Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-01-03
NEWS BRIEFS.

death and robbed at Clveland, o.
IT is announced that excursionists
will come to the Inauguration from the
British Islands.
OLIVER DITsoN, of Boston, in his will
bequeathed $4,000 as a fund for poor
and needy musicians.
A DANGEROUS ice gorge has formed
in the Missouri river short distance
above Chamberlain, Oak.
CHARLES HOWARD at Findlay, Ohio,
was sentenced to five years in the peni-
tentiary for robbing an old farmer.
SEBASTIAN HOBBS, living near Birds
Eye, Dubois county, Ind, was fatally
shot by White Caps one night last week.
A SILK trust, composed of English,
French, Italian and few American
bankers, is said to be in operation in
New York.
4 PROF. HANCOCK, recently appointed
Commissioner of Common Schools for
Ohio, has entered upon the discharge of
his duties.
HENRY LEASURE, a wealthy farmer Of
Muskingum county, o., charges his wife
with forging his name to about 5000
worth of paper.
E. L. HARPER, bank President. in
the Ohio Penitentiary, has so far recov-
cred his mind that he has been placed
at work again.
In his inaugural address President
elect Harrison will dwell more fully than
his predecessors, since Mr.. Lincoln, upon
questions of policy.
JOHN T. YATES, ex-Justice of the
Peace at Seneca, Kansas, perished in
the snow storm Christmas night on his
way home in a buggy.
Jos. SCHLEMMER, who murdered his
14-year-old wife in Jersey City two years
ago, has been sentenced to the State
Prison for twenty years.
THE "ducking- tub" will be abandoned
in the Ohio Penitentiary after the close
of the present year, and milder form
of punishment substituted.
FRED KoEHLER and G.. Beeler while
cleaning well at Saline, Mich, were
overcome by gases and died before as
sistance could reach them.
Two BUNDLES, containing portions of
mans body, were found in a new
water main at Philadelphia. The mat
ter is undergoing investigation.
GEO. OLIVER, of Hamilton county,
and VIM. Thomas, of Preble county,
serving life sentences for murder in the
Ohio Penitentiary, have been pardoned
by Gov. Foraker.
THE names of Henry Cabot Lodge,
of Massachusetts; John NJ. Farquhar,
of New York, and Thomas NJ Bayne,
of Pennsylvania, are mentioned in con-
nectiOn with the Speakership of the next
House.
GEN. LOGAN's remains have been re-
moved from the vault where they have
been deposited for the past two years,
under military guard. to the new chapel
in the Soldiers Home Cemetery at
Washington.
THE farm house of Adam Huffman,
near Canton, o., was destroyed by fire
early Tuesday morning of last week,
and Mrs. Huffman, while trying to save
some money from the flames, was fatal
ly burned.
GEN. G. H. GROsvENOR, member of
Congress from the Athens, o., District,
rendered his resignation as a member of
the Orphans Home Board at Xenia, and
Gov. Foraker appointed ]. W. O'Neal,
of Warren county, to the vacancy.
MICHAEL HEATING, a messenger in
the War Department at Washington,
fell over the banister on the fourth floor
of that building one day last week and
was instantly killed. The fall was about
80 feet. He was intoxicated at the time
MIKE O'GARA, aged Is, killed his IL
year-old brother, Robert, Wednesday,
while hunting near Flemingsburg, Ky.
In attempting to shoot a rabbit Mike
tripped and fell, both barrels being dis
charged and tearing off half of Roberts
head.
A FIRE at Marblehead, Mass, burned
out seven acres of ground. 1t is esti-
mated that $S00,000 worth of property
was DESTROYED One thousand men were
thrown out of employment, and many
families were rendered homeless. The
same district was visited by fire twelve
years ago.
CHAs. c. TINKER, the Cincinnati
BOY fOrger, has made written confess
ion of his crime. He duplicates VIM.
D. Hopkins, a son of Ben Hopkins, in
he transaction. Tinker waived exam
nation, and was bound owes in sums
'ggregating ! yDGs1 14sSss $4,000. Young Hopkins
THE wool growers of Kimble, Manard,
sutton and Schleicher counties of Texas,
It meeting recently held, adopted Hs-
buttons urging Congress to so amend
he present tariff as to prevent the i'm
lortation of foreign wool under the
names of ring waste, thread waste, yarn
waste, etc, which are now used to evade
ariff duties. The resolutions also ex-
,resS great satisfaction at the result of
he late election, thinking it a vindica-
ion of the protective system.
ABOUT midnight Monday of last week
ire broke out on the steamer John II.
Ianna, on the Lower Mississippi, oppo-
ite Plaquemine, La. 1t burned to the
Tater's edge and sunk. Seventeen lives
re reported lost, while others were in
ured and others not heard from. An
ther steamer, the Lief Erickson, was
urned in an inlet of Puget's Sound, in
Washington Territory near Seattle.
i've lives were lost. The steamer Sill
er Star, while entering the harbor at
n. H., struck an obstruc-
on and sunk in three minutes.
Is CONSUMPTION INCURABLE?
Read the following: c. II. Morris, New
rk. saws. "Was down with abscess Of