Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From variou
Quarters

Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
On an average 10 pensions are sus-
aended daily, mostly, it is stated, by
examining boards.
The Cherokee strip will be opened to
settlers between September l and Is.
The cholera patients in quarantine at
Swinburne Island are reported better.
Josiah NJ. Carson stabbed to death
Walter Beeson,:in Washington county.
They quarreled about line fence.
An attempt was made by convicts to
blow up the Kentucky penitentiary at
Frankfort.
A child set fire to some buildings in
Ada by playing with matches, and in
attempting to rescue it, both mother and
child were fatally burned.
The Democrats nominated the follow
ing State ticket: For Governor, Law
renee T. Neal, of Ross; Lieutenant
Governor, William A. Taylor, of Frank
lin; Supreme Judge, John W. Safer. of
Darke; Treasurer, E. C. Blackburn, of
Coshocton; Attorney General, John p.
Bailey, of Putnam; Board of Public
Works, Lewis B. Wilhelm, of Summit;
Dairy and Food Commissioner, p. H.
Mckeown, of Hamilton.
Governor Mckinley says Meals nom-
ination means that there will be no
tariff dodging.
At London, O., Thomas Creamer, a
grocer and saloonist, while drunk, shot
and killed his son.
Three banks in Nashville closed their
doors on Thursday.
A plan of procedure has been agreed
upon in Congress. The House will first
vote on the repeal of the Sherman law
and then on free coinage at an increased
ratio.
| Bland, the free silver advocate, gives
notice that Western Democrats will bid
farewell to the Eastern wing unless they
get free silver.
Milford Center, O., had $4,000 fire
President Cleveland has gone to Buz-
Yards Bay for rest. He is said to be i'll
| J. NJ. V. johnson, a colored man OF
Akron, who attempted to organize a
bolt in the Republican party year ago,
is under arrest at Akron charged with
murder.
The Hooking Valley miners have re-
fused to accept the notes of the mine
owners as pay and the mines have closed
| down.
| Congressman Breckenridge, the silver
tongued orator, has been sued for $4,000
damages for breach of promise and
seduction.
Congressman Harter, DEM, thinks
Senator Sherman deserves the praise OF
the country and that the financial ques-
tion has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Gumder, a farmer of Carrollton
committed suicide on account of sick
ness.
The new cruiser Minneapolis was
launched at Philadelphia.
John ORouke was fatally stabbed al
Painesville by man named Moran.
Several cholera patients are quaran
| tined on Swinburne Island, New \ YOrk
harbor.
A case of yellow fever is reported al
Brunswick, Ga. Physicians have beer
sent to that point by the quarantine
authorities.
George Grandin, French pedestrian
has arrived in Chicago, having walked
all the way from New York.
Surgeon General Wyman is informed
that no new cases of yellow fever have
appeared at Pensacola, and that the ex
citement is rapidly subsiding.
The sword which Ethan Allen carried
at the taking of Fort Ticonderoga during
the revolutionary war has been Offered
to the government, to be placed witt
similar relics in the National museum
Minneapolis suffered a million dollar
fire on Sunday.
Harvey Peterson, of Marysville, placed
a revolver to his head to show that i
was not loaded. He died instantly.
Near Ironton Robert Browning killed
Geo. Mcclellan in self f-defense.
New Richmond, o., sustained dis
astrous fire on Sunday night.
Money matters are reported easier il
New York.
By the burning of the Senate hotel il
Chicago, small structure without fire
escapes, seven persons lost their lives
and more than dozen were seriously
injured, some fatally.
On Snake river, Wash, seven persons
were killed by steamboat explosion.
Washington dispatches state tha
President Cleveland is suffering from
disease of the kidneys.
Near Marysville, Charles Conley had
the top of his head blown off by the ex
plosion of an engine.
There is an increase of cholera at st
Petersburg.
Pugilist Sullivan narrowly escaped
being shot in New York saloon.
Dry Weather.
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