Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-12-20
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
THERE will be twenty contests for
seats in the next House of Representa-
tives.
Hon. JAS. SCoTT died at his home.
Lebanon, O., Sunday morning, aged a
years.
.. W. PARTRIDGE, a well known news
paper man, committed suicide at Kan
sas City by taking laudanum.
THE steamer Barksdale, with a cargo
of nearly one thousand bales of cotton,
was burned near Yazoo City, Miss. No
lives lost.
Col. JAS. F. CASEY, General Grants
brother-in-law, was stricken with paral-
ysis at Georgetown, d. c., Saturday
night, and is not expected to live.
EVERY saloon keeper, gambler, and
abandoned woman, as well as several
drugstore proprietors, at Elkhart, Ind,
have been arrested for violation of the
law.
a MAGAZINE, near Bradford, Pa, con-
tanning eight hundred pounds of dyna-
mite, blew up Sunday morning. The
shock was felt twenty miles away. No
body hurt.
ALL the Ottawa lumbermen oppose
the increase in the duty on American
pork asked for by the Canadian packers.
They import twenty thousand barrels
from Chicago annually.
a COMMITTEE of prominent manufac-
turers of Birmingham, Ala, visited and
presented to General Harrison an ad-
dress congratulating him on the success
of protective tariff principles.
AT Birmingham, Ala, the inquest on
the remains of little Irene Hawes re-
suited in a verdict finding her father, R.
R. Hawes, guilty of her murder. He is
now charged with killing his wife and
two children.
Two masked men intimidated the en-
gineer and fireman of an Illinois Central
train, and when the train stopped robbed
the express car of $4,000. In an ex-
change of shots with passengers and
trainmen, Charles Hughes, OF Jackson,
Tenn, was killed.
A MOVEMENT is on foot at Columbus,
o., for the establishment of an asylum
for inebriates.
THIRTY-FIvE divorce cases-six of
which were trien-were disposed of in
one hour by a Chicago Judge.
THE Presidential Electors for the
State of Illinois will call on General
Harrison about the middle of January.
JOHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, on Mon
day reached his eighty-frst birthday.
Mr. Whittier is in fairly good health,
but rarely goes out.
IT is believed at Washington that the
calling of an extra session will depend
largely upon the appropriations made by
the present Congress.
OUT of ninety-nine indictments by
the U. S. grand jury for Northern Iowa,
seventy-four are for selling liquor with
out Government licenses.
THE Clay County Ond.) miners have
indorsed the action of the Columbus,
(O.) convention in recommending one
National Order for the miners of the
United States.
JASPER, ARK, is greatly excited over
the sudden death of the Rev. Frank Al
ford, Methodist minister, and his two
children, aged ten and sixteen years.
The symptoms are thofe of poison.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY SELLERS, of In
diana, says that his resignation had no
connection whatsoever with the proceed
ings against Colonel Dudley. He is
said to have been dissatisfied with his
office.
CHIEF, Forepaugh's big elephant, hav-
ing become unmanageable, was stran-
gled to death by a rope being placed
around his neck and drawn tight by two
at each end. He was
dead in twenty seconds.
In Lamar county, Ala, Friday night, |
a crowd of masked men took Mrs. Jane |
j Johnson, widow, from her house, and |
thirty-nine lashes on her
bare back, and then warned her to leave
the county within five days.
Gov. FORAKER declares that the |
White Caps have been effectually sup
pressed, the result of some fine detective |
work in obtaining the names of men,
bers of the organization, with whom
private communication has since been
had.
THE U. S. Secret Service officers at st.
Paul, are on the track of a gigantic OPT
um smuggling conspiracy. They nave
learned that an organized and well
equipped band of smugglers has for
years been operating across the North
western border.
In an address delivered before the
Aid and Southern Educa-
tional Society at Columbus, o., Rev. DR..
F. F. Spencer, President of Grant Me-
mortal University, Athens, Tenn, said
that there are nineteen million children
of school age in the United States, of
whom nine million could neither read
nor write, and of this number, three
fOurthS were in the Southern States.
EPOCH.
The transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks
an epoch in the life of the individual
Such a remarkable event is treasured in