Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-11-28
TElEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.


nounced.
Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg. HIS
subscribed 5000 to the New York
worlds fair.
John Rapp, of Sabina, O., has been
acquitted of the charge of rape preferred
by Mrs. DR.. Homan.
Alderman Patterson, an old Pittsburg
citizen. died in that city Monday morn
ing, aged 62 years.
The president has appointed Frank
Hitchcock, of Chicago. marshal of the
northern district of Illinois.
Political circles in England are agitat-
ed by the reports of the PROCESS of Re-
publican sentiment in Canada.
Father Daniel ]. Ryan, pastor of st.
Joseph's Catholic church of Springfield.
Ills, has been missing since last Satur-
day.
The trial of Joshua Mann and Mrs.
Swinton, for conspiracy against Robert
Ray Hamilton, has been set down for
Dec. 2.
The Republican caucus to nominate
officers for the next house of representa-
tiveS has been called for noon, Saturday,
Nov. 80.
Adam Keyser, So years old, employed
as clerk in Hecker's flour mill, New
York city, committed suicide by taking
rough on rats.
Greer & Co., the Newark. N. j., agents
of Armour & Swift, the Chicago dressed
meat men, went into the hands of re-
ceiver. Liabilities, $4,000.
Warren Emerson, dealer in upholstery
goods at 8 Hawley street, and 9 Arch
street, Boston, has failed. No statement
of liabilities has been made.
Albert c. Ridgeway, of Illinois, has
been appointed confidential clerk to the
commissioner of pensions, vice Miss Ada
Tanner, resigned.
John B. Emery, the oldest grand past
master of the |. o. o. F. in the United
States, died Monday morning at Balti-
more, aged SO years.
The mayor and both branches of the
city government of Boston visited the
United States cruisers, Boston and Chi
cago, as guests of the officers.
The North German Gazette says that
the situation in Brazil causes the powers
no anxiety, and that there is no neces-
sity for sendinga German man-of-war 10
Brazil.
Stephen Crowell, president of the
Phoenix Fire Insurance company, died
in New York City on Monday from in
juries received by fall last Thursday
He was 79 years of age.
George II. Williams, colored. aged 30
years, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree at Wilmington, Del. He was
charged with killing Walter E. Wright,
white boy, about Is years of age.
Two more bodies have been taken
from the bed of the river at Johnstown-
A patrol has been started between the
city and Ninevah along the Conemaugn
river, to look for victims of the flood.
The Pacific Mail Steamship company's
new 81, 900, 600 steamship, the China, be-
fore reported aground near Yokohama,
has aoated off and proceeded without
having sustained any apparent damage.
The stockholders of the defunct Pitts
burg bank held meeting Tuesday morn
ing. Both President Young and Cashier
Hoerr were conspicuous by their absence
No statement has yet been prepared for
the public.
The coroners jury have exonerated
Siegfried May from blame for the death
of Martin Flynn. 1t was shown that
Vldy oldODCu LII III bhC eye WIN <A
umbrella accidentally, while defending
himself from an attack by Finn, who
was drunk.
Stanley Shaffer, the Wooster boy
burglar, has been sentenced to five,
three and one, a total of nine years. in
the penitentiary for three different Jobs
Mrs. Thomas Kennedy, while purcIas-
ing goods in store at Ironton, O., sud-
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to speak and fell over dead. Heart dis
ease.
Lum Smith, editor of The Agents
Herald, who was convicted a few days
since of hbelling Anthony j. Comstock,
was sentenced Friday to six months i'm
prisonment.
John j. Ridgway was ON Friday ap-
pointed surveyor of the port of Phia-
delphia and Thomas j. Powers to be
naval officer of Philadelphia. They are
both Quay men.
An appeal to wool men all over the
country has been issued, asking their, to
exert their influence against Alr. Reeds
selection as speaker of the house of rep
resentatives.
j. NJ Muzon, the cousul for Costa
Rica in New York, has received a cable
gram from the secretary of the treasury
of that country denying the runor of a
revolution in Costa Rica.
Minister Ryan was at the state depart
ment at Washington closing up the busi-
ness which has kept him in that city
several weeks. He left for his post in
the city of Mexico ON Saturday.
Saturday was whipping day at the
New Castle, Del. Jail, and Sheriff Allen
applied the ''cat" to three colored men
and one white man, all of whom had
been convicted of larceny.
The British steamer City of Chicago,
in ballast from Rio Janeiro for Coosaw,
has gone ashore in a fog on Combehee
banks, st. Helena sound. A tug has
been sent from Coosaw to drag her off.
Thirty workers in the 20-inch mill at
the Bolton Steel works at Canton, o.,
struck Friday against an order of the
firm making 100 ingots during the work
of turn, instead of sixty, as heretofore.
Robert E. Hibbard. harness maker,
committed suicide Friday morning by
shooting himself through the head at
his home in Tarentum. He was temper
arily insane, and leaves wife and four
children.
David Sharks, who was sent from Sgd
ney, O., to the penitentiary for life, for
beating to death Mrs. Anna Line, aged
20 years, has an application before the
board of pardons for a pardon. A plea
of insanity is advanced.
Brakeman Peter Newkirtk, while en-
deavoring to couple train at Loudon-
vile, O., caught his foot between the
ties. He saw he could not free himself
in time to escape and threw himself
down across the rail. Both legs were