Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Variou
Quarters.

The Nicaragua canal company has
gone into the hands of receiver.
At soldiers reunion in Columbus
the name of Hoke Smith was hissed.
By the prompt action of the police a
riot was narrowly averted at Chicago.
Nearly all railways have given notice
to their men of reduction in wages.
Mexico is stated to be enjoying an era
of prosperity.
The news of loss of life by the recent
storm along our South Atlantic coast
continues to come in. In all several
thousand perished.
Gold still continues to come in, almost
every vessel bringing some.
Pennsylvania Republicans have nom
mated D. n. Fell for Supreme Justice
and SamI NJ. Jackson for State Treasurer
A train on the Boston and Albany
road broke through bridge near Spring
field, Mass. and fifteen persons were
instantly killed. Many others were
injured.
The Ohio Wool Growers, in session al
Columbus, passed resolutions against
the removal of the tariff on wool.
The Worlds Fair Sunday opening case
has been settled by the court sustaining
the injunction requiring the gates to
be open.
In some places workingmen are offer
ing to allow their employers to retain a
portion of their wages as loan until the
stringency is relieved.
S. C. Humphreys, township treasurer
in Hardin county, is short in his &C.
counts.
A prisoner in the Wyoming peniten
tiary is afflicted with leprosy.
Great preparations are being made fol
the opening of the campaign at Akron
next Tuesday.
President Cleveland has returned to
Washington from Buzzard's Bay.
The National bank circulation in
creased nearly S2,700,000 during August
The Home Rule bill passed the House
of Commons by majority of "a.
J.T. Williams. of Pataskala, fell into
well and was drowned.
A sporadic case of cholera occurred in
Jersy City.
Several big Eastern insurance com
panies have increased the rate of interest
on loans.
Ten murderers were hung in South
Carolina on Friday.
A boiler explosion at Pomeroy killed
one man.
The first nomination of President
Cleveland rejected by the Senate wa:
that of II. G.. Stewart to be Secretary OF
the Legation in Guatemala.
Strict precautions will be taken al
Jersy City to prevent the spread OF
cholera
! Private Dalzell is a candidate fol
Commander in Chief of the G. A. R.
The city of Fayal, in the Azores, is
reported as almost completely destroyed
by the late storm.
The employees of the L. & N. railroad
who have been on strike, have accepted
the reduction in wages and gone to work
Financial centers report the outlook
as daily growing brighter.
Five persons were killed on arunaway
street car in Cincinnati.
At Mound Valley, Kas., bandits robbed
a Santa Fe express train, killing the
express messenger and robbing tht
passengers.
DR.. Graves, the famous murderer
awaiting second trial at Denver, com
mitted suicide.
A bloody battle with stilettos was
fought in an Italian camp near Shawnee
The Worlds Fair passed the 100000
mark in attendance last week.
A train went through bridge neal
Streator, Ill, and two persons were
killed.
President Cleveland is said to favo
the repeal of the State bank tax.
Many cities in the South fear an epi
demic of yellow fever.
The B. and o. railroad employees a.
Newark have voted to allow the company
to retain ten per cent. of their wage:
| for three months.
Jerome Bonaparte, a grand nephew Of
the First Napoleon, died at his home il
Massachusetts, Monday.
An Ironton man left a note to hi
wife saying he would wade out into the
Ohio river and shoot himself. He ha.
not since been seen.
There is movement on foot agaiI
to build slack water system along tht
Ohio from Pittsburgh to Wheeling.
Stranded In Artistic Surroundings.