Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-08-27
THE NEWS.

The total population of the Hawaiian
Islands is 81, 400, by a recent census.
Henry Holtzworth, formerly Coptsin
of the Cleveland detective force, is dead.
Vanderbilt is reported to have secured
control of the Ontario and Western road.
Daniel Leroy, brother-in-law of Dan
iel Webster, died last week at Newport,
R. l.
Tramps broke into D. & NJ. freight
cars at Dayton, o., and stole 5000 worth
of goods.
Rudolph Schoufeld s. Son, clothiers,
of GAINESVILLE, were closed by the sheriff,
last week.
The B. & o. telegraph system has been
extended to Little Rock and Hot Springs.
Arkansas.
A sailor. supposed to be suffering with
yellow fever, has caused scare in
Brooklyn.
Lucy Robinson, at Cleveland, Ohio,
pushed Hannah Stokes down stairs,
breaking her neck.
The Fifth Ohio District Sunday school
Convention closed at New Vienna, D..
on Wednesday of last week.
Walker q Co., grain merchants Of To-
ledo, suspended on Wednesday of last
week. Liabilities small.
An increase in demand and an easy
advance in price of steel rails is reported
by manufacturers.
Senator Newberry, of Virginia, who
bolted Malone in 1882, will support him
in the coming election.
Mrs. W. B. Ogden, of New York, prer
sented chime of ten bells to Trinity
Cathedral, at Omaha, Neb.
Two divorce decisions were rendered
at Chicago within thirty minutes each of
the filing of the papers.
Postmasters delinquent in their ac>
counts with the Government will be re-
ported at once to the Postmaster General.
Ed. Wonderly and Peter Clemens were
badly injured, at Canton, o., by eXplo-
sion of gas in an empty whisky barrel.
Crop reports from the South promise
the largest yield ever known, and buSl+
ness in that section is looking up ac-
cordiDgly.
| David A. McAlpine and Thomas p.
Rowland have become sureties for John
Roach's assignees to the amount of $780,
600.
The Mississippi Democratic ConvenN
ton indorsed President Clevelond and
nominated Gov. Lowry and Lieut.. Gov.
Stands.
A. r. Van Cleaf, of Franklin county,
i Ohio, was nominated for State Senator
by Democrats OF the Franklin-Pickaway
County District, Wednesday of last week.
Col. &. W. Woolley has written letter
in which he regards HOadly as the most
dangerous man in political life to PreSi>
dent Cleveland's objects.
One hundred and eight convicts escat
ped from steckade on the Spartans>
burg and Asheville Railroad, North Car
Olina, while the guards were asleep.
| Congressman Springer's is the latest
denial in connection with the alleged re-
buke lately visited by the President for
recommending unit appointments.
Forty mills have resumed at East Sag
inaw, Mich, % at the old terms, and the
remainder with a reduction in pay pro-
portionate to the reduction in time.
Military interference will not be re-
quired in removing the cattlemen from
their lands in Indian Territory within
the time designated by the Presidents
proclamation.
Transfer of gold coin from the San
Francisco sub>Treasury to New York
by mail has been resumed. About SILL
100000 have already been shipped in
this manner.
The nomination Of Gov. Hoadly has
caused great dissatisfaction among the
Democrats of Springfield, o.
Hon. d. ]. Morrell, ex-President of the
American Iron and Steel Association,
died at his residence in Johnstown, Pa,
on Thursday.
The Trades Assembly, of Cincinnati,
are said to be opposed to the renomina-
ted candidate for Governor of Ohio,
Judge Hoadly.
Theodore Roosevelt is coming to Ohio
to make few speeches for Foraker and
the success of the Republican State
ticket.
Judge Atherton, of Newark, O., re-
ceived his commission from Gov. Hoad-
ly as successor of the late Judge Okey Oh
the Supreme Court Bench.
David E. Skeggs, of Allen township,
Darke county, was, on his own motion,
lodged in the Insane Asylum, as he was
afraid he wodld kill somebody in spell
One thousand dollars were distracted
from trunks belonging to Ex-Governor
Hamilton's family, on their way from
the White Sulphur Springs to Hagers+
town, Md.
The strikers at the Cleveland rolling
mills held secret meeting, Thursday,
and by a vote of 1000 to Al decided to
stand out for the scale of wages as fixed
by the Amalgamated Association.
John Roach has sufficiently recovered
from the illness with which be has been
confined to his home, to take trip to
the mountains. He is still suffering Sc
verely, and walks feebly.
Maddux, Hobart & Co.. Cincinnati,
compromised with the Government on
their whisky Irregularities, of which they
profess themselves to have been igno-
rant, at $4,000.
John Cross, sr, one of Clermont coun-
ty'S best farmers, was arrested near Ba-
tavia, on requitition from the Cover
nor of Arkansas for violating the fish
laws of that State.
Garnt Stephens, youngest son of ex-
County Recorder Stephens, of Hillsboro,
o., was killed by the accidental discharge
of duck gun, OH the the Selbie ranch,
IL miles from Deadwood.
Z. S. District Attorney Dorsheimer
| has purchased the New York Star 1t