Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-05-08
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

There are strikes in the mines at Lincoln
Pana and Bloomington, Ills.
Three sharp shocks of earthquake were felt
in Nevada at 9iS O'Clock Sunday morning.
The 800 Chinese vegetable dealers 1t Los
Angeles have formed trust to control the
business
The new high sheriff of Montreal wants in
dependence for Quebec or annexation TO the
United States.
There are 2,5O carpenters on strike in
Detroit. The machinery men went out Satur-
day, closing ten planning mills.
Over 1000 carpenters and joiners at San
Francisco have struck for eight hours, joining
the $50 mill workers. already out.
The Economics will shortly be asked to en-
dow library at Beaver Fails, Pa, on the site
at present occupied by the Y. Nj. c. a.
w. s. Slingdtf, cashier of the Montgomery
bank, Norristown, Pa, resigned Saturday
and is charged with irregularities amounting
to S25,OO1.
Specials from Chippewa Falls and Rice
Lake, Wis, report great damage done by for
est fires, which are raging in the timber dis
tricts for miles around.
The Louisville bricklayers, plasterers, mold
ers, plumbers and several other branches OF
wage workers to the number of 300 will join
the carpenters on Monday in their strike for
an eight-hour day.
The bituminous operators and miners of
Indiana reached an agreement Saturday.
The 70-cent scale was signed. 1t does not ar-
ply to the Washington and Augustine mines.
This settles the strike.
At Quebec, Marie Nadeau, II years Of age
burned to death in fire that destroyed a
shanty for making maple sugar on her fathers
farm. Her father and brother, also sleeping
in the building. escaped. Father thought that
he had rescued his daughter, but found he
had only the pillows and bed clothes from her
4. bed.
Father Schyuse has Joined Emin's expedi-
ton.
The steamer Yorkshire, from Liverpool May
!, for Baltimore, is returning with her cargo
Cn fire.
The state encampment, G. A. R., elected
NJ. NJ. Holmes, of Seattle, department COM
mander.
The Republicans of the Fifth Congressional
district, at E:gfn, Wednesday,, nominated A.
J. Hopkins, of Kane county.
The president has approved an act authoriz-
ing the construction of a bridge across the
BrazoS river, in Texas.
The Baptist and Catholic churches at Boyls-
ton, Mass, and also the Catholic parsonage,
were burned to the ground yesterday morning.
Hon. George W. Smith, ex-judge of the su-
preme court. died Friday morning of infiu-
It is believed at Washington that Secretary
Blaine will appoint John B. Moore, now third
assistant secretary Of state, to the position
made vacant by the death of Walker Blaine
The stage running from Bowie to Thomas,
AriZ-, was stopped by two MeIicans on Fri
day. Express matter was taken and passea-
gers compelled to surrender their valuables.
About 1000 carpenters went out on strike at
Louisville Friday morning. They demand
II. -
About twenty of the bosses have conceded,
but the others will make fight.
The Duke of Edinburgh opened the electric
exhibition at Edinburgh Thursday.
All the carpenters of Knoxville, Tenn, both
union and non-union, are on strike for eight
hours work and ten hours pay.
A group of workingmen Thursday morning
visited the tomb of the Socialist Fontana, Lis
bon, and placed wreath thereon.
Thursday being the semi-annual settling
day of the Bank of England it was observed as
a holiday on the London Stock Exchange.
Over $50 sash door and blind makers at
Rochester, n. Y, struck Thursday morning
The men ask for nine hours a day with ten
hours pay.
A railroad accident occurred at Castroville,
Gala, Thursday, resulting in the death of one
man, the serious injury Of two others and the
smashup of several cars.
Joseph H. Ford, formerly bookkeeper for II.
B. Clafin & Co., New York, and at present
cashier Of the Chicago Beef company, is re-
ported missing since Monday night.
Three thousand miners Thursday marched
in procession to the town hall, Liege. where
they formally presented petition calling for
the establishment of the eight-hour day.
There was a partial cessation Of work at
Rome and in the principal cities and towns OF
Italy ThnrS1av nSnatcba frOrD nj no rfS of
the country show that order has been main
taiIed.
AT a meeting of the worlds fair directors
Wednesday evening Lyman J. Gage was
unanimously elected president, and Thomas
B. Bryan and Potter Palmer respectively first
and second vice presidents.
The new 1-cent daily paper, The Evening
Graphic, appeared yesterday afternoon In
New York. The editors and publishers arc
western journalists. 1t will be Republican In
politics and will be issued from No. Spruce
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