Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-12-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From variou
Quarters.


Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
George Miller was arrested at Chilli
cothe charged with an unnatural crime
with his own mother.
The new scale of wages which goes
into effect at the Carnegie mills on
January l, will show a reduction of 40
per cent.
The Sun Vapor Street Lighting Com
pany, Of Canton, has failed.
The official Republican majority in
New Y York on the head of the ticket is
106, 6,O64; on the rest Of the ticket from
$4,000 to $4,000.
The Federation of Labor protests
against convict made goods in Ohio.
Since Chicago announced that all the
destitute and homeless would be fed
thousands Of tramps are f1ocking to that
city.
Eight thousand persons are reported
destitute and starving in the upper
peninsula of Michigan.
dtIiCh " w., VI ltlS-
burgh, have failed, owing to the difficulty
in realizing on assets.
Troy, n. Y, suffered disastrous fire
on Thursday. Loss 100000.
Angels Taphe, an Italian, was hanged
at Pittsburgh for the murder of Frank
Helmstetter on July 4, 1892.
Buffalo, n Y, had a $750,000 fire
which wiped out a number of old land
marks.
Two earthquake shocks were felt in
Indiana on Thursday.
Insurance Commissioner Hahn has
instituted proceedings to revoke the
charter of the Washington Fire Insur-
ance Co., of Tiffiin.
Sixty-three per cent. of the prizes at
the Worlds Fair were secured by for
eigners.
The Federal Elections repeal bill will
not be taken up in the Senate until
after the holidays.
The false work unker a span of new
bridge over the Ohio at Louisville gave
way and the bridge went down, carrying
fifty-one men with it. Nearly all were
drowned.
In wreck on the Pittsburgh. Vir-
ginia and Charleston railroad, near
Pittsburgh, Is persons were injured.
The physicians Of the State will de-
mand some legislation touching on their
profession from the coming Legislature.
The silver men of the country will
form new party with but one plank
and that for free coinage Of silver.
The Ladies' Home Missionary will
oppose TIE admission of Utah on ac-
count of polygamy.
The State Oranges of Ohio and
Nebraska passed resolutions denouncing
Secretary Morton.
Boss McKane, the Brooklyn Demo-
cratic politician, was sentenced to pay
fine of $3.50 and 80 days in Jail for
contempt of court in the recent elections.
While out hunting, near Chilleothe,
Ray Templin was killed by the discharge
of gun in the hands of companion.
A train went through a trestle near
Dunkirk, N. Y, and three persons were
killed.
Four hundred houses in Buffalo were
partly submerged by flood on Saturday
and 1000 people were homeless.
Boss Croker, the Tammany Chief, In
an interview denies that he ever sscured
dollar dishonesty.
The rise of the river took out 16,-
100000 bushels Of coal from the Pitts
burgh harbor.
Master Workman Sovereign, of the
K. of L., declares himself a free trader
and also opposed to strikes.
Robbers fatally beat an old man near
Logan to ascertain the whereabouts of
his money. They were captured.
Tramps burned bridge on the Pan
handle, over the Tuscarawas river,
near Dennison.
Ex-Speaker Reed is preparing the
minority report on the tariff bill.
Henry Givens, colored, was lynched
in Kentucky on suspicion Of having
poisoned stock.
Melville Roberts, aged IA years, son
d
hatchet at Princeton, KY.
Hon. James Black, Prohibition candi-
date for President in 1872, is dead, at
Lancaster, Pa,
The one hundred and twentieth anni-
versary of the Boston tea party was
celebrated in the Faneuil hall.
President Gompers, of American
Federation of Labor, was reelected for
the twelfth time, defeating John Nc
Bride.
Sixty masked mounted men called out
Merrill Preston and Charles Harlew,
living at Rosehill, KY, and beat both
men with hickory switches.
At Washington, Ia, Mrs. David
Adler pushed her husband into a well,
threw down stones on him and then
filled him with shot.
Three men were killed and several
injured in railroad wreck near Louis
vile, KY, Sunday.
The Rockford, ILL.,, Shoe Company,
capitalized at $120,000, made an assign
ment. The assets are double the
amount of liabilities.
John Jacobs, an unemployed baker
living at Fort Wayne, Ind, fired two
bullets into his wife's face and then put
third into his own body. The woman
will probably recover, but Jacobs will
die.
President Cleveland sent his Hawaiian
messaQe to Congress on MOnday