Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-01-30
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

hours and 10 minutes.
\ black prisoner in the Columbus %.
Pen;tentiary has turned perfectly white.
Notwithstanding the cold weather
New York City shows an increased death
rate.
Herr Most is ashamed of his name
and will hereafter be known as plain
JOHN Mueller.
The Duguesne (Pittsburg) Kennel club
has decided not TO hold bench show
this spring.
The president has pardoned Maine
thief, but refused one TO southern
counterfeiter.
Mrs. Parnell is aga n penniless. The
relief expected from ce tain quarters
was not forthcoming.
Five people were killed in wreck on
the Savannah and Western road, neal
OJelika, Ala, Saturday.
The chapel of the Erie Soldiers home
is to be enlarged. OF the 40S veterans
80 are on the sick list.
1t will cost 800, 900 to put the famous
stone bridge at JohnStown i'll as good
con iitiOn as it was prior to the flood.
Friends of General Master Workman
Powderly are booming him for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
JohnStown flood sufferers are circulat-
ing testimonial to Gen. Hastings for his
noble work in that stricken city.
James G. Blaine. Jr.. has been ap-
pointed clerk of the committee on
foreign affairs at a salary of 81, 100 q
year.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage is on the
broad Atlantic, on his way home, after
an extended visit through the Holy
Land.
The Bedford Coal and Iron company.
of Bedford. has been chartered: capital,
| $500. 600. John Cessna Is one of the di-
rectOrs.
Gen. Lester B. Faulkner died at $50
o'clock Monday morning. The funer j
will tIke place at LanSville, \. V, Oh
/ Thursday.
The Allan line steamer PrusSian ar
rived at Halifax Monday. six days over
due She encountered terrific weather
during her passage.
Extensive iron and stee! works are tc
be erected at Dunbar, Pa. with a capi-
tai stock of $4,000 The works will
employ 1000 men.
Memorial services were held on Sun
day in the VI. E. church, Johnstown, in
memory of nftv-Seven mem erS of that
church who perished in the flood.
Senator Sherman, who has been CON
fined to his home for some time, suffer
ing from influenza, was at the Capitol
yesterday, quite recovered.
Ex-senator Riddleberger died at his
I al,+x I'...1
aged "A years. He was elected to the
United States IN 1888 as Reajuster.
The funeral of Adam Forepaugh, the
Snowman, took place Monday morning
from his late residence in Philadelphia.
The Rev Mr.. Latimer read the Episco-
pal service.
The Hale Elevator company. of Chi
cago, is preparing estimates for elevators
to be used in the construction of tower
in London, Eng, to be 200 feet higher
than the Eiffel tower.
A bill was introduced and referred tc
the special committee in the Albany
legislature, appropriating $40, 100000 to
the worlds fair, provided it is held In
New York City.
There is great excitement in Johns
town. near Albany, N. Y, over the dis
covery of oil there. 1t is reported that
the oil spurted some twenty feet when
the vein was struck.
The deadlock in the Montana legisla.
ture may be the cause of desperate re-
volt in the new state penitentiary. Nc
funds for the maintenance of the institu-
ton have been provided.
The stables of the Mcclure Coke COM
pany, near Mt Pleasant, Pa, were
burned Friday. Nineteen mules, large
quantity of grain, hay, harness, ma.
chinery, ETC., were burned.
William R. Schry was killed and D. J.
Davis badly injured by falling scaffold
at the Gautier works, Johnstown, on
Monday, and John Culligan was fatally
burned by hot metal at the Cambria
works.
A boy named French struck another
lad named Guerst on the head with a
brick and fractured his skull, at Beaver
Falls. 1t is feared he is fatally hurt.
Both boys worked at the Beaver Falls
glass factory.
Consul General Mason informs the
state department that the electrical ex-
hibition which it was designed to hold
at Frankfort on the Main, commencing
June ], 1890, has been postponed until
May 1st, 1891.
John Oyler, one of the Harrison town
ship gang of outlaws, and who made
his escape. gave himself up to the sheriff
of Bedford county. saying he was tired
dodging men who he imagined were of
ficers of the law
Andrew Grabbing, of the South Side,
PittSburg, was struck by a train near
Jeanette and instantly killed. He WAS
about 80 years old, and had ON his per-
son gold watch and chain and little
over SO in money.
While Harry Wilhelm and William
Rung were putting up some spouting on
house at Tyrone, Pa, the scaffolding
broke and both men were prrcipitated to
the ground, a distance of forty feet
They were badly injured.
The navy department is informed that
Rear Admiral Kimberly, at San Fran
cisco. turned over the command of the
Pacific squadron to Acting Rear Admiral
G. orge Brown. who hoisted the admir-
ais flag on the United States steamer
Charleston.
Charles E. Cutcher, who caught his
wife's father in compromising position
with his wife, throwing him down stairs,
from the effects of which the old man
died, was not indicted by the Youngs
town (O.) grand jury.
The handsome Nevada building, cor
ner of Fifth and Sycamore streets, Gin
cinnati. was entirely destroyed by fire
Saturday evening, entailing loss of
$3.50, 1000. Nearly twenty business firms
had their establishments wiped out of ex-
istence.
Dom Pedro is longing for home. On
being asked if he would return to Bra
ziI, should he be elected president of the
Republic, he promptly replied, with all
my heart. No matter as emperor, presi-
dent or private citizen, l would gladly
return to die among my people,
William Smith, alias Baltimore
Harry" and James Burns alias ''Balti-
more JIM" pleaded guilty in the Pitts
burg courts to seven charges of burg
larry. The first named was sentenced to
twenty-one years and six months,
and the latter seventeen yea and six
months
BEThOinoD IN JAIL.
A Prisoner Makes Love to the Sheriff-s
Daughter and is Accepted.
FALLSTON, Pa, Jan. 25.-A young
man named John NJ. Keller, an engineer