Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-02
THE NEWS.

Eighteen, criminals were admitted to the Ohio
Penitentiary one day last week.
Senator Sherman arrived at his home, Mans
field, Ohio, Tuesday night of last week.
Ex-President Riddle, of the Penn Bank,
Pittsburgh, was acquitted of conspiracy.
e-President Hendricks delivered an ad-
dressat Harvard College commencement.
F.W Hinkle, private in the Seventh U. S.
cavalry, is said to be insane from excessive
use of tobacco.
A carpenter named VIM. Marshall fell from
a seaffold while at work on a barn, near Akron
and was killed.
Senator Logan and Theodore Roosevelt have
rendered their services to Judge Foraker for
the campaign of Ohio.
Twenty-Five post-ofice inspectors have been
appointed for the six months probationary
period, beginning July 1.
Colonel o. F. Moore, Colonel of the Thirty
third Ohio regiment during the late war, died
at Waverly, Ohio, Wednesday.
Ohio Democrats at the Nation Capital are
'not treated as we'll as they expected to be"
in the distribution of the offices.
Ocean travel from New York is very light
this summer, and the business at American re-
sorts is reported unusuall heavy.
An unsuccessful effort was made to get
senic to Grenier, in jain at Columbus. Ohio,
under sentence of deaf for murder.
The resignation of Mr.. Burchard, director Of
the mint, has been formally requested, and un-
less he resigns he will be suspended
An effort is to be nude by Cincinnati and
Cleveland lawyers to have a rehearing of the
Scott law cases before the supreme court
The Washington Post makes strong appeal
for kind treatment of the Mugwumps by the
Administration, so that they may be ketp in
party.
Mrs. Dudley, who attempted to shoot O'Don-
ovau Rosa, will plead insanity in defense. She
says she wanted also to shoot Gladstone and
Parnell.
Senator German says it is not true that the
President wants to see most of the applicans
for Office in person, as he would prefer many of
stay away.
Mayor Smith, of Cincinnati. has completed
the list of committees for consultation on the
matter of redistricting the city under the
registry law.
The three thousand carpet weavers at Yon-
kers, n. Y, who have been on a strike for
several months, will resume work at a ten per
cent increase.
Francis Key Pendleton, son Of ex-senator
PendIeton, was married in New York to Miss
Sallie Marie, the descendant of an aristocratie
French family.
At indianapolis, Ind, Robert Phillips killed
his wife by cutting her throat, and inflicted
several sever gashes in his own throat, but
without fatal effect.
Near Spring Mountain, COshOcton county,
o., the citizens are hunting for Henry Schulty,
who brutally assaulted two little girls, with the
intention of lyncing him.
Edward Ayers, of Attica, Ohio, visited the
country, drank some cider and laid down un
der a tree, where he was found shortly after
ward by a companion, dead.
Frank A. Myer the second man convicted in
Baltimore of wife-beating, received the twenty
lashes prescribed by the court on Wednesday.
He is also sentenced to twelve months in Jail.
J.. Clark and his friends, all Democrats,
are plotting to secure the removal from the
post office at London, Ohio. of Mrs. Kate W.
Hanson, widow of Union soldier, who died of
wounds received in the war.
An international congress of commercial
law will be held at Antwerp, Belgium, in Sept.
and the United States has been invited to send
a representative. The congress will consider
maritime law and bills of exchange.
The application of j. C. Priest for post mas
ter of St. Louis is fortified by personal letter
from Tilden. Priest was Tflden's st. Louis
manager in 1876. State representative Glover
has prepared charges against Priests business
Rev. DR.. Samuel D. Ferguson was created
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church. He
is the first colOred member of the American
house of bishops. His title will be missionary
bishop of Cape Palmas and adjacent parts.
At the grand army encampment at Portland,
Me-, Wednesday of last week, the commander
in chief delivered his annual address. Resolu-
tions of sympathy for General Grant were
passed, and San Francisco was chosen for the
next encampment.
George Weatherby, of Cincinnati, whose
wife died about three weeks ago, committed
suicide by taking morphine. He had a hsluci-
nation that the spirit of his wife followed him
wherever he went, and he was determined to
Join her in the spirit-lard.
Captain D. S. Ward, convicted in New York
Of attempting to swindle firm of that city,vas
Identified as the Captain of the steamer Eclipse,
ior whom the authorities have been searching
for some time to answer the charge of bank
check swindling. Ward is the owner Of large
Louisian plantation, and was formerly in the
Confederate service, and one of the desperadOes
who were concerned in the plot to burn all the
hotels in New York in November, 1864, at
which time he was arrested and held as a mil
tary prisoner.
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