Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE DDrer Del) Sentinel of the 18th
prints advices as to the peach and berry
crops from points all over Delaware and
several localities in Maryland. Summar-
lied they indicate fair crop of peaches
and an unusually good yield of strawber-
ries. better average quality than usual.
\ MINERS strike is probable in the Bra
I'll Ind district.
\ TEN years old boy is accused of mail
robbery at BelOit Wis.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locuStS have appear
ed in Highland County, o.
AN eleven-vear old boy was drowned at
Wellsburg, W. Va. on Saturday.
THREE men were killed in a street fight
at Forest City, Ark, on Saturday.
NEW YORK's first execution by electric
ity has been set for next month.
THE Lackawana Valley, Pa, was visit
ed by a tOrnodO on Monday afternoon.
PATRICK EGAN, Minister to Chill. was
given reception at Chicago on Friday.
IT is said that Justice Miller will retire
from the Supreme Bench at no distant
day.
AT Tifffn. O.. on Friday, Esther Bly, was
seriously injured by natural gas explo-
sion.
GENERAL SICKLEs will deliver an adj
dress on Memorial Day at fremont TEN
pie, Boston.
\ MINING suit, involving property val
ued at S40OO0,OOO, has been begun at Los
Angeles, Cal.
EVERY saloon and brewery at Fort
Wayne. Ind, was closed Sunday, the first
time for years.
GEORGE DUNCAN, a wealthy farmer of
Pickaway County, o., mySteriOuSly diSap-
peared last Friday.
FANNY DAVENPORT. the actress. and
Melbourne Mcdowell were married at
New Y York on the 18th inst.
a PECULIAR disease, resembling mala-
rial fever, is prevalent among horses in
the vicinity of Indianapolis.
THREE persons were fatally and one Sc
riously burned by gasoline explosion at
Cleveland, o., on the 18th inst.
A FOG on Sunday caused several acci-
dents to shipping off New York, in one
of which two pilots were lost.
THE funeral services of the late Allen
ThOrndyke Rice, Minister to Russia, were
held at New York on saturday.
JOHN R. LYNCH, a cOlored ex-member
of Congress from Mississippi has been
appointed Fourth Auditor of the Treas
uFy.
REPRESENTATIVES, of glass factories in
New Y Ork and Pennsylvania are cOnsid-
ering the matter of forming combina-
ton.
THE President on Friday commission
ed Amor Smith, JF., to be Surveyor, and
d. W. McClung to be Collector, at Cincin-
natl.
ADOLPH HAAS, a Democratic letter
carrier at Cleveland, o., was arrested on
Saturday for rObbing the mails. He con-
feSSed.
STEVE BRoDIE, the high leaper, jump
ed over PaSSaic Falls. New York, Mon
day-the scene of Sam Patchs fatal leap
and still lives.
SEA lions are so plentiful on the coast
y
especially to fishermen, while their bark
ing aggraYates the farmers for two miles
inland.
BOYD NJ. MILLER, who sued the New
York, Lake Erie and Western railroad
company for injuries sustained while en-
ployed by the company as an engineer,
got a verdict on Saturday, at Mansfield,
O., for $1,000.
SYBIL SANDERsON, an American girl,
whom Jules Massenet prophetically styled
another Nilsson some time ago. achiev-
ed a brilliant success in Paris on Wednes-
day night, according to cable specials
The new diva is daughter of the Late
Judge Sanderson, of the California Su-
preme Court.
AN earthquake occurred in Central Cal
ifornia about 3.l5 Sunday morning. At
some points, especially in the San Joaquin
Valley, the shocks were quite severe, and
in few cases the tops of chimneys were
thrown down. The shock was sufficient
ly heavy in San Francisco to awaken the
most of the population.
Mrs ELIZA MCMAsTER DODDS, widow
of the late William B. DoddS. of Cincin-
natl, and mother of the late Hon. OZrO J.
DOdds and Milo G. DOdds, known to many
st. Clairsville people, died at IndianapO-
lis Monday. Mrs. DOdds taught school at
st. ClairSYille in her girlhOOd, and always
maintained a warm feeling for the town,
which was inherited by the sons, both of
whom rendered our people important ser
vice in the cOunty-Seat fights.