Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-08-14
FRIDAYS NEWS

of the proposals submitted by publishers
to supply fully the wants of the schools
of the State.
FRIDAYS NEWS
"Private" DalzeIl is candidate for
Commander-in-C Chief of the G.. A. r.
The first Territorial election in Okla
homa has resulted in a Republican
victory.
In Chicago, Mrs. ANN Seuron- was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
There are already two deficiencies
under the administration of Governor
Campbell that aggregate s1,l00.
Dynamite placed in sheaf of wheat
caused the wreck of threshing machine
and injuries to several men near Xenia, O..
At Chicago, Mrs. Boersna attempted
to light her fire with kerosene. The can
exploded. She and her little girl dead.
The official census figures make Chi
cago the second city in population in
the United States, New York first and
Philadelphia third.
At Providence, r. l., Jerome Sweet,
an ice peddler, poured kerosene oil on
his wife Catherine, and set fire to her
clothing. She can not recover.
Prof j. NJ. Hirsch, of Chicago, claims
to have discovered process by which
he can extract aluminium from common
clay at cost of fifteen cents per pound
The convicts in the shoe shop of the
Massachusetts, prison at Charleston,
made desperate and united effort to
escape, but were repulsed by the guards.
BY an explosion in a saw-mill thirteen
miles east of Lafayette, Ind, James
Shoemaker was killed, John Jacoby, the
proprietor fatally hurt, and others badly
injured.
Edward Trensch, a pocket-book ven
der, dropped dead of heart disease in
Chicago. Attendants at the Morgue
found sewn in bis underclothing $4,000
and deed to the house in which he had
lived.
Rev. James Campbell, of the NJ. E.
Church, Mt. Healthy, Ind, is under ar
rest, charged with seduction and abor-
ton. His victim is the sixteen year-Old
daughter of wealthy farmer named
Huntsman.
For the first time since the war,
Hamilton county, Tenn, in which is
the city of Chattanooga, went Demo
cratic, owing to the new Democratic
registration law and the Australian
system of ballot.
1t is reported that the stock of the
Louisiana Lottery Company has depre-
ciated from $1,000 to $500 share on
account of the agitation by the Anti
Lottery League and the position taken
by the National Administration.
The Senate Committee on Elections
has favorably reported the Lodge bill,
so amended as to make it Supervisor
bill pure and simple, and to rid it of
all those Objectionable features that
prompted its opponents to call i'll
'force" bill.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
A severe hail storm in Minnesota de-
stroyed standing grain and all crops,
causing great loss.
The Commission appointed to locate
the new Ohio Epileptic Asylum has de-
cided on Gallipolis.
A ship load of bananas was lost by
the wreck of the steamship Signe on
coral reef of the Bahamas.
Casper Imloes was crushed to death
between heavy wagon and wall at
Moerlein's brewery, Cincinnati, Friday.
So many cases of suicide among the
school children of Germany on account
of Overstudy, failure to pass examination,
&C., that a relaxation of the school dis
cipline is suggested.
The people of Oklahoma are threat
ened with distress on account of failure
of crops from drouth. The President
has sent message to Congress recon-
mending measures of relief.
Wooster, o., has voted 900 to 46 in
favor of bonding the city to complete
fifteen miles of an unfinished railroad to
Lodi, where connection will be made
with the Nypano and Wheeling and
Lake Erie roads.
Mrs. Anna Nickel, of Columbus, O.,
after suffering five or six years with
what was supposed to be a disease of
the stomach, vomited frog two inches
long, with front legs and tail and
without any skin.