Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-23
TELEcRAPHlc BRIEFS.

Mrs. Lydia Bacon is dead at Sunbury
Mass. aged 102 years.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from the
Quincy, Ills, jail on Sunday evening.
Yale has declined a second Challenge
from Cornell for boat race at New Lon
don.
The president has appo nted William
Kerr Galbraith postmaster at Canons
burg, Pa
The senate has confirmed the nomina
ton of John B. Harlow postmaster at St
Louis
The life of the Duke of Aosta was pro
longed for some hours by the inhalation
of oxygen.
la grippe" is fast passing into OBJ
livion in London and other European
places.
Rev. DR.. Talmage is i'll with the in.
fuenza at the residence of John Lobb
in London.
The flint glass market is overcrowded
and most mills are working but five
hours per day.
The Citizens National bank, of Johns.
town, Pa, capital, 100000, has beer
authorized to begin business.
Muldoon, Cleary and their companions
have been released on bail to appear al
the June term of the court.
Unpleasant rumors are in circulation
in regard to Bismarck's health. Insanity
is much feared by his closest friends.
Franz Lachner. the famous German
musician, composer and conductor oi
Opera,ssis dead. He was 81 years of age.
The New York Young Mems Demo
cratic club endorses the Australian bal.
lot system, including the exclusive Off
cial ballot.
a brakeman named Hood was fatally
injured at the Pennsylvania railroad
station at JOhnstown yesterday by fall.
ing off the cars.
The main building at the fair grounds,
owned by the Worcester GLASS; Agri-
cultural society, was damaged $4,000
by fire Sunday.
Young Abraham Lincoln has been
safely removed from Versailles to Lon
don. He is in a critical condition, and
his life hangs by thread.
Powderly has at last been arrested on
papers sworn out by MIR. Callaghan. The
LABOR leader furnished bail for his ap-
pearance at the Westmoreland court.
The Dominion government is prepar-
ing bill prohibiting the importation
and immigration of foreigners and aliens
under contract to perform labor in
Canada.
Jake Kilrain has heen elected instruc-
tor in boxing by the Southern Athletic
club for term of four months. 1t is
believed that a permanent engagement
will be made.
Lawrence county Democrats, in con-
vention assembled, elected delegates to
the state convention and instructed them
to support Ex-Governor Robert E. Patti
son for governor.
The New York Republican club, after
heated debate. adopted the report of a
committee against coalition with any
Democratic faction in the makeup OF
municipal tickets.
William Whitney Seymour, promi-
nent Gentle ranchman at Fl. Duchesne,
Utah, was found dead in his bed, with a
bullet wound in his temple. The muir
der is laid to the Danites.
A plot to ruin the Ontario bank of
Toronto, Canada, has been revealed. w.
II. Goodwin, the assistant accountant,
has been suspended pending the result of
the examination of the banks books.
Cornelius n. Bliss has resigned from
the executive committee of the Busi-
ness Mems Republican organization, be-
cause OF the recent readmission of the
John j. o Brien faction into the Repub-
ican ranks.
Henry Slocum, the ball player who
murdered his wife on New Years eve
and has since been in hiding, has been
captured in a stable in New York.
Walter Sheridan. the American thief.
forger and counterfeiter, who was ar
rested in Montreal ten days ago in con-
nection with robbery from the Bank
du Peuple, died in Jail of the grippe
A well-dressed man, who registered at
the Grand hotel as Capt. R. A. Williams,
United States cavalry, Thursday, was
found dead in bed Monday morning.
Death was probably due to heart failure.
Ex-Postmaster Showalter, of Green's
burg, died at his residence in that city
of ia grippe after an illness of three
days. Ex-senator RiddleDerger is very
low with the same complaint at his home
in Virginia.
1IS bCu SctiC VI hNO VI ttit pOl-
teries of Trenton, n. j., to an English
syndicate is confirmed. They are the
Crescent and Delaware companies, the
international, the Prospect Hill and
Mercer companies. The amount in
volved is about 81 400, GOO.
Alderman Porter, of Pittsburg, has
been sentenced TO pay fine of $500 and
undergo an imprisonment of twenty one
months in the penitentiary. His con-
stabble, Elijah Sheppard, was given
eighteen months and to pay fine of
$500.
The Harlem Southern Aud Land Syne
gave its first annual dinner last night
at Morrells. Speeches eulogizing Lee.
Davis and Grady were made. Col. A.
H. II. Dawson, Col. John Garnett and
other representative southerners were
among the speakers.
Horace Loomis has been appointed
commissioner of street cleaning, in New
York, by Mayor Grant, and has taken
charge of the office vacated on Wednes-
day by Mr.. Coleman. For the past four
years Mr.. Loomis has been chief engi-
neer in charge of sewers in the depart
ment of public works, and has been an
engineer in the city employ for the past
twenty-five years.