Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will stop no trains at Salem as a retalls-
tory measure for certain legislation by
the city council.
A stairway in the o. p breaking down
gave several convicts bad fall.
Gen. Fsirchild, of Wisconsin, was
elected Commander of the Loyal Legion
to succeed ex- President Hayes.
The Southern inter State Immigration
Association wants Northern money,
bone and sinew to come South.
The gold reserve went down to $780,
899,0O8 last week, the lowest point since
its creation.
The Ohio State bankers In their meet
ing in Columbus last week demanded
the repeal of the Sherman law.
At New Albany Silas Monroe fell
from wagon and his head was crushed
under the wheels.
Richard Haylock. aged %, hung him.
self at Akron because he was sick.
The continuous session of the Senate
to force a vote on the repeal bill lasted
80 hours and adjourned Friday morning
without accomplishing anything.
Over 500 horses were roasted to death
by the burning of street car barns in
Chicago.
w. F. Shoot, of Warren, was to have
married Miss Mabel Crawford, of Co
lumbus, but just as the ceremony was
to have been performed, the groom was
arrested charged with embezzlement.
Gov. Mckinley was given great
ovation at Chillicothe. Meals home.
At Pemberton, o., L. j. Moore, q
hostler, while on his way home had his
head beaten into jelly by someone
unknown.
Two Council Bluffs, Iowa, fremsn
were caught firing buildings In order to
get the salaries of the firemen increased.
Twelve business blocks at Sioux City,
Iowa, were wiped out by fire.
Two boys at Alliance drank some
and are lying at the point Of death
Two oil drillers at Bowling Green
we're caught by flames and burned to
death.
Eighteen were killed and about so
injured in telescope Of two excursion
trains on the Michigan Central, at Jack
son, Mich.
The Union Pacific railroad has gone
into the hands of receiver.
Ex-State Factory Inspector Mcdonald
has been indicted 123 times by the Co.
lumbus grand jury.
At Manhattan. Ohio, Ida Dussean
was cleaning bedstead with gasoline,
when it caught fire and she was burned
20 death,
The storm of last week was general
over the country and communication
was badly interrupted by wires being
blown down.
The yacht Vigilant won three straight
races from the Valkyrie and the cup
stays in Americs.
Dun's Commercial Agency reports no
improvement in business but holds out
hope that a betterment will soon come
a domestic, who was thought to be
poor, died at Noristown, Pa, and she
was found to have $4,000.
Brunswick, Ca. has thirty two new
cases of yellow fever.
Joseph Niles, post-ofice swindler.
was captured at Wapakoneta by order
or United states officers.
The humane congress, in session at
Chicago, resolved against the use of the
check-rein on horses.
DR.. A. Anderson, of Millington, Tenn,
was poisoned by infection from a post
mortem and may die.
The Comstock family, living near
Jerico Spring. Mo-, was poisoned by
strychnine mysteriously placed in food
eaten for supper.
United States Minister Thompson at
Rio has given notice that Ameri-
can trade will be protected on entry and
export from that port.
There was a severe windstorm all
along the Atlantic coast and westward,
making telephone and telegraphic CON-
munication for long distances almost
impossible.
The First National bank Of Glencoe,
Mimi, was broken into at night and
$I2, 900 worth of postage stamps and
small amount of currency taken.
An open switch near Shreve. Ohio.
caused collision between freights in
which both engines were demolished.
Fireman Powell was killed and Fireman
Sexton had his right foot taken off.
An attempt by four masked men to
hold up the fast express on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad was
frustrated by the telegraph operator at
Oak Glenn, near Chicago.
During the recent storm on the lake
the vessels Dean Richmond and Mime
haha went down. All were lost.
The building of the South Dakota
University was burned.
1t is stated the new tariff bill viii
probably be reported before the holidays.
Iron ore. lead ore, coal and wool will all
be put on the free list.
Ghouls robbed several dead bodies in
the ST. Louis niorgue while the keeper
was absent.
There is a strike on with the Flint
Glass Workers Union and the United
States Glass Co., at Pittsburgh, over an
attempt to run the factories non union.
Henry Howe. the Ohio historian, died
at Columbus, Sunday, from paralysis.
A silver substitute is likely to be