Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-04-30
THE NEWS.

decided to accept the Persian mission.
Hon. A. .. Wymsn, Treasurer OF the
United States, resigned, to take effect
May l.
Miss Kate Collins, living near HART
ford, o., died of dose of ergot, given
for dyspepsia.
Seven business houses in the village
Of Wheaton, Ills, were destroyed by fire
Thursday. Loss, $4,000.
Conrad n. Jordan, OF N Y, was APP
pointed to succeed A. U. Wynan as q
S. Treasurer.
The Standard and the Commercial In
surance Companies, both of Cincinnati
have consolidated.
Lewis McMullen was appointed Ap>
praiser at the port of New York, vice A
P. Ketehum, suspended.
A fire in the Pullman Palace Car Co.'s
shops, Philadelphia, destroyed the build
ings, causing loss of S15O,OOO.
The town of Perryville, Oh the Ten
nessee River, was destroyed by iucen
diary fires. The whole town is Id ruins.
A destructive water-speut visited the
valley of Medicine River, Kansas Whole
families are known to have been drown
ed.
James Dennis was convicted at Craw-
fordsville. Ind, of the murder of Mr..
and Mrs. John McMullen on the night of
January 8.
A petition has been forwarded to
President Cleveland demanding, in the
name of the Southern people, the pardon
of JEFF Davis.
Ben Booinson, of Cincinnati, testified
before the Investigating Committee that
ne never attempted to bribe Allen o.
Myers to vote for Pendleton for U. S.
Senator.
The warm sun and showers of the last
few days have. had a beneficial effect
upon the growing wheat, and the out
look for a good crop is more enceurag-
ing.
Fire in Vicksburg, Miss, burned out
several business houses, three residences,
the Herald, telephone, U. S. Signal and
Western Union Telegraph Office. Loss,
100000.
The Louis Cook Carriage Company, of
Cincinnati, made an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, after filing chattel
mortgages for s9S,745, and real estate
mortgage for $4,000.
A coroner's jury, called to investigate
the cause of the fall of the New York
tenement house, places the responsibility
upon the contractor and his assistant and
the two Building Inspectors.
A petition, signed by ia prominent
citizens of Cincinnati, has been prepared
to be presented to the Common Pleas
Court asking for special grand jury to
investigate the late election outrages on
the ballot box.
Commissioner of Agriculture Colman,
having been accorded authority to exr
terminate pleuro-pneumonia, has decided
that all animals known to be infected
shall be slaughtered at once and their
carcasses burned or buried.
Secretary Whitney has addressed Com
modore Russell, commandant at the
Mare Island Navy yards, calling his at
tention to charges made against certain
foreman there of coercion of employees
at elections, and threatening discharge
of all meddling Extensively in politics
hereafter.
Unprecedented rains are reported from
the Southwest. with great damage to
property of all kinds.
Daniel Blienagel, farmer living near
New Philadelphia, o., committed suicide
by shooting. Thursday.
The Commissioners of Asbury Park.
N. j., have condemned the Salvation |
Army meetings as nuisance.
Forest fires have broken out In the
Welsh mountains, Eastern Pennsylvania.
They we're started by malicious persons.
Miss Phoebe Vanderbilt, only surviv-
ing sister of Commodore Vanderbilt,
died in New York City, at the age of
seventy>six.
There is movement on foot at Chat
tanooga to offer General Grant the use
of a private hotel on Lookout mountain
during his convalescence.
The Government contemplates the
of $50, 100000 of gold coin
from the sub-Treasury at San Francisco
to that at New York.
The U. S. Court at Waco, Texas, gave
a decree in favor of the Central Trust
Company, of New York, against the
Texas & St. Louis Railway, ordering
of mortgages aggregating
s6,OOQOOO.
The Boston Advertiser, a paper that
supported Cleveland in the
campaign, violently denounces the ap-
pointment of Pillsbury and Chase as
Collectors of Internal Revenue for Maine
and Massachusetts.
Martin Mitchell; of Blacklist Lake,
Ark, while in the woods was attacked
by three men who commenced firing at
him. He replied with Winchester re-
peating rifle, killed all his assailants and
then gave himself up to the authorities.
Pleuro-pHeumonia has broken out
among Jersey cattle at Peoria. Ills, and
the State Veterinarian has decided that