Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-04-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From variou.
Quarters.

Quarters.
President Cleveland intends to sus-
pend the reciprocity treaties with Cuba
and Brazil.
Walters in the leading hotels of New
York struck and their demands were
aceeded to.
Painesville council has repealed the
prohibitory ordinance.
The st. Louis Presbytery has reported
against revision of the Westminster
confession of faith.
Edwin Booth, the actor, is very i'll.
Boles, Ark, was wiped out by storm
on Thursday.
There were terrible snow storms in
the Northwest on Thursday. Three feet
of snow fell in Minnesota.
A cyclone did great damage in
Mississippi.
Fourteen men working on the water
works crib at Milwaukee were drowned
in the lake.
A Chicago man landed at New York
y girls from all parts of Europe, destined
for the Worlds Fair, to show off the
femininity of the world
Emperor William, of Germany, and
Pope Leo met at Rome.
Mrs. Hancock, widow of General
Hancock, died at New York.
Smallpox broke out again in Medina
county.
Miss Name O'Neill was badly burned
at Lancaster while cleaning gloves with
gasoline.
Forty thousand dollars were stolen by
Texas robbers
Wesleyan College seniors, Delaware,O.
branded Greek letters on the faces of
juniors.
General Edward Fitzgerald Beale, who
was such an intimate friend of General
Grant, died in Washington from a COM
plication of diseases.
Over 100000 was distributed among
the 1880 employees of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company at Steelton. 1t was the
largest semi-monthly payroll in the
history of the plant.
The clerks in the sixth auditors
bureau, nearly 500 in number, took leave
of their late chief, Colonel Thomas B.
Coulter Colonel Coulter will locate
permanently in Washington.
The lockout of the New York clothing
cutters which has lasted for nearly four
weeks, is over.
An effort is being made to knock ont
South Cardinals liquor laws.
An engine attached to train on the
G. Il NJ. went through bridge near
Caldwell. Although submerged in the
water, the engineer and fireman escaped
injury.
Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sunday cele-
brated the twenty-fourth anniversary of
DIR. Talmage's pastorate.
The Royalists of Honolulu have re-
sorted to poisoning the soldiers.
Cleveland will probably move his
office from the White House to the War
and Navy building.
The old Liberty Bell was taken from
Philadelphia to Chicago on Monday.
1t is alleged that New York bankers
will exchange s25,0O0,0O0 in gold for
legal tenders.
The Columbian fleet left Hampton
Roads for New York on Monday. There
were thirty-two ships in line.
The Republican State Convention will
be held at Columbus on Wednesday and
Thursday, June 7th and 9Th. Hon. c.
II. Grosvenor, of Athens, will be the
temporary chairman.
Ex-Congressman Frank Hurd, of
Toledo, has reached Washington City,
and, with E. w. Harper, Of Terre Haute,
Ind, will bring the recent decision of
Judge Kicks in the famous Ann Arbor
railroad cases before the Supreme Court
for review.
Mrs. Gertrude Smith, of New York,
has been granted divorce from Duke
Smith, at Sioux Falls, son of General
Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, and
granddaughter of Henry Clay. Mrs
Smith left her husband because he did
not support her as she desired.
Secretary Morton dismissed Robert E.
Brannon, captain of the watch in the
weather bureau, who was found guilty
of loaning money to the employees in the
bureau at usurious rates and various
other infractions of the rules. Thomas
p. Ellsworth, of Indiana, was appointed
to the vacancy.