Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-09-10
THE NEWS.

monument so far amount TO ABOUT SlO,>
600.
Ohio Democrats have appealed to Gen.
Rosecrans to stump the state this fall.
The Massachusetts cranberry crop was
damaged by heavy frosts, Wednesday
night of last week.
Maud S. failed to lower her record at
Providence, r. l., Thursday, making the
mile in 2:19.
President Cleveland has returned from
the woods to PrOspent House in the
Adironacks.
Michael Smith, boy of Calumet, Ills,
while stealing apples, was shot and kill
ed by Henry Bersayer.
An interesting meeting of the Ohio
Veterinary Association was held at
Columbus, Thurday last.
Henry and George Zimmerman, boys
of Chicago, were burned to death IN
hay NOW, Thursday.
T. L. Eckert, farmer, was killed by
cars while returning from the Ohio State
Fair at Columbus.
At Cedar Rapids, Ia, young man
named Whinny shot and killed his STEP
father, in self defense.
Ell. Wakeman, editor of the Chicago
Current, has sought rest in a monastery
in Northern Wisconsin.
A reunion of the seventy-fourth regi-
ment, o. V. l., was held at the Orphans
Home, Xenia, Thursday.
DC. Pierce, transfer clerk at Rutland.
Vt, was arrested Thusday for stealing
registered letters and pouches.
Twenty-one cholera stricken hogs
were killed at Chicago on Thursday,
where they had been shipped for market.
Thomas Cottrell was nominated by
the Democrats of indianapolis for Mayor
and NJ j. Shields for City Clerk.
DR.. Aquilla Jones, prominent ply
sician and noted meteorological observer,
died at Wilmington, O.. Wednesday OF
last week.
VIM. C. France, owner of the gelding,
Wilkes, offers to trot him against any
mare, gelding or stallion in the world.
WI Eltzroth, of Lebanon, was nom-
mated for State Senator by the Demo
cratic convention at Middletown, Ohio,
Thurday last.
Hagar -four mill, near HagarStown'
Md. was almost destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night. 1t had been in oper-
alton over a hundred years.
South American nations are complain
ing of the non-arrival U. 5. mails, caus+
ed by the recent controversy with the
Pacific Mail Company.
John Peters and James Morgan, con-
victs, escaped from the Mary yaland pen+
ilentiary, Wednesday of last week, but
were recaptured after hot chase
Judge George w. McIlvaine, candidate
on the Republican ticket for re- election
as supreme judge, has withdrawn on ac-
count of bad health.
VIM. Boyd, living near Hayesville, O.,
while returning from the Sherman's
brigade reunion, was caught in the
wheels of his wagon and killed.
Thomas a. Marshall. of Indianapolis,
Ind who recently married his step sister,
finding his domestic life unbearable,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
Judge Harlan declares that the action
of Comptroller Durham in the Alabama
claims commission matter is unprece
dented and in conflict with act congress.
Jeff. C. Probascoe, formerly travelling
salesman for L. A. Moore & Company, of
GAINESVILLE, has been arrested at Trenton,
Missouri, charged with appropriating
$500 of the firms money.
The managers of the Ohio penitentiaTy
promise to discontinue the manufacture
of brooms and harness in that institu+
tiun. Former promises in the same
direction have failed to materialiZe.
Mckinney, a school teacher, who, it is
alleged, assaulted to Polish children near
Whiting, Ind, is thought to have been
shot by their parents. A body. supposed
to be his, was found Cd the lake shore,
Thursday.
The Ohio State Lodge of Good TENT
plars closed its annual session at Find1
lay. Thursday evning, after adopting
resolutions asking the submission of an
other prohibitory amendment, but op-
posing separate political action.
Carl P. Amick has myteriOusly dis.
appeared from McCOnnellsville. Ohio.
He was a commercial traveller for J. n.
Murdock, of Parkersburg.
More than two thousand acres of
tobacco were destroyed in the northern
part of Onondaga county and southern