Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-07-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items from Everywhere, Condensed for
Quick Reading.
SUNDAYS NEW

The army worm is doing great damage
TO crops in Clarke county, o.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
arrived in England, and is a guest at
Windsor Castle.
1t is reported the Sultan will not
allow the Jews to settle in Palestine
outside of Jerusalem.
Adams county sends Neal delega-
tion to the Democratic State Convention.
Jefferson county sends one for Campbell.
Martin Kuhns has been convicted at
Tifin, Ohio, of murder in the second
degree for the killing of William L.
Campeau.
Thirty-eight thousand pounds of
American pig tin has been shipped
from California mines to st. Louis for
manufacture.
Two coaches of a Kanawha and
Michigan train went off trestle near
Charlotte, W. Va. Fifteen people were
killed and fifty-three injured.
At Indian Lake, in the Adirondacks,
three little children who were accused
of petty thefts, attempted to commit
suicide by taking paris green.
Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President of
the United States during Lincoln's first
administration, was taken suddenly i'll
while playing pedro at his club in
Bangor, Me-, and died soon.
MONDAYS VIEWS.
Dalbert Little, a Lima boy, was fa-
tally injured by the bursting of toy
cannon.
Mrs. Mary Nimmer, of Pittsburgh, in
fit of religious hysteria determined to
sacrifice her child, and so badly mangled
it with hatchet that it will die.
On Saturday evening Fred Kidwell
fired two shots at Belle ImbOdy during
a lovers quartet at Newark, O., one
taking effect in the girls breast and the
other in her back. Kidwell then fled.
VIM. Coe and Charles Adgate quar-
relied on train near Youngstown early
yesterday morning, and Adgate threw
Coe from the coach. Coe fell across the
rails and had both feet cut off besides
suffering a fracture of the skull.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
Secretary Blaine is as well as usual
despite the sensational reports to the
contrary.
Twelve persons are still unaccounted
for at the Ravenna wreck,s and they are
believed to have been burned.
The body of the young man found
near Morganza, turns out to be that of
Clifford Roberts, of Richmond, Ohio, to
which place it was taken for interment,
yesterday.
At 6 o'clock on Monday morning
cyclone struck the Louisiana Peniten-
tiary, at Baton Rouge, and destroyed the
building. Ten convicts were killed and
sc injured. Much other damage was
done in the city.
A conflict between some Southern
cadets and a number of colored men
was precipitated at Indianapolis by one
of the cadets addressing some insulting
remarks to colored man. Several of
the cadets were badly used up.
Al Baushman, farm hand, about %
years of age, in the employ of Michael
Worley near New Franklin, O., while
gathering berries Sunday afternoon, ac-
cidentally shot himself through the left
shoulder, making frightful wound.
WEDNESDAYS NEWS.
The leaders of the Farmers Alliance
are counting on heavy showing at the
Kentucky election in August.
1t has been settled that the freight
men were to blame for the Ravenna
horror. They were running too close to
the express.
Grasshoppers are devastating some
portions of Wyoming. In some places
they have collected on the railroad
tracks and delayed trains.
Four murderers, Slocum, Smiler,
Wood and Jugiro, were executed by
electricity at Sing Sing prison, New
York, on Tuesday morning. Death was
instantaneous and apparently painless.