Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-15
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in the penitentiary by supposed
case of smallpox.
1t has been proposed to make the
Bureau of Labor an executive depart
ment but the move is opposed by labor
leaders.
The bill to tax legal instruments, such
as mortgages, deeds, etc, has been
shelved.
A bill amending the Australian ballot
law in some important particulars has
been passed in the Senate.
William Weir, Cuyahoga county
counterfeiter. died soon after being in
carcerated in the penitentiary from
morphine poisoning.
c Populists will establish daily paper
at Akron.
A train on the P. & l.. E. was swept
into the Beaver river by landslide.
The new Indiana is said to be the
queen of the battle ships of the world
The Pollard Breckenridge suit is now
on trial in Washington.
The Wilson bill was laid before the
full Senate Committee on Thursday.
Senator Avery is the father Of a
curfew. bill which prohibits children
from remaining on the street after a
certain hour in the evening. H&
The Kearsage will be raised..if posi-
BILE, and taken to the Norfolk navy yard
1t develops that large number of
Catholic INNS are teaching in the puolic
schools of Pennsylvania
Paul Sorg. the millionaire tobacco
man of Middletown, will be the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the third
district.
The President has appointed son Of
Adlai Stevenson .and also a son of Con-
gresham Wilson to be assistant pay
masters in the navy.
In an auctioni sale of liquors in the
custom house in Jackson Park some
bottles supposed to contain wine cen
tanned nothing but water
Women may become notaries in Ohio
if pending bill becomes a law.
Diphtheria is epidemic in CoIumbiana
county.
Tin plate manufacturers announce
that they will close their doors if the
Wilson bill becomes a law.
The Chicago courthouse and post
Office is in danger of collapse.
United States sailors are to be armed
with improved rifles.
The commissions of III presidential
postmasters expire this month
Three Thousand persons are thrown ont
of work by closing of Arlington mills at
Lawrence, Mass.
The provisional government of Hawaii
has passed law forbidding aliens to
land at Honolulu who have no visible
means OF support.
Under the leadership of Mrs. ]. Ellen
Foster. delegation of New England
girls will GO before the United States
Senate to protest against the passage of
the Wilson bill.
The Maasdam of the Netherlands line.
which sailed for Rotterdam, carried IL
members of the Morno Oh church, which
arrived at New York from Salt Lake
City, the Mormon church sending 1000
missionaries to Europe in search Of
converts,
Three boys playing in the sand lots at
Williamsburg found tin box containing
six bombs Joseph Hoffman. IS years
old, threw one of the bombs at boulder
and was frightfully injured.
The bottom fell out of Broadway
New York, leaving big hole Is by 20
feet and about Is feet deep.
The National Republican League will
hold its annual convention at Denver,
June 20.
The Hunter bill to tax sleeping and
freight cars is meeting with favor.
Columbus has another well developed
case of smallpox
The Columbian Guards struck and
only eight men are now on guard in the
Fair grounds.
The'ice is off the lakes and arrange
ments are being made TO resume traffic
The bodies of the thirteen entombed
miners at Wilkesbarre, Pa, have been
recovered.
The lawyers in the Pollard Breckin-
ridge trial at Washington had regular
knock down fight.
Owing to the fight over biennial
sessions and the failure to pass the ap-
bills the State Treasury is
short Of money because no settlements
can be made.
Fifteen arristocratic Vassar girls have
joined the Salvation Army.
Thomas Finnegan, maniac at Ia
trobe. Pa, killed his mother and badly
injured his father.
Admiral DaGama. the Brazilian rebel.
has surrendered and the war is over.
The Pittsburgh school board win not
pay any teacher if appearing in the garb
of religious order.
France has made a formal demand on
the Worlds Fair authorities for $4,000
on behalf of French exhibitors whose
goods were damaged BY fire.