Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-02-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

/ lhIONh 'To1l morse last night III 1lIIlQ
an fatally injured.
The Firth Presbyterian church in
| North Minneapolis burned Saturday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
A Philadelphia bon vivant has kept
tubful OF terrapin alive in hfs cellar all
winter, so as to have them handy.
A boiler exploded Saturday morning
| in the sawmill of James Hunter, at
Rutherglen, Carolina county, Va, kill
ing three people and wounding six.
Cashier Bard's shortage amounts to
about 1000. The stockholders of the
Lincoln bank will hold a meeting at
once to decide upon their future course.
Dick Hawes, the wife and child muir
derer who will be hanged next Friday in
Birmingham, Ala, has made a third
confession, and this is believed to be the
true one.
mans Christian Temperance union, of
which Mrs j. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, is
the recognized leader, has been formed
in Chicago.
Advices from Wood river, Montana,
state that cattle and horses are dying in
large numbers in that section. Many
thaw comes soon.
Pension Agent Ensley has sent to
Charles Flaherty, Terre Haute, guardian
of Owen Flaherty, draft for S13,079
The beneficiary came out of the service
at the close of the war hopelesslyT insane.
The latest theory regarding the assas-
sination of DR.. Melvin Fosdick. near
Kalamazoo, Mich, is that the shots were
not intended for the doctor, but for AL
bert Fosdick himself, the alleged assas-
sin.
Talk is once more heard of Robert Lin
coin for president in 1892. There seems
to be good reason for concluding that,
if we are to choose presidents on the an
cestral plan, it might be wise to try a
variety of ancestors.
AT Baltimore the Johns Hopkins uni
versity celebrated its fourteenth anni-
versary Saturday. The public exercises
were held in the Mt. Vernon Place NJ E.
church. Acting President Remsen pre-
sided and made an address.
The Empress of Austria IS the best
housekeeper among European royalties.
She employees 80 cooks-25 men and 25
women. She pays strict attention when
in Vienna to the details of her huge
household and is very clever manager.
The president has approved the act for
the construction of a bridge across the
Missouri river at or near Burlington, Ia,
and the act for the construction of a
bridge over the Missouri river in Doug
lass county, Mo-, or in Sarpy county,
Neb.
The Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D. D., will,
on Thursday next, complete his forty
fifth year of service as pastor of the Sec
ond Presbyterian church at Richmond,
Va. 1t is the only charge he has had,
and he its only pastor. A great public
demonstration will mark the anniversary.
The members of the Boston League
team have been ordered to report for
practice on March 1S. After fortnight
spent in the gymnasium they will start
on an exhibition tour. playing in Hart
ford. New Haven, Worcester, Provi-
dence. Philadelphia, Baltimore, Will
mington, Trenton, Newark and Jersey
City.
Barnum's animals are on their way
back to America, on the Furnessia,
which sailed from the Albert dock on
Thursday afternoon. Kiralfy's ballet is
on board, too, and likewise majority of
performers in the great moral show. A
luncheon was given on board the Fur
nessia Wednesday to the London news
paper men, and Barnum assured them
that he and the show were coming back
in year or two.
A new window glass factory will be
erected at Anderson, Ind.
Snow at Rowland Flat, Sierra county,
Cal, was seventy-five feet deep at the
last measuring.
Sixteen shops at McKee's flint glass
off indefinitely on account, it is claimed,
of dullness of trade.
1t is reported that 100000 of large
estate left by the late Joseph Bigger have
been bequeathed for fund to be devoted
to free education in Ireland.
The interior of the G. A. R. hall at
Columbus, Ind, burned out yesterday, |
destroying all their battle flags, pictures,
ETC., involving loss of $500; insured
for $500.
Friend, Hoffstot & Co., who are build |
ing new mill and blast furnace on the
South Side, Pittsburg, expect to have
the plant in operation within the next
six weeks.
The Carnegie firms have decided to |
use coal for steam making in their vari- |
Gus mills where there is shortage of |
gas. 1t will be introduced at once at the |
Beaver Falls mills.
The sickly green stamp, about which |
there has been so much fool talk, goes |
the way of all the earth tomorrow, and |
is succeeded by a smaller one of dark |
carmine, which is about the color of |
well ripened topper nose.
Leprosy is making terrible progress in |
New Caledonia, and there are now over |
5000 cases among the natives and con-
victs. A dispatch from Paris says
Louise Michel, the noted Anarchist, has
announced her intention of going to |
New Caledonia as nurse.
A snow plow on the Central Pacific,
near Cape Horn, backed by four locomo-
tives, jumped the track Wednesday |
night, followed by two locomotives.
Brakeman John Williams was scalded |
to death. Engineer Dorland and Fire
man Bates were badly injured.
Capt. E. B. Allen, of Harwichport,
has invented fire escape by which he
claims seven persons can be rescued
every minute. One of the features of
the invention, according to the design, is
the arrangement for rescuing from the
flames unconscious people, children and
invalids.
After the removal of the boilers from
the United States steamer Ossipee leak,
that had been unsuccessfully sought for
years, was discovered. Ali the frame
and timbers under the boilers were
found to be as rotten as punk. The
commandant at once ordered all work
on the vessel stopped. the navy depart
ment was notified and a survey was
ordered on the ship. She will probably
be condemned.
Word comes from the Peace river and
Slave lake districts that the Indians
there are starving. This winter several
small bands were kept alive by what the
traders could give them. A big council
of Indians was held, and 1t was decided
that their only hope for future existence
was in making treaty with the govern
ment. Fish and game are scarce, and
fur animals are almost exterminated in
some regions.