Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-02-20
NEWS -!SFLY TOLD.

Braddock is to have a mechanical
library.
A McKeesport boy was strangled by a
COW attached to a rope.
Pittsburg carpenters are preparing for
the eighr-hour movement.
The Nassau, L. l., presbytery voted
for revision by 26 to o, or nearly to 1.
The total output of oil in the Clays-
vile field for the past month was 3,07O
barrels.
An ice famine in Chicago seems to be
inevitable, and there is talk that nearly
half the United s. ates must meet simi-
lar emergency.
A terrific tornado struck Leota, Miss,
Thursday night. Houses were blown
down and other damage done. No loss
of life is reported.
1t is stated that serious charges in con-
nection with government contracts will
soon be preferred against prominent
Canadian officials.
According to people who are in COM
munication with Chairman Walker, of
the Interstate Railway association,
there need be no fear of any serious
trouble in the west.
1t is estimated that the total loss by
the Toronto Can university fire will be
81 ZOO, 900. This includes the library,
valued at 100000 and all equipment,
which was generally of the most modern
style.
At Saturdays meeting of the dele
gates at the New Orleans Saengerfest it
was decided to hold the next Saenger-
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and successful concert marked the clos
ing occasion,
Mr., Edward Futvoye, agent of the Fur
ness line of steamers at Baltimore, is
mysteriously missing, neither the off,
cials of the company nor his wife being
able 60 give the slightest information
concerning him.
Farmer Becker, of Coolbaugh. Luzerne
county, found 300-pound bear under
his hay stack few days ago. He and
his son, strapping young fellow of %,
had tussle with it, and after a hard
fight they killed it.
The British schooner George Noble. at
Sydney, N. s. w., from the Gilbert
group of islands, reports that the Ameri-
can schooner Turdon was capsized dur
ing gale and foundered. Her crew are
on the Butirara Island.
Delegates to the annual meeting of the
League of American Wheelmen are
already arriving in New York. The
meeting will begin on Monday, and Can
didate Dunn, of Ohio, still appears to be
the choice for the presidency.
The gain last week of more than a
million and half in bank exchanges
over the same time last year, shows that
business is lively if not erratic. The
figures afford a good answer to those
who think everything is dead.
The bodies Of Farmer Jones and his
wife, an aged couple, tenants on farm
at Semour Park, near Omaha, Neb.,
were found buried beneath straw pile.
They had been murdered by unknown
parties. who drove off their live stock
Michael Claus has been arrested on a
warrant sworn to by Deputy United
States Collector H. G. Getchell, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, charged with having stolen
$4,000 worth of revenue stamps from the
office of the deputy collector in March,
1889.
Mrs. Denver, of Center street, Wilkins
burg, Pa, fell while going out of the
door and broke her thigh. DIR. Pershing
was called in and found it to be seri-
GUS break. He said she would never be
able to walk again. Mrs. Denver is about
so years of age.
Commemoration day at Johns Hop
kins university, Baltimore, will be Feb.
%, and Bishop Randolph S. Foster will
preach the annual sermon before the
Christian association of the university in
the MI. Vernon Place NJ. E. church on
Sunday, Feb. 90.
NJ. E. Page & Co., candy manufact-
urers of Chicago, failed yesterday after
noon. The assets and liabilities are
scheduled at 100000 each. Mr.. Page
says that with anything like liberal treat
ment from his creditors he will resume
business.
Salem National bank, of Salem, Ills.,
was robbed of $4,000, besides some Sc
curities. The burglars drilled through
the vault door and then entered the
vault and blew open the burglar proof
safe and took the contents. No clew to
the thieves.
While Henry Dozier, a colored servant,
was scrubbing a sidewalk Saturday in |
st. Louis, three other colored people |
came down the street, and when close |
to Dozier, one of them pulled pistol |
and fired bullet through his heart,
killing him instantly. The murderer
escaped.
At Baltimore James Tasker, Ed Wood
fork and Norman Wooster. three of the |
Navassa rioters, pleaded guilty to man.
This disposes Of the whole
batch, with the following result: Three
are convicted of murder in the first de-
gree, fourteen of manslaughter and
of riot All will be sem
fenced next week. The whole business,
it is expected, will go to the United
States supreme court, the question being
raised of the jurisdiction OF the United
States over the Island of Navassa, J