Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-04-03

Tom Thumbs mother, Mrs. Sherwood
E. SJrattOn, is dead.
The dead body of Edward A. Thomp-
son. of Newcomerstown, O., was found
last Thursday morning.
George James was crushed to death
by the falling of shed, under which he
was milking "a cow, near Carey, Ohio,
last Thursday.
The internal revenue receipts of the
Government for the past eight months
were S7s,OOO,32O. falling off of S1S,451,-
260 from the same time in 1888.
Carl Schurz has written, declining the
proposed 100000 testimonial He says
that while able to labor he wonld feel
embarrassed by being the recipient of
such favor.
The Maryland House has passed the
bill authorizing the Baltimore s. Ohio
Railroad to construct an elevated road
through Baltimore to connect with its
Philadelphia branch.
Governor Headly has made the fol-
lowing appointments for managers of
the Ohio Penitentiary: d. e. Goldman,
of Portage, for one year; George 5.
L. Robinson, OF Hamilton, for three
for four years; Ferdinand F. Remple, of
Hooking. for five years.
Young James Mutt, the slayer of N
l.. Dukes, has gone to Leavenworth,
Kansas, to take charge of his mothers
farm.
The village of Scipio, on the Ohio and
Indiana line, was destroyed by Tuesdays
tornado, only two houses remaining and
they are badly damaged. Rev. Joseph
Winston was killed.
Three thousand coal miners in mass
meeting, on Wednesday of last week, at
Elizabeth, Pa. decided to accept the re
ductiOn demanded 10y operators.
w. J. Elliott, of the Columbus, CO.,
Sunday Capital, has purchased the Sun
day Herald of W. S. Furay. The latter
is going West.
In the Connecticut House, bills to en-
power women to vote on license and in
school meetings were defeated, in the
jrst case overwhelmingly.
A mass meeting held at Lincoln, Ills,
on Wednesday of last week, passed a
resolution requesting o. A. Carpenter,
acquitted of the murder of Fora Burns,
to leave the county at once and to stay
away forever.
The President has sent to Congress a
message recommending an early apDro
priation for continuing the reconstruc-
tion of the navy, including the doubled
turreted monitors.
Gov. HOadley has appointed Frank
Snyder, of Montgomery county, Chief
Engineer Of the Ohio Board of Public
Works, and the appointment was con
firmed by the Senate.
The President sent to the Senate the
nomination of Aaron A. Sargent, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to Germany, to be Envoy ExtTaOr-
dinary ard Minister Plepipotentiary to
Russia, vice VIM. Fl. Hunt, deceased.
In the Ohio House of Representatives
on last Wednesday, Allen o. Myers
openly charged DR.. Duren, Superinten-
dent of the Imbecile Asylum, burned in
November, 1881, with being implicated
in conspiracy to burn the institution.
The charge, as may be expected, caused
a great sensation.
M. Dinner, of Dayton, Ohio, who has
been prospecting for gold in the Turtle
Mountains, has been captured by Indians
and is held for ransom.
The most destructive earthquake felt
for years, was reported from California
on Tuesday of last week. Considerable
damage was done.
The failure of the paper manufactur-
ing firm of William Butler & Co., of
Philadelphia, was announced Wednes-
day of last week, with liabilities amount
ing to $4,000.
The third trial of the case of Hallett
Kilbourne against ex-Sergesnt at Arms,
John G. Thompson, resulted in verdict
for plaintiff for SS7,500.
S. W. Fordyce, indicted for killing
Charles Matthews, editor of the Hot
Springs, Ark, Hornet, pleaded guilty on
Wednesday of last week, to the reduced
charge of assault and battery, and was
tined $500.
Richard Dorm, Albert Huebler, Frank
Eherling and Ida Mahr, known as the
"Midgets," have placed themselves under
the protection of the Philadelphia Soci
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, and asked to be sent home to
Germany.
A cyclone is reported in South Carroll
no, doing considerable damage to proper
ty and injuring some people
Mrs. Sarah Banta died in Brooklyn,
Monday, 102 years old. She had nine
children. Her husband died in 1924,
The Democrats of the Seventh New
York Assembly district have appointed
committee to draft bill asking Congress
to repeal the Civil Service Act
The National Reform Convention,
whose object is to teach that the al
mighty is the source of all national pow
er," &c, met in Philadelphia Mondty.
The New York Commercial! Advertiser,
which has been the only metropolitan
Administration organ, came out Monday
morning as an independent Republican
sheet.
The Boston Post, securing Presidential
preferences from Democratic members
of the legislatures of Maine, New Hamp
shire, Massachusetts and Connecticut has
answers showing Tilden in the lead in
each State.
The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives have defeated the bill providing
that wife-beaters shall be publicly whip
ped.
DETROIT has been boasting of its old
est lnhabitant. There seems to be no
doubt that he is los years old. He was
born on st. Patrick's Day, 1779, and was
in the Irish rebellion CT '9S He drinks