Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-08-17

The official report of the Signal Ser
vice Office, at Sandusky, says that snow
fell there ON Thursday.
Judge Jas. Anderson has resigned the
position of Treasurer of the Home Insu.
rance Company of Columbus.
Prof. Esmarch, the eminent German
surgeon, says Garfield might have been
alive but for the treatment he received
from the attending physicians.
Mrs. Henry Guenther, young woman
married only two weeks ago, died in
Dayton, Friday, from the effects of poi
son taken in her coffee. Several other
members of the family were affected by
the same cause, but ley have recover
ed. The physicians are of the opinion
that the poison was introduced in the
course of the manufacture of the coffee,
there being nothing to indicate crimi-
nality.
The latest thing in the way of war
claims in Ohio is the presentation at the
State Treasury of receipts for money
turned over to State agents to be sent
home, by soldiers in the field, the plea
being set up that the money was not de-
livered to the parties to whom consign-
ed, and judgment is demanded now upon
this ground,
Mrs. M. M. Greene, wife of the Presi-
dent of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
and Toledo road, while going from White
Sulphur Springs to Richmond in sleep
er Friday night, was robbed of three
or four thousand dollars worth of dia-
mOnds.
The County Insane Asylum at Ian
caster, Pa, was entirely destroyed by
fire Sunday, together with the furniture.
The building was erected fourteen years
ago. Total loss, $4,000; insurance
about $35, 5,OO0 The inmates, ia in num-
Der, were only saved after great exer-
tions. The origin of the fire is in doubt.
On Sunday the Court House at Hunts
vile, Mo-, was burned down, together
with all the official documents of the
city and the records of the Circuit Court,
Probate Judge and Sheriff. The real es-
tate records were saved. The fire is
supposed to have caught from a cigar
stub, carelessly thrown among com0us-
tible matter.
In the Pension Office at Washington,
Thursday, 422 persons were appointed to
clerkships, SO of whom were from Ohio.
Chas. Harris, of Princeton, ILL.,, visited
Miss Belle Mercer, to whom he had been
afianced, and because she refused to be
reconciled, he went out and hanged him.
self.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has completed two additional sec
tions of its road. One is in Idaho and
the other in Montana.
The total claim of the White House
employees for services during Gar6eld's
illness is S11,41S.
The crops of Ontario, or Canada West,
have suffered greatly from the late rains
and winds. Barley has been damaged
most. The Toronto Globe concludes that
in eighteen or twenty counties the sell
ing value Of half the wheat and barley
will be reduced 25 or 80 per cent.
A Toronto gentleman has letter from
an ex-Confederate officer stating that
cavalry expedition is being organized
in the Southern States to aid Arab Pa
sha. The expedition will start for
Egypt in few days.
An incendary fire at Mankato, Kas.,
Sunday morning, destroyed several of
the best business houses, involving an
estimated loss of $4,000. 1t was the
third attempt to destroy the town.
A. D. Smith, general passenger agent
of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail-
road, has compiled the genealogy of the
Smiths who descended from the John
Smith who came from England in 1922,
and settled in Hartford, Conn. The
compilation contains 1900 names.
Sixteen prisoners made a, unsuccess-
full effort to escape from the Jail in
Toledo on Sunday afternoon. They will
he confined to their cells on bread and
water until they inform the authorities
who furnished them the implements
which they used in their endeavor to
escape.
Two white men, Mooney and Williams,
near Satortia, Mississippi, shot fatally a
negro named Booth, who refused to
allow them to ride in his wagon. Both
men escaped.
John P. st. John was renOminated for
Governhr by the Republicans of Kansas,
on Thursday.
The Democrats in the Dayton district
r. M. Murray, of Piqua, for
Congress on Thursday.
Albert Sower, a commercial traveller
from Detroit, was murdered by burglars
at Columbus, KY, Thursday night.
The Republicans of the First Ken
tucky district have nominated I'll. II. |
Houston, an ex Confederate, for Con-
gress.
w. |. Chamberlain, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, has been
appointed the Ohio Agent of the Ma
tional Agricultural Department.
Russia, it is reported, is making ex-
.ensive war preparations. Troops have
Deen hurried down toward the Cauca
,us, where it is said two hundred thou
sand men are now collected with all the
stores and munitions of war, ready for a
lescent upon the Bosphorus, should OPP
offer.
--Jonn Harter, who murdered his
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