Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-06-19
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Illinois Central bridge at Rockford 4
swept away. Loss, $4,000.
Howe Bros, dry goods retailers of st. Paul
have assigned. Liabilities, Sj0OOO; assets
s25,OO.
| At Brooklyn Saturday John F. Forrest, 81
| years of age. suicided by hanging. Could moi
| obtain employment.
The Cortes on Saturday, in the presence OF
the king, formally declared the kings SON
Louis Philippe, the heir to the throne.
In addition to Miss Fawcett's Cambridge
honors, Miss Margaret Afford, niece of Dean
Afford, won first place in classical tripOs.
An Original PACKAGE man was forced to
quit at Dayton, Ia. by the Indignation of citi-
gems at sight Of 5-year-old boy being drunk.
DIR. Paul Gibier, of the Pasteur ins titute, re-
ceived on Saturday from a man of wealth in
New York an offer of large house on Fifth
avenue permanent home for the institute
Father Green, of Rochelle, Ills, the priest
who has been mysteriously missing for two
weeks, is reported to be at the home of his
uncle in New York, i'll of congestion of the
brain.
The government has instructed the Ger
man officials in East Africa to prevent the
Emin Pasha expedition from entering Uganda
while the negotiations are pending between
Germany and England relative to territory in
Africa
The Congregationalists of London are pre-
paring to erect magnificent buildings in East
London, in which will be established uni
versity for the education of the poor ex-
clusively. The institution will be called the
Mansfield house,
Ticket Agent Edwin J. Elliott, who is now
sick in bed through exposure of the shortage
in his accounts with the Louisville and Nash
vile road at Louisville, confessed to have
taken $500 of the S., 100 and no more. He had
been playing poker.
Master in Chancery Boyeson decided on Sat-
urday to recommend to Judge Tuley the issue
of restraining order pending a full hearing
on the application for an injunction against
the proposed sale of the Chicago stockyards
to the contracting company of London Eng
land.
A convention will be held at Philadelphia
July and 5, for the purpose of forming an
amalgamation of all textile workers.
At a meeting of the Royalists at Richmond,
Thursday, the Count of Paris denied the
rumors of the secession of the Duke of
Orleans.
Robert Warren, of the firm of Warren &
Co., Chicago, whose failure was announced
Thursday, is found to be in the neghborhood
of S3s, 900 short.
1t is positively announced that Lord Wolse-
ley will resign his position as adjutant general
of headquarters staff of the army, the resig-
nation to take effect July l.
The famous thoroughbred mare Huntress
died at Warrenton, No., Friday from the in
juries received in the recent railroad accident.
George Hankins, her owner. has telegraphed
to have the mares body embalmed.
The cutworms are doing considerable dam
age among crops in the overfowed Mississippi
district. Entire plantations on the Mississippi
Valley road have lost their crops from the
ravages of these worms. They spare nothing
in their travels through the fields.
A soiree was given in the Hall of the Shells
at the imperial palace at Potsdam Thursday
night, in honor of the crown prince of Italy.
The crown prince escorted the empress. Fri
day he visited the sarcophagus of Frederick
the Great, and afterwards inspected the
guards.
John B. Sherman says the sale of the Union
stock yards, Chicago, to an English syndicate
for 1000, 900 will be consummated July l. 1t
is not believed that the minor stockholders
will enjoin the sale. 1t is rumored that after
the sale local capitalists will combine and
start another concern.
The White Star steamer Doric, trading be-
tween London and New Zealand, claims that
1t has made the fastest voyage around the
world. The total time the Doric steamed was
u days. hours and SO minutes. The distance
run was 5000 miles, and the engines were go
ing continuously, there being no landing or
stopping. |