Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-02-15
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Various
Quarters.

Items OF Interest tathere0 From various
Quarters.
A bank safe at Deshler, o., was blown
open by burglars last week and about
$4,000 secured.
The bill repeating the Federal election
laws passed the Senate and went to the
President.
At Prairie Depot, O.. 0vion De
Vanlois nearly killed his wife with
corn cutter while crazed by drink.
The National Wool Growers Associa-
ton will meke "a strong appeal for the
wool tariff.
1t is said that Attorney General Olney
must choose before March whether he
will give up his connections with trusts
or resign his office.
Ex-senator Platt wants new blood
infused into the Republican organiza-
tion in New York State.
There is said to be some hope of a
small duty on iron ore and coal.
The Q. 5. steamer Ksarsarge was
wrecked in the Caribbean Sea.
At Gloversville, N. Y, Thomas G.
Shearman, the free trader, tried 10 tell
the unemployed that the tariff had
nothing to do with it and he was hooted
off the stage.
The Generel Assembly proposes soma
decided amendments to our ballot laws.
The Big Four railroad has made an
other cut in wages all along the line.
1t is discovered that the income bill
law can not, if it becomes law, affect
any government employe.
Passengers of the steamer Coreaan,
which put into an Irish port, had to
work 20 hours day at the pumps to
keep the vessel from going down.
The President is said to favor tax
on sugar.
A great number of small failures are
reported from all sections.
A column of French soldiers was cut
to pieces by savages.
Congressman Harter says that the
Democratic party needs common sense.
John W. Love, cashier of the First
National Bank, of Watkins, n. Y, has
absconded taking s50,000 of the banks
money.
A passenger train was wrecked near
Hanston, Tex, by robbers and a brake
man was killed.
At Findlay. W. G.. Boone secured a
verdict of $4,000 against Burton p.
Foster for the ruin of his daughter
Four desperate prisoners sawed out of
the Jail at Erie, Pa.
W. 2. Mcdonald. ex-State Factory
Inspector, is in Jail and unable to secure
bail.
The Ohio miners have voted to accept
a reduction in wages and will go to
work
Wapakoneta sustained a loss of
$350,000 from fire on Sunday. The
business portion of the town was burned.
A plan to blow up the Jail at Lincoln,
ILL.,, in order to liberate notorious
burglar was frustrated.
VIM. l.. Wilson is sick at Kansas
City, having taken i'll ON his way to
Mexico for rest and recuperation.
Heavy snow storms, accompanied by
intense cold, have been raging in the
West.
The constitutionality of the law ex-
tending terms of county clerks will be
tested the Supreme Court.
A bill will be introduced to secure
uniform freight rates to manufacturers
in Ohio who are now disseminated
against by the interstate commerce
law.
The lower Mississippi is booming and
disastrous flood is threatened.
The iron and steel manufacturers ara
getting ready to adjust wages to con-
form to the Wilson bill.
A Brazilian transport was rammed by
an insurgent cruiser and 600 government
soldiers were drownd.
Twenty-three persons were injured by
the explosion of bomb in a cafe in
Paris.
Lincoln's birthday was generally eel
ebrated on Monday.
In collision on the Wheeling and
Lake Erie, near Bellevue, four trainmen
were killed.
President Cleveland transmitted an
other Hawaiian message to Congress.
Monday.
At Tell City, Ind, A. II. Artman, a
maniac, stamped his wife and small son
to death.
The village of Genoa, o., sustained a
heavy loss by fire.
Governor Mckinley aud Gen. Horace
Porter spoke at the Republican League
banquet at Columbus Tuesday night.
At Plymouth, Pa, thirteen miners
were entombed by a cave-in of a mine
The Turks killed l24 Armenians and
wounded $40 during the recent riots at
Yusgat.
1t is believed that the Senate Finance
Committee will leave sugar on the free
list The income tax matter has not
been decided.
A villainous anarchist manifesto Is
in circulation in London threatening
similar outrages to those that have oc-
Cured in Paris.
The recent storm was very general in
West, North, East, and South. In some
places much damage was done.
Four men escaped from jail at London,
o., by overpowering the Sheriff.
The body of Richard p Fox, the Gin
cinnati business man, who has been
missing for some time, was found hang
ing in an unused ware house.
Admiral Da Cana, the Brazilian rebel
commander, was seriously wounded in
an engagement and may die.