Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-05-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

Quarters.
The Lewiston reservoir broke or
Wednesday night and thousands OF
acres in Hardin and Logan counties
were flooded. No lives were lost.
Three travelling Arabs are in Jail al
GAINESVILLE on the charge of numbering
the child of one of the women.
The train that bore the visiting naval
officers from New York to Chicago was
the finest ever run by the New York
Central.
The official trial trip of the new cruiser
New York will be made 10 few days.
Governor Mckinley spoke at the meet
ing of the Boston Home Market Club.
Ex-Sheriff Bowman, of Wayne county,
was found dead in the Court house at
Wooster. Drunk.
Elmer Cuthbertson, of Alliance, was
beating his way to Chicago, and, falling
off box car while asleep. was found at
Orrville nearly dead from personal in
juries.
Mrs. Buyers. wife of stock farm
manager near Youngstown, eloped with
farm hand. The runaways were To-
Gated in Cleveland.
Gen. A. J. Warner. of Marietta, will
endeavor to secure the Peoples nomina-
ton this fall, and failing in that will
run independent.
Moody and Sankey will conduct gospel
meetings in Chicago during the Fair.
The storm of last week started in
Texas and landed in Maine.
The Cuban rebels have surrendered
and peace is restored.
Strauss & Stein, one of the largest
jewelry firms in Cincinnati, has failed.
There is row between the women
managers of the Worlds Fair.
An attempt was made on Thursday
night to wreck a Lake Erie and Western
train near Lima. The train contained
heavy shipment of money. The train
being late prevented the success of the
scheme.
Lieut. Peary has made all arrange
ments for his polar expedition.
There were a number of failures in
Wall Street on Friday, among others
Deacon White.
The cordage trust has failed.
A child fell out of the window of a
running train at Delaware, on Friday,
and was killed.
Wilmington, Ohio, was visited by a
cyclone Friday and much damage was
done.
James McClurg shot George Sielers,
at Gallipolis, thinking that Sielers was
the betrayer of his daughter. He shot
the wrong man.
The adjourned meeting of the None
tary Conference has been postponed
until November.
The widow of Senator Kenna was ap-
pointed postmaster at Charleston, w. Va.
Five tramps were killed in a collision
near Dayton.
Chauneey NJ. Depew says Cleveland
acts like baby with a locomotive. He
does not know what to do in the finan-
cial crisis.
An unknown tramp was lynched at
Mesaba, Mimi, for assaulting two little
girls.
Paderewski. the Polish pianist, sailed
for home Saturday.
The National Republican League is in
session at Louisville.
There is big deficiency in the treasury
of Ottawa county, the second defalcation
in ten years.
Ex-Governor F )ster has declined to
serve of the State arbitration board.
The preliminary contracts for the new
asylum at Massillon have been awarded.
There promises to be more trouble this
year between the iron masters and iron
The former will ask for re-
duction in wages.
The Worlds Fair was closed on Sun
day.
Austrian exhibitors at Chicago were
arrested for selling goods which had been
free as exhibits.
The steamboat Ohio exploded on the
below Cairo, on Sunday.
Six persons were killed and ten others
probably fatally injured.
Ten persons were killed and many
more injured by Big Four train jump
ing the track at Lafayette, Ind, Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Depew died on
sunday.
Carlyle W. Harris was executed at the
Sing Sing prison, N. Y, Monday. He
protested his innocence with his last
words.
b. 81. Warner, the "Safe Cure" man.
las made an assignment.
Scarlet fever has broken out at Zanes-
vile with serious results.
Col Ward Lamon, for a time Private
Secretary to President Lincoln, and
.uthor of life of Lincoln, died at
W. Va, Monday.
Edwin Booths condition is improved
md he may recover.
The railway conductors are in conyen-
ion at Toledo.
The Chemical National Bank, of Chi
ago, has failed.
The attendance at the Words Fair IS
much larger this week than last.
Judge Lochren, the new Commission
It of Pensions, took charge of his Office
N Tuesday.
There has yet been no settlement of
he coal miners strike, although nego-
iations are in progress.
Mrs. Nancy Farwell, of Wooster, eel
brated the hundredth anniversary OF
er birth on Tuesday.
At Alliance, Ohio, Elmer Harrington,
nd Joseph Bell were probably fatally
Injured by their teams colliding while
ne was running away.
Gustave Shular and Martha Kline, of
Akron, while out riding drove over the
dge of the bridge at Cuyahoga Falls
hey fell into the river a hundred feet