Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
Five persons were burned to death in
house at Gagetown, Mich.
Steps are to be taken to prevent the
further designation of the battle field
of Gettysburg by the building of an
electric road.
The Finley county bank of Garden
City, Kas., has failed.
There was terrible hail storm in the
eastern portion of Pennsylvania on
Wednesday last.
AT Murray City, Ohio, Isaac Edwards
shot and killed Mrs. John Sellars because
she would not take care of his children
A mad dog which bit many other dogs
was killed in Sabina.
President Palmer, of the National
Worlds Fair Commission, has expressed
himself as tired of the petty methods to
evade Sunday closing.
Fred Weis, Pittsburgh and Western
flagman, went to sleep. near Kent, while
on duty and was killed.
A female guest left child in a hotel
at Gallipolis because, she said, she could
not support it.
Prince George, of Wales, was married
to Princess May, of Teck, on Thursday.
The Queen was present.
Some of the people of Homestead eel
ebrated the first anniversary of the battle
with the Pinkertons.
No more appointments of presidential
postmasters will be made until August
President Cleveland is confined to the
house with rheumatism.
Miss Nettie Chew, of Mansfield, has
mysteriously disappeared.
Van Loon, the murderer who was to
have been hung Friday, was granted a
respite for month.
Geo. w. Luce, prominent jeweler of
Columbus, has confessed to receiving
stolen goods.
At Fort Worth, Tex, Vice President
Paye, of the Merchants National Bank,
was shot by Cashier Smith as the result
of quarrel.
An unknown returned $4,000 as con-
science money to the Rochester German
Insurance Co.
Seventy-four people were killed by a
cyclone in Northern Iowa on Friday, and
many more injured.
5. j. Miller, negro, was lynched at
Bardwell, KY, on Friday, for outraging
two little girls.
The Spanish caravels have arrived at
Chicago and were given right hearty
welcome.
Hotel Lincoln at Chicago, Worlds
Fair structure, was burned, involving
fatal injuries to two persons and seriously
injuring others.
Justice Blatchford, of the United
States Supreme Court, died Friday at
Newport, r. L.
. If stories are true inhuman treatment
has been practiced at the Dayton Insane
Asylum.
James Podmore was drowned at East
Liverpool.
Much damage was done in many
parts of the State by the storm on Sat
urday.
Clarence Dingman jumped from an
elevator l6O feet high into the river at
Buffalo. His neck was broken.
Catholics at Butler, Pa, have aban-
doned their parochial school.
The Republican State Committee has
decided to open the campaign the first
week in September.
The French Catholics wanted a riot
with the Christian Endeavors at Mon
treal but were driven away by tHe police.
In collision on the C. IL o., near
Cincinnati, one person was killed and
several injured.
Burt Rummel, while bathing at New
Philadelphia, was seized with cramps
and was drowned.
Only $4,000 people attended the Fair
Sunday and the gates may hereafter be
closed on Sunday.
Frank Bayes, a farmer of near Wau-
seon, butchered his wife and shot
himself
A heavy storm at Chicago Sunday
wrecked the captive balloon and caused
some loss of life on the lake.
About 125 pensioners in Pittsburgh
have been dropped from the rolls.
A new comet, visible to the naked eve,
has been discovered.
The Lakeshore switchmen at Cleve-
land are on strike.
A building used as a cold storage
warehouse and skating rink on the
Worlds Fair grounds burned Monday
afternoon, and nearly forty fireman
perished in the flames, their avenue of
escape from the building being cut off.
The building Of the Eastern Ohio
Asylum, at Massillon, will be begun this
summer.
Two men, at Youngstown, were nearly
killed by building falling on them.
One hundred thousand names have
been dropped from the pension rolls by
Hoke Smiths order.
Seventy-five convicts at Ionia, Mich,
made break for liberty; one was killed.
At Mechanicstown Mrs. Emma Lang
poured boiling water on an eight year
old child for some trivial offense which
the child had committed.
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