Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-03


A 2-year-old child at Bucyrus swal-
lowed carbolic acid and died.
A wagon load of wheat in the sheaf,
together with the team, was burned on
farm near Marysville by spark from
thresher engine.
At Corning, Frank Davis and James
Clifford were both fatally hurt in row
in bagnio.
Over a dozen incendiary fires have
occurred in Cleveland within short
time.
Mills in all lines of manufacturing are
closing down and many thousands of
workmen are being thrown out of en-
ployment.
In the execution of murderer Taylor
at Auburn, n. Y, the dynamo broke
down before the man was dead and it
was over an hour before the current was
turned on again.
Jacob Schoal, of near Bucyrus, COM
mitted suicide on account of financial
troubles.
Owing to the hard times the Com
mander in Chief of the G.. A. r. has
requested the citizens of Indianapolis TO
go to no unnecessary expense in enter
tanning the G. a. r.
Pierce Converse, a young Texan, on
visit to his uncle at Ravenna, shot and
fatally wounded burglar who entered
his room. The burglar returned the fire
and Converse was fatally wounded.
THE Ohio Liquor League is going to
enter politics and will attempt to de-
mand pledges of candidates.
There is much dissatisfaction among
iron workers over the new scale of
wages.
Some stove polish being used by a
peddler on hot stove in Pittsburgh
exploded and killed two persons and
injured three others.
Siam has agreed to cede to France the
desired territory and to pay the indem-
nifty asked, and the war is over.
Col. Nathan Toomer, of Augusta, Ga,
has sued the Pullman Car Co. for $780,
600 damages for not carrying him and
his wife to their destination after selling
him ticket.
The Citizens Savings and Loan Asso-
citation cf Akron has gone under.
AT Cadillac, Mich, Joseph Ashley,
while drunk, beat his child's brains out
against post.
George Bush, of Newark, time keeper
on the b. & o., is under arrest charged
with swindling the company.
A run was made on Savings bank
at Youngstown but it was soon stopped
by prompt payments.
At Loudenville Daniel Sentel, while
drunk, was thrown out of saloon and
his neck was broken.
Stephen Huffman, farmer of New
ark, had his arm pulled out from the
socket by threshing machine.
Hoke Smith was hanged in effigy at
Rome, Ohio, because of the dropping of
the pension of soldier who had served
over four years and is now totally dis
abled.
Mt Vernon suffered $4,000 fire on
Sunday.
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negroes, were lynched at Castor, S. c.
Seventy-three New England banks
have lost $1,500,000 by fraudulent grain
certificates deposited as collateral.
Wind destroyed $4,000 cyclorama
at Nashville.
The Rocky Mountain Oil Co. has been
absorbed by the Standard
A vein of silver and lead ore has been
discovered on the Little Kanawha river
in West Virginia.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
says the Democratic platform meant
free coinage or it was meant to deceive
the people.
A riot took place on the Mesaba iron
range, in Minnesota, because of the non
payment of the workmen.
A boy died at Youngstown from ex-
cessive swimming.
Kent Browne, highly respected
colored man, was mysteriously murdered
at Muncie, Ind.
Frederick Strokmeier, aged eighty, 4!
drowned himself at Sandusky.
The National convention of the Bi-
metallic League is in session at Chicago
Denver citizens are feeding the unem-
ployed.
Edison has shut down his photographic
works because, as he says, the country |
has resolved itself into a National |
Lunatic Asylum.
Pork took drop in Chicago Tuesday.
The failures still continue and many
mills are closing.
The debt statement issued this mouth
shows net increase in the public debt,
less cash in the treasury, during July Of
81, ,164, 1881. Total debt 1861, ,121,-
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