Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-06-12
NEWS BRIEFS.

The Republican State Central Com
mittee on Thursday, selected the follow
! ing Executive Committee: Gen. james
s. Robinson, Chairman; Jacob c. Don
aldson, Secretary; Col. Chas. H. Moore
C. Ostrander of Cleveland, and judge
J. T. Brazee of Lancaster.
The National Encampment of thu
Grand Army of the Republic, to be helC
at Albany June 18th, will be the great
est gathering of the organization evel
held. The President and most of the
members of his Cabinet will be present
The Supreme Conrt of Iowa has deci
ded as constitutional and valid the law
prohibiting the sale of wine and beel
within two miles of the corporate limits
OF any municipality where such sale
has been prohibited by the vote of the
people, or within two miles of any vO-
ting place at any election.
The Signal Bureau will make an in
quiry into the origin, movement and eff
feet of the recent tornado in Kansas, Ne
braska and Missouri.
Patrick Shevelin, watchman in the
Manhattan Bank, New York, and VIM
Kelly, charged with the burglary of that
institution were arraigned Thursday.
Shevelin pleaded guilty. Kelly entered
a plea of not guilty. Both were remain
ded for trial without bail.
Some of the leading men of the Green
back party, headed by Gen. Cary, have
called another convention, to meet in
HOla6n IN rrnaSHau Inna 0lth
Next Wednesday, June 18th, the Ohio
Editorial Association will meet at Gin
cinnati and continue in session two
days. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York
Tribune, will deliver the annual address.
On Friday they start on an excursion to
extreme West Kansas, spending Satur-
day and Sunday in st. Louis.
1t is currently reported that General
Rice will hold in obeyance his accept
ance of the nomination for Lieut. Gov
ernOr of Ohio until it is decided whether
John G. Thompson will be chosen to
manage the Democratic campaign.
The hail storm of Thursday evening
was very severe in the neighborhoOd of
Wilmington, Del, and has probably in
jured the peach crop, if it extedded into
the peninsula.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania ad-
journed sine die at noon Friday. Hon.
John Lamon Republican), of Philadel-
phia, was elected President pro tenn. of
the Senate.
The Spofford-KellOgg investigation
now in progress in Congress, is develop
ing any quantity of alleged bribery, and
a probably equal amount of perjury on
the part of witnesses.
Reports from the interior of Wiscon-
sin indicate that the frost which fell last
Friday night was quite general through
out the State, and was of seriously
damaging character. Corn, potatoes,
vines and vegetables were cut to the
ground, and either wholly destroyed or
so seriously injured as to insure mete-
rial reduction in the yield.
The lockout in the IRON mills in
Pittsburgh is over, the owners having
agreed to restore the old graduated
scale of prices. Most of the mills will
resume work.
A meeting of the survivors of Ander-
sonville and other Southern military
prisons was held at Toledo, Saturday
night, and permanent organization eff
fected, to be known as the Tristate Pris-
oners of War Association. Preliminary
action was taken for holding a grand
reunion of Survivors of Southern war
prisoners in Toledo during the coming
autumn.
Farmers in some sections of the State
complain that they have had to plant
their corn three times, and are yet not
getting the best of prospects.
A Canadian lynx, measuring five feet
from tip to tip, was killed on the farm
If Jacob Swisher, two miles south of
Saturday. 1t was supposed to
nave been driven from the region of the
axes to that vicinity by the late severe
storm.
Miss Celia McCarty, of Ironton, Ohio,
vas seriously and fatally burned Satur-
lay By putting a mixture Of beeswax
md turpentine on the stove to heat,
which ignited and communicated the
lanes to her clothing.
Solovieff, who attempted to kill the
yzar, was executed at st. Petersburg
afternoon. His wife is said to
,e dying from nervous exhaustion.
The war in South Africa is thought to
'e at an end. King Ketchwayo has sued
or peace.
The eruption of Mt. Etna has almost
eased. The flow of lava has entirely
topped.
On Saturday afternoon, as the two !
of the Illinois Central Rail-
Dad Company were on their way to the
ank, in Chicago, with a package of
yer $4,000 in money, two men three
len threw cayenne pepper in their eyes,
matched the money, and, jumping into
buggy, drove off. The robbers, well
nown Chicago thieves, were subse-
uently captured together with Il portion
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