Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

oltCen Oy uOS IWeiVe years ago, was
attacked with hydrophobia last week.
Henry Fleming, negro, was lynched
at Columbus, Miss. He had stabbed a
white man.
AT Parkersburg many prominent citi-
Zens have been indicted for renting
property for immoral purposes.
| a fire at Princeton, Ind, destroyed 25
business houses, entailing loss of
100000.
Twenty five families at Mansfield were
poisoned by eating cheese, and twelve
persons were not expected to recover.
After being fed three tramps set fire
to the house of Mrs. Herrick, near Dun
kirk
The Viking ship has arrived at
Chicago.
The Bank of Garnet, Kansas. closed
its doors, catching the county treasurer
for $4,000
The Bank of New Castle, Colo.
private institution, assigned. Liabili-
ties, $27, 900; assets, $4,000.
! The Bank of Commerce, of Springfield,
Mo-, with a capital stock of $4,000 and
deposits of Sl7,600, closed its doors.
Congressman Enochs, of the Tenth
Ohio, was found dead in bed at Ironton
on Thursday morning.
A new party has been formed in New
York to down Tammany.
A new comet has been discovered.
1t is visible to the naked eye and is
located in constellation LYNX
In wreck on the West Shore read.
near Newburg, N. Y, five people were
killed and dozen badly injured.
DR.. Henry Meyer and wife have been
arrested at Detroit charged with poison
ing persons to get their insurance money.
There is prospect of large shipments
of hay to Europe and consequently
good price for that product in this
country.
Paul Clauch died from sunstroke at
Sandusky.
At Ironwood, Mich, a town of 10000
population, there are $50 cases of typhoid
fever.
At Port Clinton, o., Mary Gear, aged
seventeen, and Annie SCHROEDER, aged
plosion of two gallon can of gasoline.
While shocking wheat near Gutman,
| o., John Powell was struck by lightning
and killed.
French Gunboats forced their way up
the Menam river in Siam, and twenty
Siamese were killed and fourteen
wounded in the fight.
The Worlds Far will hereafter be
closed on Sunday.
: About three thousand pensions have
been suspended for further investiga-
tiOn.
Sturgis F. Dick, banker, shot and
| killed himself at Meadville, Pa, because
of a run on his bank.
A tornado at saltwater. Mimi, killed
two men and injured several others.
The fall of the Bastile was scarcely
celebrated at all in Paris.
1t has been decided that all Kelley
Institutes must pay the government tax.
Yellow fever has made its appearance
on shipboard at Norfolk, Va.
| A tornado demolished a Catholic
church and several dwellings at Leipsic,
Ohio.
A suspicious case resembling cholera
was discovered on board a vessel at
Philadelphia just in from France.
A man was arrested in Pike county
who had exhumed a corpse, taken the
clothes off the body, and was wearing
them.
The Kaufman Brewing Co., of Gin
cinnati, has failed.
George Baighle shot his mother at
Tontogany, o., for throwing some water
in his face to wake him.
At Ironton Vira White had her skull
crushed by runaway horse kicking
her
Harety Higginbotham was crushed
under the wheels of train he was at
tempting to board at Massillon.
4 rear end collision on the Panhandle
at Jewett demolished one engine and
fifteen freight cars.
A stand containing 1000 persons col
lapsed at Montreal causing a panic by
which many were injured.
The German army bill passed the
reichstag 2QYto 1S5.
Two hundred homing pigeons were
liberated at the Worlds Fair.
Rev. Henry A. Adams, formerly pastor
of st. PauPs Episcopal church. Buffalo,
and later of the Church of the Redeemer,
New York, has joined the Roman
Catholic church.
The Columbian Liberty Bell, recently
cast at Troy, n. Y. is to be removed TO
San Francisco aod is to be rung Sep
tember 9 at the celebration of the 43rd
anniversary of the admission of Cali
fornia as a State.
At Omaha George Williams hacked
to pieces Andrew Rying. They were
rivals for the affections of disreputable
woman.
President Cleveland was burned in
effigy at Kingman, A. T., on account of
his attitude on silver.
A train of the Grand Trunk struck
crowded street car in Chicago. Four
persons were killed and many others
injured.
The Kaiser, of Germany, is not COM
ing to the Fair, but will send repre-
sentative.
At Long Branch a runaway horse ran
into a hotel bedroom and was with diff
Guilty gotten out.
Amos L. Newell, of Fairmont, W. Va,
was robbed and murdered and his body
placed on the railroad track.
There is movement on foot to keep
open the Worlds Fair next summer.
By premature explosion of a bomb
at an Italian picnic at Chicago two were
killed and others seriously injured.