Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-09-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.


Quarters.
After five days struggle the Demo
Gratis finally succeeded in getting the bill
for the repeal of the Federal Election
laws reported in the House.
The employees of the Pittsburgh and
Western railroad have not been paid for
four months.
\ large number of cases of small pox
exist in New York.
At Sandusky, without provocation,
Edward Bennett, colored, plunged a
knife into the heart of William Sullivan.
Henry Lichtenstein, professor of music
at Wittenburg College at Springfield. is
missing. 49,
A collision between q mob and
militia guarding jail took place at
Roanoke, Va. Nine persons were killed
and dozen injured.
One attorney at Jackson, o., horse
whipped another attorney as the outcome
as quarrel about grape vine.
The daughter of millionaire at st.
Paul eloped with and married colorsd
elevator boy.
The Fair will positively close on Oct.
81. Such is the decision of the Board
of Directors.
Edward Hogeman, boy years of
age, hung himself at st. Louis.
At Roanoke, Va, Robert Smith, the
cause of fight between mob and the
militia, was taken by the mob, hanged,
and his body then burned.
1t is said the new tariff bill win be
at onco.
An Illinois Central express was held
up at Centralia, Ill, on Thursday night.
The engineer and fireman were both
shot and lively battle ensued when the
express car was attacked. One of the
robbers was fatally shot and the others
but were afterwards captured.
In performing a criminal operation in
San Francisco the woman died and the
doctor cut her body up and threw it in
the bay.
In mine explosion at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, five men were killed and six others
injured. .>-s--.
There is great suffering among the
settlers in the Cherokee Strip owing to
the lack of water and the bad quality of
the food obtainable.
Two or three hundred persons were
thrown from the movable sidewalk at
the Worlds Fair and some of them badly
bruised.
Miss Katie Doyle, of Wellston, Ohio,
aged IL, took morphine, and died, be-
cause her parents objected to her
dancing.
The K. of L. high officers are fighting
among themselves. The Secretary was
removed but he refuses to be ousted.
Owing to an open switch eleven per-
SONS were killed and a score injured by
a wreck on the Wabash, near Kingsbury,
Ind, on Friday.
Pension Commissioner Lochren thinks
the high water mark in the pension list
will be reached in two years.
A mob of Catholics attacked an A. p
A. meeting in Kansas City and several
persons were hnrt-
Miami county, was caught burglarizing
I neighbors house.
John G. Wooley, a favorite of the W.
:. t. U. and the Prohibition party, is
short in his accounts $l4, 900, at st. Paul.
He ran drunkard's retreat.
The New York Clearing House has re-
tired nearly million of its certificates
A Haytien war-ship went down with
ninety men on board. Only one escaped.
Secretary Carlisle denies that the
Treasury Department is trying to secure
. loan in Europe or elsewhere.
Hon. Bourke Cochran says the Demo-
rats will repeal the Mckinley law and
hen pass another just like it.
Hoke Smith denies that he author
sed the issue of the pension circular
giving suspended pensioners sixty days
20 prove their claims.
Two men made an attempt to rob the
,afe of the Northern Indiana Normal
school at Valparaiso, Ind. They were
chased and both shot; one dead and the
,ther seriously wounded.
1t has been so long since it rsined in
he Indian Territory that stock water is
getting very scarce, and il it does not
ain within week hundreds Of cattle
will die from thirst.
A non-union sailors lodging house
vas blown up in San Francisco and two
men were killed.
An aged couple were murdered in bed
It Newton, Pa, and the house burned to
,over the crime.
The New York anarchists are said to
De planning the destruction of number
If the wealthiest men of the metropolis.
About 60 old soldiers in Trumbull and
Mahoning counties have had their pen
lions suspended.
Bill Morgan, for twenty years West
Virginia moonshiner who successfully
esisted arrest, has been captured.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, made
Tiolent attack on the President on Mon
lay and Tuesday.
A woman who had learned the secrets
of some anarchists was killed by them
1t Calamity, Pa.
Carl Shurtz has been snubbed by
President Cleveland.
st. Joseph, Mo-, sustained a million
1ollar fire on Monday.
1t is announced that there will be no
strike on the Big Four, the men having
agreed to accept the reduction.
Frank Hurd says the Democratic
party is for free trade. Only the towards
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