Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-03-26

Italian emigrants to New York collided
with a British ironclad in Gibraltar Bay
and sank. 1t is estimated that six
hundred Italians perished.
THURSDAY.
The total number of lives lost by the
sinking of the Utopia in Gibraltar Bay
is $40.
Secretary Foster says be is not a can,
didate for U. S. Senator, and thinks Sen
ator Sherman will be reelected.
The New York bankers who want
gold for export to Europe, have indicat-
ed their willingness to take coin.
The J. & A. Simpkinson Company,
dealers in boots and shoes, Cincinnati
assigned. Assets 100000, liabilities
100000.
Suit has been brought against the
Standard Oil Company, of New York
for forfeiture of charter for connection
with the Trust.
Bernard Jarter and his two daughters,
thirteen and eighteen years old, perish
ed in tenant-house fire in New York,
that was of incen diary origin.
The Brice- Thomas party has secured
control of the Monon by purchasing
S5,800,000 of bonds. A thorough re-or-
ganinization under new management is
contemplated.
FRIDAYS NEWS.
Henry Averling, a well-known actor,
committed suicide in New Y ork by tax
ing cyanide of potassism.
Allen w. Thurman has resigned from
the Board of Control of base ball clubs
under the National Agreement.
Representative FELTON, has been
elected U. S. Senator by the California
Legislature, to succeed Senator Hearst.
The Wesleyan Ecumenical Conference
in America has been postponed to Octo-
Der z, to escape the heat of summer for
the sessions.
1t is reported from Washington that
all the Italians slain by the New Orleans
mob were naturaliZed Americans, which
disposes of the protest of the Italian
Government.
A life convict in the Wisconsin Peni-
tentiary suggests to the Secretary of
the Navy that the deficiency of men in
the navy be made up from the inmates
of penitentiaries.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Hon. L. T. Neal says he is not a
candidate for Governor of Ohio.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
will put on mortgage of $250,000, 900,
the largest ever recorded.
Lewis Purdy, Postmaster at Scrub
Oak, N. Y, who was appointed during
the administration of President William
Henry Harrison, and has held the office
continuously since, is dead.
1t is reported that the main support
of the Chilian insurgents comes from
the English nitrate traders and specu-
lators who are offended at the Govern
ment because it will not submit to their
dictation.
The Legislative Committee investi-
eating charges against the Cincinnati
Board of Public Improvements has SUBJ
mitted report finding the evidence was
largely hearsay; that there was doubt as
to any irregularity on part of Council;
that Comptroller Stevens has been guilty
of malfeasance in office; that the testi-
mony does not sustain the charges of
malfeasance and corruption against
members of the Board of Public I'm
provements; that the existing conditions
from August till the Board was legis-
lated out of Office would have justified
the Governor in taking summary action
had power of removal been vested in
him.
SUNDAYS NEWS.
The Cincinnati Republicans on Satur-
day nominoted John B. Mosby for
Mayor, and Rufus B. Smith, Judge of
Superior Court.
The engineer at Benjamin Binager's
saw mill at Albany, Ind, tried to raise
steam on low water so as to start the
pumps The mill is wrecked and one
man seriously injured.
MONDAYS NEWS.
John A. Mackay, the comedian, died
of pneumonia at the Burnet House,
Cincinnati.
The total shortage of ex-Treasurer
Woodruff, of Arkansas, as officially |
stated, is 1863, 1853.
Near Flat Top, W. Va, a Hungarian |
who robbed another of $3.50, was lynched |
by mob of his countrymen.
n. p. Tobin, of Franklin, Pa, was
murdered by burglars, who then set fire
to the house to hide the crime.
Near Caldwell, o., George Harris,
while under the influence of whisky,
hen his own.
TUESDAYS NEWS.
Parnell will resign and stand for
eelection to Parliament.
The religious revival at Steuben-
lille, O., closed Sunday night, the roll
If converts numbering some 600.
Near Vienna, o., Todd Moore, aged
nineteen, quarreled with his father,
William Moore, and shot and instantly
Tiled him.
The capital of the Washington Ma
ional Bank, of New York, has been so
impaired through the President loaning
o irresponsible friends that the Bank
Examiner has taken charge of its affairs.
IT is not the extremes of heat and cold
D much as the sudden changes in tenn
erature that causes certain climates to
e unhealthful When, however, the sys
I'm is invigorated with Ayers Sarsapar S
la, these changes are rarely attended :,
18th injurious results. /.
The Government Secretary of British
uiana has informed the Canadian Min
ter of Finance, in response to overtures
,r an extension of trade relations that
ere of a character to interfere with the