Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-09-16
THE NEWS.

Three or four thousand people have
left Charleston permanently.
Rev. Thomas Harrison, revivalist, is
i'll, and threatened with paralysis.
Three slight shocks of earthquake
were felt at Summerville, S. c., Thurs
day.
Geronimo's capture has been confirm
ed. Nothing has been received as to his
fresh escape.
Hon. P. C. Louns bury has been nom+
mated for Governor by the Republicans
of Connecticut.
Three cases of lockjaw among boys by
using toy pistols are reported from
Youngstown, Ohio.
A dispatch from TOlona, III, reports a
remarkably severe drouth in that region
of the Sucker State.
In bicycle race at Hartford, Ct, F.
Wood, of England. made mile in :33,
lowering the record.
Geronimo, Natchez and the rest of the
Apache band will be taken as prisoners
to Fort Marion. Florida.
The Republicans of the Thirteenth
Ohio (Columbu5) district, nominated DR.
VIM Shepherd. for Congress.
Frank Hurd, Democrat, and Romeis,
Republican, will again be the nominees
for Congress in the Toledo district.
Kansas comes to the front with an es-
eimated wheat crop of I3,500.O00 BUSH
els, and corn crop of l20,OO00O0 bush>
els.
At least half a million dollars will be
required to shelter the homeless people
of Charleston before the cold weather
sets in.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
has elected Hon. George H. Pendleton,
Z. S. Minister to Germany, life honora-
ry member.
At the Cincinnati NJ. E. Conference,
last week. Bishop Walden announced
6,731 converts in the Cincinnati district
the last year.
Special Envoy Sedgwick has sent
telegram to the New York Post, denying
that he acted Improperly at ball in the
City of Mexico.
Mt Vernon. O., voted against the pass
age of az ordinance prohibiting saloons
from being within the corporation lin
its, by SO majority.
John Enright and his new bride were
found dead in bed at Chicago, where
they had probably lain for two days,
suffocated by coal gas.
Three or four thousand Yaqui Indi
ans attacked Col Torres, with force of
two hundred Mexican soldiers, and kill-
ed nearly all his command.
Returns from the Vermont elections
insure the reelection of Senator Ed
munds. The Republican state ticket is
elected by 1900 to $4,000 majority.
Richard Hoff, son of Chicago pork
packer, employed in the pork killing
room, had his apron caught in revolv-
ing chain and the life beaten out of him.
Much of the destruction in Charleston
is attributed to the bad construction of
the houses. The mortar used in many
buildings is little better than common
mud.
The Ohio State Live Stock Commits
sion will ask the Governor to issue a
proclamation quarantinlng against cattle
from the pleurO-pneumonia districts of
Canada.
The Louisville Prtsbytery is trying the
publishers of the Christian Observer,
who are charged with running the paper
in an INSCRIPTIONS manner in their own
interests.
Notwithstanding the damage reported,
the indications are that with a fair sea
son and a late frost the yield of the
Memphis cotton district will exceed
those of the last three years.
The Secretary of the Ohio State Board
of Health is sending out circulars to
physicians, requesting them to cooper
ate with the Board in all matters per-
tanning to the collection of statistics.
Judge Geddes was nominated for Con
gress by Democrats at New London, o, |
10y acclamation, but declined the nOmin-
alton. DR. Thomas G Bristor, of Rich>
land county, was nominated in his stead. !
OOln L NOlllS, d HOlOIlOuo uCGCCIlNC,
in the employ of the Bohemian oats |
swindlers, was arrested at Tiflin, Ohio. |
on-the charge of blackmailing innocent
holders of notes. One of his victims was
a lady.
Heavy rains drenched the Charleston
sufferers last week. The clergy and |
other prominent citizens are trying to |
persuade people to leave tents and n
gregate in the few safe houses of the |
city, or go to the country.
The Commissioners appointed by the
Ohio Legislature to obtain grounds and |
sites on the battle field of Gettysburg for |
the location and erection thereon of suit |
able memorials and monuments COM
of the deeds of the soldiers
from Ohio who fought on that battle
field, invite proposals to be presented for |
the erection of nineteen separate monu-
ments, at such places on the battle field |
as may be designated by the Commission,