Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-07-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

agent of Lima, has left. He also left
debts to the amount of $4,000.
A German laborer at Springfield used
a revolver to secure the consent of the
father of the girl he wished to marry.
-Four coaches and baggage car of
C., a. IL C.. train went over an embank-
ment near Millersburg. The baggage
master was fatally crushed.
Walter Forsythe, a 9-year old boy of
Massillon, is under arrest for larceny,
and he turns out to be professional
burglar.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
made new wool classification which
will admit many grades of wool at
lower duty.
The farmers of Dakota and Minnesota
have combined to reduce the pay of
harvest hands.
Six year old frankie Christman, at
Bucyrus. who was playing with matches,
was burned to death.
The panic at Denver, which caused
several banks to go under, is thought to
be over.
A mothers .premonition saved two
daughters from being KILLED by light
ming at Findlay. Had they slept in their
accustomed place they would have been
killed.
An oil well at Fostoria caught fire
and burned one man to death and four
others seriously.
A pitched battle took place at Weir
City, Kas., between striking miners and
those who had taken their places.
The affairs of the Central Ohio Insur-
ance Company are said to be in a rotten
condition.
Rev. John Lightner, of Marietta, left
his wife and eloped with another
woman.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
held that strikes and bycotts are lawful.
Chas. F. Duerr, of Dayton, while in
company with bis wife and children was
stabbed in the heart by an unknown.
A negro named Fitzpatrick shot
Frank Wilson, an innocent bystander,
in saloon row at Plain City. Fitz-
patrick was captured after being filed
with shot.
Rev. George Stocking committed sui
eide at Youngstown on account of ill
health.
Two Circleville bar-tenders fought and
Jacob Palm was killed.
Senator Coke, of Texas, thinks it won't
be healthy for Democracy unless they do
something for the silver men.
Judge Long, of the Michigan Supreme
court, who was nearly shot to pieces, has
had his pension stopped.
There are plenty of aspirants for the
position made vacant by the death of
Congressman Enochs.
The mine operators of Kansas, dis
gusted with the craziness of the Popu-
lists, have asked Federal aid for the
protection of their property.
Over 100000 coal miners in England
are expected to strike.
There is big row on at the West
Virginia State University.
Eighteen freight cars of Ft. Wayne
train were smashed up at Lima by the
flange of one of the wheels breaking, and
two men were killed.
A legal warfare may result from the
Worlds Fair being closed ON Sunday.
Two banks at Milwaukee have sus-
pended pay ment.
1t is said that a canvass of both
houses of Congress made by the Presi-
dent on the Sherman law points to a.
long and bitter contest on its repeal.
The military has been called out at
Dayton to protect the Jail in which the
murderers of Charles Duerr are confined.
Two boys robbed the post-offiee at
Orrville to get money to go to the Worlds
Fair.
Nearly 200 National banks have failed
since January l. In the same time last
year about so failed.
A negro assaulted a twelve year-old
girl near Toledo.
The town of Paulding suffered dis
astrous fire on Sunday morning, large
portion of the business center being
burned, entailing a loss of 100000.
A great drought prevails in Wyoming
and forest fires are raging.
Nancy p LarwelI. of Wooster. who
attained the age of 100 years on May 9,
is dead.
The Duke of Veraugua will receive
any money Americans will give him.
A prehistoric city has been unearthed
near Yuma, in the Colorado desert.
The Worlds Fair was tightly closed
on Sunday.
Irish revolutionists claim that the
sinking of the Victoria is the part of
plot to destroy the English navy.
1t looks little like there might be
trouble between France and England
over their interests in Siam.
At Memphis negro was hanged and
then burned by mob for an assault on
a little girl.
Harvey Paul, a newspaper man of
Ironton, was roughly assaulted by a
dentist whom he had exposed in pre-
doubtful transaction.
Affairs between France and Siam look
warlike. The trouble is over the
line between the French pos
sessions and Siam.
Cholera is reported at Naples.
A mastOdan's jaw has been unearthed
at Virginia, Ill.
DIR. Hirshberg. of Columbus, went to
collect bill from Theodore Meisse. A
quarrel followed and the former shot
the latter.
In a drunken fight at Cameron, W.
Va, Jim Evans was killed by stone
thrown by Wills Adams.
At Norristown, Pa, a gasoline stove
exploded, KILN g two persons and wreck
ing house.
The City National bank, of Louisville.
has suspended.
w. z. Mcdonald has resigned as
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