Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-07-03
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Chattanooga, Tenn, has a population of AZ,
600, an increase Of $50 per cent.
A. l.. Duty, the pension swindler, was con-
victed and sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years Saturday at Parkersburg. w. Va.
The grand jury of the United States court
has indicted H. F. Bradbury, the Dean of
Trinity University in Vermont for issuing
bogus diplomas
Rev. w. G. Sperry, pastor of the First Con-
gregational church, Manchester, Mass, has
received a call to the presidency of the Yank-
ton, S. D., college, and will accept.
The Salon committee at Paris has awarded
a medal to Mrs. Wentworth, an American
artist, for painting which the American
committee rejected for the exhibition of 1889
The Dutch steamer Prins Frederick, which
was sunk by collision with the British steamer
Marpessa, had 1,0O0,00O guilders on board. All
the passengers and seamen's effects were lost.
The gold medals offered by the Russian gov
ernment to the breeder of any American
horse that could beat their Russian horses In
long-distance trotting races have been re-
ceived by Col. Jay La Due, of Luverne, MINI.
John G. Wheeler died from hydrophobia
Saturday night at St. Johns, n B. He was
bitten by dog several weeks ago. Two other
men were bitten by the same dog, and will be
sent to the Pasteur institute in New York.
According to the Australian papers, the
2:3ON. by the chestnut stallion Honesty by
Priam- Honesty had a record of 2:25A In
America. He was disposed of at late sale In
Sydney for 400 guineas.
The members of the Brazilian legation saw
the only concession made by their government
in return for recognition by France was that
the negotiations regarding the frontier of
French Guiana should be resumed where they
were left off in 1880, and that if this proved
no oh nu1d ha r1,,,,it f,l
to arbitration.
The Sultan has consented to cede the Zanzi-
bar coast to Germany.
Col. Sir James Frazer, commissioner of the
London City police. has rendered his resigna-
tiOn in consequence of his advanced age.
The pope will take up his usual summer res
idence in the gardens of the vatican after the
celebration of the festival of Saint Peter.
Judge Thomas B. Nesbit died at his home at
Pomona, Cal, Friday night, aged SO. He was
for eighteen years circuit Judge in Missouri,
and five years state senator.
The census officials have nearly completed
the account of the returns from Washington,
and have commenced on New York. No other
cities have yet been taken up.
The British sloop-of-war Daphne arrived at
San Francisco Friday from CoQuimbo. The
Daphne and the Nymph, which arrived Thurs
day, will sail shortly for Esquimalt-
1t is reported that the late Thomas c.
Sloane. Of New York, has by will left $1,000
for the Sloane laboratory and S2OU,0OO to Yale
college, available on the death of his wife
On Thursday nine deaths and sixteen pros-
trations, some Of them serious, were caused by
the heat at st. Louis. Everybody is suffer-
ing, and there is much sickness among chill.
dren.
Francis G. Yarnall, vice president of the Le-
high Coal and Navigation company, died on
Thursday at his residence at Overbrook, Pa,
aged 81 years. Mr.. Yarnall was well known
In railroad circles,