Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-17
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Dominion government will pro-
hibit the Use of salmon nets.
Vermont's maple sugar crop has been
damaged by the mild weather.
Richville, n. Y. citizens are excited
over discoveries of petroleum.
White Caps whipped Mormon Preacher
]. d. Irwin at Ultima Thule, Ark.
The Pasteur institute at New York has
successfully treated nine patients since
Feb. l.
German exporters to the United States
are strongly opposed to the Mckinley
tariff bill.
Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler has re-
signed the pastorate of the Lafayette
Avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn.
The British steamer Umvolosi, from
London March II for Port Natal, has
been wrecked near Algoa bay. No lives
were lost.
Opposition members in the Canadian
parliament assert that the government
members favor annexation with the
United States.
Plucky Mrs. Cooper, wife of the sheriff
of Hart, Mich, prevented a Jail delivery
by knocking out prisoner who attacked
her with club.
Maj. Gen. Laurie, Canadian NJ. P,
has raised commotion by charging
mileage from England, whittier he had
gone on visit, amounting to $500.
Canadian government officials are dis
gruntled because they were not notified
of the PRONUNCIATION of the new extradi-
ton treaty as soon as the English gov
ernment.
Representative Philip Davis was horse
whipped by J. L. Harper at Elberton,
Ga, because Davis said something to
lady that Harper did not like. 4 duel
may follow.
President R. f. Graves and Cashier C.
H. Harris, of the defunct Commercial
Bank of Dubuque. which failed for
$500. 600. have been indicted for alleged
crookedness.
The strike of the brakemen and con-
ductors on the st. Louis division of the
Mobile and Ohio railroad continues.
Only one freight train has passed over
the road since Monday.
A sheriif's posse and the Porfillio Tru-
jillo gang of outlaws had a running fight
in New Mexico. in which Zamora, one
of the gang, was killed, and the Others
escaped to the mountains.
The contest for the Blythe millions is
nearing an end at San Francisco. The
principal claimants are Florence Blythe,
Is years old, natural daughter or the
decedent, and Alice Edith Dickson, who
claims verbal marriage contract with
Blythe.
Dick Roche will bet any sum up to
81 900 that Schaeffer beats Slosson in
their game at chicago.
The steamer Lubbock has arrived from
Samoa. Everything was quiet there
when the steamer left.
Seven workmen in the naval dock
yards at Kiei, having struck for an ad
vance in wages, have been discharged.
The car has invited the crown prince
of Italy, now on his travels in the east,
to visit st. Petersburg before he returns
home.
The emperor called on Count Herbert
Bismarck Friday. Shortly after the i'm
perial visit Count Herbert left for Fred
erichsruhe.
Geneva college students have accepted
a challenge from the Western univerSi-
ty for an oratorical contest, to be held
in Allegheny about June /.
The Schuyler presbytery decided Thurs
day, after a hot discussion, to recon-
mend the Revision of the Confession of
Faith. The vote stood "a to 10.
Owing to the recent embezzlement of
1000, 600 francs by the treasurer of the
Canton of Ticino, the liberals propose to
impeach the Cantonal government.
The president Friday approved the act
of making an appropriation to supply the
deficiency occasioned by the defalcation
in the Office of the late sergeant-at-arms.
Bishop Foss has appointed the Rev G.
w. Terbush, of the New York confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church,
to succeed the Rev. r. r. Mansell. as
pastor of the First church, McKeesport,
Pa.
The Allegheny Bessemer Steel COM
pany closed contract Friday for 5000
tons of rails to be delivered at Demming,
New Mexico, for new road in that Sec
ton of the country. A contract for an
additional 5000 remains unclosed.
1t is stated here that the Italian gov
ernment, in expelling from Italy Herr
GruenwaId, correspondent of the Frank
furter Zetung, was taken at the instance
of Germany, who requested his expul-
sion from the country for attacking the
Triple Alliance.
The mansion of Baron Ferdinand
James de Rothschild, at Weddesdon
Manor, his country seat, in Aylesbury,
has been partly destroyed by fire. Among
the property burned were picture by
Gainsborough, valued at 10,000, and
large quantity of valuable tapestry.
In 1904 there were thirty-five transla-
tions of the scriptures in existence.
Since the formation of the British and
Foreign Bible society in that year l0,-
GOO. 900 of money have been expended in
the work of circulating the Bible, and
there are now, counting dialects as well
as languages, nearly 800 translations of
the scriptures.