Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-03-01
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

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Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.
Erastus Wiman, formerly reputed to
be millionaire. is under arrest in New
York charged with forgery amounting
to quarter of million.
A lion in a museum in Chicago es-
capped from his cage into crowd and
1 caused panic but no one was seriously
hurt.
Two men had desperate struggle
with mailman on the roof of a high
building, in Buffalo, but the madman
was finally overpowered. The mailman
tried to push his companions off
The report of the Hawaiian investiga-
ting to the Senate sustains the policy Of
President Harrison and the last admin
istration.
A judgment was rendered against the
A. p. A. at Toledo for rifles purchased
in fear of a Catholic uprising
A railroad bridge at Lancaster, Pa,
was blown up by dynamite.
Representative Locke has a plan to
reorganize and equalize the judicial sub
divisions of the State.
The Sherrodsville coal miners have
accepted reduction in wages from 72I
cents to 80 cents ton.
1st Indianapolis dying wife selected
her SUCCESSOR tsad- -pxt~soseu - Szzssa
from both parties interested, and the
contract was carried out after her death.
Governor Mckinley addressed An
audience of 5000 at Chicago on Wash
iDgton's birthday.
Ex-senator Paul, the Knox county
banker who mysteriously disappeared
some time since and then returned, is
again missing.
A bill is now pending providing for
State.
Mrs Bouiss= Kraase, at Defiance,
hurried up the fire with gasoline. -Four
small children are bereft.
Commissioner Hahn is prosecuting
vigorous war against fraudulent insnr-
ance companies.
Foot pads held up doctor in Indian
apolis and the doctor shot one of his
assai,ants dead.
In the House of Representatives
Bland, of Missouri, charged the Demo
cratic majority with being Anarchists.
The committee investigating the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum at Columbus report
Sup't Clark not competent.
Representative Harter has a plan to
coin gold and silver into globes in order
to preserve the parity of the metals.
Chairman Carter thinks that the basis
of representation in the next National
Convention will be changed so as to
allow the States giving the largest vote
the greater voice.
Dairyman have been meeting in
Columbus and will endeavor to crush
out oleOmargarine.
There is serious alarm over the state
of President Cleveland's health. He is
said to have a cancer on the jaw.
The postmaster at Marshalyille, o., is
short about $400 in his accounts.
Senator Zeb Vance, of North Carolina.
is said to be fatally i'll.
Prendergast, the slayer of Mayor Har-
rison, is to hang March %.
Hon. W. l.. Wilson is seriously i'll of
typhoid fever in Mexico.
Adjutant General Artz of Kansas has
been asked to resign. His accounts are
crooked.
President Cleveland denies emphat-
ically that he is afflicted with cancer OF
any other serious malady.
Fire almost entirely DESTROYED the
Agricultural building on Worlds Fair
grounds. 1t was the work of an incen-
diary.
Second Comptroller Mansur has de-
cided that General Sickles can draw the
salary of retired army officer and
member of congress at the same time.
Norman L. Munro. the yatehman and
publisher. died at the Hoffman house.
New York. The cause of death was
heart failure. He was 81 years of age
Dispatches received from the west
coast of Africa, announce that number
of British officers and sailors have been
killed in an encounter with the slave
dealers on the west coast of Africa.
The drouth and cold weather are
causing the death of cattle by the thous-
ands in the lower Rio Grande counties
of Texas.
At Springfield Sunday loo eolored
Baptists were immersed through hole
in the ice.
Blackford Mass Academy girls in
nndress costume did skirt dance in
the presence of serenaders and several
have been expelled.
Senators Hill, Murphy, Brice, German
aud Gibson, of Maryland; Butler, OF
South Carolina; Smith, of New Jersey,
and Caffery, of Louisiana, are quoted as
opposed to the Wilson bill.
In the burning of the Home for feeble
minded at Vinelsnd. n. j., two persons
were burned to crisp.
President Cleveland started Sunday
on hunting trip down the Potomac.
Steele Mackeye, the famous playwright,
is dead.
The Cornell students. whose pranks
caus e / the death of colored cook, will
be vigorously prosecuted.
West Penn Hospital. in Pittsburgh,
with 800 patients, has been quaraniined
on account of smallpox