Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-12-25
THE NEWS.

The ProhibitioDists of Kansas In State
Convention adopted declaration OF
principles piedslng the party to the sup
port of the polical candidates who will
endeavor to further State and National
prohibition.
The Finance Committee of the Color
ed Peoples Worlds Exposition, to be
held In Chicrgo, in September next, have
issued an appeal to the country for H.
nnncial aid.
The Board of Education of New York
rdfused TO allow the public school chill
dren TO participate Ia entertainments in
school houses in aid Of the Bartholdi
statae pedestal fund.
The Cambria Iron Company has bought
car costing $1,000 TO convey motion
metal from the blast furnaces direct TO
the converting department OF the steel
works at Johnstown.
The Miller Company, manufacturers
OF engines, etc., at Canton, o., have made
AN assignment for benefit of creditors.
The liabilities are $4,000 and nominal
assets $4,000.
Rev. T. b. Fuller, Bishop Of Niagrs.
died at Hamilton, Ont, hast week. Sew
eral days before be accidentally ran a
three.cornere die into his hand. At
first the wound did notgive much trou-
ble, but day or two after 1t festered
and gaHgrened. Blood poisoning set in,
from the effscts of which he died.
Hon. John r. Lynch, Of Mississippi,
whose Temporary Craftsmanship of the
National Republican Convention WAS
one OF the most noteworthy incidents
of that gathering, was married last wesk
10 Miss Someryille. n young colored lady
employed as u clerk in one of the de
partments AT Warrington.
Sergeant Bates, whose fancy it has
0eeu 10 carry the United States flag
over a goodly part of the earth. is nearly
starving at his home in Saybrook, Ill. His
army sahrr, " hich was wont to clank at
MS heels as he stTode proudly along, has
beer seiZed for debt. His family are
destitute
Ii 10 stated on high authority tnat
ow sng 20 ae general depression in trade.
TIE closlag of manufactures In all paris
of grain,,he railroads running east frum
81. Louis are doing scarcely more than
half the business done al the same time
last year.
Judge Joseph X. Swan, author of
Swans Treatise, and ex-Supreme Judge,
died at Columbus, Ohio. Thursday night.
aged So.
Railroad companies have already be-
gun 10 cut passenger rates TO New Or.
leans. IL Is reported that tickets are
now on sale In New York al $3S for the
round trip. The established rats from
Philadelphia Is S4S.
Rev. II. Colelazer. for 81 years we'll
known Methodist Episcopal minister,
died in Philadelphia Thursday. He was
one OF the founders OF the University OF
Michigan. He was IS years old. He
retired from the ministry In last March.
The Democratic members OF Congress
have given notice that they will not sup.
port the Mexican pension bill unless II
Is rid Of the Senate amendments, strik- |
ing out the provision for pensioning all
soldiers OF the Union In the late war.
At THIN. o.. on Saturday night, Chas.
Clarke. barkeeper, quarreled with
Frank Shook over fifty cents and came
tn blows. Shook struck Clarke with
club and WAS shot twice by the latter,
dying In twenty minutes. Clarke was
badly hurt, and may die.
The Edgar Thomson steel works al
Brsddocks, Pa, have shut down indef |
nitely. throwing sixteen hundred out Of
work, ~ affecting indirectly about
1000 workm
Hon. Jonn Strohm, who was the old
est ex-rnember Of Congress, died on Fri.
day. " Lancaster. Pa, aged % years.
Tt<y began celebrating Cleyeland's
-lect3on In Charleston. S. O.. on Friday
sight. by big drunk, and kept 1t w for
several days.
Six Thousand agents are engaged IN
canvassing In the United States, Mexico Il
Canada aud the Sand wich Islands, forl
Blaine's "Twenty Years IN Congress, Il
and II Is estimated that the proceeds will /
net Mr.. Blaine sso0,00o.
A mnyrn,r u sad 10 be on foot
among nail manufacturers 20 get all fac.
tories to close dows until trade improves. \