Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-06-11
THE NEWS.

4AI AN1 w Os
John Myers, awaiting trial for arson
died in Jail at Canton, o.
i General Rosecrans, of California, has
been appointed Register of the Treasury
Millions of the seventeen year locusts
have appeared at the Hamilton (0) fail
grounds.
Trouble is said to be brewing in Tam
many Hail on account of John Kelly's
weakness.
General Sherman has sent congratu.
latory letter to the cadets at West Point
who are being examined.
The General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church. which met at To.
peka, Kas.. has adjourned.
Ferdinand Ward was arrested in New
York, and pleaded not guilty to the
charge of grand larceny.
There is no end of the dime subscrip-
tions to the John A. Logan powder fund
from all parts of the country.
A terrific hail storm passed over the
nelghborhood of Fremont, O., last week.
The infirmary farm was badly damaged.
Reports from Battleford state that
General Strange has had three engage
ments with the redskins in the North
west.
A terrific storm of wind and rain swept
over Atchison, Kansas, destroying pub
lie and private property to the extent of
100000.
The sheet mill men at Pittsburgh have
declined ten per cent. reduction, and
the Amalgamated Association will stand
by them.
The Exposition committee of New
Orleans have decided to reopen their
show next year, whatever the Govern
ment may do.
The Hessian fly is doing great damage
to the wheat fields of Kansas, and in
many places entire fields are being ploW-
ed and millet sown instead.
There is still but little change in the
aspect of the iron workers strike. The
strikers appear Indifferent and the man
ufacturers are repairing their machinery.
John II. Farley has been appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Eighteenth District of Ohio.
The Cincinnati Northern bondholders
have resolved to buy in the road Oh Oc-
casion of the coming sale, the 9th of
this month.
Hon. Geo. W. Julian will accept his
appointment as Surveyor General of New
Mexico on account of the climate advan-
tages offered.
Richard D. Harlan, son of Justice
Harlan, has been received under care of
the Washington Presbytery as candir
date for the ministry.
An immense meteor has fallen at New
burnside, Johnson county. Ills, weighing
ground several feet.
The Jefferson Tablet has been unveil-
ed at Columbia, Mo-, Secretary of State
Bayard and .. 5. Senator Vest attending
the exercises of unVeiling.
At Washington c. H., O., the cornfelds
are being injured by the ravages of the |
wire worm, and the seventeen year To-
Gusts are being plowed up.
The people of Panama, on good au+ |
thority from naval officers returned, are |
anxious that the United States should |
make its temporary possession of Pana~ |
ma permanent.
A noted crook, named Frank Carter,
from Dayton, o., implicated in the recent
attempt to rob the American Express
office at Harrison, o., was arrested last |
week in Cincinnati.
General Black, Commissioner Sf Pen
'ions, has decided not to take favorable
action on an application for a pension
by soldier who deserted from his Sec
1nd term of service.
Five persons were poisoned by eating
BOILED ham and bread, with buttermilk,
It East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. One
vas seriously affected. The articles were
bought from an adjoining grocery.
Specimens of wheat stalks from Fred
,rick county, Maryland, have been ex
libited in Baltimore, which had been
attacked by the Hessian flies. The insect
vas found ia the lower joints near the
'oot.
At the convention of the Voters
Union. at Columbus. a constitutional
was demanded prohibiting
he liquor traffic, and providing for con-
est in case of fraud. A platform of !
principles was adopted and officers were
elected.
VIM. Harris, a colored man in South
Washington, D. c., died because an oper-
Ition which was being performed on his
'owels was interfered with by pack of
uperstitious celored neighbors, who
we're afraid of the might doctors" or {
,ody snatchers. II
General Robinson, Secretary of State,
las interfered with plot to bleed the
tate in the interest of Cincinnati syn.
icate, headed by Albert Meter 1t was
q connection with the refunding of the
2, 100000 Ohio State bonds, due in 1886.
New York firm offered to take them
t 81 per cent.