Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

Congressman Johnson, DEM OF
Cleveland, is trying to force the House
to adopt Reeds rules.
1t is proposed to make banks depos-
itory of State money and secure interest
upon it, and thus increase State rev.
enues.
Some interesting remains of pre-
historic race have been unearthed near
Hillsboro.
A woman at Carrollton sues for a
divorce because her husband would not
build the fires nor take her to the World 5
Fair.
The Columbia Fire Insurance Co, of
Louisville, KY, has made an assign
ment
The trial of Jim Corbett for prize
lighting at Jacksonville, Fla, resulted
in an acquittal.
''Boss" McKane, the Coney Island
election bulldozer, is now in Sing Sing
prison.
An omnibus tax bill has been intro
dueed in the Legislature taxing express.
telegraph, telephone, street car, freight
line equipment and sleeping car COM
panies.
At Dexter City, Mich, two masked
men knocked down the cashies of
bank and secured three thousand dollars.
Chairman Wilson, of the Ways and
Means Committee, who has been dan
gerously sick in Mexico, is now out of
danger.
At Brunswick, n. j., colored burglars
killed Mrs. Baker and her child with an
ak and cut off the nose of Mr.. Baker.
One of the robbers was shot and killed.
1t is charged that an attempt was made
To bribe the jury in the case of ex- Factory
Inspector Mcdonald on trial in Column
bus for embezzlement.
The settlement of the question of
biennial sessions has again been delayed
by the Senate.
A convict in the New Jersey peEiten-
tiary oyerpowered one keeper and secur-
ing the prostrate keepers gun. shot
another keeper. The convict was fieally
overpowered.
Jubal A. Early. the rebel general. died
at Lynchburg, Va,
Near st. Joe, Mo, an engineer on the
Rock Island, ran his train through a
gang of robbers. not obeying their signal
to stop. The robbers fired 100 bullets at
the train but no one was hurt
Bismarck predicts a Russo German
war unless the treaty proposed by Ger
many is accepted.
Alice Ireland, of Cincinnati. bride
of six weeks, took poison, and that fail
ing, shot herself through the heart.
Because she had given her daughter
poison by mistake and had killed her.
Mrs. Holmes, of Portsmouth. brooded
over the matter until she committed
suicide.
A bill reducing the fees of county
officers has been introduced in the
House.
John r. Mclean saws he has no
hankering after seat in the L. ;.
Senate
A member of the Legislature and an
editor fought on the streets of KosciuskO
Miss. The legislator and two innocent
bystanders were killed.
Att'y-General Olney has decided that
30 days notice of suspension Of pension
must be given even in cases where fraud
is admitted.
The Uniyersalist church at Norwalk
will turn the basement of its church into
a theatre for the production of whole
some plays.
Gladstone has resigned the premier
ship and Lord Roseberry succeeds him.
drummer" Coburn, a convicted
burglar in Seioto county. poisoned him.
self rather than go to the pen.
Master Workman Sovereign, of the
Knights of Labor, wants to cOlonize
negroes in Africa
While playing game of pool at Plain
City, Enoch England struck Riley
Wilcox with cue and probably fatally
injured him.
The rioting among the miners on the
Kanawha has ceased.
Thieves stole two story frame house
in Chicago. All but the cellar Was
taken.
Youngstown street railway employees
are on strike.
At Des Moines, Iowa. Charles Leash
man secured one dollar damages from
Mamie Duncan because she had prom
sed to marry him and had gone back
Dn her promise.
Senator Brice is said to have recently
made a million dollars in deal in sugar.
Congressman Edward Dunphy. of
New York, has resigned from the general
OF Tammany Hail. because
he favors pure elections.
The Brazilian rebel transport Venus
was blown up at sea-
The plan of a convict to tunnel out of
the penitentiary was discovered after he
had dug a tunnel 80 feet long.
Talmage will stay at the Brooklyn
The mine workers have decided to
work at present for what they can get
and later will determine whether to in
general strike.
Campbell and Brice, it is reported. are
to divide the Ohio patronage in Federal
The Breckinridge- Pollard breach of
promise and seduction case viii begin In
Washington Thursday.
VIII Rutter. an important witness in
a murder trial at Wooster, committed
suicide rather than testify.
A wild eyed crank, who wanted to
take hold of the government, paid the
White House visit Monday.
A Green county convict in the peni-
tentiary thrust poker down his throat
in an effort to kill himself.
In local elections in Iowa and Maine.
Monday, the Republicans swept every
thing.
The West Virginia striking miners