Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-05-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered From variou.
Quarters.

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Horatio Nelson Clark, the veteran tha
discovered the providential spring il
Andersonville prison, died last week.
A Canadian revenue cutter on Lskl
Erie captured two yachts of fishermen
from Dayton and Cincinnati. The
Canadians claimed that the Americans
were violating the fish laws. Serious
trouble over the matter may arise.
A bill to abolish the present board of
penitentiary managers and providing for
a bipartisan board of control is now
pending.
The Ely fee and salary bill placing
auditors and treasurers on salary and
reducing probate judge and recorder fees
3 per cent. has passed the House. In
this county the auditor and treasurer
would receive $3.50.
Coxey's camp in Washington was
ordered abated as a nuisance and the
hobos had to move to another location.
There was trouble with men employed
on street Improvements in Akron and
the militia was called out.
A terrific hail and wind storm did
great damage at Saltwater, Minn-
A storm which tore off roofs and did
much other damage swept over Northern
Indiana and Ohio on Thursday evening.
In the election of delegates to a con-
stitutional convention in Hawaii the
American Union party won.
Sande's hobo army stole a train at
Preblo. Cal, and rode nearly to Topeka,
Kas., before they were captured
Dick Croker, Chief of Tammany Hall
has resigned.
At Youngstown Jesse Moody fatally
shot Mrs. Weimer, a gay grass widow,
and wounded Henry MesserIy through
jealousy. Both of the men were married
Rev. Gaunt, a Quaker minister of
Xenia, married a young lady of Delaware
upon three days acquaintance.
A monument to Mary, mother OF
George Washington, was dedicated at
Fredericksburg, Virginia, Thursday.
Seven armed men robbed a bank at
Southwest City, Mo-, in broad daylight
of $4,000.
The General Assembly will probably
not adjourn until May %.
A Cincinnati grand jury was suddenly
when it was discovered that
one of the jurors was an ex-conyict, who
had never been restored to citizenship
Gus Meeks, wife and two children
were murdered at Milan, Mo-, because
he had turned States evidence against
gang of which he was member.
It is believed that the prospects for
defeating the tariff bill are Frightening.
A Toledo machinest, who became in
sane through the constant roar of ma
chinery, poured carbolic acid in his ears
to destroy hearing.
A bill to change the method of ap-
praising railroads is now pending.
Two thousand of the Pullman Car
employees have quit work and
as many more are expected to follow.
Ex- President Harrison viii speak In
Columbus on Memorial Day.
General o. o. Howard has been elected
president of the National Temperance
Society to succeed John Wanamaker.
The State Savings bank of Tacoma
has closed its doors on an order from the
Supreme Court.
Another strike is threatened on the
Great Northern railway on account Of
the difference of opinion as to the terms
upon which the late trouble was ar
ranged.
Katie Chamberlain. living near Bristol,
Ind, died from the effects of poison
contained in chewing gum.
While plowing on his farm near Gray
son, Carter county, KY, Deputy Sheriff
George w. Castle tumbled out handful
Of old silver coins of great age. among
them Spanish milled dollar of the date
,f 1923.
The 1000 strikers at Pullman are pre-
pairing for long and hard fight.
The Taylor brothers, who are charged
with numbering Gus Meeks, his wife and
her children, have been surrounded in 4
very dense thicket five miles east Of
Mo.
E. B. Soper, who, in 1891, at Archie,
No., murdered his wife and two children
with an ak, has been arrested at Red
Bluff, Cal.
The torpedo boat Ericsson, the first
United States war vessel ever built on in
and waters, was launched at Dubuque,
iowa, in the presence of several thousand
,eople.
Talmage's Brooklyn Tabernacle was
burned Sunday Just after the morning
ervices were closed This is the third
ime the Tabernacle has been burned
In the burning of an oil refinery at
Bradford, Pa, number of firemen and
'pectators were seriously injured by an
explosion.
A 15-year- old boy at Findlay CON-
nitted suicide because of dissipation
md disappointment in love.
Congressman Breekinridge still con-
inues to denounce and be denounced.
BY the derailing of train on the
4ehigh Valley two persons were killed
nd about fifteen others injured.
HC appear VI JOuu l. MCkHuc W TIC
J. S. Supreme Court has been decided
.gainst him and he will have to serve
lis term in prison.
At Woodville, o., Nora Weldon was
'itten by a tarantula, concealed in
lunch of bananas, with fatal results
New York has passed a very strict
education law.
The State encampment Of the G. A.
/. is in session at Canton.
The General Assembly viii probably
diourn sine die next Monday.
A large number of trains on the New
FORK Central have been laid of because
+ scarcity of coal
The largest flow of gas ever struck
Tas found in a well just drilled near
'ostoria.
Duff's commonweal army now march
ng through Nebraska has a man in 1t