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

Eleven Postmasters were suspended
on Thursday, fer offensive partisanship.
Rev. VIM. Dewitt Hyde, of Paterson
n. j, has been elected President of Bow.
doin College.
VIM. Kenney, an active Democratic
politician of New York City, committed
suicide by shooting.
Carpenter, New York wife murderer,
attempted suicide in his cell, by cutting
his throat. He will live.
Chas. Dunn, of Pittsburgh, on Thurs
day was mysteriously murdered near
Erie, Pa. He was literally chopped to
pieces.
Lyman Sehell, a Chicago policeman,
pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He shot
a saloonist without provocation.
The first new wheat has been brought
into the Baltimore market from Lancas-
ter county, Va. 1t sold for 50 per
bushel.
The Norwegian bark, NAT" from
Clenfugos, is in the Delaware Break
water quarantine with three cases of
yellow fever on board.
The total defalcation of the absconded
clerk. Aufdemorte, of the sub-treasury
at New Orleans, has been aseertained to
be S25,OOO.
There are three thousand letters in
the hands of TIE Postmaster General,
preferring charges against Republican
Office holders in Ohio.
Hon. 7. J. Pringle was renominated
by acclamation for State Senator at the
Republican Convention of the Eleventh
District Of Ohio.
The Postmaster General has ordered
that no official against whom charges
have been made should be permitted to
know what they are.
Citizen vigilantes of Texas and Indian
Territory captured twelve OF q gang of
outlaws who have been giving trouble.
Eight were lynched and four shot.
The Trustees of the Wilmington (Del.)
College have decided to abolish co-edu-
cation. and the girls must go, also Pres
ident Purnell, who introd uced the sys
tenn.
David Quinn, who killed Chinaman
during a drunken Sunday brawl, in New
York, pleaded guilty to murder in the
second degree, and was sentenced to inn
prisonment for life.
The steamship Toxic, of the Pacific
Mail Line, for San Francisco from Yo-
kohoma, Japan, with 262 passengers, ran
ashore near the latter port, and has not
since been heard from.
Vice President Hendricks was given
reception by the Bay State Club, of Bos-
ton, on Thursday. In response to an in
PRODUCTION, Mr.. Hendricks spoke at length
on Civil Service Reform"
The Egyptian obelisk in Central Park,
New York, is rapidly disintegrating, ow-
ing to the climatic effects, and experts
predict its utter ruin within fifteen
years, unless measures are taken to pro-
tect it.
Madame Ravenna, a popular concert
singer, died suddenly in Washington, on
the morning of her wedding day. She
was TO have been married to DR.. Emil
Bessells, the scientist of the Polaris Arc
tic Expedition.
The deficit in the Seneca county (O.)
Treasury is found to be $4,000. The
bondsmen will make good the loss, and
fall back on the estate of the deceased
Treasurer. DR.. Isaac Kagy was appoint
ed to fill the vacancy.
The commission of Charles Olson, In
surauee Examiner for the Court of Ala
bama Claims, will be revoked because
he offered to pay Representative Morse,
of Massachusetts, S., 800 if he would Sc
cure him the Gutenberg Consulate.
L. G. Bernard, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Credentials of the Cincinnati
Highland House Convention, wants to
be Superintendent of the Fifth Division
of the Railway Mail Service. The Sec
retary, D. J. Dalton, wants to be POST
master.
At the Democratic Senatorial Conven-
ton for the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
districts, at Newcomerstown, George w.
Critics, of Tuscarawas, and Hon. William
Lawrence, ex-COngressman, of Guernsey,
were selected as candidates. A resolu+
ton instructing candidates to support
Hon. Allen G. Thurman for U. s. SeDa+
tor was bitterly opposed and laid on the
table.
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