Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-10
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.


nightly shipments of 640 tons of refrig-
Grated Texas beef.
Methodist Episcopal churchmen ex-
press surprise at the refusal of Evangeli-
cal ministers to recognize Bishop Bow
man.
Ann Arbor students have decided that
the colonization of the negro would not
he for the best interests of the United
States.
Old Sport Calvin is fast getting into
excellent condition. On Wednesday and
Thursday he reduced himself about
twelve hounds
John 4. Best, a Washington, Pa,
baker, has been obliged TO quit business
because hotels will not deal with him,
owing to his wife's temperance activity.
Dr. Mary Walker is this spring wear
ing tall hat with a wide curling brim,
a double-breasted frock coat and panta-
looms of her favorite width, also small
bow tie and her usual smile.
Ell Paso board of trade says the i'm
position of duty on silver-lead ores
would be disastrous to the smelling in
dustry and the commercial relations be-
tween the United States and Mexico.
Secretary Blaine owns a farm of 400
acres near Elizabeth, Pa. He also owns
the coal under l, 100 acres of surround
ing land. Mr.. Blaine purchased part of
this land over twenty years ago. He has
not mined any coal there since 1878. He
seldom visits his farm and it is said that
he would like to sell it.
Severe hurricanes on the Pacific dur
ing March caused many disasters on the
coast of the New Hebrides. Several
ships were wrecked at Labour. At Nal
hcollO vessel ran aground and five
whites and thirty natives ere drowned,
while thirty others who reached the
shore were massacred by the natives.
James E. Barton, a farmer at Spring
port, jackson county, Mich, died two
weeks ago. Edward Huber, the admin
istrator of the estate, while clearing up
affairs after the funeral, found an old
safe, and upon opening it came upon
5000 in bills of small denomination,
all of them good. The money had prob
ably lain in the safe twenty years.
viii Fitch, telephone lineman of
Adrian, Mich, was adjusting a wire on
pole. the wire being fastened to his
waist. A team drove along and the wire
caught in the wheels, whereby Fitch
was jerked to the ground. He was
had been killed. 1t was some time be-
fore he could be restored to conscious
ness. One arm was broken and the ell
bow dislocated. One leg was broken
twice and the knee dislocated.
A gentleman offers 5000 to any uni
versity in New England that will send
physicist to witness Keely's experiments,
who Will bind himself not to give an
opinion until the nature of Keely's dis
coveries has been made known to him,
and he has seen the demonstrations
which Keely is ready to make in proof
of his claims as a discoverer, not as an
inventor. Professor Leidy, of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania, and James NJ.
Wilcox. author of Elemental Philoso-
ply" are the trustees who are appointed
to hold and to transfer the sum of 81, 900
to the university that accepts the condi-
tionS.
Boston has gone wild in its efforts to
do honor to the Brotherhood clubs.
Nettie Houser, a domestic, fell from
a third-story window at Erie on Thurs
day afternoon, and lies at the point of
death.
Graceau Chleborad, Atwood. Kan,
who has been on trial charged with pois
oning his brother, has been sentenced TO
fifty years in the penitentiary.
Another conference was held between
the striking employees of divers South
Tenth street mill, Pittsburg, and the
firm without any definite result.
The women crusaders of Pennington,
Mo-, have captured another beer wagon,
emptying the beer barrels in the gutter.
The saloon keepers have barricaded their
doors to save their stock.
A cyclone struck the southwest part Of
Monmouth, IlIs., Thursday, blowing
down the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy round house and damaging prop
erty considerably. No lives were lost.
A ten-round glove contest is among
the probabilities between Sullivan and
Jim Corbett. 1t would be surprising to
see Corbett give Sullivan the same medi-
cine he gave Kilrain, but there are things
more unlikely.
President James Campbell, of the
Glass Workers association, defends the
organization on the apprenticeship
question, saying that young men have
more chances in it than in any other
labor orgaization.
The Puritan Athletic club, of Long
Island, n. Y, offered $50 900 for go
between Sullivan and Jackson for the
heavy weight championships of the world,
and s., 600 for fight between Joe Nc
Aullffe, of California, and Sullivan.
A son of ex-Representative Charles S.
Beatty, of Fayette county, Pa, has been
awarded S6,450 damages against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company for the
loss of a leg while he was attending a
political meeting in Connellsville. in
1883.
The threc-story brick block at the cor
ner of Academy and Greene streets,
Trenton, N. j.. was gutted by fire
Thursday morning, causing the follow
ing losses: WINS Bros. clothiers, S10.-
600; Johnston, decorator, $1,000; J. c.
Van Hart, tailor, 200. All insured.
a tornado passed over Upsen county,
Ga, Wednesday night. In Thomaston.
the store of A. G. West, Sherman's mil
linery establishment and the buildings
belonging to j. F. Mathews and u. H.
Sandwich were blown down. In its
track through the country ground was
swept as if by steam brush and crops
will have to be rep!anted.