Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-03-06
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ex-Governor OgleSoy, OF ILLINOIS,, de-
nies that he is candidate for the United
States senate.
State Senator B. H. Oxley has been ap-
pointed librarian and adjutant general of
West Virginia.
Boomers are congregated around Ar
kansas City awaiting the opening OF the
Cherokee strip to settlement.
The missionary steamer Glad Tidings.
reported to be lost at sea, has arrived
safely at Port Simpson, B. C.
A man named Holmes, his wife and
two children were murdered for few
dollars in the Indian territory by out
laws.
Rev. Baker Shields, revivalist at Dan
vile, ILL.,, has been threatened with vio-
lence, and now conducts meetings
guarded by armed disciples.
One of the results of the recent dis
astrous fire at Secretary Tracy's house is
the introduction of fire alarm boxes into
the White House, which has heretofore
been without adequate protection of this
kind.
Several thousand employees of the cot
ton mills at Lancaster, Pa, will work
hereafter but ten hours a day in compli-
ance with the recent act of legislature.
Eleven hours has heretofore constituted
days work.
The weather yesterday morning was
the coolest of the season throughout
Louisiana and the greater part of Missis-
sippi, the mercury at all points going be-
low 50 and doing great damage to cane,
corn, vegetables, etc.
Chauncey NJ Depew denies that he
contemplates resigning as president of
the New York Central railroad to pre-
pare as a candidate for the presidency in
1892. Mr.. Depew says there is no truth
whatever in the report.
Heavy wind storms have caused un-
usually high tides at Egg Harbor, N. j.
Sea Isle City is submerged, and at Clark
town the citizens are fleeing to the high
lands for safety. The trains on several
lines have to run over the meadows with
the greatest caution.
Three men were probably fatally in
jured in a wreck on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul fast mail train and
freight train at Oakwood, Wis, Satur-
day morning. The in jured men are En-
gineer Carroll and his fireman, of the
passenger train, and the rear brakeman
of the freight. The damage will exceed
So, 200.
At New York John Griscom was found
dead in bed, having committed suicide
with Illuminating gas. He had attached
a rubber tube to the gas burner, turned
on the gas and buried his head under the
bedclothing with the end of the tube
next his mouth. The suicide was man
of some prominence in the scientific
world and in railroad circles.
John L. Spencer, a well-known farmer
of Somerset county, N. j., has disap-
peared from his home, and it is reported
that startling irregularities have been
discovered in his business and personal
accounts. A number of notes on which
he has secured money from Plainfield
and Newark banks are said to bear
forged Endorsements. Speculation is sup
posed to have lead to his downfall.
The mercury at Santa Barbara, Cal,
reached sixty degrees in the shade few
days ago.
Jane Simmons, a mulatto woman of
Milledgeville, Ga, has followed the
butchering business for twenty years.
There are 100000 organized farmers
in the alliances, principally in the south
and west. They run cooperative stores,
mills, ware houses, etc.
Prince Bismarck intended to resign
the chancellorship, but says that the re-
suit of the recent elections caused him
to decide to remain in the office.
Miss Tart, of White Bear Lake, Mimi,
will get 81. 900 from DR.. Roman, of st.
Paul, because the doctor would not
marry her after having promised to
do so.
The Turkish consul at the Piraeus
announces that all Cretan refugees will
be granted free passage to return to their
homes with the exception of sixteen
notables.
The secretary of the treasury has
awarded the Alaska seal contract to the
North American Commercial company.
of which d. G. Mills, of New York, is
the principal stockholder.
Col. ]. Mervyn Donahue. president of
the San Francisco and North Pacific
railroad, and brother of Baroness Van
Schroeder, is reported to be dying at his
home in San Francisco.
R. ]. Boylan, Jr., observer at the
United States signal station at st. Vim
cent, Mimi, has left for parts unknown
leaving many creditors. Some of the
government property at the signal station
is also missing.
There is lady living on the east side
of the river in Augusta. Me-, who is in
her seventies and is cutting a new set of
teeth. Several months ago the gums be-
came painful, and in short time the
new teeth began to appear.
The other day in the Iowa legislature
Peter o. Matthews, full l-blooded Digger
Indian, officiated as chaplain. He
served in the army during the war, was
an Indian scout, went to college, became
a minister and is now teaching school.
Chauncey NJ. Depew says: "For the
first legal paper l ever drew 1 charged
S1.50. A farmer was my client. and he
beat me down 81. Twenty years after
l wrote paper precisely similar and re-
ceived for it $500, with many thanks"
Judge Pancoast, council tor LIE Coney.
continued his address to the jury yester-
day morning. He read frequently and
at length from the evidence and in con-
sequence became very monotonous.
The case will not be concluded this
week.
C. C. Mohney, a school teacher of Red
Bank, Pa, aged 10, was given hearing
before United States Commissioner Nc
Candless at Pittsburg yesterday after
noon on the charge of using the mails
for improper purposes, and was held in
$1,000 bail for the May term of the
United States court. Mohney was con-
Quoting green goods swindle.