Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From variou
Quarters.

tons Tor the homeless.
President Cleveland is said to favor
tax on sugar to raise revenue.
Frank Tsnsey, colored, was arrested
in Chicago charged with murder in
Dayton, Ohio.
Representative Boxwell. of Warren
county, seems to be in the lead for
Speaker in the coming House.
The Lehigh Valley railroad strike is
over and many of the old men have been
taken back.
Ohio coal operators are contemplating
asking reduction in mining of 10 cents
a ton, to take effect January /.
At South Bend, Ind, on Thursday, q
bank was robbed in broad daylight of
$4,000 and the robbers escaped.
L. J. Shockey. of Lima, was snticed to
Toledo where an attempt was made to
confne him in an asylum for insane
although an examination showed him
perfectly sane.
President Cleveland is said to favor
force on the part of the United States
to reenthrone the deposed Queen Of
Hawaii.
There is a very large number of candi-
dates for the positions in the giving Of
the Legislature.
The Ways and Means Committee is
making some minor changes in the tariff
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FOurty-fve young men were admitted
to the practice of law at Columbus last
week.
J. w. Knaub, of Dayton, has been ap-
pointed Inspector of workshops and
factories.
A suit for $4,000, said to be case
of blacklnail, has been brought against
George Gould by New York woman.
John Nation, of Cross Creek township,
Jefferson county, was killed by falling
tree.
The tariff on tin plate has been in
creased since the tariff bill was first
published and the duty changed from
ad valorem to specific.
The bankruptcy bill was strangled in
the lower House of Congress.
The State Board of Health has ordered
all children vaccinated before January
8, or they will be debarred from attend
ing school.
Prendergast, Carter Harrison's assas-
sin, objects to the insanity plea as a
defense in his case.
Pate and Stires, two murderers who
became highwaymen because of reading
f1ashy literature, were executed at Dan.
vile, Ill.
The railroad miners of the Pittsburgh
district have agreed to work for IS cents
ton.
A Hebrew miser died at Indianapolis
in filth, leaving $4,000 in gold.
The sight of some sandwiches caused
riot in Chicago's City Hall among a
horde of hungry men.
A boom was thrown into the French
Chamber of Deputies on Saturday and
fifty persons were injured.
Agents of many European manufac-
turers are in this country now soliciting
orders in view of the probable passage
of the Wilson bill.
There is an epidemic of diphtheria at
Austinburg, Ashtabula county.
Chicago will next Monday elect a
successor to Mayor Harrison.
The Ashland County Infirmary has
been condemned as unfit for use,
The most prominent German club in
Chicago snubbed Governor Altgeld by
refusing his portrait which was rendered
them.
The State Republican League will as
usual celebrate Lincoln Day by ban.
quet at Columbus.
Arrangements are being made to
make Governor McKinley's Inauguration
the most notable one in history.
The number of unemployed in Chicago
is now about 175,000.
There is probability of more trouble
on the Lehigh railroad as the men are
dissatisfied with the settlement of the
strike.
President Cleveland will stop the dis
tribution of seeds as a useless expense.
Tramps by the hundreds are heading
towards Kansas since Gov. Llewelling
issued his proclamation that no tramps
should be arrested.
Pittsburgh proposes to raise 81 100000
by private subscription for Park i'm
provements in order to give work to
the unemployed.
Tohn McEarIin of Akron cfroot ra;l
way foreman, was murderously assaulted
on the street by an unknown man.
Geo. Brunt, of East Liverpool, a
prominent manufacturer, was arrested
on charge of betrayal under promise
of marriage at the instance of Cora
Greene.
Ex-Governor Jackson, of West Vir-
ginia, dropped dead at Parkersburg
Mon day.
1t is proposed to transfer loaded cars
across the lakes on barges to avoid load
ing and unloading.
The express car and the passengers
were robbed on train held mp near
Austin, Texas.
Commissioner Corson will recommend
some radical changes in the conduct of
public schools to the General Assembly.
The firm of C. Aultman & Co., at
Canton, manufacturers of farm ma
chinery, has gone into the hands of a
receiver.
Two street railway employees, at
Youngstown, are under arrest for coun-