Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-05-14


seven, was frightened to death by a
st. Bernard dog.
The Catholic newspapers of the ceun-
try have combined to establish a central
agency for the supply of news.
The County Infirmary building, near
Muncie, Ind, was burned, the cause
being bad natural gas regulation.
At Springfield, o., Miss Alice Madi-
son, who is dying of consumption, was
baptized in the metallic easket secured
for her burial.
The production of whisky in the
United States last year was 120,OOO,O0O
gallons, five millions more than in any
previous year.
The result of the Indianapolis munic-
ipal election was a Democratic defeat,
and the Republicans gain all they had
lost, and more.
The analysis of the spleen and liver
of W. B. Snooks, the Louisville bride
groom who died of poisoning, revealed
a quantity of copper.
T. E. Byrnes, of Minnesota, has been
appointed National Organizer of the
Republican League of Clubs. The
headquarters have been established in
New York.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
The Chicago death rate for April was
$3.50, more than double that of April,
1890.
Reports of crop prospects along the
line of the great Northern Railroad are
highly favorable.
An explosion of gas in the Ocean
mine, near Clarksburg, W. Va, caused
the death of four miners.
The boundary line dispute between
Venezuela and Columbia has been set
tied in favor of the latter.
George Nicholson, a farmer near
Milan, Ind, after three months exper-
ience, decided marriage failure and
committed suicide.
At San Francisco W. C. WCodford
remained awake 158 hours, As minutes
The Detroit record was IA hours, 20
minutes. He won 800.
Secretary of State Ryan has refused
to incorporate the "German Social Club"
of Pomeroy, o. Its object was private
and social beer drinking on Sunday.
Richard Grass, of West Virginia. con-
fessed to forging pension papers and
false swearing, and was sentenced TO
four years har6 labor in the penitentiary.
Petition has been filed for dissolution
of the FavoriGe Stove Works Company,
of Piqua, Ohio. formerly of Cincinnati
About $4,000 has been lost in the bust
ness.
A Syrian named Elias Khouri claims
to have discovered the secret of the silk
worms process, and he is in this
country proposing te start factory ins
Georgia.
Mary Fahey, aged twenty, insane from
grip, wandered from her home, near ST.
Cloud, Mimi, and, after search of three
weeks, was found in the woods living on
bark and roots.
A man named Simpson. fugitive
from West Virginia, where he is wanted
for murder, was arrested near Dayton,
o., but escaped from the train on the
way to West Virginia. He is Fheavily
maEacled.
A passenger and the limited mail
trains on the Panhandle, collided near
Dennison, o. Daniel Longnecker, bag
was instantly killed, and
Engineer Steen, Express Messenger Ma
rion and Postal Clerks Crouch, Rogers
and Miller were seriously injured. The
engines and postal and baggage cars
were demolished.
Secretary Blaine has replied to Lord
Salisbury's latest note in regard.to the
arbitration of the seal question. Blaine
suggests certain notifications of the
question to be arbitrated. The PROPOSE
lion to consider the question of damag-
IS for seizure of English ships in the
Behring is met by the counter PROPOSE
ion of indemnity to the United States
for the seals taken by Canadian poaeh-
srs, if the arbitration results in main
aiming the claims of the United States.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
The State Convention of the Prohibit
ionists of Ohio will be held at SPRING
ield, June 9, 10, and II.
Some boys started a fire in wagon
'hed, in Chicago, and fifteen two-story
dwellings, were destroyed.
William Price, colored, was executed
1t Marshall, Mo-, for an assault upon q
young girl, as a result of which she COM
nitted suicide.
In Upshur county, W. Va, Solomon
Efaw, after failing to burn the residence
If his neighbor, 5. b. Bennett, shot him
through window.
Mr.. Alva Agee, President of the Ohio
Farmers Alliance, says the organization
S non-partisan, and has no intention of
putting an independent ticket in the
ield this fall.
Latest reports of the condition of the
beach crop in Delaware and Maryland
peninsula are that the damage from the
'rost is very slight, the principal injury
being to strawberries.
The Spring Garden National Bank, OF
has been closed by the
of the Currency. The Penn
safe and Trust Deposit Company as
signed, its interests being mingled with
he bank.
William Wrightman, farmer near
Ind, while moving wheat
in his barn, found an old pOeketeook
S11,500 in gold coin and
paper currency. He does not knew
how it came there.
ASK YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT IT.
Your distressing cough can be cured;
we know it because kemp's BalSam with
in the past few years has cured so many
coughs and colds in this community; its
sale has been won entirely by
its genuine merit; ask some friend Who
has used it what he thinks of Kemp's Bal