Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1889-07-25
NEWS NOTES.

WHITE hats with back bands for men
are becoming fashionable in London.
Up to June Both only 594 babies in this
country had been named after Benjamin
Harrison.
VICE PRESIDENT MORTON, who is now
at Saratoga, is said to be growing stouter
every day.
BURGLARS cracked a safe at Lynn.
Mass, and got away with $1,000 worth
of jewelry.
THE steam barge, J. P. Farnam. was
burned on Lake Michigan Sunday. The
crew escaped.
THE Sunday-closing law was rightly
enforced at KaEsas City for the first
time, Sunday.
THE Condition of crops in Ohio, accord
ing 20 the Farmers Reciesc, is corn SO,
oats 90, potatoes 104.
Mrs. EMILY CRAWFORD, the most
famous of women journalists. has lived
in Paris for more than thirty years.
JAPAN covers an area of $4,000 square
miles: not quite as large as California
1t has population of 3S,00OOOO.
A DOG was sent over the Horseshoe
Falls, Niagara, in barrel Saturday. The
barrel was broken to pieces and the dog
lost.
JAMES SYLVIA shot at his wife at Kinks
| vile, Mo-, and supposing he had killed
her. committed suicide. She was not in
jured.
JOHN FEHRENBATCH, Cincinnati, has
/ been appointed Supervising Inspector OF
Steam Vessels for the Seventh Ohio
| District.
CHARLES MIER, William Prindle and
Albert Cryfelt escaped from jail at Cir
cleville, Ohio, Sunday Prindle was re-
captured.
W. H. PUTNAM. great grandson of Gen
eral Israel Putnum, died at Brooklyn
Conn, on Wednesday of paralyis, at the
age of II.
GENERAL MAHONE says the Virginia
! hatchet so deep that the handle is stick
| ing out in China
! IT is said that no more Consular ap-
pOintments will be announced until after
the return of Secretary Blaine to Wash
IngtOn next autumn
JOHN HART, who drives a bakers
wagon in Westchester, Pa, is a great
grandson of the John Hart who signed
the Declaration of Independence.
W. B. TATE, philanthropic bachelor
of Tennessee, has divided fifth of his
fortune of 100000 between forty needy
Confederate veterans of that State.
TOMMY and Agnes Williams, aged
five and three years, dropped lighted
match in cOal-oil can at Columbus, O.,
Sunday, and were killed by the explosion.
AN attempt is being made to boom
John H. Thomas, a millionaire manufac-
turer of Springfield, o., for the nomina-
ton for Governor ON the Democratic
ticket.
THERE IS movement on foot looking
to the consolidation of all the natural gas
companies in the Ohio and Indiana field.
1t has the sanction of the Standard mag
mates.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to own the
cOstlieSt china in the world. The china
in the Windsor aud Buckingham palaces
is worth more than million of dollars.
The Sevres dessert set is valued at $500,
600.
AT Charles, w. Va, Constable L. V.
Reynolds was shot by ]. L. Carter, colored
who was resisting arrest. Reynolds con-
ditiOn is serious, and there is much talk
of lynching if his injuries should prove
fatal.
Mrs. JAMES GALLAGHER, resident of
Brooklyn, begun sneezing the other even
ing, and she had got the tally up to 2040
times wfen the doctors finally found a
remedy She says she won't try again
until some female beats the record.
THE women of Servia, of all ranks, are
an eager part in an organized movement
for raising a national subscription to pre-
sent to Queen Natalie, the divorced and
baniShed mother of Servia's boy king, a
massive gold crown, studded with dia-
mOndS.
Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY, the veteran
advocate of wOman's rights, is lady of
seventy, and it is forty-two years since
she delivered her first speech on public
platform. 1t is not often that she now
appears as a public speaker, but she is
yet full of the old mettle.