Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-01

SHERMAN KNIGHT, of Tiffin, O., was
arrested at Chicago with $1,000 belong
ing to the Commercial National Bank,
of that city, in his possession.
THE Chicago Chief of Police has issued
a general order to stop the sale of
cigarettes and whisky drops to boys
under sixteen years of age.
A GANG of boys has been trying to
introduce themselves to the pupils of
the Ladies' Seminary, at Little Wash
ington, by pounding the back fence of
the institution and bowling at night.
OTHE first case in which the Illinois
compulsory education law has figured
resulted at Tuscola in the fning of the
truant officer for arreSting the boy, who
was absent from school without leave.
AT Youngstown, O., Charles Bonnell,
aged 10, confessed to having attempted
ou two different occasions to wreck
passenger trains on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railway near An
dover.
An unknown boy about II years of
age was found in the Ohio river by two
lads named Hallenbaugh and Brown
while padding in a skiff near Rochester.
The body had been in the water about
two months and the clothing indicated
that he worked in a glasshouse or mill.
THURSDAY.
JOSEPH AsHBAUGH was killed by cars
at Greenfield, o.
LOCKLAND has repealed its local option
ordinance and the saloons will reopen
May 10.
THE Whisky Trust has purchased the
st. Paul distillery for S150,000 and $780,
600 in bonds.
W. II. KINDER, of Hancock county,
has been appointed Superintendent of
Insurance for Ohio.
SENATOR SHERMAN thinks the silver
bill agreed on conservative and likely to
increase the currency.
EXTENSIVE quarries of fine marble,
ninety-eight per cent. pure, have been
discovered at Iona, Kas.
ED. HACKETT was arrested at Lima,
o., on the charge of numbering an Italian
with whom he was working near Detroit,
Mich.
A PROPOSITION to strike out the ap-
preparation for the Civil Service Com
mission was defeated in the National
House.
AN attempt was made to burn Kuhn's
Hotel, in Chicago, and stampede took
place among the guests, but no one was
injured.
THE Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections has reported, as an original
measure, a bill to regulate Federal
elections.
AN attempt was made to assassinate
Judge Botkin, at Ulysses, Kas., for re-
fusing to give decision contrary to his
judgment.
THERE is confirmation of the state
ment that John NJ. Clayton's assassin is
known. Powell Clayton was the in
tended victim.
THE New York Senate recalled from
the Assembly the Saxton ballot reform
bill, and again passed it, amended. The
Governor will sign it.
AN earthquake was felt over consid-
cradle section of California. The walls
OF the Government building at San
Francisco were cracked.
LARGE numbers of young girls are
sent from Canada to American cities for
immoral purposes. On Tuesday fifteen
were shipped from Montreal for Chicago.
A GENERAL strike is expected in
Chicago May l, and it is estimated that
the number of people directly and indi-
rectly idle will number a quarter of a
million.
BEN CARBERRY, aged thirteen, shot
Cora Benbach. aged eleven, at Brazil,
Ind They were classmates, and the
girl informed the teacher of the boys
misconduct.
SIM GARRETT and Jerry Teel, in jail
at San Augustine, Tex, on a charge of
to poison Colonel John H.
Brooks and family, were taken from the
jail and lynched.
A wELL-TO-DO farmer named Nor
risOn, living two miles from Shelburne,
Ont, after drowning three of his children
in a barrel of rainwater, attempted
to drown himself in creek.
AT San Francisco Michael Lane, a
stone cutter, became suddenly insane,
shot his wife, crushed her skull with a
hammer, and then blew out his brains.
The couple had always lived happily,
Ex-Gov. E. WILLIS WILSON has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress
against the present incubent, Hon. J. D..
Anderson, in the Third district of West
Virginia.
DAVID JAMES, of Newark, O., is in
jail pending an investigation of the cause
of his wite's sudden death. The latter
died suddenly after doing a mornings
washing and eating a hearty dinner.
Shortly after death her body turned
black and poisoning is suspected.
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