Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-01-04
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

A senatorial committee is engaged in
investigating Cleveland's Hawaiian
policy. Senator Sherman is member
of the committee.
By an explosion of pressure tank in
soap factory two men were killed at
Ivorydale.
A naval battle between the belligerent
forces of Brazil is expected to soon take
place near Peruambuco.
A man dressed as cow boy robbed a
jewelry store at Marysville at the point
of pisto! but was afterwards captured.
Mrs. Alice N. Chance, of Canton,
estimated TO have been worth two
millions, has made an assignment.
The New York & New England R. r.
has gone into the hands of Hon. L. &.
Platt, as receiver.
The Ohio Penitentiary contains over
1000 prisoners and is very much over
crowded.
News comes that Americans have
been mistreated by the insurgents at
Rio.
Gen. Warner is not in favor of intro
ducing free coinage bill into this Con-
gress,
The Populists of Kansas are troubled
by an internal war caused by the Gov
ernor removing Mrs. Lease from the
State Board of Charities.
In addition to the horrors of war
yellow fever has broken out in Brazil.
At Sandusky an old cemetery has been
desecrated by being plowed up without
any authority being given to do so.
At Harrodsburg, KY, mother and
three children perished in the flames Of
their burning home.
The total sum of appropriations asked
by the State institutions is in excess of
that granted last year.
At Belle Vernon, Pa, striking coal
miners attempted to burn coal tipple.
At Gallon woman was given FIVE
minutes to leave the town and she
complied with two minutes to spare.
Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison, of Chicago, was found guilty
and the penalty fixed at death.
H. D. Booth, of La Grange, H., COM
mitted suicide in boarding house at
Columbus.
A project is on foot to pipe gas from
Indiana to towns in Ohio.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign, of
the K. of L., opposes Secretary Carlisle's
proposal to issue bonds.
Chris. Evans, noted train robber and
desperate, was liberated from Jail by
his friends at Fresno. Cal
Gladstone celebrated his eighty fourth
birthday Friday.
A drunken man jumped from train
running so miles an hour, near Alliance,
and escaped unhurt.
The case of Prendergast, the slayer
Of Mayor Harrison, will be carried to
the United States Supreme Court.
Governor Mitchell still insists that he
will not allow the Corbett- Mitchell fight
To take place in Jacksonville.
The Cambria Iron Company has begun
the erection of steel-rail mill, the
estimated cost of which will reach
81 100000.
Mrs. Lease refuses to be removed from
Kansas State Board of Charities. Gov.
Llewelling has named her successor.
Frank Billingslea, an insane man,
while being taken to West Virginia
asylum, cut his wife's throat and then
his own. Both are dead
Reports of the condition Of the
national banks at the close of business
December 10 show that the average
reserves of the banks reporting are very
large, indicating that the amount of
money still idle is very great.
Nearly all the Pittsburgh iron mills
have or will resume this week.
1t is stated that the saloon keepers of
the State have formed q strong eombina-
ton to further their interest.
H. 81. Grafton, a travelling salesman
Of Pittsburgh, shot himself on train as
it was entering that city.
S. C. Shortlidge, principal of boys
academy at Media, Pa, while out walk
ing with his wife shot her dead. He is
insane.
At Omaha John Cummings locked his
AonAJ tlC AOuoC duu SCt ukC W IL.
All were burned to death
War is imminent between Honduras
and Nicaragua.
The Weekly Cleaner, at Massillon, has
succumbed to the hard times and sus-
pended.
w. A. Bennett, bank teller of Prov
idence, r. l., has defaulted and fed.
Mill men in many towns demand a
reduction in rents.
Business men, of Colorado, repudiate
Gov. Waite's statement that their State
is going into bankruptcy.
No other question will be cc-e'dered
in Congress until the tariff questiol. 20
disposed Of.
A watch meeting in colored church
at Marvsville, Sunday night, broke up
in fight.
L. Q. Hoover, editor of the Massillon
American. dropped dead on the street
jackson Park was thrown open to the,
public on Monday.
At Independence, Kas,, the whole
family of G. w. Read was found dead
in their home, supposed to have been
poisoned.
The income tax question is still hang
ing fire as the Democratic leaders can
not agree.
Ii is rumored that Attorney General
Olney is to go on the Supreme Bench.
The Ohio Legislature organized on
Monday and got down to business.
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