Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-03-27
NEWS NOTES.

The Kentucky Democratic State Con-
yenIiOn will be held at Frankfort, on
May7.
Mr.. Justice Miller, of Iowa, is men,
toned by Iowa men as Presidential
possibility.
The statement is made by near friends
of the President that he will veto the
Fitz John Porter bill
MIR. W. Fl. Vanderbilt has given
$4,000 trotter to friend, and it is street
talk that he intends to make all his
friends similar presents.
Colonel Coates Kinney, of Xsnia, O.,
states he has not been OF will not be a
candidate for the Republican nomination
for Secretary of State.
General j. Godfrey Weitzel, Z. 5. A.
died at his residence in Philadelphia. on
wednesday of last week, of typhoid fever
after AL illness of several weeks.
The Virginia Senate has instructed
that a copy of the resolution asking
Senator Malone to resign be sent to the
U. ). Senate, with the request that it be
read in the Senate.
Pennsylvania delegates to the Nation
al Conventions, so far as heard from,
are instructed for Randall and Blaine.
Arthur is acceptable to North Carolina,
if he can carry Ohio and New York.
Thomas w. Segar is the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Rhode Island.
Fhe announcement is made of the en-
gagemeDt of Mrs. Frank Leslie, widow
of the publisher, to the Marquis de Len
vile, of France.
Monday morning a special freight
train composed of 81 ears, all loaded with
corn for the sufferers BY the floods into
the Ohio river valley, will leave Wiehi-
ia, Kan, for Cincinnati. The corn was
donated by the people OF Sedgwick
county, and will prove very substantial
present.
The young mems Republican club Of
Youngstown. Ohio, on Saturday night
unanimously voted for popular district
convention and unanimously endorsed
James G. Blaine for President. There
are 200 members III the club and all are
for Blaine.
Seventeen years ago. Christine Krett
pretty girl of eighteen. was murdered
at her home in Dayton, Ohio. No clue
to the perpetrator Of the crime was ever
discovered till Saturday, when brother
of the dead girl made public the confes-
sien OF his dead mother that she herself
com nitted the deed in dit of passion.
A summary of the losses along the
Ohio river from the recent flood, from
MassilOn, o., to Madison, Ind, has been
made by Bradstreets Mercantile Agency,
which aggregates S702,000, of which
100000 Is the estimate for Cincinnati.
and the remainder is allotted among 2S
different towns, the amounts varying
from $500 to $4,000. These losses do
not include residences, personal prop
erty. etc.
The death of Baroness Lionel De
Rothschild is announced. She vas a
laughter of Baron Charles De ROths-
child, of Naples, and married to her
cousin in 1886.
The prizes recently offeI ed by st. Mich
olas for the best original Illustrations bv
young artists under seventeen years Of
age, brought more than nine hundvd
pictures under the notice of the Judges.
The names of the winners and repro
iuctions Of the successful drawings will
appear in the April st. Nicholas.
Jesse Lawrence. a colored rough as
Iaulted Mr.. ID. c. Hilligas, at Cadiz,
Ohio, on Saturday, and inflicted serious
INJURIES. While trying to escape, he was
hot and killed policeman.
Dispatches from Vieksburg tell of
learly everything for a hundred miles
selew being under water. No loss Of
ife yet reported. Farmers are hopeful
hat the worst is over
The Secretary of the Interior has ruled
hat the fact that soldier had disease
'riOr to enlisting is not an absolute bar
D his pension claims.
LincOlH Post G. A. r.. OF Topeka, Ks,
over five hundred, by resolu-
ion will ask President Arthur TO veto
lie Fitz John Portsr bill
1t is thought the fcot and mouth dis
ase, now prevailing in Kansas, can be
ntirely suppressed within two weeks.
'ontagion seems to very slow.
General Grant is now recovering rap
ily. He has left Fortress Monroe sor
Washington. where be will remain for q
ouple of weeks.
The New York Evening Post is out
or Edmunds for President.
Fifteen of the most prominent whole
ale liquor firms of Cincinnati, sent "A
elegram to Columbus, Monday, opposing
he proposed liquor tax law. and asking
he Legislature to let the Scott law
lone.