Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-07-16
THE NEWS.

Ex-Governor ]. B. Neil was seriously hur
at Westersville, Ohio, while attempting to boarC
moving train.
c. W. Constantine, of Springfield, Ohio, has
been appointed commissioner of swamp land:
by governor Hoadly.
The situation at East Saginaw and Bay City
Mich., is very serious, on account of the strike
of the lumber mill employees.
Forty Apache Indians were killed in battle
at Guasabus, Arizona, with scouts under Capt
Chaffee. One scout was killed.
DR.. R. A. Gilbert, the protector of the eleVat
ed railway system of New York, died in tina
city Friday of age and overwork.
Ex-Governor Foster was interviewed in New
York and spoke encouragingly of the Republi
can prospects of success in Ohio.
The secretary of the navy proposes effeeting
an entire reorganization of the nine government
navy yards not later than next fall.
day, by the capsizing of yacht during violent
storm on Lake Minnetonka, MINI.
Stewart Crawford, a colored man aged Il
years, was found murdered at his home in Del
aware, Ohio. His murderer is unknown.
Near Lancaster, Ohio, Noah Conrad and
Thomas KHort were seriously mangled, Satur-
day, by being thrown in front of reaper.
A Democratic club at Dubuque, Iowa, has
passed resolutions favoring license law OF
$500, and the repeal of the prohibition law.
Charles Dyer, of Shenandoah, Pa, was
threatened with prosecution by one of his three
wives, to avoid which he fatally shot himself.
Count Esterhazy is perfecting arrangements
to settle twenty thousand Hungarians in the
Canadian Pacific railway belt in the northwest.
In battle between cowboys and Indians on
J. B. Slaughter's rancho, in New Mexico, sixty
Indians and sixteen cowboys are reported
killed.
The president appointed Colonel John Glib
bon, of the seventh infantry, to be Brigadier
general of the army, vice General C. C. Augur,
retired. o
Peter J. Schultz, paying teller of the Michi-
gan Savings Bank, of Detroit, is missing, and
a shortage of S3,436 10 has been discovered in
his accounts.
Seventeen of the Poles implicated in the late
riot at Toledo have been indicted for murder
in the first degree, and thirteen for assault with
intent to kill.
The president and his cabinet have halted in
their offensive partisan warfare, having been
advised of the harm it has already done the
administration
The worlds exposition buildings and ma
chinery at New Orleans, were sold at auction
for $l75,OOO being purchased for the new ex-
position company.
A young man named Mead, suffering from
alteration caused by over-study, jumped over
board from a steamer and was drowed in the
st. Lawrence river.
Lieutenant Commander Webb, connected
with the Alert, on the Asiatic Station, has been
tried by court-martial on the charge of drunken
ness, and found guilty
Sixty persons at Momence, Illinois, were
poisoned by eating Chicago dried beef. Twenty
of the vistims are dangerously i'll, while the
others are not so serious.
The works of Vincennes, Ind, Manufacture
ing Co. were destroyed by fire on Friday. Loss
$780, 600. One hundred and fifty men are
thrown out of employment
General Bryant and Messrs. Mcdonald and
Sharpe, of the post-ofice department are pre-
pairing a manuel of instructions for the guidance
of the post-ofice inspectors.
Sunday afternoon three convicts escaped
from the penitentiary at Richmond, Va, but
were recaptured after hot skirmish in which
two citizens and each of the convicts were
wounded.
Secretary Whitney took the president, the
secretary of the treasury, the secretary of the
interior and the postmaster general on a
pleasure trip to Woodmont, near Harper's
Ferry.
Many of the principal business men of In
dianapolis have determined to order the tele-
phones to be removed from their places of bust
solicit others to do the same.
An independent Democratic club is being
formed in Franklin county, Ohio, for the pur-
pose of opposing the candidates of the disrep-
utable ring that has been manipulating prima-
ries and conventions in that county.
The jury in the case of Miller and others,
surviving partners of the Indiana Banking Co.,
against John G. New and John c. Wright, re-
turned a verdict for $154, 700 in favor of plain
tiffs. Defendants say they will appeal to SUI
preme court.
Attorney-general Garland has decided that
there was no valid contract between the United
States and John Roach for the building of the
Dolphin, and that the secretary of the navy
cannot accept the vessel. He also says the gov
ernment can recover the large sums of money
advanced on account of the Dolphin.
The Hessian fly has made great devastation
in the wheat fields of various townships in
Wayne county, New York. Near Arcadia the
loss is estimated at $4,000 In the immediate
vicinity of Lyons the loss is estimated by care
full observers at $4,000. In some places the
farmers are burning the wheat fields in order TO
exterminate the insect as fast as possible.