Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-09-18
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Three children, Oscar Peaman, Hosea
Douglass and Kinsey Douglass, charged with
drowning playmate at Rockville, Ind, were
acquitted.
Another bloody feud has been started in
Breathitt county, Ky. This time it began
with the killing of Andy Chalmer, on Sunday
last, on Jelts creek.
The general grievance committee of engi-
neers and firemen employed on the Santa Fe
system held short meeting on Saturday and
unanimously agreed not to strike.
The board of managers of the Philade lphia
and Reading Railroad company will increase
the salary of President Mcleod to $4,000, the
largest next to Chauncey M. Depew, who, it is
said, gets $4,000.
The steamer Augusta Victoria, of the Ham,
burg-American Packet company, completed
her voyage Saturday in 8 days. - hours and
"a minutes from Southampton, her best previ-
Gus record being days and l hour. The dis
tance Travelled was BOB knoss.
Reports of almost a total crop failure come
from Sphinx county, n. d.
Pearl-producing clans have been found in
the Manitowoc river, Wis.
Associates of Loring X. Loomis, a missing
Chicago stock broker, claim he took 81, 600 of
their money.
Sixteen soldiers of the Berlin Seventy
eighth regiment have been imprisoned for dis
obeying orders
A valuable package of pension vouchers
mailed from Madison, Wis, TO Milwaukee
have been mysteriously lost.
Chicago societies have organized to defend
the public school system and oppose the power
of the Roman Catholic church.
After being flogged by his teacher, little
Fred Wilcox became insane and ran to his
mothers grave near Lewiston, Ills.
One side Of he philadalnhia oud Paadfn,
railroad depot at Lebanon was wrecked by
dynamite by burglars, who failed to get any
thing.
Ruskin will publish, in the early part of
1891, two volumes of poems, illustrated by
plates from his own designs.
StaffOrdshire miners have declared in favor
of eight hours as a legal days work. Miners
of Durham, who struck for seven hours, have
compromised on ten.
Gen. Booth, the head of the Salvation Army,
is about publishing book embod, ing the his
tory and doctrines of the organization. II is
called: Darkest England, and the Way
Out"
The troops which left Boise City, Idaho, Oh
the 9TH instant, for the annual field practice,
have arrived at point where the Indians are
reported to be uneasy. No trouble is antici-
pated.
NJ. Laguerre, the well-known supporter of
Gen. Boulanger, is preparing a speech in
which he will renounce fealty to the Bou-
LANCER party, and will assume the position of
a Revisionist.
A riot has occurred at wilma, growing out of
the charge that certain Jews were guilty of
the murder of a Christian. Many Jews were
terribly maltreated before the military quelled
the disturbance.
DR.. Koch, the German physician, who
claims that he has discovered a method Of
curing consumption by incubation. is about
to commence experiments on human patients
who are suffering from Tuberculosis.
Emil Dietzch, well known as the "Poetical
Coroner of Cook County," died yesterday at
Chicago, aged 81 years. In conjunction with
Gen. Lieb, Dietzch wrote emperor William
and the German People," and was the sole
author of "A History of the Germans in