Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-04-24
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Irish tenants defense fund now
amounts to SIS, 5000.
a Canadian colonel gets $40, 900 dam
ages for being called coward.
Bishop of Peter6oro, England. protests
against insuring lives of childrsn.
Ex-senator Angus Cameron is not
candidate for governor of Wisconsin.
Typhoid fever epidemic at Augustan
college, Rockford, Ill. Defective sewer
age.
E. J. Lehman, of Chicago, merchant
prince, has become insane from business
worries.
Polish Socialists and Anarchists of
Galicia are rampant. Revolt will occur
on May l.
Announced that Emperor William in
tends visiting Lisbon and Madrid dur
ing the month of October.
The municipal council of Amsterdam
has forbidden the labor societies to make
demonstration on May day.
Daniel Bateson, Birmingham, Ala,
confesses to numbering his son-in-law.
Young man abused his wife.
Col. Kovaloff has started for Central
Asia to arrange for the trans-Caspian
tour which the car will make this year.
Canadian minister of justice says there
is no law to keep out Cinnamon. If they
don't pay duty they must pay the pen
atty.
Queen Victoria reviewed the Alpine
Chasseurs Saturday. Her majesty ap-
pears to be in good health and drives out
daily.
The greater portion of the business
section of st. Elmo, Col, was destroyed
by fire Saturday. Loss, S25, 600: partially
insured.
The president has approved the bill
placing Gen. John c. Fremont ON the re-
tired list of the army, with a rank of
major general.
The strike movement begun by the
coal miners at Ostrau has spread
throughout the Ostrawitz valley. All the
have quit work.
A packing case, purporting to contain
toys and consigned to an unknown ad-
dress in Berlin, exploded in the railway
station at London, Saturday, killing one
man and injuring several others.
w. H. Smith, the leader of the British
house of commons, has recently built
new church at Portsea at cost of more
than $4,000. He has no interest in the
place whatever, but happening TO visit it
for a day on government business he
noticed that it greatly needed new
church.
Dudley Foster, of Billerica, Mass,
hale, hearty and in his S1st year. was
elected for his thirty-sixth year as clerk,
and forty-fifth year as treasurer at the
town meeting in that place few days
ago. He declined to be a candidate, but
was elected to both offices by handsome
majority.
The steam yacht Alva, belonging to
Mr.. Vanderbilt, of New York, arrived at
Plymouth Friday.
The Arlo-Pardee saw mill and $50, 900
feet of hemlock lumber was burned Fri
day at Williamsport. Loss, $40, 900.
Frank Fields. son of Judge Fields, the
noted jurist, of Albany, N. Y, is in Jail
at Parkersburg on charge of embezzle-
ment.
Count Won Waldersee returned to Ber-
lin Friday. He was invited to dine with
the emperor, who extended him most
cordial reception.
1t is reported that the Bundersrath bill
for the protection of workmen will come
into force in April, 1891, and the bill re-
lating to children not before 1892.
The electric railway from St. Peters
burg to Archangle on the White sea, dis
tance of 500 miles, has been projected.
The estimated cost is $4,000 mile.
A committee of Chicago commission
men waited upon the Western Union
and Postal Telegraph authorities few
days ago, requesting reduction in the
rates.
A dispatch from Quebec says that an
American syndicate has purchased
controlling interest in all the binding
twine factories of Canada, excepting one
in Ontario.
The 130 feet levee at Nata Crevasse, st.
James parish, was carried away by high |
water Friday. Five thousand men are
endeavoring to stem the rise. The racks |
of the Mississippi Valley road are five |
inches under water
The London journeyman tailors de-
mand an increase in pay, and threaten a |
general strike if it is not granted. Abo- |
lition of the sweating system is aimed at |
in this movement, and the men have the |
sympathy of the public.
The state of affairs in Karwin and Os- |
tran districts resulting from the labor |
troubles is deplorable. The striking mi |
ners will allow no other people to work |
in other trades and 100000 are thrown |
out of employment and are suffering |
privation.
The Democratic congressional conven-
tion of the Second congressional district |
at Shoals. Ind, has taken 200 ballots
without reaching a choice. I. r. Cobb |
and six others are candidates for the
to succeed Congressman J.
H. O'Neall.
Fourteen convicts, chained in couples,
on board the train to Eddyville peniten-
tiary Friday, made an attempt to escape.
Four were successful. One of the
guards was shot by a convict. and only
for the bullet striking a pipe in his pocket
would have been killed. Pandemonium
reigned among the passengers until order
was restored.
Much comment has been aroused at st.
by letter from Russian
official published in the ''Graspdanin, -
and describing the perils and horrors
of journey in Siberia, even for the
wealthy. The price of everything, he
writes, is abominably high. The people
are vicious and depraved, and petty Of
ficials are thieves and drunkards. He
asserts that it is not safe to venture out |
of doors after o'clock at night unless
armed with a revolver.