Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-05-09
NEWS NOTES.

NATURAL gas has been found near
I Midway, Ky.
! FOUR persons were poisoned by canned
corn at Pittsburgh
THE prOhibitOry ordinance at London.
! o., has been repealed.
BosToN ladies are rebelling against the
practice Of docking horses tails.
/ LUCIEN BEALL fell from train at
Wheeling Saturday and was killed.
\ MAIL stage was robbed by masked
/ hlghwaymen. near Eureka Springs. Kas..
Saturday.
/ COLUMBUS ice men have formed a
combination, and raised the price of ice
/ in that city
A HIGH license bill. fixing the fee at
5000 has been defeated by the Missouri
/ Legislature.
\ NUMBER of buildings were DESTROYED
and many persons injured by tornado
at Warsaw, NC.
| Mrs. MARY JACKSON. Matron of the
! West Virginia Hospital for tie Insane. is
mysteriOuSly missing.
| ABOUT three thousand letters and one
! thousand newspapers are delived daily
/ from the postotfice at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
| SECRETARY TRACY contemplates or
dering the ship Constitution from the
Portsmouth y. H. to the Washington
navy yard.
THE Kentucky Institute for Feeble
| Minded Children, located at Frankfort.
was totally destroyed by fire on the Sd
! inst. No lives were lost
THE Postmaster at Nash, Mimi. has
been arrested on charge of selling
stamps at discount and reporting them
to the Department as Cancelled by him.
A NUMBER of the indianapolis Assem-
blies have withdrawn from the National
! Order of Knights of Labor. and the
! trouble threatens to spread throughout
! the State
| THE reduction of the public debt for
| the current fiscal year is likely to reach
S90G0,OO0-a good round sum. This is
! the only prominent Nation that is de-
creasing its debt.
CLEVELAND is the only city really try
| ing to get the State Republican COnven-
ton, so far as we can hear Columbus is
setting up its old claims. but. as usual. is
doing nothing otherwise
\ NEW invention to prevent collision
at sea, consisting of small plate fixed at
! the side of the vessel has been very sue
ceSSfully tried on the Thames EiectricI
ty Is the active agent. The approach of
another vessel within two miles causes a
| bell to sound, and an indicating arrow
shows the direction whence it comes.
! IT is to be regretted that Gen Butler
and Admiral Porter are still lighting the
battle of New Orleans by an occasional
shot at one another. 1t appears they have
not been good friends since 1864. when
Porter intimated that his attack on Fort
! Fisher was not properly supported by
| Buffers army. Now Butler accuses Por-
ter of being panicStricken and of running
to sea with his fleet after Farragut had
gallantly run the dangers of the forts.
! There is no profit in their hOstilitieS at
| this day, and it is time the two old gentle
men were coming to peace.
INthe death of Major John y. Edwards,
editor of the Kansas City Times. the Dem
Ocratic press of Missouri loses one of its
ableSt editors. He was born in Virginia,
and went to Missouri when a boy. He
entered the Confederate army in the
civil war, and engaged in fifty battles and
skirmiShes. He seems to have been
determined enemy of the Union. for at
| the close of the war he followed Generals
Shelby and Price to Texas, and we be-
lieve. was among those of Shelby's COM
mand who buried their battle flags in the
Rio Grande, and crossed the line into
Mexico to take service with the French
army. Since his return to Missouri Maj.
| Edwards has done bright editorial work
on newspapers in st. Louis. Sedalia, st.
Joseph, and finally in Kansas City.