Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-26
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
The gold reserve is down to $50, 100000
and is constantly decreasing.
Two girls and boy of youngstown
went nutting and have not since been
heard of.
Interior Department officials deny all
charges of crookedness in regard to the
opening of the Cherokee strip.
The American Express Company lost
$4,000 while in transit between st.
Louis and New Orleans.
Charles Gounod, the famous composer,
is dead in Paris.
Marshal MacMahon, x-President of
France, is dead.
Prof. Smith, of Lane Seminary, will
appeal to the General Assembly, the
Ohio Synod having suspended him for
heretical teaching.
An Ohio man and two children were
asphyxiated in hotel in Chicago by
blowing out the gas.
A dry goods house in New York was
robbed of 100000 by clerks.
By the burning of hotel annex in
Toledo several guests had narrow escapes.
A panic in school in Washington, d.
c., caused the death of several pupils.
There is said to be no danger of an
Indian uprising in the West.
: An attempt was made to wreck a
Norfolk and Western train loaded with
Worlds Fair excursionists, near Ports
mouth, o.
There are several cases of small pox
in Darke county, o.
The strike of the shopmen of the
Louisville and Nashville is ended.
In collision on the Grand Trunk
railroad at Battle Creek. Mich, twenty
six persons lost their lives. twenty of
the bodies being burned almost beyond
recognition.
Barnum & Baiiey's circus train was
wrecked near Clarksburg, w. Va. kill
ing one man and badly injuring several
others.
Five tramps were killed. in a wreck on
the Pennsylvania
In dispute over property Mrs. Charles
Smith shot and killed Oscar Walton, at
Walton, Ind.
An attempt will be made to amend
the Rules of the Senate so that the
majority can rule.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has purchased the Cleveland and
Marietta.
James VanAlen, who paid $4,000 for
the position of Ambassador to Italy, has
been confirmed by the Senate.
The American Mechanics and other
patriotic orders have inaugurated a
movement to have U. S. Senators elected
by direct vote Of the people.
The officials will not allow the Corbett-
Mitchell prize fight to come off at Coney
Island.
The Mitchell Corbett fight may take
place in England.
Four deaths and forty mine new cases
of yellow fever at brunswick, Ga.
The cattle killing record of the world
was broken at Kansas City at Armour's
packing house, where 3,2l8 cattle were
slaughtered in IL hours.
An express package containing 5000
was lost in transit between Lima and
Fort Wayne, Ind, few days ago and
no clue to it can be found.
Near Yorktown, Ind, the family of
Jacob Erther ate quantity of toad
stools thinking they were select quality
of mushrooms. Two members may die
and all were badly poisoned.
The report of the Post-office depart
ment shows that the net revenues of the
entire department for the year were
SIS. 1896, ,933 and the total expenditures
s81 .074.104, making deficiency of
s5,17S,171.
The receipts from customs at New
York (which comprise fully three-fourths
of those of the entire country during
the first twenty days of October amount
ed to $5,03S, ,25S, as compared with re-
ceipts amounting to S5,597,57l during
the first twenty days in September.
A ferryboat at Cincinnati blew up and
injured SeVeral people.
The reports of the industrial situation
IN Pennsylvania indicate that hard times
are at hand.
Samuel Dorsey, prosperous colored
citizen of Washington, Pa, was murder
I'd and robbed.
A collision occurred on the Fl Wayne
1t Lima because of heavy fog. Three
srainmen were badly scalded.
Both President Cleveland and Secre-
ary Carlisle are opposed to any COM
promise on the silver question.
Edward Elliott, b. 80. conductor,
was killed at New Concord by falling
from his train.
At Kenoya, o., Harry Murray, in self
iefense, killed Charley Smith, a local