Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-08
THE NEWS.

The Detroit River is bridged with ice,
he first time in % years.
A whole family were found to be
starving in WlIkesbarre, Pa.
1t is now reported that Vanderbilt has
possession of the c., |. & l.. lines.
a Western Union Telegraph Compa-
ny has been incorporated in Kansas.
The Treasurer of Jackson county Tex,
is missing, with u deficit of $4,000.
A Philadelphia woman murdered a
child for playing in front of her house.
The passenger rate war is impending
on the lines between Toledo and Chica-
go.
The loss caused by the Newhall Hotel
fire, at Milwaukee, has been adjusted at
$1,000. 20
1t is rumored in Washington that Sec
retary Folger is to be succdeded by Gov.
Foster.
A prohibitory amendment to the Con-
StitutiOn is TO be reported in the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
a man, who claimed to have been
soldier at the battle of Waterloo, died
Thursday at Lancaster, Ohio.
The only colored letter carrier in the
service was arrested at Richmond, Ind,
charged with robbing the mails.
An alleged physician at Worcester
(MasS.) has been arrested for killing
patient by soaking her in kerosene.
A woman at Wapakoneta, o., was ia
tally burned in her attempt to save her
Child, whose clothing had caught fire.
The Michigan Legislature has resOlv-
ed to investigate charges of bribery made
against Ferry's friends in the Senatori
al contest.
The State of California has brought
suit to recover S2,OO0,OOO guaranteed in
terest on the bonds of the Central Paci-
fic Railroad
1t is proposed to introduce in the
Legislature bills to either add story to
the new State Capitol, or erect separ-
ate building for the Supreme Court.
A demented young man at Newton
vile. Muskingum county, Ohio, Thurs
day fired straw stack. cut cash i'll
his throat, and threw himeelf into the
flames.
An unknown passenger, supposed to
be a nursery agent, hanged himself in the
water-clOset of p, G. & st. l.. train
Thursday. The body was left at KOkO-
mo, Ind.
The Assistant Secretary of the Int
Iior has decided that the marriage of
soldiers widow does not vacate the
claim of the orphans of the deceased sol
dier to pensions.
you can stick pin in here" eXclaim-
ed Michigan country school teacher as
he elucidated a mathematical principle
of unvarying verify, and when he come
to sit down again the pin was there.
When Sir Rowland Hill introduced
his penny postage, Lord Lichfeld, Post
master General, said: "Of all the wild
and visionary schemes which have ever
heard or read of, it is the most extraOr
dinary."
While wOrkmen were digging in a
grave pit near McCOmb, o., Tuesday of
last week, seventeen skeletons were un-
earthed, supposed to be the remains of
victims of HulPs unfortunate campaign
in 1872.
Senator Malone sits quietly in his
seat He gives little indication of his
of the fight going on around
him. He is one of the silent members.
1t is said that Gen. Lee liked Gen. Ma
hone best when he said nothing.
The Ohio Supreme Court has refused
the writ Of mandamus asked by James
E. Campbell against Gov. Foster and Ex-
Townsend without an aver
ment that Henry L. Morey and II. l..
MOrey are two distinct persons.
On account of sensational rumors
about the organization of a mob, at Gray
son, KY, to hang Neal and Craft, in Jail
at that place, Gov. Blackburn has order
ed out ten companies of the State mill
tia to report at Lexington, February ),
and to proceed to GraysOn to preserve
the peace during the trial.
At meeting OF delegates at Massil-
lon, Ohio, the differences existing be-
tween operators and diggers of the Tns-
caravans coal mines were declared ter
minated. The operators proposition
making a reduction of mining to eighty
ty five cents, to remain there until the
Hooking Valley price was placed below
seventy cents, was accepted.
Representative Deuster, of Wisconsin,
has introduced resolution in Congress
the Commissioner of Agri-
culture to send the seed, plants, grain.
etc, not required by the Department to
the sufferers by the disastrous floods in
Germany, and TO receive from private
sources donations in grain. seeds, etc.
and provide for their proper storage,
shipment and distribution.
A snow-slide at Ruby Peak near Irwin,
Colorado, Monday night of last week.
demolished the machinery and house
with the Ruby Chief, Howard
Extension, Durango and Cakes mines
and buried eight men. Frank Roland
was killed and Tom Brown and William
Brown and William Coleman were prob
ably fatally injured. Saturday. j. W.
brother of the celebrated
livine of Chicago. and Superintendent OF
the Paradise Mining Co., while crossing
the mountain near Gothic, was caught
in a snow-slide and hurled to the gulch
below and buried at least one hundred
feet under the snow where the body
must remain until summer.
The doctors agree that onions are
,oalthy o0pSanuaotlv thOSa who eat them