Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-10-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

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Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
The loss of life on the coast of Louis
lana and Alabama by the tidal wave
last week amounts to more than two
thousand.
At Ravenna a desperate prisoner in
the Jail knocked down the Sheriff and
taking the keys escaped.
The feeling in Hawaii is said to favor
annexation without compromise.
There is big fight on between the
Associated Press and the United Press,
the two great press organizations.
Six prisoners sawed their way out of
the Wood county Jail.
At jamestown, Ind, Oscar Darnell,
we'll connected. attempted the ruin of a
little girl and failing, shot her and him.
self also.
The Democrats Of Nebraska adopted
platform supporting the President
This action caused split in the party.
By the decision of Texas Judge more
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themselves Illegally married.
A two-million dollar sugar company
at Philadelphia is going to compete with
the sugar trust.
The yacht race on Thursday failed for
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Judge Long, of the Michigan Supreme
Court, has brought suit against the Pen
sion Commissioner to test the validity
of the suspension of pensions order.
A labor riot occurred at Indianapolis
Thursday and one man was killed.
A Jewish rabbi at St. Joseph, Mo-, has
brought suit to collect his salary which
amounted to S35 per year.
While in delirium from fever Mrs.
Cadmus. of Kinsman, wandered from
home and nearly perished before found.
Cleveland has intimated that he would
not sign compromise silver measure.
W. K Hill shot his mother in law and
his wife, both fatally, at Waverly, be-
cause the latter would not live with
him.
A. P. Mock, of Sulphur Springs, o.,
was asphyxiated at hotel in Chicago
by blowing out the gas.
In Adams county % veterans have
been knocked out of their pensions.
Muncie. Ind, is having an epidemic
of smallpox.
The Board of Managers of the Ma
tional Soldiers Homes, in body, called
the other day to pay their respects to
President Cleveland but he refused to
see them.
Two farmers, near Piqua, had quar-
rel about some stock and it ended in
shooting affray, in which both were
wounded.
An old woman suicided in Columbus
because she had been turned out by her
family, who were well-to-do people.
A Harvard divinity student, while in
delirium from fever, crawled into a
furnace and was cremated alive.
The American cup defender Vigilant
beat the English yacht Valkyrie in the
first of the series of races on Saturday.
The National Soldiers Homes show an
abnormal increase in inmates since the
panic set in.
President Cleveland has sent his
ultimatum to the Senate-that he will
accept no compromise.
As the time of election approaches
the crowds that greet Gov. Mckinley
increases.
Nat Foley, wife, and three children
were ground to death under train
while attempting to cross the track in
carriage.
Senator Stanford's wealth is found to
amount to about s55,000,000.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says that
the government there has ordered the
removal of the recently erected bat
teries.
Mary johnson, aged s, fell into
kettle of boiling soap at Middlesboro,
Ky, and was boiled to death.
Two men were killed in battle be-
tween moonshiners and revenue officers
in Knott county, Ky.
The Lucania has beaten the Atlantic
steamship rscord by 80 minutes.
Wapokeneta suffered a disastrous
fire on Sunday.
The Hamburg American ship Russia,
which arrived at New York Sunday, had
had six deaths on board from disease
resembling cholera.
A street car was struck by a train In
Cincinnati and one man killed.
James Campbell, a retired saloon
keeper at youngstown, shot his wife
and visitor.
The English newspapers gracefully
admit that America can beat them at
building yachts.
Four persons were killed and many
others injured in various accidents at
Chicago Monday.