.
In the Hill Sharon case at San Fran
cisco, the plaintiff testified i'll her OVID
behalf, her testimony. If true. slowing
the Senator's morals TO have been al very
low ebb.
Robert Small, colored. has been nom
mated to succeed the late Congressman
Mackey, of the Seventh South Cgrolina
District. The nomination is equivalent
to an election.
Several new cases of foot and mouth
disease have developed in Kansas. The
disease is also reported i'll Illinois, but it
is not thought the same. The Governor
of Illinois will order quarantine against
Kansas cattle.
James Riley, telegraph messenger,
was found on the street in New York
last week, a raving maniac. He kept
crying constantly, Il am Butts, the boy
detective" His brain was turned hy the
boy novels.
The snowfall in the mountain districts
of Colorado during the present winter
are without parallel in the history of the
State. Many mining camps in the west
and south have been snow bound since
November. The San Juan country. is
the greatest sufferer. Durango, Silver
ton and Rico, containing one to five
thousand iRhabitants,are still blockaded,
no trains having reached either town
for several weeks. Breckenridge, fifty
miles north of Leadvilie, is nearly desti-
tute, and Montezuma, ten miles distant,
is in pitiable condition. Gunnison,
situated few miles from the largest
coal mines in the State, is suffering from
a coal famine. The snow is eight feet
on the level over the whole country, and
In the ravines and gulches, fifty to one
hundred feet. The only means of COM
munication is on snow shoes, and few
men are heroic enough to brave the bitter
storms. When the spring ihaws move |
these mountain SHOWS fearful results |
must follow.