Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-03-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
The report of NJ. Flory, the Govern
ment accountant, on the Panama Canal
expenditures was published.
The British steamer Cincora was
sunk by collision with the German bark
Lake Ontario near Dungeness: two men
were drowned.
| Jose Bofill, merchant of Barcelona,
was shot dead in his office by Samuel
Pastor, an Englishman, who attempted
suicide.
The Supreme Court of Kansas decided
that the Republican House was the
legally constituted BODY.
Five volunteer life savers were drown
ed off Cuttyhunk Island while trying
to save an imperilled crew.
A woman shot and killed her two sis
ters during quarrel in Atlanta, Ga.
The racetrack bills in New-J Jersey
passed in the Senate over the Governors
veto, and became laws.
The President has granted commu-
tation of sentence to Edward L. Harper,
ex- President of the Fidelity National
Bank of Cincinnati.
An Erie vestibuled train was wrecked
at Orlean, n. Y last night, by broken
rail. Fourteen were hurt; none fatally
Western Union employees will it is
said inaugurate general strike soon. /.
Two boys of 13 and Is years of age,
at Terre Haute, Ind, were found guilty
of burglary and counterfeiting.
Wanamaker lost $9,000,0O0 by the
collapse of the Reading deal.
Four pretty Bucklin sisters at Chica-
go fall heir to million of English
money.
Iron companies at Pittsburgh got
government contracts to the value of
five million.
The Chicago Banknote Company, of
"check kiting" notoriety, is in the hands
of the sheriff.
Western nail manufacturers have
advanced prices 81 ton. This is the
third advance in one month.
David W. Campbell, wealthy mer-
chant of Anderson, Ind, committed
suicide in Indianapolis yesterday.
Rumored that Cincinnati police have
discovered plot to blow up the Dods-
worth distillery at Cumingsville, o.
The unhappy husband of II women,
Colonel A. E. Hagood' of Chicago, is in
Jail at Charleston, S. c. for bigamy.
A leading broker of Nashville, A. T.
Landers, has been arrested in Cincin-
natl for forging $4,000, worth of street
railway bonds.
1t is rumored in Mexico that the OBJ
iect of Romero's visit to the Uuited
States is to negotiate government loan,
but Mexican officials deny it.
Congress did big days work passing
among others the car coupler bill, and
the pension bill, the latter appropriating
$167, 100000.
Leroy Taylor,o Newcastle, Pa, cut his
head off by circular saw.
The widow of lynched man at Chat
tanooga sued the sheriff for $25,000.
The man who shot Mackey says he
did it because the millionaire broke him.
Cleveland's inaugural address will be
short
Harriet Hubbard Aver, the recamier
promoter was pronounced. insane by
New York physicians.
John W. Maekey is recovering. The
assassin, Rippey' is slowly dying.
The number out of employment in
Oldham alone, owing to the great cotton
strike, is "a 900. There is great suffer
ing.
The annual convention of the Freed
mans Aid and southern Educational
society was held in Chicago yesterday.
The National Association of Demo
cratic clubs has issued a long 81 told
you so" circular concerning the late
election.
At Lima, o., Michael Finn, aged 35
years, threw himself in front of a train
and was crushed to death. Dependency
is given is the cause.
Stevenson arrived in Washington.
John L. Sullivan says that Mitchell
will defeat Corbett.
A Hungarian village was swept away
by sudden flood.
Mackay's attempted slayer, Ripply,
will live.
A tremendous storm is raging in the
Northwest.
Notices were read in all the PRAYER
meetings in Trenton, n. j., calling for |
as many people as possible to go to-day |
and protest against the race-t track bills.
A cyclone passed twelve miles south
of Natchez, Missippippi, yesterday after
noon. Several houses were blown down
and badly damaged. A negro woman
was killed and several other colored
people were injured. A young lad was
picked up and lodged in tree 100 yards
away.
Rev. W. L. ID. GLENN, at the meeting
of the Methodist annual conference
which will begin to-day at Hagerstown,
Md, will ask for the appointment of
committee to visit President Cleveland.
Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Satol-
i, and urge them to use their influence
N behalf of Rev. Mr.. Nelson, a Metho, {
list missionary now imprisoned i'm Brazil 9