Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-11-26
THE NEWS.

The police of Columbus, Ohio, have organiz-
ed benevolent soliety.
Eight prisoners escaped from the GreenVille
CO., jail. Two were captured.
An insane mother smothered her two chill
dren, in the Brooklyn Nursery.
One hundred Mormon converts are on their
way from Southern States to Utah.
The next meeting of the state association of
county auditors will be held at Dayton, o.
Jacob Thompson died from the effects of
swallowing 6shbone at Madison, Indiana
The original boundary between Pennsylvania
and West Virginia has been re-established.
The will of H. B. Claiin, New York, makes
his widow and his two sons executors of the
estate.
Much suffering is reported on the Araphahos
Reservation in Wyoming, and an outbreak is
feared.
A series of disasters are reported from Sc
we're storm which has been raging on Lake
Michigan.
There is still speculation upon the organiza-
ton of the next House on offices outside of the
Speakership.
George Deitweiler recovered $2I ,27s dam
ages at Chicago from She Western Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
Joseph c. Mackin, convicted of perjury in
election fraud cases in Chicago, has been sent
to the Illinois Penitentiary.
Undervaluations of hardware imported at
New York and Philadelphia have been reported
to the treasury department.
Mrs. Damon Y. Kilgore, female lawyer,
was refused the right to practice in the Gem
mon Pleas Court in Philadelphia.
1t is denied that the Republican senators, in
their recent caucus, decided to vote for the re-
lection of all Democratic nominees.
Considerable anxiety is felt over the disap-
pearance of Colonel John C.. Sloan, formerly
leading politician in North Carolina.
A romantic story of love and adventure has
been developed through the recent arrest of
clerk in the Surgeon Generals office.
school mistress at Someryille, Mass, COM
pellsd boy to chew a quantity of pepper.
Diphtheria resulted and the boy died
The chief clerk of the house of representa-
tives have received protests against the admis-
sion of any of the California congressman.
Gust, Wachter was convicted of murder in
the second dcgree at Lancaster, Ohio, for the
killing of Leopold Schneider, October Is.
The granddaughter of Mrs. James K Polk,
Miss Ball, has been introduced to Nashville
society under most brilliant circumstances.
In Pike county, Ind, q lady teacher named
Kelly, whipped child till it died. She was
jailed at Petersburg, the county seat last week.
Peter Grieves, an engineer on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, had both legs horribly
crushed by falling under an engine at Newark,
Ohio.
Jacob Medary, son of the late SamI Medary,
who died in Washington, D. c., Sunday, was
buried in Columbus, o., Wednesday of last
week.
During the last fiscal year the secret service
division of the treasury department has made
444 arrests, and captured s3O5,5sO counterfeit
money.
Some sharp international correspondence is
anticipated over a complaint of foreign gov
ernment against one of the officials of the Uni
ted States
The great river coal miners strike in Penn
sylvania is over. The men go to worke at for
mer wages, on the guarantee Of work all the
year round.
The Jury in the case of Willie Beckett, aged
fourteen, on trial at Parkersburg. ". Va, for
the murder of schoolmate, returned verdict
of not guilty.
Burglars robbed the safe of T. n. Reese &
Son, Baltimore, Nd, of $4,000 of resistered
bonds and other securities, and money amount
ing to ST 500.
The opponents of the Bell Telephone Com
pany are canfdent that the decision of the IN
terror department in the pending case will be
in their favor
correspondent of the New York Star puts
Mr.. Blaine and Senator Sherman down as
prominent for the Republican nomination for
the presidency.
Mrs. Rhoda Howard died in Louisville last
week, aged one hundred and sixteen. She was
wonderfully well preserved, and retained her
faculties to the last.
John E. Wetherbee, a prominent Boston
lawyer and politician, committed suicide by
taking cyanide of potassium. Sensitiveness to
political structures is given as the cause.
The Touring mill of Calender Brothers, at
Ind, with a large quantity of
wheat and the surrounding warehouses, we're
destroyed by fire. The loss will exceed $4,000.
G. P. Morosini, the New York millionaire,
declares that he will not forgive his daughter,
Victoria who married her fathers cOachmsn,
lHd that all reports to the contrary are untrue.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Times, is of the opinion that, if the administra-
lion Governor Hill, of New York, hsrnOnizss
with the policy of President Cleveland, the
Democratic party will remain in power fer yearsi
The Rabbinical convention resolved that
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