Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-27
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

throughout Europe is estimated at 4,
600, 200 francs.
AT Providence. R. l., four strangers
beat roulette wheel for 81, 700 on Sat
urday by plastering it.
President Corbin, of the Reading Rail
road, prohibits employees drinking while
on duty under penalty of discharge.
Pitcher Pete Conway, of last year.
Pittsburg team, signed contract Satur-
day with the Brooklyn brotherhood
club.
At Madrid forged notes to the amount
of 500, 900 pesetas have been discovered
in a package brought to a bank from
Seville.
The Canadian government has decided
to expend $4,000 more or $50, 600 in all
purchasing seed wheat for northwest
| farmers.
William Jones, driver for Chemical
| Company No. 1. a victim of the Bowen
Merrill Company disaster at Indianap-
oils, died Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smiley, the Oldest resi-
dent of Dunbar, Pa, died Saturday aged
SO. Her father and mother died at the
ages of 104 and 102 respectfully.
The bodies of four colored laborers
were found Saturday in the woods near
Blocton, Ala. Three had been shot and
one killed with an ak. No clew to the
murderers.
Ten skeletons were discovered by ex-
cavators near Pierre, S. d. They are
the remains of Henry Mackenzie, wife
and friends who were massacred by
Sioux Indians thirty five years ago.
| z. c. Ricketts,, the Democratic prose-
cutting attorney of Cabell county, w.
Va, has been removed from office for
intemperance. He is one of the ablest
men of the state, but has been ruined by
dissipation.
A freight train went through a trestle
on the Georgia Pacific Saturday. Con-
ductor NJ tchell was killed and four
trainmen seriously, and perhaps fatally,
| injured. The officials think the trestlt
had been tampered with.
The British steamer Virent, from Su-
liua, Roumania, for London, has been
abandoned at sea with her shaft broken.
The captain and eight of the crew have
landed at Ferrol. The mate and fourteen
other men belonging to the crew were
| lost.
The Rev. DR.. Duncan McGregor, a
well-known pulpit orator of Brooklyn,
and for the past four years pastor of the
| Carroll Park Methodist Church in that
city, Friday night announced his conver-
sion from Methodism to the Baptist
faith.
Governor Miller, of North Dakota, has
refused to sign the bill allowing two
years instead of one for the redemption
of mortgaged property, on account of
advices from loan agents, stating that
the measure would result in financial
disaster to the state.
John Conklin. of Harrisburg, Pa who
was an official of the Iron and Steel As
sociation of the United States, has been
appointed by Secretary Window a spe-
cial inspector under the alien contract
labor law. His pay will be 81 day and
So pay for expenses.
A special from San Francisco says that
fast steamer is being fitted out there
for seal poaching in Behring sea by
company of local and eastern capitalists.
The government revenue steamers can
make only eight knots an hour. while
the pirate is expected to make twelve.
Governor Merriam has issued requisi-
tons on Governor Toole, of Montana,
for Charles A. Searle and William c.
Payne, arrested at Missoula Friday night,
on the charge of robbing the Northern
Pacific Express Company of $4,000 at
Brainerd, Mimi, eight months ago.
The Russian government has aban-
doned the prosecution of the woman
Tchebrikov, who was charged with
writing and sending to the czar letter
threatening that unless he modified his
reactionary policy he would meet the
fate of Peter Ill, Paul and Alexan-
del IL.
Ex-Congressman John NJ. Glover. of
ST. LOUIS, who spends much of his time
now in New York and Washington, re-
Gently met with rare stroke of luck.
He found in st. Louis, few years ago
a Swedish inventor, who had made some
wonderful discoveries in the way of
eleC trical and steam appliances. He in
vestigated them, had faith in them, and
secured a fine string of patents. He is
confident that he has million dollars in
sight.
The stove filters in Wheeling yester-
day struck for an increase of wages.
Tony Mullane has been called to Erie,
Pa, by the sudden death of his sister,
Edward Swetenham, member of Parl-
lament for the Carnarvon district, Is
dead. He was Conservative.
The Westinghouse electric company,
of Pittsburg, has won victory on the
subway question in New York.
indianapolis is said to have been Of
fered S67 900 for its franchises and play
ers, and the offer will be accepted.
James Slocum, the base ball player,
was sentenced to death yesterday morn
ing by Judge MARITIME, of New York, for
the murder of his wife.
DR.. W. II. Mccullough. of Tarentum,
a member of the state commission on
the improvement of country roads, is in
favor of not abolishing the tax on whis- |
ky and tobacco, but of retaining it, and |
using it for the improvement of the |
roads.
Yardmaster Jamison has granted re-
quest of the trainmen of the Baltimore |
and Ohio railroad at Wheeling to the |
effect that eleven hours constitute a |
day S work with one hour for dinner. |
The new method went into effect yes |
terday.
A number of workmen who were hold
ing meetings at Koepenick, Germany,
last night. became excited by the |
speeches made to them and acted in a
riotous manner. The gen d armes were
called upon to disperse the work men,
and while endeavoring to do so two of
them were wounded by the rioters.
An interesting aerial contest was wit
messed a. st. Augustine, Fla, between
an eagle and a fish hawk The fish
hawk was being pursued by the eagle,
and in order to make its escape had to
drop its burden, which proved to be a
large founder. The fish fell in a yard
and was taken in and meal made out
of it.
THE MARKETS.
Chicago Market.
CHICAGO, March 25.