Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-19

W. Click as pension agent of Topeka, Kansas.
G. W. Smith Son, agricultural implement
dealers at Fostoria, have failed. Liabilities
$4,000; assets nominal.
Governor Hcadly is to resume the practice
of law upon quitting the governors chair at
Columbus, on January II.
William Mcbride, while attempting to escape
from the Jacksonville (Ind.) penitentiary, by
climbing down the lightning rod. iell and was
fatally injured.
Rev. III. Hill aged so, one of the Oldest
ministers of Methodist Episcopal church in
Ohio, died suddenly at his home, in Lebanon,
Ohio, Wednesday night.
Charles B. Baker, single, % years of age, of
Newburyport, Mass, has fallen heir to ST.
Ann Thurburn, of London.
Tive negroes-Henry L. KelboOth and VIM.
Johnson-were arrested in Boston, having in
possession $4,000 worth of diamonds, which
were stolen from the jewelry store of Alexander
Newburg, in New York.
The 200th anniversary of the introduction of
the art of printing into the colonies of North
America will be held December IL and II at
Philadelphia, under the auspices of the Histor-
ical Society of Pennsylvania.
In Avon township, Lorain county, Ohio,
Wednesday night, William Kinks shot Ford
Burrell, with probably fatal effect. They were
enemies and met on the highway. Kinks has
fed.
A false report gained currency in New
York that Ferdinad Ward had committed sui
eide in his cell at Sing Sing. As Ferd had not
laid up his treasurers above, he did not start
in that direction.
At Ottawa, Ont, eight Young men, hitherto
deemed respectable, were ON Wednesday found
guilty of sssaulting woman, and were all SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life. The scene in
court. while the sentences were being pro-
nounced, was agonizing.
The Indian names of Boston were recently
described by Professor Horsford. They are:
Accomonticus, meaning Beyond -the-hill little
cove;' Mssatsoose (Massachusetts), Great
kill mouth MOshanwamuk, Canoe place. and
Shawmut, Near the neck
A suit for libel brought by Louis c. Wilson,
of Fredericksburg, Va, against James Gordon
Bennett Of the New York Herald, for $50, 900,
was yesterday terminated suddenly in the su-
prene court by Benefits counsel offering to
settle at once, and it was so done.
A cablegrsm from Corunna states that DR..
keea, Syria, mission of the Reformed Presby
terian church, was one of the passengers lost
on the steamer Sidon, which was wrecked on
the coast of Spain on October 81 last.
NJ Bartholdi, the sculptor, took with him
from New York two models for the proposed
monument to Lafayette, to be erected in Wash
ington. They will be placed in the Office of
Secretary of War for the inspection of the
members of the monument commission.
Judge Killam, of Sycamore, ILL.,, refuses to
accept James Young's plea of guilty as the
murderer of Hiram P. Allen-a crime for
which another man was sent to prison. The
Judge holds that the plea is so remarkable that
a jury to inquire into Young's sanity is neces-
sary.
Under the smoke house, on the premises of
John Haines, in Lincoln, ILL.,, the skeletons of
three human bodies have been unearthed,
Haines, who used to be a terror in his neigh
hood, is believed to have amused himself as
old man Bender did in Kansas. by killing men
whenever the fancy struck him.
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has issued an anti
pleur-pneumOnia proclamation, and parties in
tending to ship cattle to Indiana from the
state of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and the D strict
of Columbia must make the customary afidayits.
While excavating for building in the 18th
ward of Brooklyn, the workmen unearthed l8
human skulls within small area, and only IA
inches from the surface. There is considerable
excitement thereabout, as nobody can explain
the mystery. The owner of the property has
! been in possession Is years, and he says it has
never yet been built upon.
Judge David Martin has rendered decision
in the whisky injunction cases recently brought
before him by Attorney General Bradford
against five prominent saloons of Atchison,
Kansas, under the nuisance clause of the pro-
hibitory act. The opinion exhausts every point
raised in the argument of the attorneys, and
sustained the validity of the prehibitory law in
every particular.
The following are the first definite. details OF
Senator Stanford's scheme for the establish
\ ment in California of great university, which
were made public to-day. His ranch at Palo
Alto, near Aenlo Park, about thirty miles
from San Francisco, has been selected as the
site. He will donate to the university his Polo
Alto, Grindley and Vina properties, worth
S., 100000. To this he will add money dona-
ton so as to make the total endowment of
the university $4,000 900.
| The death of the noted and cruel Cheyenne
Indian chief, Stone Calf, is announced. He
died at his camp of spinal meningitis. Stone
Calf was widely known and influential with the
tribe of which he was principal chief. He was
the leader in the troubles of last spring, always
lived in remote parts of the reservation, and
never obeyed the law when he could help it
He was terror to the cattlemen, and previous
to the annulling of the leases regularly raided
private ranches. He led in the outbreak of IA