Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-29
NEWS NOTES.


Mrs. HELENA NASH, of Springfield,
O., became insane on the subject of re-
ligion.
A TRAMP attempted to burn the build
ing occupied by the Age-Herald at
Birmingham, Ala.
JOSEPH SCHMIDT and Frank Spellman,
timers, fell from 3-story building at
Omaha, and sustained fatal injuries.
JAKE and Joe Tobler (colored), broth
ers, were hanged at Wichita, Kas., for
the murder of two men in Aug, 1885.
ISAAC KEENAN,, colored, convicted of
the murder of John Heilley for 81 ~ at
Baltimore, has been sentenced to death.
Jos. II. RAKEsTRAIR, a contractor,
fell from the second story Of building
at Columbus, O., and was fatally In
jured.
GEO. FoBEL, member of the Board of
Trade of Chicago, committed suicide.
He lost $4,000 in the September wheat
corner.
JAMES NJ. DOUGHERTY, who went
crazy about Mary Anderson, the actress,
has been taken to the asylum on Wards
Island.
HENRY PRoTzMAN and family, in
charge of the Bee-Line station at Hart
well, o., were chloroformed and robbed
of $500.
HIRAM CLENDENNIN, who shot John
Massie, near Charleston, W. Va, year
ago, was arrested at Saxon, o., on the
Doth inst.
HIS. WENNER has sued the city of
Tifin, O., for $1,000 damages, for inju-
ries received from fall on a defective
sidewalk.
THREE children, locked in the house
while their parents attended a church
festival, were burned to death, near
Warsaw, Ala.
FRANK CAPEL, the iend who murder
ed and mutilated Minnie Odell, at Pur-
cell, 1. T., last week, was captured after
desperate fight.
SAMUEL HUDG1Ns, a merchant of
Poquoson, York county, Pa, was muir
dered while returning from Yorktown,
and his pockets rifed.
PRESIDENT ELECT Harrison has ten
dered Elijah W. Halford, managing ed
itor of the Indianapolis Journal, the po-
sition of Private Secretary.
ROBERT HELLESLEY committed sui
eide in Todd county, Kentucky. He bet
his farm and home on Cleveland's cleo
tion, and the loss upset his mind.
w. W. DRUNMoND, once Supreme
Judge of Utah, dropped dead in Chi
cago groggery. For several years he
had been drunken pauper. A woman
dragged him down.
JOHNS HOPKINS University of Balti-
more is said to be seriously embarrassed
by the diScOntinuance of its income OF
$150,000 annually from its Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad stock.
THE parents of the woman who killed
Harry King at Omaha, Neb., on Satur-
day, live in Cleveland. Their names
are VIM. and Mary Beechler. They came
from England ten years ago.
THE election of the Democratic can
didates for Congress in the Second,
Third and Seventh districts of MisSissip-
pi, will be contested, on the ground of
"bulldozing and intimidation"
THE Mexican Cabinet Ministers have
handed in their designations, to take eff
feet December l, that President Diaz
may have full liberty to appoint a
a new Cabinet for the new term.
Two DAsHING female horse-thieveS,
one claiming to be the daughter of
Philadelphia minister, and the other of a
Boston wholesale clothier, escaped from
Jail at Hutchinson, Kas., through out
side connivance.
A CLERK in the City National Bank,
at Springfield, Mass, was detected in
plot to rob the bank of $4,000. He
made a confdant of man whom he
supposed to be "crook," but who
turned out to be detective.
A CIVIL action against the White
Caps that have caused so much trouble in
the southern part of Indiana, has been
brought at Bloomington by VIM. Nor
man. He wants $4,000 damages for
injuries sustained at their hands.
GEN. MCCooK, of Fort Leavenworth,
proposes a scheme for the improvement
of the Missouri River at the Fort by
cut across the bend, and the consequent
salvage of thousands of acres of bottom
land lying opposite Leavenworth.
E. S. LUCAS, Grand Army veteran,
committed suicide at his home in Chica-
go. He shot himself in the head, sever
ed the arteries at his wrists with arazor,
cut his throat and slashed his temple.