Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-02-01
NEWS ITEMS.

The Agricultural Convention at Wash
ingtOn adopted resolution favoring a
National Fair this year.
The Ways and Means Committee has
agreed upon bill to prevent the impor-
tation of adulterated tea.
The Republican State Central Com
nittee has decided to hold the COnyen
tion on June and 6, at Columbus.
A Cincinnati microscopic, now study
ing at Strasburg, has made an important
discovery as to the structure of the eye.
The Boston American Peace Society
have come into possession of $4,000,
bequeatEed by Rev. George c. Beckwith.
The Ohio Fish Commission ports
that it has now on hand nearly 10000.
900 Of white fish spawn, but no money.
Five of the largest iron companies of
the Hooking Valley, with two of the
largest coal companies, have cOnsoli-
dated.
John Williams, a former convict, was
returned to penitentiary for one year,
from Newark, Ohio, on charge of grand
larceny.
George Root, pauper in the Coshoc-
ton, o., Infirmary, was burned to death
by his clothing catching fire from an
open CRATE.
A painter on the Marysyille, o., court
house fell through skylight to the floor
of the vestibule, distance of forty feet,
and was fatally hurt.
After a session of eight days the Darke
county grand jury returned 81 indict
ments, the majority for minor offences
and against saloon keepers.
james Patrick, father Of ex Judge
james Patrick, aged 81 years, oldest
newspaper man in Ohio, died at New
Philadelphia. Tuesday of last week.
The Captain of the steamer Sultan
claims that the Cimbria caused the col
lision by going out of her course when
the rule WAS to keep straight ahead.
G. w. Page, the oldest mason in In
diana, died at Franklin, Wednesday,
from the effects of fractured thigh.
Mr. Page reached his g2d birthday last
week.
Gus Reed, aged fifty, once a wealthy
citizen, was frozen to death, with his
face gnawed by rats, in an old tobacco
shed at Montgomery, Mo. lntemper-
ance.
An ordinance in the Delaware, o.,
Council prohibiting games Of chance on
Sunday, and gambling in saloons, was
defeated by the votes of Democratic
members.
The night clerk of the Newhall House
at Milwaukee testified that he had an
hour and quarter in which he might
have notified the guests, but he consumed
it in saving his papers.
Among the passengers lost ON the i'll
fated Cimbria was Mrs. Bartelsteln, of
Cleveland. 1t was rumored in tnat city
that Dora HenningeS, the singer, was
also among the lost.
Kate Judd, who has already served
five years in prison tor arson, has been
arrested on the charge of burning the
Weaver villa, at Newport, Il. l., and is
also suspected of other incendiaries.
Great destitution prevails among the
families of the men formerly employed
in the rolling mill at Columbus, o. The
mill has been closed since Christmas and
fully 100 families are said to De suffering
for food and fuel.
The joint conference committee of the
Ohio Legislature, appointed to consider
the constitutional amendment reSolu
tion relative to the liquor traffic, have
brought in a report, in which they agree
to disagree.
Samuel G. Bell, son of eX-Secretary of
State Bell, who attempted to murder his
wife at Columbus, o., several days ago,
was brought before the Mayor and held
in $500 to answer before the Court of
Common Pleas.
During an administration of nearly
four years Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky
has pardoned more than 1900 criminals,
remitted fines of more than S2,000,O00
and granted respite in other fines to the
amount of about S1,000,000.
Clara Hoblitt, a beautiful girl of six
teen, whose parents reside at Atlanta,
ILL.,, has created somewhat of sensation
by suddenly disappearing without the
formalitY of informing her parents or
neighbors of her destination.
A heartless mother, widow named
Gruber. living at Upper Sandasky, Ohio,
eloped with fellow named LancelgotZ,
leaving three small children, one babe
in the cradle, without food or fire. An
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little ones.
The Pan Handle Railroad intend
erecting Car shops at Columbus, O., IN
the spring, with capacity for building
fifty engines, thirty-six passenger, and
5000 freight cars per year. The esti-
mated cost of the shops and connecting
tracks is S537,0OO.
Judge Bingham, Of the Court of Com
mon Pleas at Columbus, o., rendered a
decision dissolving the Home Insurance
Company of that city. The proceedings
to dissolve the concern were brought by
the State Commissioner of Insurance
through the Attorney General.
A hundred and fourteen barrels of
beer flowed into Brandywine creek week
before last Shich & Tice, brewers, of
Lebanon, Pa, did not wish to pay the
tax on the beer to move it to their new
quarters. So, in the presence of the rev.
enue collector, the bungs were knocked
out.
VIM. Jones, fireman on passenger
train No. 5, on the Pittsburg, Ft, Wayne
s. Chicago Railroad, was instantly killed
by jumping from the engine near New
ark, o., Wednesday of last week. The
parallel piston bars of the locomotive
broke loose, and Jones thought disaster
was imminent, and leaped off, with the
above result.
The death roll of Congress is longer
than that ofany previous one that is re.
membered. Six Representatives and one
Senator nave died. The list begins with
Mr.. Allen, OF Missouri, who died April
8, 1882. The next was r. NJ. A. Hawk,
OF Limos; next Mr.. Lowe, OF Alabama:
Mr.: Upiegraff, of Ohio; Mr.. Orth, of
Indiana, ana then j. w. Shackleford, of
North Carolina. Senator B. Hill died on
August TO- 1882. John @. Smith died
prior to his taking his chair.