Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-04
NEWS NOTES.

THE condition of Justice Matthews is
not serious.
GOVERNOR FORAKER will begin his
canvass in Indiana October II.
AN old keg, containing S2,700 in gold,
was unearthed near Franklin, Ky.
WORK on the new bridge to span the
Mississippi at Memphis will shortly COM
mence.
SEVENTY-FIvE new cases and six
deaths from yellow fever were reported
at Jacksonville Sunday.
A PACKAGE containing $500 was
stolen from the National Bank of the
Republic, at New York.
THE rumor that the illness of Samuel
J. Randall has affected his mind is pro-
nounced false by Mr.. Randall's daughter.
FRANK HURD, the rampant free
trader, wants to stump Ohio and Indiana,
and Chairman Brice is afraid to let him
do so.
OLIVER SCALF was sentenced at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, to five years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for marrying
his sister.
THE wreckage of two colliding freight
trains at Waterloo, Ind, caught fire
Wednesday Snd car load of live hogs
was burned.
A CINCINNATI restaurant-keepe who
nailed a large turtle to the sidewalk to
prevent it from crawling away, was ar
rested for cruelty to animals.
Hon. GEORGE /. CONVERSE says that
he is still Democrat. He declares that
''the Democratic ship has been run upon
sand bar by ignorant pilots"
Two saloon-keepers at elbow Springs,
O., were each find $50 and costs and Civ
en- ten days in the Work house for sell
ing liquor to habitual drunkard.
Rev. W. P. Ross, former pastor of
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, of Washington, Pa, was one of
the recent yellow fever victims in Jack
sOnyille.
IT is charged that the President and
Secretary of War are directly responsible
for the unsatisfactory work done on the
War Records, and the objectionable de-
lay in their publication.
NEAR London, o., Posey Quinn, aged
eight years, was left alone with his sis
ter Fannie, aged three. He quarreled
with her, and, getting his-older brothers
gun, shot and instantly killed her.
A 4-YEAR-OLD child of George Gregg,
of near BrOokville, Pa, was burned to
death on Friday. The little one pulled
lamp over upon it, and death ensued
before the flames could be extinguished.
W. d. ROBINSON, of Indianapolis,
founder of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, says that the reported
opposition of railroad men to the election
of General Harrison is "baldheaded
lie"
ALLAN WHITEACRE, nineteen years
old, who has been acting as an assistant
book keeper in the Hutchinson National
Bank, Hutchinson, Kan, is held in $6,-
900 bail on the charge of the embezzle-
ment of about $4,000.
THE administrators of the estate of
late Amos j. Smell, murdered by a burg
lar, alleged to be William b. Tascott, of
fer an additional reward of $1,000 for
the recovery of the papers and documents
taken from the Smell residence.
Two Cincinnati letter carriers are
charged with wrapping copies of Dem
ocratic campaign document known as
the TAX Reform Advocate" in a room
used by the Ohio Club, a Democratic
organization. The papers are taken to
the post-oflice and mailed.
COLONEL a. c. THOMPSON, of Ohio, a
member of the Committee on Invalid
Pensions of the National House, in =
speech printed in the Record of the 25th
inst, fixes the full responsibility for the
failure of pension legislation during, the
present session upon the Democrats of
the House.